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Neil Richardson posted a new post. a year ago
In Our Time: Essential ConversationsFans of Melvyn Bragg’s radio broadcasts (typically Thursday, Radio 4, 9:00) will likely be delighted by this recent hardback (1), a 324-page acknowledgement to the numerous enthusiastic scholars brought together…
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Neil Richardson posted a new post. a year ago
Improving Political ParleyA recent issue of the Daily Telegraph (1) discussed events during the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. The issue’s editorial column notes a bold reassertion of Conservative values as Rishi Sunak…
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Neil Richardson posted a new post. a year ago
Machines that ThinkThis 260-page paperback in an Instant Expert series (1) holds eight chapters whose titles may well capture the spirit of a machine-learning age, for instance, Chapter 3: Anything You Can Do, Chapter 4: Matters…
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Neil Richardson posted a new post. a year ago
Metaphysical Animals: How four women brought philosophy back to lifeThe authors (1) heavily indexed, four-hundred-page paperback delivers, as promised on the book’s closing cover, a ‘vivid portrait’ of talented Oxford undergraduates during the 1940s and 1950s, when slacks…
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Neil Richardson posted a new post. a year ago
Pursuing Political AimsA recent paperback by Cambridge Professor of Politics and author David Runciman (1) examines the writing of twelve major scholars to reconsider their main themes and how they relate to today’s modern political…
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Neil Richardson posted a new post. a year ago
Review of Not In Your GenesWith seven chapters and four appendixes, clinical child psychologist, journalist, and best-selling author Oliver James (1) makes a strong argument that our genes do very little in making us the kind of…
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Neil Richardson posted a new post. a year ago
Appreciating SociologyProfessor Steve Bruce has added (1) another volume (one hundred and twenty pages) to a busy library of short introductions (from Accounting to Zionism); and his book could be a worthwhile read for…
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Neil Richardson posted a new post. 2 years ago
Methodology Across the MillenniaIn his handwritten yet entirely legible sixteen-page reading for students, Peter Checkland (1) explains how, by the 1970s, the subject systems thinking had evolved into two complementary streams. Still…
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Neil Richardson posted a new post. 2 years ago
Review of The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking – Governance in a Climate EmergencyAuthors Ray Ison and Ed Straw have produced an illustrated 300-page paperback (1) which states their concern for alleviating what they describe as ‘the climate chaos’ embracing planet Earth: pollution,…
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Neil Richardson posted a new post. 2 years ago
A Life in SystemsLooking back in his valedictory lecture at Lancaster University (1), Professor Peter Checkland recalls career moves in the fifties and sixties, from the science tribe at Oxford University physics lab,…
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