complex and multifaceted Concepts

The London Problem: What Britain Gets Wrong About Its Capital City

by Jack Brown · 14 Jul 2021 · 101pp · 24,949 words

. Both the city’s people and the place itself are often stereotyped, misunderstood, and misrepresented, both wilfully and accidentally. While the reality is of course complex and multifaceted, a little more understanding about the capital itself – from its historical origins to its place in the UK economy today – is important. So, too, is

The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice

by Fredrik Deboer · 3 Aug 2020 · 236pp · 77,546 words

tall we are. And few would doubt that there is a genetic element in each of those attributes. Yet when it comes to intelligence—a complex and multifaceted human attribute that includes both objective abilities of raw reasoning and a great deal of socially constructed and influenced factors—too many would-be egalitarians

The Passenger

by AA.VV. · 23 May 2022 · 192pp · 59,615 words

vote in opposite directions, but historical evolution shows how the granite binary logic of any winner-takes-all political system hides just how much more complex and multifaceted societies and cultures actually are. Until the 1970s Texas almost exclusively had Democratic governors. It is the state that President Lyndon B. Johnson came from

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 Nov 2010 · 1,294pp · 210,361 words

, invade organs, and colonize distant sites. To understand the full syndrome of cancer, biologists would need to link gene mutations in cancer cells to the complex and multifaceted abnormal behavior of these cells. Genes encode proteins, and proteins often work like minuscule molecular switches, activating yet other proteins and inactivating others, turning molecular

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society

by Cordelia Fine · 13 Jan 2017 · 312pp · 83,998 words

how we present ourselves to the world. But of course 3G sex is not like this. The genetic and hormonal processes of sex, despite being complex and multifaceted, usually create distinct, consistent, and stable 3G sex categories. It’s perhaps understandable for people to assume that sex has the same kind of fundamental

A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

by Joel Mokyr · 8 Jan 2016 · 687pp · 189,243 words

choice, even when such choices had consequences. Religion was instrumental in the creation of both Smithian and Schumpeterian growth. Its impact on Smithian growth was complex and multifaceted. First, some religions insisted on investment in human capital, above all literacy, so that young people would be socialized to participate in rituals that required

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the Queen of Sweden to tutor her children. The Biagioli theory that patronage served above all as a form of legitimization is clearly incomplete: a complex and multifaceted exchange of services between patron and scientist took place. Patronage was both complex and adaptable. Courtly patronage provided intellectuals with an alternative to the often

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

by Emily Nagoski Ph.d. · 3 Mar 2015 · 473pp · 121,895 words

preexisting knowledge. If you want to dive deeper, you’ll find references in the notes, along with details about my process for boiling down a complex and multifaceted body of research into something practical. if you feel broken, or know someone who does One more thing before we get into chapter 1. Remember

Bureaucracy

by David Graeber · 3 Feb 2015 · 252pp · 80,636 words

moments there will surely be. Likely as not, quite a few of them. But they will most likely be one element in a far more complex and multifaceted revolutionary process whose outlines could hardly, at this point, be fully anticipated. In retrospect, what seems strikingly naïve is the old assumption that a single

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers

by Emily Levesque · 3 Aug 2020

and disrupt a public hearing about the observatory). While some stories did acknowledge the objections of the San Carlos Apache, most preferred to reduce the complex and multifaceted protests to “Squirrels vs. ’Scopes.”25 Today, Mount Graham operates as a typical astronomical observatory, and its red squirrel population is doing well. Biologists carry

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

by Nick Reding · 1 Jul 2009 · 250pp · 83,367 words

hocks to be disassembled, packaged, and shipped at the Iowa Ham plant by people like Roland Jarvis. From there, a whole new market, just as complex and multifaceted, would take over in order to distribute the food and sell it at a retail level, perhaps at the grocery once owned by the Leo