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How To Be an Antiracist / Ibram X. Kendi. - Wydanie 3. - London : The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, 2019. - VIII, 305 stron ; 23 cm.

Autor

Kendi, Ibram X.

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Rasizm Sprawiedliwość społeczna Ruchy społeczne Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

Dziedzina i ujęcie

Socjologia i społeczeństwo

Indeks na stronach 287-305.

In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem. Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and story-teller, Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is, at times, complicit in racism whether they realise it or not, and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism, he shows us how instead to be a force for good. Along the way, Kendi punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding, from arguments about what race is and whether racial differences exist to the complications that arise when race intersects with ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality. In the process he demolishes the myth of the post-racial society and builds from the ground up a vital new understanding of racism – what it is, where it is hidden, how to identify it and what to do about it.

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The Song of the Cell : An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human / Siddhartha Mukherjee. - Wydanie 2. - London : The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, 2022. - XVII, [1], 473 strony : fotografie ; 24 cm.

Autor

Mukherjee, Siddhartha (1970- ).

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Książki Poradniki i przewodniki

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Hooke, Robert (1635-1703) Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van (1632-1723) Wynalazki Urządzenia optyczne Mikroskop Historia Medycyna Komórka (biologia) Człowiek

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Opracowanie Wydawnictwa popularne

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Medycyna i zdrowie Biologia Historia

Index na stronach 443-473.

Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves-hearts, blood, brains-are built from these compartments. Hooke christened them “cells”. The discovery of cells-and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem-announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer’s dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID pneumonia-all could be re-conceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. He seduces listeners with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling. Told in six parts, laced with Mukherjee’s own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate-a masterpiece.

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