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Summary of Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman's A Mind at Play
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The treasure was buried five feet down in the South Carolina soil, in the shadow of a gnarled tulip poplar tree. But the tale doesn’t end there. Legrand found the code on a parchment washed up from a shipwreck. #2 Claude Shannon was a boy who loved to tinker with things. When he was young, he built a fence that could carry electricity between two houses, and used it to communicate with his friends. #3 Claude Shannon, the groom, was a traveling salesman who had arrived in Gaylord just after the turn of the century. He had bought out the business dealing in furniture and funerals, and lived to see it pay. His most significant stretch of employment was as Otsego County probate judge. #4 Gaylord was a small town in northern Michigan that was shaped by its topography and climate. It was a perfect place to grow millions of acres of forest. The trees drew the lumber industry, and the first visitors and inhabitants were willing to contend with the climate for the rich cache of white pine and hardwoods.
Summary of Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni's Rome's Last Citizen
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 When Cato was four years old, he was hanging by his feet from a high window. He was being shaken and dangled out the window by a politician named Pompaedius Silo. Despite being shaken and dangled out the window, Cato did not scream or cry for help. #2 The story of Cato and the window is a prime example of how the Romans projected their adult characteristics onto their children. The story shows Cato being grabbed by an overwhelming force, facing death, and exhibiting utter calm in the face of it. #3 The Italian question was a major issue in Roman politics, and it was addressed by the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, who proposed to remedy Rome’s wealth gap by distributing public lands to the urban poor. They were ignored by the Senate. #4 The assassination of Tiberius was a political assassination that was disguised as a religious ceremony. It was the first step towards Tiberius declaring himself tribune-for-life, his enemies said.
Words on Fire
Ranging from Cicero's Rome to contemporary politics, Words on Fire is a provocative rethinking of political eloquence for our time.
A Mind at Play
A prize-winning biography of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon, the neglected architect of the Information Age.
Rome's Last Citizen
"Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republicanism, but saw himself as too principled for the mere politics that might have saved it. His life and lessons are urgently relevant in the harshly divided America—and world—of today. With erudition and verve, Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni turn their life of Cato into the most modern of biographies, a blend of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Game Change."—Howard Fineman, Editorial Director of The Huffington Post Media Group, NBC and MSNBC News Analyst, and New York Times bestselling...
Not Here
What does it mean to live beside an eroding democracy? As this powerful and timely book argues, that question will define the next generation of Canadian politics. As a congressional staffer in the United States, Rob Goodman watched firsthand as a rising authoritarian movement disenfranchised voters, sabotaged institutions, and brought America to the brink of a coup. Now, as a political theorist who makes his home in Canada, he has an urgent warning for his adopted country: The same forces that have upended democracy in America and around the world are on the move in Canada, too. But we can protect our democracy by drawing on a set of political, cultural, and historical resources that are di...
A Mind at Play
Chronicles the life and times of the lesser-known Information Age intellect, revealing how his discoveries and innovations set the stage for the digital era, influencing the work of such collaborators and rivals as Alan Turing, John von Neumann and Vannevar Bush.
Contemporary Democratic Theory
Is democracy worth saving? Responding to the erosion of democracy, philosophical debates have pivoted from analyzing the best forms of democracy to questioning what is so valuable about democracy to begin with, how we can save it, and whether it is indeed worth saving. Contemporary Democratic Theory charts this pivot and surveys the most important new developments in the philosophical, theoretical, and normative examination of the concept of democracy. Comparisons that dominated 20th century democratic theory - between direct democracy, participatory democracy, deliberative democracy, and agonistic democracy - are in the 21st century giving way to comparisons between democracy and its challe...
