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![]() ![]() With its descriptions of human social life subsumed by technology and images, it is often cited as a prophecy of the dangers of the internet age now upon us. “The Society of the Spectacle” is still relevant today. It was a thin book in a plain white cover, with an obscure publisher and an author who shunned interviews, but its impact was immediate and far-reaching, delivering a social critique that helped shape France’s student protests and disruptions of 1968. ![]() Nearly 50 years ago, Guy Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle” reached bookshelves in France. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Right and democracy finally triumph through supreme strategy and mighty sacrifice - by the few to whom the many will owe so much. The major battles, however, are fought against the dictator rabbit General Woundwort and his secret police. But only after racking hardships, narrow escapes and a bizarre sojourn at a sinister warren of welcoming fat rabbits who withhold their dreadful secret of inevitable execution. ![]() Led by Hazel, more of a William Bradford than a Moses, the group eventually reaches the promised land, Watership Down. (A signpost in human language announces a "development" of the field - the remaining rabbits will be subsequently gassed.) In this British tale (with impressive reviews as a juvenile over there) a pioneer group of wild rabbits reenact the rousing Exodus story/myth as the prophet Fiver senses disaster about to strike the home warren. ![]() ![]() This is described in graphic detail, with none of the sentimentality one associates with ‘cutesie-pie’ animal literature such as James Herriot’s stories of veterinary triumphs. ![]() ![]() Because while “ On Cats” is undoubtedly well-written, it also touches upon a rather painful topic, and more than once the culling of (admittedly) superfluous cats. This combination has placed me in a dilemma. And then I started on “On Cats”.īefore I go any further, let me explain that along with being a bibliophile, a lover of books, I am also an ailurophile, a lover of cats. So I ordered its sequel, “Ben, In The World” and finished that too. I ordered the book and read it from cover to cover, barely blinking through the 3 hours it took to devour it whole. So when Doris Lessing won her Nobel Prize in 2007 (“Oldest winner! Woman Writer!”), I looked her up on Wikipedia and decided that I would begin my Lessing session with “ The Fifth Child”. When I hear of a book getting the Booker/Pulitzer/Nobel/Sahitya Akademi/you-name-the-prize, it triggers in me the fierce need to read books by that author. Let me start by admitting that I am an extremely snobbish reader. While this is not Lessing at her best, and may disconcert some readers with its brutal honesty, it is definitely worth a read. ![]() ![]() Doris Lessing’s musings on her feline companions over the years makes for interesting reading. ![]() ![]() She also helped found and write for Women: A Journal of Liberation, one of the first feminist journals in the US. ![]() Gordon has been a radio commentator for US CBS Radio and National Public Radio's Marketplace. She is currently working on a book about the innovations and clinical care at the Veterans Health Administration. ![]() She is author, co-author or editor of 18 books. Along with Sioban Nelson, she co-edits The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series at Cornell University Press. With Bernice Buresh, she is author of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, which is in its third edition. It also includes books about nursing’s contribution to health care including Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines, and Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care. Her work includes, First Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety (Cornell University Press, 2012), a collection of essays edited with Ross Koppel and Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Safety and Teamwork (Cornell University Press, 2012), written with commercial pilot Patrick Mendenhall and medical educator Bonnie Blair O’Connor, with a foreword by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. ![]() Gordon coined the term “Team Intelligence,” to describe the constellation of skills and knowledge needed to build the kind of teams upon which patient safety depends. ![]() |