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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results27 Connexions Library1 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 1 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 9 Sources Library 2 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryThe Arc of Justice and the Long Run: Hope, History, and Unpredictability Solnit, Rebecca Article 2013 North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and ... The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Doidge, Norman Book 2007 Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises. The Case for Grassroots Archives  Diemer, Ulli Article 2012 Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden historie... The CIA's Memory Prison: A Perverse Logic Sottile, J.P. Article 2013 The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has cla... Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia: Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices Diemer, Ulli Article 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profit... Connexions Library: History Focus Page Website 2009 Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics. Connexions Library: Oral History Focus Page Website 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history. Dark Age Ahead Jacobs, Jane Book 2004 A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age. The Design of Everyday Things Norman, Donald A. Book 1988 A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things. Eyewitness Chile: After 30 Years: Against The Current vol. 108 Cockcroft, James Article 2004 When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a week-long seminar called “Thirty Years -- Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America,” I fou... The Great Turning as Compass and Lens : Yes! Magazine Summer 2006 Macy, Joanna Article 2006 The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with ... How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole Pilger, John Article 2007 John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman b... Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria Ofshe, Richard; Watters, Ethan Book 1994 An exposee of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy. Museum of the World and Image Becerra, Diana C.S. Article 2013 Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human ri... Myth of a Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse Loftus, Elizabeth; Keecham, Katherine Book 1994 An expose of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy. Good experimental evidence shows that false memories can easily be implanted. Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light) Guzmán, Patricio (director/writer) Film/Video 2010 In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers search the sky and explore the origins of the universe. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones murdered and dumped... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017: Public Safety Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017: Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia Diemer, Ulli Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to co... Peddling miracles and amnesia Reuss, Alejandro Article 1999 The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect. People's History, Memory & Archives Article 2017 A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives. Quotes about Memory Unclassified Remembering Dangerously Loftus, Elizabeth Article 1995 Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy. Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee Himmelstein, David U. Article 2009 A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, admini... "The struggle of memory against forgetting" Article 2008 This excellent address by filmmaker and journalist John Pilger reminds us all of an uncomfortable truth - that all the great breakthroughs in history, like the end of apartheid in South Africa, happen... The War on Memory Begins in Argentina Desimone, Arturo Article 2016 Within less than a month of the inauguration of the new Macri/Cambiemos government in Argentina, the new leadership, or gestión (management) as they prefer to be called, acted in a great sweeping hurr... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesConnexions Archive & Library The Connexions Archive & Library is Toronto-based project dedicated to keeping alive the rich history of grassroots movements for social justice.
Connexions preserves 'alternative' histories that r... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryConspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Note from a Mind-Control Conference Harrington, Evan 1996 The debate over "recovered" and "false" memories continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the field of psychology today. The debate is extremely polarized with very little amicable commun... Don't Forget! Easy Exercises for a Better Memory At Any Age Lapp, Danielle C. 1987 Exercises for memory training. Exploring Mind, Memory, and the Psychology of Belief Part II: Perception, Memory and the Courtroom Genoni, Tom Jr. 1995 So-called simple perceptions are anything but simple, and what we see is not always the true nature of reality. Perception is a creative act that involves not only the purely sensory apparatus of the ... The Ghost in the Machine Koestler, Arthur 1967 An analysis of the relationship between reason and imagination. Memory and aging Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information Hamacher, Duane W. 2016 Long before the ancient Celts, Aboriginal Australians were recording vast scores of knowledge to memory and passing it to successive generations. Aboriginal people demonstrate that their oral traditio... Memory hole Wikipedia article A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a website or other archive, parti... Musicophilia Tales of Music and the Brain Sacks, Oliver 2007 Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he examines the power of music through the individaul experiences of patients, musi... Recovered Memories Cross the Oceans Psychic Vibrations Scheaffer, Robert 1995 The American practice of "recovering memories" of all manner of unspeakable abuse has leaped the Atlantic, and the Pacific as well. From the Connexions ArchivesElizabeth F. Loftus Loftus, Elizabeth Website Web site of Elizabeth Loftus, memory researcher and psychologist. Poor Memory leads to fame Sears, Val Article Researcher Dr. Fergus Craik discusses his life, his work and, of course, his memory. |
