Symposium Books

New releases in this week Symposium Books

Author Event! Elizabeth Preston’s “The Creatures’ Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care“ Join us on Thursday , June 11th at 6pm as we host Elizabeth Preston @by.elizabeth.preston in conversation with Phoebe Hall @phoebefhall to discuss her new book, The Creatures’ Guide to Caring About the book: A lively and revelatory journey through the evolution of caretaking on Earth, from animal parents to modern-day humans, making the case that caring for children and one another made us who we are Poison frog fathers carry tadpoles on their backs. Killer whale grandmothers hunt to feed their adult sons. Tropical birds incubate their friends’ eggs. Spider moms let their hatchlings eat them alive. Around the world, animals from the exotic to the familiar go to astonishing lengths to keep their young alive. Their biology, brains and behaviors show us what we have in common with other creatures, as well as what’s unique about Homo sapiens. With warmth, humor, and occasional run-ins with bodily fluids, science journalist Elizabeth Preston leads a highly accessible tour of cutting-edge research into how and why we and other animals care for young. She discovers that humans evolved to raise our kids in cooperative groups, and that the tools we’ve inherited for caretaking aren’t only for moms or parents in general—they’re the basis for our human society. About the author: Elizabeth Preston is a science journalist who contributes regularly to The New York Times and has written for Science, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Orion, Slate, Audubon, Discover, National Geographic and others. She is a winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award. Preston is also a humor writer whose work has appeared in outlets such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Parents, and Real Simple and was the editor of Muse, a magazine about science and ideas for kids. She lives in Massachusetts. More info @symposiumbooks .com events + in comments below! See you soon! #animalbehavior #biology #parenting #communityevent #thingstodoinprovidence

Author Event! Meg Stone’s “Don’t Fight Back”
Thursday, June 4th @ 6pm

Join us on June 4th at 6pm as we host Meg Stone in conversation with Brandie Stringer to discuss her latest book, Don’t Fight Back: And 10 Other Myths About Crime, Personal Safety, and Gender-Based Violence.

About the book:
From a nationally recognized violence-prevention expert, an accessible guide that debunks the most pervasive myths about crime and offers evidence-based strategies that make us safer
A specific image of violence and how to avoid it lives in a lot of our imaginations. And what some of us fear most is shaped not by the strongest evidence, but the most viral horror stories.
Meg Stone, an abuse and violence prevention expert, dives deep into dangerous safety myths and helps us understand what the evidence shows and what men in positions of authority just expect us to believe because they said so.
Meg debunks myths about:
How attackers behave (“Don’t Fight Back. It Will Make the Attacker Angry and You’ll Get Hurt Worse”),
What (or who) to fear (“Crime Is at an All-Time High and Going Up”),
What you should never do (“Don’t Wear a Ponytail. An Attacker Could Grab It”); and
What you should always do (“Trust Your Intuition”)
Each chapter offers practical strategies for protecting ourselves that also contribute to the activism it takes to change the conditions that cause or contribute to violence.
You don’t have to diminish yourself or restrict your life to avoid being attacked. Critical thinking, not following simplistic directives, is the real way to be “smart” about safety.

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