Free Books – 66 Downloads for Tackling Risk

Free Books – 66 Downloads for Tackling Risk

The following books are all for free download and are the most helpful in learning how to tackle risk. Many are recommended in a study the Social Psychology of Risk .

In SPoR we tend to find that book framed by the word ‘safety’ are generally mis-educative in tackling risk.

The best way to envision risk and the future of risk is to read across the Disciplines in a Transdisciplinary approach. In this way we step outside of the confines of Safety, Scientism, Engineering and Stasis and seeks new horizons in envisioning new ways of tackling risk.

Robert Abelson – History of Social Psychology

http://index-of.co.uk/Reverse-Engineering/Experiments%20With%20People%20-%20Revelations%20From%20Social%20Psychology.pdf

Hanna Arendt – Critical Thinking

https://monoskop.org/images/e/e2/Arendt_Hannah_The_Human_Condition_2nd_1998.pdf

https://www.azioniparallele.it/images/materiali/Totalitarianism.pdf

https://pensarelespaciopublico.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/the-life-of-the-mind-hannah-arendt2.pdf

Michael Apple – Education and Power

http://www.gs.fudan.edu.cn/_upload/article/5d/03/f0488a984206b159550a00fe2f09/c2d202c0-273a-43db-a689-8351390d7454.pdf

Roy Ascott – Embodiment and Consciousness

http://www.econ.upf.edu/~michael/visualdata/tufte-aesthetics_and_technique.pdf

Craig Ashhurst – Coherence/Transcoherence and Wicked Problems (PhD)

https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/202932

Albert Bandura – Social Learning

https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Bandura/Bandura1989ACD.pdf

Gregory Bateson – Ecology and Mind

https://monoskop.org/images/c/c3/Bateson_Gregory_Mind_and_Nature.pdf

Jean Baudrillard – Deconstructing Consumerism

https://monoskop.org/images/d/de/Baudrillard_Jean_The_consumer_society_myths_and_structures_1970.pdf

https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/baudrillard.pdf

Ernst Becker – Death

https://humanposthuman.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/ernest_becker_the_denial_of_deathbookfi-org.pdf

Peter Berger – Sociology and Faith

http://perflensburg.se/Berger%20social-construction-of-reality.pdf

Bruno Bettelheim – Myth and Psychology

http://www.sfu.ca/media-lab/cmns320_06/readings/bettelheim.pdf

Jan Blommaert – Discourse

https://www.twirpx.com/file/2503045/

Pierre Bourdieu – Social-Critical Thinking/Symbolism

https://monoskop.org/images/e/e0/Pierre_Bourdieu_Distinction_A_Social_Critique_of_the_Judgement_of_Taste_1984.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/4/43/Bourdieu_Pierre_Language_and_Symbolic_Power_1991.pdf

Martin Buber – Being and Meeting

http://www.maximusveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/iandthou.pdf

Cameron and Quinn – Understanding and Diagnosing Culture

Yuen Chao – Linguistics

https://www.scribd.com/document/336808242/Language-and-Symbolic-Systems-Yuen-Ren-Chao-pdf

https://www.pdfdrive.com/diagnosing-and-changing-organizational-culture-d17800161.html

Mark Coeckelberg – Persons and Risk

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316801010_Human_Being_Risk

Antonio Damasio – Embodiment and Risk

https://ahandfulofleaves.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/descartes-error_antonio-damasio.pdf

Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction

https://monoskop.org/images/8/8e/Derrida_Jacques_Of_Grammatology_1998.pdf

http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/Burt%20Glossator/Jacques%20Derrida%20-%20Nicholas%20Royle.pdf

Mary Douglas – Ritual, Taboo and Risk

https://monoskop.org/images/1/1d/Douglas_Mary_Risk_and_Blame_Essays_in_Cultural_Theory_1994.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/7/7d/Douglas_Mary_Purity_and_Danger_An_Analysis_of_Concepts_of_Pollution_and_Taboo_2001.pdf

Umberto Eco – Language and Semiotics

https://monoskop.org/File:Eco_Umberto_On_Beauty_2004.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Eco_Umberto_The_Open_Work.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/b/b3/Eco_Umberto_Semiotics_and_the_Philosophy_of_Language_1986.pdf

Edgar and Sedgwick – Cultural Theory

https://www.academia.edu/28574973/Edgar_and_Sedgwick_KEY_CONCEPTS_IN_CULTURAL_theory_pdf

Keir Elam – Semiotics of Performance

Mircea Eliade – Understanding Faith-Sacralism-Mythologisation

https://monoskop.org/File:Eliade_Mircea_The_Sacred_and_The_profane_1963.pdf

http://users.uoa.gr/~cdokou/MythLitMA/Eliade-EternalReturn.pdf

Jacques Ellul – Technique and Propaganda

https://monoskop.org/images/5/55/Ellul_Jacques_The_Technological_Society.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Ellul_Jacques_Propaganda_The_Formation_of_Mens_Attitudes.pdf

Paul Feyerbend – Deconstructing Method/Objectivism

https://monoskop.org/images/7/7e/Feyerabend_Paul_Against_Method.pdf

Michael Foucault – Critical Thinking, Power

https://monoskop.org/images/4/43/Foucault_Michel_Discipline_and_Punish_The_Birth_of_the_Prison_1977_1995.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/5/5d/Foucault_Michel_Power_Knowledge_Selected_Interviews_and_Other_Writings_1972-1977.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/9/92/Foucault_Michel_The_Birth_of_the_Clinic_1976.pdf

Paulo Freire – Radical Education

https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf

http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Paulo-Freire-Education-for-Critical-Consciousness-Continuum-Impacts-2005.pdf

Eric Fromm – Critical Thinking, Love and Hope

https://fromm-online.org/en/downloads/

http://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Erich-Fromm_The-Art-Of-Loving.pdf

https://giuseppecapograssi.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/erich-fromm-to-have-or-to-be-1976.pdf

Thomas Fuchs – Intercorpreality and Interaffectivity

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/228601612.pdf

James Gee – Discourse Analysis

https://anekawarnapendidikan.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/an-introduction-to-discourse-analysis-by-james-paul-gee.pdf

Rene Girard – Mimesis, Sacralisation

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327733518_Rene_Girard_Violence_and_Mimesis

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/542c2af8e4b00b7cfca08972/t/58ff87ed2b8579e77e80882/1493141508746/Scapegoat.PDF

Malcolm Gladwell – Intuition

http://jtnthebe.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Blink-The-Power-of-Thinking-Without-Thinking.pdf

Thomas Gilovich – Risk and Fallibility

http://www.r-5.org/files/books/ethology/human-mind/Thomas_Gilovich-How_We_Know_What_Isn%27t_So-EN.pdf

Virginia Held – Care Ethics

https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Ethics-of-Care-Personal-Political-and-Global-by-Virginia-Held.pdf

Martin Heidegger – Phenomenology and Being

https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf

Max Horkheimer – Critical Theory

https://monoskop.org/images/7/74/Horkheimer_Max_Critical_Theory_Selected_Essays_2002.pdf

Don Idhe – Technics and Science

http://www.trans-techresearch.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Ihde-D.-1991-Instrumental-Realism-The-Interface-between-Philosophy-of-Science-and-Philosophy-of-Technology-introduction.pdf

Ivan Illich –Education, Learning and Professionalisation

https://monoskop.org/images/1/17/Illich_Ivan_Deschooling_Society.pdf

http://debate.uvm.edu/asnider/Ivan_Illich/Ivan_Illich_Disabling_Professions.pdf

C.G Jung – Symbols and Uncosncious

https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/man-and-his-symbols.pdf

https://archive.org/details/collectedworksof92cgju

Oyvind Kvalnes – Fallibility and Work

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5e9d2792-8920-4fdb-9d05-3e3bf1fe52ee/1002097.pdf

Soren Kierkegaard – Existentialism

http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/kierkegaard-beginners.pdf

https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/thesicknessuntodeath.pdf

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60333

Thomas Kuhn – Deconstructing Scientism

https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/Stanford/CS477/papers/Kuhn-SSR-2ndEd.pdf

Stephen LaBerge – Lucid Dreaming

http://users.telenet.be/sterf/texts/other/exploring_the_world_of_lucid_dreaming.pdf

Lakoff and Johnson – Metaphor, Embodiment

https://nyshalong.com/public/archive/20150131/20150131_ref.pdf

https://www.scribd.com/doc/139933997/Philosophy-in-The-Flesh-pdf

Theo Van Leeuwen – Social Semiotics

https://www.academia.edu/7219898/Introducing_Social_Semiotics_Theo_van_Leeuwen

Robert Long – Social Psychology of Risk 5 – free downloads

https://www.humandymensions.com/shop/

Yuri Lotman – Culture and Semiotics

https://monoskop.org/images/5/5e/Lotman_Yuri_M_Universe_of_the_Mind_A_Semiotic_Theory_of_Culture_1990.pdf

Alistair McIntyre – Ethics

https://www.academia.edu/42704314/A_SHORT_HISTORY_OF_ETHICS

David Myers – Social Psychology

https://diasmumpuni.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/david_g-_myers_social_psychology_10th_editionbookfi.pdf

Juhani Pallasma – Perception

https://arts.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pallasmaa_The-Eyes-of-the-Skin.pdf

Allan and Barbara Pease – Body Language

https://e-edu.nbu.bg/pluginfile.php/331752/mod_resource/content/0/Allan_and_Barbara_Pease_-_Body_Language_The_Definitive_Book.pdf

Michael Polanyi – Intuitive Knowledge

https://monoskop.org/File:Polanyi_Michael_The_Tacit_Dimension.pdf

https://bibliodarq.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/polanyi-m-personal-knowledge-towards-a-post-critical-philosophy.pdf

Maurice Merleau-Ponty – Phenomenology and Perception

https://monoskop.org/images/8/80/Merleau_Ponty_Maurice_The_Visible_and_the_Invisible_1968.pdf

https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Phenomenology-of-Perception-by-Maurice-Merleau-Ponty.pdf

Neil Postman – Radical Education, Technology

https://kairosschool.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Teaching-as-a-Subversive-Activity.pdf

https://interesi.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/end_of_education.pdf

http://ektr.uni-eger.hu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/neil-postman-amusing-ourselves-to-death-public-discourse-in-the-age-of-show-business.pdf

https://interesi.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/technopoly.pdf

Ronald Riggo et.al – Leadership-Followership

http://yusuffaisal.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Riggio-et-al-edt-2008-THE-ART-OF-FOLLOWERSHIP-How-Great-Followers-Create-Greaat-Leader-and-Organizations.pdf

Inna Semetsky – Education, Learning and Semiotics

https://www.academia.edu/12660155/Edusemiotics_A_Handbook

https://www.academia.edu/1802342/Semiotics_Education_Experience

Semiotics – Introduction

https://monoskop.org/images/0/07/Sebeok_Thomas_Signs_An_Introduction_to_Semiocs_2nd_ed_2001.pdf

http://www.semioticmethodology.com/Edges.pdf

Bradd Shore – Understanding Culture/Ethnography

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/10be/471fc0afa63258afd7bb9cef39183e290377.pdf?_ga=2.100200926.1939025476.1601777563-664063425.1601777563

Ken Smith et.al. – Visual Communication

https://www.academia.edu/9370225/Handbook_Of_Visual_Communication_Theory_Methods_And_Media

Susan Sontag – Metaphor, Symbolism

https://monoskop.org/images/4/4a/Susan_Sontag_Illness_As_Metaphor_1978.pdf

http://www.lab404.com/3741/readings/sontag.pdf

Charles Stangor – Social Psychology

https://2012books.lardbucket.org/pdfs/social-psychology-principles.pdf

http://www.opentextbooks.org.hk/system/files/export/15/15477/pdf/Principles_of_Social_Psychology_15477.pdf

Nassim Taleb – Probability and Risk

http://kgt.bme.hu/files/BMEGT30M400/Taleb_Antifragile__2012.pdf

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.695.4305&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Edward Tufte – Information Visualisation

http://okhaos.com/tufte.pdf

http://www.econ.upf.edu/~michael/visualdata/tufte-aesthetics_and_technique.pdf

Francisco Varela – Embodied Mind

https://monoskop.org/File:Varela_Thompson_Rosch_The_Embodied_Mind_Cognitive_Science_and_Human_Experience_1991.pdf

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PhD., MEd., MOH., BEd., BTh., Dip T., Dip Min., Cert IV TAA, MRMIA Rob is the founder of Human Dymensions and has extensive experience, qualifications and expertise across a range of sectors including government, education, corporate, industry and community sectors over 30 years. Rob has worked at all levels of the education and training sector including serving on various post graduate executive, post graduate supervision, post graduate course design and implementation programs.