Free Books – 66 Downloads for Tackling Risk
Free Books – 66 Downloads for Tackling 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/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://dl.uswr.ac.ir/bitstream/Hannan/133434/1/Mary_Douglas-Natural_Symbols__Explorations_in_Cosmology%2C_2nd_Edition%281996%29.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
https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2011/DVE001/um/elam_semiotics_theatre.pdf
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/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
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
Malcolm Gladwell – Intuition
http://jtnthebe.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Blink-The-Power-of-Thinking-Without-Thinking.pdf
Thomas Gilovich – Risk and Fallibility
Virginia Held – Care Ethics
Martin Heidegger – Phenomenology and Being
https://www.mta.ca/uploadedFiles/Community/Bios/Cyril_Welch/Heidegger.pdf
Max Horkheimer – Critical Theory
https://monoskop.org/images/7/74/Horkheimer_Max_Critical_Theory_Selected_Essays_2002.pdf
Don Idhe – Technics and Science
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
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
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
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
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.wayanswardhani.lecture.ub.ac.id/files/2013/09/Semiotics-the-Basics.pdf
http://www.semioticmethodology.com/Edges.pdf
Bradd Shore – Understanding Culture/Ethnography
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
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://www.econ.upf.edu/~michael/visualdata/tufte-aesthetics_and_technique.pdf
Francisco Varela – Embodied Mind
Prof. Robert Long
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Thanks Aubrey, Tufte ought to be 101 for safety people.
Thanks Adam, it’s a pleasure to help and offer a better vision to the risk and safety industry and appreciate your acknowledgement.
Thankyou for all this Rob.
Tufte files are BIG!
Lots of reading .. .
I appreciate this site and all that you do Rob, thanks very much!
Mark, happy to advise depending where you are at in your education journey and what you would like to learn. rob@cllr.com.au
WOW – what a treasure trove, the only real problem is where to start, thanks