Guaranteed to alter your thinking about communication. This book won the National Communication Association Award in 2000. Everest that left five people dead and many others—including the author—questioning their own culpability. HISTORICAL & MILITARY, by Written in the last year of the author's life, while he was dying of Stage IV lung cancer, the memoir recounts Kalanithi's life story, beginning with the onset of symptoms, then taking us back in time to trace his development from a bookish teenager to an inquisitive student and finally to a talented and well-trained resident with a bright future in neurosurgery ahead of him. We’re glad you found a book that interests you. Touch, the ability to come into direct contact with another being, and time, the expression of our mortality, are “the two nonreproducible things we can share, our only guarantees of sincerity” through which we can “face the holiness and wretchedness of our finitude.” Original, erudite, and beautifully written, this book is a gem. It also provides its own useful conception of a way in which communication can be understood (although, I have some misgivings about this). A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific and a fundamental knot in Western thought. The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway. It appears unavoidable that human beings divide the world into “me” and “not me” in distinct ways, creating both the joy of a world populated by individual personalities and the frustration of an insuperable barrier to transfers of unmodified meaning from one person to another. Speaking Into the Air reveals the irony surrounding new technologies of communication that reactivated primal doubts about mind/body splits and communication chasms. Before social media platforms like Facebook, there was ham radio. Previous Next . Peters describes communicating with nonhuman animals, the dead, robots, and much more. We are told, for instance, to “be conspicuous at all cost,” then told to “behave like others.” More seriously, Greene never really defines “power,” and he merely asserts, rather than offers evidence for, the Hobbesian world of all against all in which he insists we live. Nautch joints are depressing, like all places for deposit, banks, mail boxes, tombs, vending machines.—Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust. BANQUO Very gladly. Showing all 1 items Jump to: Summaries (1) Summaries. I don't really even know how to fully explain the depth of this book, but would strongly recommend it to anyone with an interest in the study of communication. 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