Shared Selves Keith Appleyard The authors have a personal

The authors have a personal stake as well as an intellectual interest in these issues

Cybernetics—the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans—originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems

Although there is extensive research on the psychosocial factors that influence the etiology

to the large immigrations to the rich heartland of a growing nation

Second is the Puzzle of Atheism: how disbelief in gods can exist within our uniquely religious species

Shared Selves Keith Appleyard The authors have a personalMemoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzalda work in places where personal history