Reading list

• Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm and Live with Themselves, Albert Bandura (link). "How do otherwise considerate human beings do cruel things and still live in peace with themselves? [… B]y sanctifying their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes; they absolve themselves of blame for the harm they cause by displacement and diffusion of responsibility; they minimize or deny the harmful effects of their actions; and they dehumanize those they maltreat and blame them for bringing the suffering on themselves."
• Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment, Ronald S. Calinger (link). "It is a story of nearly incessant accomplishment, from Euler’s fundamental contributions to almost every area of pure and applied mathematics - especially calculus, number theory, notation, optics, and celestial, rational, and fluid mechanics - to his advancements in shipbuilding, telescopes, ballistics, cartography, chronology, and music theory."
• Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place, Philip Marsden (link). "From the moment he arrived, Marsden found himself fascinated by the landscape around him, and, in particular, by the traces of human history - and of the human relationship to the land - that could be seen all around him."