Zombie Survival Guide: Non-fiction

Fake history is like the Zombies we see in mass media, for the fake fact, like the fictional Zombie, lives by turning real events and people into monstrous perversions of fact and interpretation. Its pervasiveness reveals that prejudice remains its chief appeal to those who believe it.

Beginning with Huckleberry Finn and ending with The Walking Dead, Cantor uncovers the link between the American dream and frontier life. In imaginative variants of a Wild West setting, popular culture has served up disturbing -- and yet strangely compelling -- images of what happens when people move beyond the borders of law and order.

There is no stronger foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won't die, than Paul Krugman. In Arguing with Zombies, Krugman tackles many of these misunderstandings, taking stock of where the United States has come from and where it's headed in a series of concise, digestible chapters. (Not currently owned by Cornell)

Parenting is difficult under the best of circumstances--but extremely daunting when humanity faces cataclysmic annihilation. This book critically examines factors influencing parenting, and the likely outcomes of different caregiving techniques in the hypothetical landscape of the living dead.

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Science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre science of real-life mind control. He visits a lab littered with the corpses of zombie ants, searches for kamikaze crickets in the hills of New Mexico, and meets the wasp that stings cockroaches in the brain before leading them to their doom.

The anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Camilla Fojas uses representations of people of color, the incarcerated, and trans/queers--vulnerable populations all--to work through the contradictions created by the economic crisis and its aftermath. She also examines how these artifacts illuminated parts of society usually kept off-screen or on the margins even as they defaulted to stories of white protagonists.

Forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier--dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the graveyards"--travels to Haiti where rumors claim that some who die may return to life as zombies. "Zombies" follows Charlier's journey to understand the fascinating and frightening world of Haiti's living dead, inviting readers to believe the unbelievable.

You're outnumbered, in fear for your life, surrounded by flesheating zombies. What can save you now? Mathematics, of course. You'll learn how mathematics can predict the unpredictable. In order to be prepared for the apocalypse, you'll need mathematical models, differential equations, statistical estimations, discrete time models, and adaptive strategies for zombie attacks--as well as baseball bats and Dire Straits records (latter two items not included). You'll also learn how modelling can advise government policy, how theoretical results can be communicated to a nonmathematical audience and how models can be formulated with only limited information. By understanding how to combat zombies, readers will be introduced to a wide variety of modelling techniques that are applicable to other real-world issues (biology, epidemiology, medicine, public health, etc.).

Distribution of vampires and zombies across time and space has revealed these undead figures to carry multiple meanings. Moreover, both figures have experienced radical reinterpretations. This volume--with scholars from different national and cultural backgrounds--explores the transformations that the vampire and zombie figures undergo when they travel globally and through various media and cultures.

Think you know a thing or two about zombies? Think again. If you're going to keep your wits -- and your brains -- about you during a zombie attack, you need expert advice. "Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies" gathers together an irreverent group of scholars and writers to take a serious look at how zombies threaten almost every aspect of our lives.

Growing from their early roots in Caribbean voodoo to their popularity today, zombies are epidemic. Their presence is pervasive, whether they are found in video games, street signs, hard drives, or even international politics. These eighteen original essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars examine how the zombie has evolved over time, its continually evolving manifestations in popular culture, and the unpredictable effects the zombie has had.

Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world. Perception and Basic Beliefs addresses two central questions in epistemology: which beliefs are epistemologically basic (i.e., noninferentially justified) and where does perception end and inferential cognition begin.

Nineteen philosophers sink their teeth into the juicy topic of the Undead and discuss some of the major movie treatments of zombies, vampires, and other types of living dead. Though Bram Stoker coined the term, the undead have stalked the human imagination for eons, appearing in the myths and legends of nearly all cultures.

What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from international relations might be applied to a war with zombies.

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. The crisis seemed to have killed off these ideas, but they still live on in the minds of many--members of the public, commentators, politicians, economists, and even those charged with cleaning up the mess.

"Featuring chronological reviews of more than 300 zombie films - from 1932's "White Zombie" to George A Romero's 2008 release "Diary of the Dead", this guide helps fans learn exactly what makes a zombie a zombie, and goes behind the scenes with a chilling production diary from "Land of the Dead"." BUT, NO DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT REAL ZOMBIE ATTACKS?

By definition zombies would be physically and behaviourally just like us, but not conscious. This currently very influential idea is a threat to all forms of physicalism, and has led some philosophers to give up physicalism and become dualists. It has also beguiled many physicalists, who feelforced to defend increasingly convoluted explanations of why the conceivability of zombies is compatible with their impossibility. Robert Kirk argues that the zombie idea depends on an incoherent view of the nature of phenomenal consciousness.

On the surface, zombies seem the polar opposite of humans--they, the living dead; we, in essence, are the dying alive. But the zombie is also us. In this volume, essays by scholars from a range of disciplines examine the zombie as a thematic presence in literature, film, video games, law, and philosophy, exploring topics including zombies and the environment, litigation, the afterlife, capitalism, and the erotic. Through this, the authors seek to discover what the zombie can teach us about being human.

Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and vampires have taken over TV shows, comic books, cartoons, video games, and movies. Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy drags the theories of famous philosophers like Socrates and Descartes into the territory of the undead, exploring questions like: Why do vampires and vegetarians share a similar worldview? Why is understanding zombies the key to health care reform? And what does "healthy in mind and body" mean for vampires and zombies? Answers to these questions and more await readers brave enough to make this fun, philosophical foray into the undead.