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Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
Alexander B Todorov · Princeton University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The scientific story of first impressions--and why the snap character judgments we make from faces are irresistible but usually incorrectWe make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second--and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions.... |
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How to Be a Dictator: An Irreverent Guide
Mikal Hem · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Becoming a Dictator, Based on the Outrageous, Scandalous, and Excessive Behavior of Dictators Past and Present Who hasn't dreamed of one day ruling your own country? Along with great power comes unlimited influence, control, admiration, and often wealth. How to Be a Dictator... |
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Heroic Failure and the British
Stephanie L Barczewski · Yale University Press
Pages: 267
Format: Print book
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From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain's... |
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Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
MICHAEL HARRIS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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With a foreword from Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Shallows.Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection. Many of us now lead lives of strangely... |
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The new social story book
Carol Gray · Future Horizons
Pages: 335
Format: Print book
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Since the early 90s, Carol Gray's world-famous Social Stories have helped thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders. This 15th Anniversary Edition of her best-selling book offers ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years, and new sections added... |
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The Flower of Chinese Buddhism (Soka Gakkai History of Buddhism)
Daisaku Ikeda · Middleway Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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Beginning with the introduction of the religion into China, this chronicle depicts the evolution of Buddhism. The career and achievements of the great Kumarajiva are investigated, exploring the famed philosophical treatises that form the core of East Asian Buddhist literature. Providing... |
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On Human Nature
Roger Scruton · Princeton University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton... |
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The Origin of Others
TONI MORRISON · Harvard University Press
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct... |
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The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973
Mark Greif · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the nature of man. But the dawning age of the crisis of man, as Mark Greif calls it, was far more... |
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Organ Grinder: A Classical Education Gone Astray
Alan Fishbone · FSG Originals
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
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A freewheeling essay on mortality and freedom at the intersection of ancient philosophy and biker cultureAfter my accident, I thought I was done with bikes. Until a few years ago -- I was lying in bed having trouble sleeping when I heard a voice say to me, "Alan, get a Harley and ride... |
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Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
JERRY CLARK · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted... |
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How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
Marcus Tullius Cicero · Princeton University Press
Pages: 196
Format: Print book
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Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all--and... |
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