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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs · Convergent Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan... |
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Terrorism, Political Violence, and Extremism: New Psychology to Understand, Face, and Defuse the Threat
Chris E. Stout Ph.D. · Praeger
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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A must-read for psychologists -- clinical and academic alike -- as well as for political scientists, policy analysts, and others working in the realm of terrorism, political violence, and extremism, this book carefully explores the theories, observations, and approaches of authorities in the field... |
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The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
GAYLE BRANDEIS · Beacon Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis's wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother's suicideGayle Brandeis's mother disappeared just after Gayle gave birth to her youngest child. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility... |
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Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan
Andrew McCarron · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Village, the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Born Again Christians, the Chabad Lubavitch community, or English Department postmodernists, specific intellectual and sociopolitical... |
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Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
Jane Ward · Nyu Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight - her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where... |
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics
Ruwen Ogien · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right... |
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A Short History of German Philosophy
Vittorio Hösle · Princeton University Press
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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This concise but comprehensive book provides an original history of German-language philosophy from the Middle Ages to today. In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio Hosle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence... |
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Doctor who psychology : a madman with a box
Travis Langley · Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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If a person could travel eternally through space and time, how would this power affect him, psychologically and emotionally? In a fun and accessible way, "Doctor Who Psychology "explores this question through an analysis of the longest-running sci-fi TV series of all time. This... |
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On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck
Nick Riggle · Penguin Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A lively philosophical exploration of what it means to be awesome and not suck, and a plea for more awesomeness in our personal, social, and public livesIn this engaging, fun, and astute investigation of a thoroughly contemporary condition, philosopher and former pro skater Nick Riggle... |
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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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Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
Andrew Shtulman · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world around us. In Scienceblind,... |
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The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER · Yale University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest of the Cold... |
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