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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay · Wordsworth Reference Pages: 724 Format: Paperback
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a landmark study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. Chronicled here are accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions... |
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The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
Michael P Lynch · Liveright Publishing Corporation Pages: 256 Format: Audiobook
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With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promises to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips,... |
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Conscience of a Conservative
ANONYMOUS. · Random House Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative.... |
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The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking
Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 243 Format: Hardcover
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How is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred, fear, madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can be so possessed for the months, even years, required for genocides, slavery, deadly economic exploitation, sexual trafficking of children. In The Evil of Banality,... |
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Frederick C Crews · Metropolitan Books Pages: 784 Format: Hardcover
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin -- but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary... |
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Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
Michael Krasny · New World Library Pages: 264 Format: Paperback
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As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge... |
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker · Penguin Books Pages: 832 Format: Paperback
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"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this - the most inspiring book I've ever read." - Bill Gates (May, 2017) A provocative history of violence - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank SlateBelieve it or not,... |
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: "Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind." -- Michael Agger, Slate Finalist for the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award "Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question,... |
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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive
Devorah Heitner · Bibliomotion Pages: 244 Format: Print book
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Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers... |
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls · University Of Chicago Press Pages: 640 Format: Hardcover
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"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian · Twelve Pages: 168 Format: Print book
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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin... |
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When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · Random House Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, this inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth... |
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The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome
Tony Attwood · Jessica Kingsley Pub Pages: 397 Format: Hardcover
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"I usually say to the child, "Congratulations, you have Asperger's syndrome", and explain that this means he or she is not mad, bad or defective, but has a different way of thinking." - from "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome". "The Complete... |
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