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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers

Author : Michele Gelfand
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501152947
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers written by Michele Gelfand and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countries, cultures, and individuals take rules more seriously and how following the rules influences the way we think and act. In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, Michele Gelfand, “an engaging writer with intellectual range” (The New York Times Book Review), takes us on an epic journey through human cultures, offering a startling new view of the world and ourselves. With a mix of brilliantly conceived studies and surprising on-the-ground discoveries, she shows that much of the diversity in the way we think and act derives from a key difference—how tightly or loosely we adhere to social norms. Just as DNA affects everything from eye color to height, our tight-loose social coding influences much of what we do. Why are clocks in Germany so accurate while those in Brazil are frequently wrong? Why do New Zealand’s women have the highest number of sexual partners? Why are red and blue states really so divided? Why was the Daimler-Chrysler merger ill-fated from the start? Why is the driver of a Jaguar more likely to run a red light than the driver of a plumber’s van? Why does one spouse prize running a tight ship while the other refuses to sweat the small stuff? In search of a common answer, Gelfand spent two decades conducting research in more than fifty countries. Across all age groups, family variations, social classes, businesses, states, and nationalities, she has identified a primal pattern that can trigger cooperation or conflict. Her fascinating conclusion: behavior is highly influenced by the perception of threat. “A useful and engaging take on human behavior” (Kirkus Reviews) with an approach that is consistently riveting, Rule Makers, Ruler Breakers thrusts many of the puzzling attitudes and actions we observe into sudden and surprising clarity.

The World-Tilting Gospel

Author : Dan Phillips
Publisher : Kregel Publications
ISBN 13 : 0825489318
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The World-Tilting Gospel written by Dan Phillips and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first generation of Christians were not popular. They were ridiculed, persecuted, yet according to Acts 17:6–7, they “turned the world upside down.” As a result, their message was communicated louder and clearer than any message before or since. Even with today’s social medias, big-name celebrities, and shiny evangelism techniques that add glitz and glamour to the gospel, today’s Christians fail to communicate as effectively as the first followers of Christ. Simply put, the early church turned the world upside down, but today’s church has been turned upside down by the world.

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804

Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521840686
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804 written by David Eltis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

The Bee World

Author : International Bee Research Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Bee World written by International Bee Research Association and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World's Work

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.

The Trip to Echo Spring

Author : Olivia Laing
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857868896
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Trip to Echo Spring written by Olivia Laing and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. From Hemingway's Key West to Williams's New Orleans, Laing pieces together a topographical map of alcoholism, and strips away the tangle of mythology to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.

Behind Ghetto Walls

Author : Michael Novak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351314262
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Behind Ghetto Walls written by Michael Novak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis. The Pruitt-Igoe project is only one of the many environments in which urban Negro Americans lived in the 1960s, but the character of the family life there shares much with the family life of lower-class Negroes as it has been described by other investigators in other cities and at other times, in Harlem, Chicago, New Orleans, or Washington D.C. This book is primarily concerned with private life as it is lived from day to day in a federally built and supported slum. The questions, which are treated here, have to do with the kinds of interpersonal relationships that develop in nuclear families, the socialization processes that operate in families as children grow up in a slum environment, the informal relationships of children and adolescents and adults with each other, and, finally, the world views (the existential framework) arising from the life experiences of the Pruitt-Igoeans and the ways they make use of this framework to order their experiences and make sense out of them. The lives of these persons are examined in terms of life cycles. Each child there is born into a constricted world, the world of lower class, Negro existence, and as he grows he is shaped and directed by that existence through the day-to-day experiences and relationships available to him. The crucial transition from child of a family; to progenitor of a new family begins in adolescence, and for this reason the book pays particular attention to how each new generation of parents expresses the cultural and social structural forces that formed it and continue to constrain its behavior. This book, in short, is about intimate personal life in a particular ghetto setting. It does not analyze the larger institutional, social structural, and ideological forces that provide the social, economic, and political context in which lower-class Negro life is lived. These larger macro sociological forces are treated in another volume based on research in the Pruitt-Igoe community. However, this book does draw on the large body of literature on the structural position of Negroes in American society as background for its analysis of Pruitt-Igoe private life.

Plutocrats

Author : Chrystia Freeland
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101595949
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Plutocrats written by Chrystia Freeland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at breakneck speed. Most of these new fortunes are not inherited, amassed instead by perceptive businesspeople who see themselves as deserving victors in a cutthroat international competition. With empathy and intelligence, Plutocrats reveals the consequences of concentrating the world’s wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Propelled by fascinating original interviews with the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour de force of social and economic history, the definitive examination of inequality in our time.

Nineteenth Century and After

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Electrical World

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1500 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Electrical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Honest Signals

Author : Alex Pentland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262261049
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Honest Signals written by Alex Pentland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations. How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them. These unconscious social signals are not just a back channel or a complement to our conscious language; they form a separate communication network. Biologically based “honest signaling,” evolved from ancient primate signaling mechanisms, offers an unmatched window into our intentions, goals, and values. If we understand this ancient channel of communication, Pentland claims, we can accurately predict the outcomes of situations ranging from job interviews to first dates. Pentland, an MIT professor, has used a specially designed digital sensor worn like an ID badge—a “sociometer”—to monitor and analyze the back-and-forth patterns of signaling among groups of people. He and his researchers found that this second channel of communication, revolving not around words but around social relations, profoundly influences major decisions in our lives—even though we are largely unaware of it. Pentland presents the scientific background necessary for understanding this form of communication, applies it to examples of group behavior in real organizations, and shows how by “reading” our social networks we can become more successful at pitching an idea, getting a job, or closing a deal. Using this “network intelligence” theory of social signaling, Pentland describes how we can harness the intelligence of our social network to become better managers, workers, and communicators.

The Nineteenth Century and After

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World's Chinese Students' Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Chinese Students' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Strand Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight

Author : Sharon Heller
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062378651
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight written by Sharon Heller and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With empathy, compassion, and practical tools, a developmental psychologist and sufferer of Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD) sheds light on a little known but common affliction in which sufferers react to harmless stimuli as irritating, distracting, or dangerous We all know what it feels like to be irritated by loud music, accosted by lights that are too bright, or overwhelmed by a world that moves too quickly. But millions of people suffer from Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD), a common affliction in which people react to harmless stimuli not just as a distracting hindrance, but a potentially dangerous threat. Sharon Heller, Ph.D. is not only a trained psychologist, she is sensory defensive herself. Bringing both personal and professional perspectives, Dr. Heller is the ideal person to tell the world about this problem that will only increase as technology and processed environments take over our lives. In addition to heightening public awareness of this prevalent issue, Dr. Heller provides tools and therapies for alleviating and, in some cases, even eliminating defensiveness altogether. Until now, the treatment for sensory defensiveness has been successfully implemented in Learning Disabled children in whom defensiveness tends to be extreme. However, the disorder has generally been unidentified in adults who think they are either overstimulated, stressed, weird, or crazy. These sensory defensive sufferers live out their lives stressed and unhappy, never knowing why or what they can do about it. Now, with Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight, they have a compassionate spokesperson and a solution–oriented book of advice.

A Tight Fit

Author : James Gearheart
Publisher : James Gearheart
ISBN 13 : 1983460451
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book A Tight Fit written by James Gearheart and published by James Gearheart. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maniacal debut novel by James Gearheart is a wild ride of sex drugs and philosophy. It details Michael Jackson's role in the Apocalypse and it destroys and recreates reality through the use of magic words and ice cream. Storyline: It is October 1999, and Cyrus Dresden is an unemployed philosophy professor who was recently released from the state mental facility. He is desperate to win back the love and respect of his ex-fiancé, Sara Lundy when he receives a call from an old friend, Adam Butcher, who needs his help. Adam’s girlfriend, the brilliant and beautiful mathematician, Amanda Tavaras, has created a predictive model that identifies the date and time of the Apocalypse as midnight on the millennial New Year’s Eve. Amanda has also awoken with a vision where she realizes that mankind has been involved in a supernatural game that ends at the same time as her predicted Apocalyptic timeline. Cyrus leads the trio on a philosophical and scientific quest to understand our place in the universe before the strike of midnight on the millennial New Year’s Eve. However, the trio does not realize that their combined destinies have been prophesized in secret church documents written decades before they were born. To prevent the prophecies from being realized, Cardinal Francisco Allemande captures Sara Lundy and plans to hold her hostage in his private office in the Vatican until after the New Year. Cyrus must embark on the hero’s journey and lead a group of friends with the help of an army of Michael Jackson impersonators to rescue Sara from the Vatican and discover the clues to winning the most critical game in human history before time runs out

Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World

Author : Gregory T. Cushman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107004136
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World written by Gregory T. Cushman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.