The WEIRDest People in the World

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374710457
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis The WEIRDest People in the World by : Joseph Henrich

Download or read book The WEIRDest People in the World written by Joseph Henrich and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020 A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries? In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world. Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.

Strange But True

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Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760712443
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (124 download)

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Book Synopsis Strange But True by : Thomas Slemen

Download or read book Strange But True written by Thomas Slemen and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why People Believe Weird Things

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Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429996765
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Why People Believe Weird Things by : Michael Shermer

Download or read book Why People Believe Weird Things written by Michael Shermer and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, "Why Smart People Believe in Weird Things," Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science. Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes. Why People Believe Strange Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them.

True Stories of Strange Events and Odd People

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491720212
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Book Synopsis True Stories of Strange Events and Odd People by : Lawrence S. Bartell

Download or read book True Stories of Strange Events and Odd People written by Lawrence S. Bartell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Bartell experienced many strange events over the course of his long life, at least partly because he deliberately strayed far from the beaten path in science. While it might not have been the most efficient way to gain a reputation in his field, it was more fun. In his memoir, he presents a collection of entertaining, sometimes bizarre stories collected over a lifetime. Bartell chronicles a wide variety of experiences, such as his predisposition to indulge in childhood pranks, his arrest as a possible Russian spy, his work on the Manhattan Project, his entry into the Guinness Book of Records, his stint in the US Navy during wartime, and his appointment as visiting professor in Moscow during the height of the Cold War. As he recalls the curious and often bizarre true stories he acquired over a lifetime, it soon becomes evident that scientists are just as human as anyone else and that beer really can play an important role in preparing one for a PhD thesis. True Stories of Strange Events and Odd People shares details from a scientist's one-of-a-kind journey through life as he observes the world around him, tests his theories, and learns valuable life lessons.

I Am a Strange Loop

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Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465030785
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis I Am a Strange Loop by : Douglas R. Hofstadter

Download or read book I Am a Strange Loop written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.

Plant People

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Publisher : Frontline Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781567140538
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Plant People by : Marty M. Engle

Download or read book Plant People written by Marty M. Engle and published by Frontline Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel investigates some strange plants behind a vacant house and then strange people move into the house.

Strange Peoples

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis Strange Peoples by : Frederick Starr

Download or read book Strange Peoples written by Frederick Starr and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to introduce American children to people from other countries, spanning from Europe to the Pacific Islands, as well as their cultures. Featured here alongside illustrations are The Eskimos, Koreans, Finns, and Melanesians.

Strange and Secret Peoples

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190286830
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis Strange and Secret Peoples by : Carole G. Silver

Download or read book Strange and Secret Peoples written by Carole G. Silver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.

The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1592703437
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor by : Amy Alznauer

Download or read book The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor written by Amy Alznauer and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I intend to stand firm and let the peacocks multiply, for I am sure that, in the end, the last word will be theirs.” —Flannery O’Connor When she was young, the writer Flannery O’Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard. She’d watch their wings flap, their beaks peck, and their eyes glint. At age six, her life was forever changed when she and a chicken she had been training to walk forwards and backwards were featured in the Pathé News, and she realized that people want to see what is odd and strange in life. But while she loved birds of all varieties and kept several species around the house, it was the peacocks that came to dominate her life. Written by Amy Alznauer with devotional attention to all things odd and illustrated in radiant paint by Ping Zhu, The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor explores the beginnings of one author’s lifelong obsession. Amy Alznauer lives in Chicago with her husband, two children, a dog, a parakeet, sometimes chicks, and a part-time fish, but, as of today, no elephants or peacocks. Ping Zhu is a freelance illustrator who has worked with clients big and small, won some awards based on the work she did for aforementioned clients, attracted new clients with shiny awards, and is hoping to maintain her livelihood in Brooklyn by repeating that cycle.

The Psychopath Test

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447202503
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Book Synopsis The Psychopath Test by : Jon Ronson

Download or read book The Psychopath Test written by Jon Ronson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed the Psychopath Test, from whom Jon learns the art of psychopath-spotting. A skill which seemingly reveals that madness could indeed be at the heart of everything . . . Combining Jon Ronson's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is both entertaining and honest, unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges. 'The belly laughs come thick and fast – my God, he is funny . . . provocative and interesting' – Observer

Strange Peoples

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Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781343415218
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Strange Peoples by : Frederick Starr

Download or read book Strange Peoples written by Frederick Starr and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Strange Visitors

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442605685
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Strange Visitors by : Keith D. Smith

Download or read book Strange Visitors written by Keith D. Smith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering topics such as the Indian Act, the High Arctic relocation of 1953, and the conflict at Ipperwash, Keith D. Smith draws on a diverse selection of documents including letters, testimonies, speeches, transcripts, newspaper articles, and government records. In his thoughtful introduction, Smith provides guidance on the unique challenges of dealing with Indigenous primary sources by highlighting the critical skill of "reading against the grain." Each chapter includes an introduction and a list of discussion questions, and helpful background information is provided for each of the readings. Organized thematically into fifteen chapters, the reader also contains a list of key figures, along with maps and images.

Seeing People Off

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Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
ISBN 13 : 1937512606
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Seeing People Off by : Jana Beňová

Download or read book Seeing People Off written by Jana Beňová and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. There is a liveliness and effervescence to Jana Benová’s prose that is magnetic. Whether addressing the loneliness of relationships or the effectiveness of rat poison, her voice and observations call to mind the verve and sophistication of Renata Adler or Jenny Offill, while remaining utterly singular. Seeing People Off follows Elza and Ian, a young couple living in a humongous apartment complex outside Bratislava where the walls play music and talk, and time is immaterial. Drawing on her memories, everyday interactions, observations of post-socialist realities, and Elza’s attraction to actor, Kalisto Tanzi, Seeing People Off is a kaleidoscopic, poetic, and deeply funny portrait of a relationship.

By Persons Unknown

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Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780394427911
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (279 download)

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Book Synopsis By Persons Unknown by : George Jonas

Download or read book By Persons Unknown written by George Jonas and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strange People, Scary People

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ISBN 13 : 9780578384351
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (843 download)

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Book Synopsis Strange People, Scary People by : Tally Harbour

Download or read book Strange People, Scary People written by Tally Harbour and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange People, Scary People, is a collection of fourteen tales of terror and horror: the two aspects for which strange and scary people are famous. In its bowels, you will read of a strange, witch-like woman who likes to relate strange tales to young children-and who grinds her teeth together as she tells the story. Then there's Eddie, a weird guy who has big problems around pregnant women. You will be introduced to a couple of undertakers-two rogues, really-who teach a town full of fools how to truly respect the dead. You will also meet little Rita Jean Shumate, a filthy young girl who suffers from those tiny, famous crawling things that no one has actually ever seen called "cooties." Indeed, this collection of short stories contains all kinds of strange and scary people within it.

One Eye Open

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)

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Book Synopsis One Eye Open by : K G Lewis

Download or read book One Eye Open written by K G Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can an infomercial drive you insane? Is it possible for inanimate objects to get revenge? Why are whales falling from the sky? The answers to these questions and more await you in this collection of terrifying, twisted, and thought-provoking tales from K. G. Lewis. Remember to keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times and always keep One Eye Open. Reader Praise "I really enjoyed each story in this collection."--Heather B. "Great book and great characters."--Cher R. " I would recommend this book to everyone."--Christine C.

Educational Bulletin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Educational Bulletin by : North Carolina. Dept. of Public Instruction

Download or read book Educational Bulletin written by North Carolina. Dept. of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: