Kravetz, Lee Daniel
Summary: "Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz's Strange Contagion is a provocative look at both the science and lived experience of social contagion. In 2009, tragedy struck the town of Palo Alto: A student from the local high school had died by suicide by stepping in front of an oncoming train. Grief-stricken, the community mourned what they thought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 KRAEdwards, Vanessa van
Summary: "Wish you knew exactly what to say in awkward social situations? Do you want a formula for charisma? Do you want to know exactly what to say to your boss, your date, or your mother-in-law? You need to know how people work. As a human behavior investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards studies the hidden forces that drive our behavior patterns in her lab--and she's cracked the code. In Captivate she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 EDWFromm, Erich
Contents: The crisis of psychoanalysis.--Freud's model of man and its social determinants.--Marx's contribution to the knowledge of man.--Humanistic planning.--The Oedipus complex: comments on the case of little Hans.--The significance of the theory of Mother right for today.--The theory of Mother right and its relevance for social psychology.--The method and function of an analytic social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, Winston 1932
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Summary: "So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems ... [This book] probes the psychological forces that push us downstream--including 'problem blindness,' which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020