Lencioni, Patrick
Summary: After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 LENSummary: The development of authentic self-esteem and a healthy sense of self has always been a vitally important part of growing up. But this process is a challenge that has gotten even trickier to negotiate due to the widespread integration of digital technology into everyday living. Drawing on the insights of a clinical psychologist/family therapist, an adolescent psychologist, and a number of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Like it or not, humans are adept at the art of lying. Drawing upon the fields of psychology, sociology, technology, philosophy, and criminology, this program sheds light on the complex realities of untruthfulness through the work of researchers who have made lying a subject of profound study: Professor Bella DePaulo, an expert on the communication of deception; Professor Maureen O'Sullivan, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Hiding deep within the human mind-or perhaps closer to its surface than many would care to know-are forces that can cause one person to assault and kill another. This program studies the primal centers of the brain and the behaviors they control in order to gain an understanding of violence. Illustrating the role of brain chemicals like dopamine and serotonin as well as social conditioning that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Philip Zimbardo has spent decades researching the transformation of character that occurs when generally good people are led to engage in evil actions. In this lecture, Zimbardo discourses on theories of conformity, prejudice, aggression, social influence, and antisocial behavior. Topics include the permeability of behavioral boundaries; the nature of evil and its societal consequences;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In his book The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz tackles one of the great mysteries of modern life: why is it that societies of great abundance - where individuals are offered more freedom and choice than ever before - are witnessing a near-epidemic of depression? Conventional wisdom tells us that greater choice is for the greater good, but in this TEDTalk Schwartz argues just the opposite as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Linguist Steven Pinker questions the very nature of our thoughts - how we learn, use words, and relate to others - and his best-selling books have brought sophisticated language analysis to bear on topics of wide general interest. In this TEDTalk, Pinker discusses his 2002 volume The Blank Slate and why its thesis - that all humans are born with certain innate traits - is as disturbing to some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Violence: is it innate to humankind, or is it a result of environment? Could certain individuals be genetically prone to it, and if so, can they be treated? What causes it, and what function has it served in history and in the evolutionary process? This program examines the many manifestations of violence, from sports to murder and genocide; how societies harness violence; and how the latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Robert Wright thinks the crises the human species is now facing are moral in nature, and that our salvation lies in the intelligent pursuit of self-interest. In this TEDTalk, Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" - the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided human evolution to this point - and how we can use it to our mutual benefit. He is the author of Nonzero, The Moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Relationships in the modern megalopolis: interpersonal or impersonal? This program investigates the new interactive society model in which physical neighborhoods connected by proximity have been displaced by virtual neighborhoods linked by technology. Topics discussed include the intimate anonymity of the Internet; the use of emoticons in e-mail; the growing importance of telecommunications;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Psychologist Susan Blackmore studies memes - self-replicating components of culture that travel through society via human consciousness, in a manner similar to viruses. In this TEDTalk, Blackmore makes a bold new argument: that technology has begun to drive not only the circulation of memes but the invention of them. She says that we have spawned a new kind of meme called the "teme," which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Barry Schwartz studies the link between economics and psychology, offering startling insights into modern life. Collaborating with Ken Sharpe, Schwartz has also made a study of wisdom. In this TEDTalk, Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone haywire with bureaucracy. He argues that while rules often fail us and incentives often backfire,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Nic Marks gathers evidence about what makes us happy, and uses it to promote social policies that put people and the planet first. He's the founder of the Centre for Well-Being at the U.K. think tank New Economics Foundation (NEF). In this TEDTalk, Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity instead of by the health and happiness of its people. He also introduces the Happy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Berlin Johnson believes history tells a different tale. He's the best-selling author of six books, including the aptly titled Where Good Ideas Come From, that explore the intersection of science, technology, and personal experience. In this fascinating TEDTalk, Johnson takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Albert Bandura’s work has become basic to an understanding of how social forces influence individuals, small groups, and large groups. From his early BoBo doll experiments up through his work with phobias and self-efficacy, Bandura has given researchers a sense of how people actively shape their own lives and those of others. Utilizing archival materials and newer visuals, this program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Operation Breaking Stereotypes is a high school exchange program that allows inner city students to attend school in Maine, and students from rural Maine to attend school in New York City. The goal is to promote mutual understanding - but are the teens more different than they are alike? This program follows a group of young people who took part in the exchange, documenting the experience of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Hoffer, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Library 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.484 HOFSummary: Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong - a premise he supports with intriguing research and explains in his lucid, approachable book Stumbling on Happiness. In this TEDTalk, Gilbert pursues that idea through a discussion that touches upon brain architecture, experience simulation, impact bias, our "psychological immune system," synthetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: For those who have never faced deep-rooted emotional or psychological problems, it can be difficult to see why maintaining mental health requires more than the capabilities of any one individual. While personal accountability remains an important step toward wellness, the complex demands of society do contribute to mental illness and create obstacles to healing. This program examines mental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Moore, Meg Mitchell
Summary: "Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, have recently moved to the idyllic beach town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Rebecca Coleman, widely acknowledged former leader of the Newburyport Mom Squad (having taken a step back since her husband's shocking and tragic death eighteen months ago), has made a surprising effort to include these newcomers in typically closed-group activities....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOJunger, Sebastian
Summary: Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve Large Print 2016
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 302.3 JUNPark, Benjamin E.
Summary: "The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "Draws on history, psychology, and anthropology to discuss how the tribal connection--the instinct to belong to small groups with a clear purpose and common understanding--can satisfy the human quest for meaning and belonging,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2016
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 JUNCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 Junger 2016Lagorio-Chafkin, Christine
Summary: Presents the history of the Internet forum Reddit, whose intensely-engaged users have changed the culture of the Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018