Bernstein, William J.
Summary: ""We are the apes who tell stories," writes William Bernstein. "And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts." As Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The Delusions of Crowds, throughout human history, compelling stories have catalyzed the spread of contagious narratives through susceptible groups-with enormous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.33 BERFraser, Steve
Summary: "A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: "Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? In this surprising and inventive look at the evolution of mental health, respected journalist Claudia Kalb gives readers a glimpse into the lives of high-profile historic figures through the lens of modern psychology, weaving groundbreaking research into biographical narratives that are deeply embedded in our culture. From Marilyn Monroe's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.89 KALRonson, Jon
Summary: For the past three years, Jon Ronson has traveled the world meeting recipients of famous public shamings, often while their shamings are in full force. These are people like us--people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once a transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane, and the next thing they know,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152 RONNudson, Rae
Summary: "Examines how people use makeup as a strategy and a coping mechanism to get by in a world not made for them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 NUDJaffe, Eric.
Summary: "From an 'illuminating and entertaining' (The New York Times) historian comes the World War II story of two men whose remarkable lives improbably converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946. In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 952.04 OKAWA, SHUMEI JAFGrinker, Roy Richard
Summary: "A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 GRICahill, Thomas.
Summary: Discusses the Renaissance and Reformation from the late fourteenth through the early seventeenth centuries, explaining how the period's artistic and scientific innovations changed the Western world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940 CAHCrews, Frederick C
Summary: An assessment of psychoanalysis and the views of its creator reveals Sigmund Freud's blunders with patients, his misunderstandings about the psychological controversies of his time, and how he advanced his career on the appropriated findings of others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREUD, SIGMUND CRERobinson, Daniel N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150.9 ROBStille, Alexander
Summary: "The shocking story of the Sullivan Institute, a psychoanalytic organization of artists and intellectuals that devolved into a dangerous cult on Manhattan's Upper West Side"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.77 STIHunt, Morton M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1993
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Summary: All around us, nature is working wonders. Every day, hour by hour, magical transformations happen right in front of you. But it's not always easy to see them . . . In this beautiful illustrated collection, 50 moments in nature are paused for you to watch them in detail. Then you should go outside, and explore, and see what you find when you take the time to slow down. Gorgeously illustrated,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Cat Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 508 WILSummary: Eighty years ago, Elliot Bobo was taken from his alcoholic father's home, given a small cardboard suitcase, and put on board an “orphan train” bound for Arkansas. Bobo never saw his father again. He was one of tens of thousands of neglected and orphaned children who roamed the streets of New York in search of money, food, and shelter. Beginning in 1853 a young minister named Charles Loring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1995
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Dawson, Kate Winkler
Summary: "Edward Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer--some have called him a "Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter"--whose crimes spanned decades and whose victims were chosen out of revenge, out of envy, and sometimes out of necessity. From his humble beginnings in upstate New York to the dazzling salons and social life he established in New York City, at every turn Rulloff used his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.3 DAWSummary: For modern revolutionaries the world over, Cuba's Che Guevara literally wrote the book. This program examines radical political movements in Germany, Italy, Peru, and Colombia to see how Che's theories have fared in practice. Former gunman Peter Jurgen Boock, of the Baader-Meinhof Gang; former gunman Valerio Morucci, of the Red Brigades; a former Shining Path insurgent; and Raul Reyes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program profiles cases of Iranian-sponsored terrorism via the Hezbollah and the PLO as well as Argentina's dirty war, when the government used terror tactics against its own people. U.S.-backed insurgency in Nicaragua via the Contras is also analyzed. Joseph Kennedy II; Duane Clarridge, former chief of the CIA's Latin American division; and Bayardo Izaba, of the Nicaraguan Center for Human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: While the earliest motion pictures were admired simply for their novelty, viewers soon demanded more than raw footage of trains, sneezes, and other random subjects. This program describes the discovery of sex as a surefire cinematic attraction and the outrages it provoked among religious and civic authorities during Hollywood's formative years. Documenting the rise of William Hays as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Badani, Sejal
Summary: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Badani 2018Summary: In what many see as Hollywood's Golden Age, the offices of William Hays and Joseph Breen worked overtime to combat sexuality and subversion in American movies. This program examines the products of that era-films that danced around the standards of the Production Code and paved the way for increasingly daring storytelling and images. From the modesty of It Happened One Night to the shocking and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In 1965, the Catholic Legion of Decency closed its doors; the following year, the Hays Code was scrapped. This program looks at the cinematic milestones which prompted these events and the age of freewheeling film artistry that ensued, despite attempts at censorship issuing from the highest political level. Shedding light on the release of The Pawnbroker and director Sidney Lumet's historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: By detailing key incidents ranging from the Dawson's Field hijackings to the Luxor massacre, this program charts the ever-widening holy war that is pitting Islamists against Zionists and the Arab world against the West. The Kach Party's Noam Federman; Bassam abu Sharif, founder of the Palestine Democratic Party; Abdel Aziz Rantisi and Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, operational and spiritual leaders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: After World War II, the wholesomeness of American movies faced a tidal wave of change-from outside, as a growing number of provocative foreign films made their way to the U.S., and from within, as car culture flowered and drive-in theaters sprang up across the country. This program documents the period, from the birth of art house cinema to the ascent of boundary-busting American actors and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Shermer, Michael.
Summary: "From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to applyscientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2015