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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
$28.00 Add to cartDo you feel awkward at networking events? Do you wonder what your date really thinks of you? Do you wish you could decode people? You need to learn the science of people.
As a human behavior hacker,- Author: Van Edwards, Vanessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0399564489
- Language: English
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Apocalypse Culture
$14.95 Read moreApocalypse Culture is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times. An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal documents of
- Author: Parfrey, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0922915059
- Language: English
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Outplayed: How Game Theory Is Used Against Us
$25.95 Read moreOutplayed: How Game Theory Is Used Against Us will show you the ways in which people try to take advantage of you. It will guide you on how to structure incentives to get others to work with and not a… [more below]
- Author: Lockwood, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1626349797
- Language: English
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Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio–Raising the Standards of Popular Culture
$29.99 Read moreAs a key player in the creative excellence that made TV’s Golden Age so memorable, Steve Allen is disgusted and outraged by what he sees on television today. Whereas talent and quality were the benchm… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 419
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1573928747
- Language: English
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
$17.95 Add to cartCalled the “fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century” by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of “social construc… [more below]
- Author: Berger, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 1967
- ISBN10: 0385058985
- Language: English
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Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
$46.58 Read moreHow tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity
Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores- Author: Chen, Carolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691219087
- Language: English
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
$18.00 Add to cartA witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technology–from the acclaimed author of Amusing Ourselves to Death.
“A provocative book … A tool for fi- Author: Postman, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 31 1993
- ISBN10: 0679745408
- Language: English
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Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
$17.00 Add to cartThis devastating book illuminates America’s gun culture — its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists — but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It b… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0679759271
- Language: English
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Collaborative Society
$15.95 Read moreHow networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society.
Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural col
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Jemielniak, Dariusz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262537915
- Language: English
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How to Inhabit the Earth: Interviews with Nicolas Truong
$14.95 Read moreIn a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intr
- Author: LaTour, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1509559477
- Language: English
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Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
$29.00 Read moreHow to create the change you want to see in the world using the paradigm-busting ideas in this “utterly fascinating” (Adam Grant) big-idea book.
Most of what we know about how ideas spread come- Author: Centola, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0316457337
- Language: English
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An Influencer’s World: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Social Media Influencers and Creators
$25.00 Add to cartWhat is the influencer lifestyle? How do influencers win their fight for relevance and create a brand that catches fire, while still leading an authentic, healthy life? Influencing is a business built… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 160938895X
- Language: English
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending Us Poverty
$18.95 Read moreFOREWORD INDIES FINALIST — POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES
NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST — SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD 1ST RUNNER UP — CULTURE & MONTAIGNE MEDAL NOMINEE- Author: Goldblum, Joanne Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1637743459
- Language: English
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Ancient Future: The Teachings and Prophetic Wisdom of the Seven Hermetic Laws of Ancient Egypt
$24.95 Add to cartAncient Future celebrates the wisdom of those ancient civilizations that did not disassociate the philosophical, spiritual, and material realms of life. This book is an attempt to re-create this holis… [more below]
- Author: Chandler, Wayne B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: December 07 2000
- ISBN10: 1574780018
- Language: English
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Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis
$24.95 Read moreIn this incisive work, Bill Donohue pulls no punches as he contends that our moral crisis is a reflection of two competing visions of morality — one religious and the other secular. The former is gro
- Author: Donohue, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889112464
- Language: English
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
$30.00 Add to cartThis classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships
Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a- Author: Moore, Barrington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807050733
- Language: English
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Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation
$35.00 Add to cartSlicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.
If you’re convinced you know what- Series: Near Future
- Author: Callon, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1942130570
- Language: English
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The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy
$20.00 Add to cartThe Hite Report on the Family will cause you to rethink your childhood, your relationships, and quite possibly your life. It is a powerful and original analysis of the changing shape of private life,
- Author: Hite, Shere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: April 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0802134513
- Language: English
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Italians
$22.00 Add to cartIn this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great… [more below]
- Author: Barzini, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825007
- Language: English
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Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor
$29.95 Add to cartThis timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America’s most vulnerable households
Most research on poverty focuses on the damage c- Author: Newman, Katherine S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0520379101
- Language: English
