A collection of Gladwell's best and most famous essays originally published in the New Yorker.
Social psychology
- Author:Gladwell, MalcolmSummary:
- Author:Hoffer, EricSummary:
Hoffer analyzes and attempts to explain the motives of the various types of personalities that give rise to mass movements; why and how mass movements start, progress and end; and the similarities between them, whether religious,...
- Author:Storr, WillSummary:
What makes us like some things and dislike others? What drives our political and moral biases? What shapes how we behave in a group? What makes you, you? For centuries, philosophers and scholars theorized that power and money were the...
- Author:Haidt, JonathanSummary:
Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind , social psychologist Jonathan Haidt...
- Author:Taylor, AstraSummary:
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn't working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on? In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and...
- Author:Sandstrom, Kent L.Summary:
- Author:De Botton, AlainSummary:
Alain de Botton examines the origins of status anxiety--the universal anxiety about what others think of us--and reveals ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in the search for happiness.
- Author:Gilovich, ThomasSummary:
- Author:Kassin, Saul M.Summary:
The most up-to-date account of social psychology, this text introduces students to key concepts through balanced coverage of classic studies, contemporary research, and current social issues. The authors use vivid examples from Canada...
- Author:Radtke, KristenSummary:
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This —a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society. One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021. There is a silent epidemic in...
- Author:Hoffman, CarlSummary:
In this work of immersive journalism, based on hundreds of hours of reporting, Carl Hoffman journeys deep inside Donald Trump's rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president's base.
- Author:Laplante, JacquesSummary:
La violence a de multiples faces, toutes celles qu'on lui donne selon les soucis de l'heure et les jeunes font toujours partie de ces soucis. Le piège de la violence dans lequel le jeune peut tomber ne dépend pas uniquement de...
- Author:Schulman, SarahSummary:
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses...
- Author:Freud, SigmundSummary:
Freud's seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Written in the decade before Freud's death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his...
- Author:Bishop, AnneSummary: