The Science of Social Influence

Reducere. Zionists have always employed the bogey of "anti-Semitism" to force Jews into segregation. After thousands of years of planning and work, the Jewis...

Moderation suffers in today's culture of excesses. In resuscitating this discarded virtue, Harry Clor unveils the intrinsic power of moderation to ...

Reducere. The commander, or chief of staff, of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is a prominent public figure in Israel. His decisions, advice, and persona exe...

Reducere. Orion's Door explores the enormous influence one star system has had over humanity. For aeons, Orion and his key stars were worshipped all over the...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Organizational Weapon is a classic study of the methods, propaganda, and institutions which create infiltration and eventually coopt...

Widely regarded as the founder of the Islamic philosophical tradition, and as the single greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle by his su...

Reducere. This book is based on more than a decade of anthropological fieldwork and scholarship among Komi and Nenets nomadic reindeer herders of North-easte...

Nearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the socia...

Reducere. Orion's Door explores the enormous influence one star system has had over humanity. For aeons, Orion and his key stars were worshipped all over the...

DescriptionPhilippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major infl...

Reducere. Al-Khwarizmi is arguably the most important mathematician of the Middle Ages. He developed two distinct branches of mathematics, both of which owe ...

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art bega...

An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

Reducere. Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been achieved at great cost both to the natural environment and to the autonomy of communities....

What exactly is civic and political participation? What factors influence young people's participation? How can we encourage youth to participate a...

DescriptionLaboratory experiments, survey experiments, and field experiments occupy a central and growing place in the discipline of political scie...

This text engages students in the social media phenomenon, exploring how fundamental changes in mass media influence every level of societal commun...

This comprehensive volume brings together fourteen international scholars to reflect on the relevance of John Shotter's work for emerging concerns ...

Gives insight into the methods of behavioral research, and highlight how this knowledge might influence the implementation of public policy for the...

Reducere. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can negatively influence development. However, the lifelong effects of positive childhood experiences (PACEs) ...

Describes the crucial role celebrities played in the emergence of two competing narratives about COVID-19, one a pro-science narrative that advocat...

Public Opinion is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of public opinion in the United States. Drawing on scholarship in political sci...

DescriptionGullibility, whether we like it or not, is a fundamental characteristic of human beings. In The Social Psychology of Gullibility, Forgas...

DescriptionCombining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A ...

Today, political leaders and candidates for office must campaign in a multi-media world not only through the traditional media forums, but also thr...

Dogs detect scent from a source that is carried to them in a plume by the wind. The most important tool for a detector dog handler to have on searc...

Reducere. The fifth edition of this indispensable history of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and...

DescriptionAn in-depth political, legal, and philosophical study into the implications of wealth inequality in modern societies.Wealth, and specifi...

Reducere. According to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the abilit...

Description"In this book you'll find a thoughtfully edited chronicle of the unique convergence of genetic, hormonal, social, and environmental forc...

Over the last three decades, numerous radical right populist parties (RRPP) have emerged, developed, and strengthened their electoral weight in Wes...

Social psychology uses clever, even ingenious, research methods to explore the most essential questions of the human psyche: Why do we help some pe...