Open Road Media, 2018. — 560 p. The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark - the dramatic true story of a mother’s worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia. On a camping trip at Ayer’s Rock, the Chamberlain family’s infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the...
Kaluga: LLC Poligraf-Inform, 2011. - 248 p., ill. (in English) Today, George Gallup (1901-1984) is perceived more as a brand name and a symbol rather than as a real person who changed the beliefs and the mindset of millions of his contemporaries. He undertook the creation of the new information and communication environment for the future generations. The legacy of George...
First published in 1895. — 114 p. In the book, Le Bon claims that there are several characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of judgement of the critical spirit, the exaggeration of sentiments, and others..." Le Bon claimed that "an individual immersed for some length of time in a crowd soon finds himself – either in...
Transaction Publishers, 1998. — 427 p. It is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially of the irrational and often self-serving social perceptions that influence individual behavior and prevent optimal societal cohesion. The detailed descriptions of the cognitive limitations people face in comprehending their sociopolitical and cultural environments,...
Lippmann Walter. The Good Society - Boston. 1938. Walter Lippmann was an American intellectual, writer, reporter, and political commentator who gained notoriety for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War. Lippmann was twice awarded (1958 and 1962) a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated newspaper column, "Today and Tomorrow." The Good Society is a critical text...
Anchor, 2010. — 192 p. In the first book to investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization, Dominique Moïsi shows how the geopolitics of today is characterized by a “clash of emotions.” The West, he argues, is dominated and divided by fear. For Muslims and Arabs, a culture of humiliation is quickly devolving into a culture of hatred. Asia, on the other hand, has...
Rowman&Littlefield, 2015. — 547 p. The Sample Descriptions of Gallup Economic Measures Used in This Volume About the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index State of the States Polls 2013 Chronology Polls
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