Download or read book Dead Crowd written by Dan Barton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When private investigator Biff Kincaid falls under police suspicion for the murder of a comedy club owner who owes him money, he decides to investigate the crime himself.
Download or read book The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
Download or read book Crowd and Rumour in Shakespeare written by Kai Wiegandt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, the author offers new interpretations of Shakespeare's works in the context of two major contemporary notions of collectivity: the crowd and rumour. The plays illustrate that rumour and crowd are mutually dependent; they also betray a fascination with the fact that crowd and rumour make individuality disappear. Shakespeare dramatizes these mechanisms, relating the crowd to class conflict, to rhetoric, to the theatre and to the organization of the state; and linking rumour to fear, to fame and to philosophical doubt. Paying attention to all levels of collectivity, Wiegandt emphasizes the close relationship between the crowd onstage and the Elizabethan audience. He argues that there was a significant - and sometimes precarious - metatheatrical blurring between the crowd on the stage and the crowd around the stage in performances of crowd scenes. The book's focus on crowd and rumour provides fresh insights on the central problems of some of Shakespeare's most contentiously debated plays, and offers an alternative to the dominant tradition of celebrating Shakespeare as the origin of modern individualism.
Download or read book Applied Crowd Science written by G. Keith Still and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Crowd Science outlines the theory and applications of the crowd safety course that Keith Still has developed and taught worldwide for over thirty years. It includes the background and applications of the crowd risk assessment tools, as well as essays and case studies from international users (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Holland, Belgium and Japan) -- see Support Material on www.routledge.com/9781138626560. Keith’s courses are mandatory training for all UK Police Public Event Commanders. The text covers legislation and guidance for crowd safety in places of public assembly, and outlines the requirements of a crowd risk assessment for mass gatherings. It draws on Prof. Still’s expert witness experience, highlighting both the problems you need to understand for your event planning.
Download or read book The Crowd written by John Plotz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text sets out to demonstrate the influence of street crowds and political riots on literature in the period between 1800 and 1850. Notable works from the period are used to highlight the author's argument that crowds became a rival for the representational claims of the texts themselves.
Download or read book CROWD PSYCHOLOGY Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Causes 10 Books in One Volume written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 2889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Social Contract (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Gustave Le Bon) The Psychology of Revolution (Gustave Le Bon) Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Sigmund Freud) Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Charles Mackay) Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (Wilfred Trotter) The Behavior of Crowds: A Psychological Study (Everett Dean Martin) Public Opinion (Walter Lippmann) Crowds: A Moving-Picture of Democracy (Gerald Stanley Lee) The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology (William McDougall) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. Gustave Le Bon was a French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter. Wilfred Trotter was an English surgeon, a pioneer in neurosurgery. He was also known for his concept of the herd instinct. Everett Dean Martin was an American minister, writer, journalist, instructor, lecturer and social psychologist. Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War. Gerald Stanley Lee was an American Congregational clergyman and the author of numerous books and essays. William McDougall was an early 20th century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the United Kingdom and the latter part in the USA.
Download or read book Crowd Violence in American Modernist Fiction written by Benjamin S. West and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores numerous depictions of crowd violence, literal and figurative, found in American Modernist fiction, and shows the ways crowd violence is used as a literary trope to examine issues of racial, gender, national, and class identity during this period. Modernist writers consistently employ scenes and images of crowd violence to show the ways such violence is used to define and enforce individual identity in American culture. James Weldon Johnson, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck, for example, depict numerous individuals as victims of crowd violence and other crowd pressures, typically because they have transgressed against normative social standards. Especially important is the way that racially motivated lynching, and the representation of such lynchings in African American literature and culture, becomes a noteworthy focus of canonical Modernist fiction composed by white authors.
Download or read book The In Crowd written by Charlotte Vassell and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the celebrated author of The Other Half comes a fabulous whodunit about two cold cases in which things go missing: a fourteen-year-old girl and a multi-million-dollar pension fund. Early one morning, a men’s rowing team discovers a body floating face down in the Thames. Many years before, the chief executive of a clothing manufacturer walked off with a multi-million dollar corporate retirement fund and disappeared without a trace. Now, the discovery of this body has reopened that cold case. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp has his own evening at the theater upended by the discovery of a dead body just a few seats away. Two decades ago, Eliza Chapel, a fourteen-year-old student at a girls boarding school in Cornwall, disappeared in the middle of the night under dubious circumstances. A second body and a second cold case reopened. As DI Caius Beauchamp—along with his associates Matt Chung and Amy Noakes—investigates these parallel missing persons cases, he finds himself ensnared in the unexpected political machinations of a duke-in-waiting. This is yet another masterful mystery from Charlotte Vassell that is every bit as pointed as it is poignant.
Download or read book Faces in the Crowd written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage--and then, in the book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer."--Francisco Goldman In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. "Luiselli's haunting debut novel, about a young mother living in Mexico City who writes a novel looking back on her time spent working as a translator of obscure works at a small independent press in Harlem, erodes the concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy contemplation of disappearance. . . . Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition." —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Crowd and the Mob Routledge Revivals written by J. S. McClelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dead Shelter written by A.Rosaria and published by A.Rosaria. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph and Sarah barely escaped the zombieclypse happening to the world, though not unscathed. Sarah is sick, delirious, and infected, while Ralph is out alone in the zombie-infested country looking for medicine to save her life. If she dies, she turns, and time is running out. A chance meeting binds Ralph’s fate to a stranger, a fate that brings him closer to his demise, and to a group of survivors. People get killed, others murdered, and the zombies are waiting, biding their time, for the time is theirs, to strike at those still breathing. Sarah experiences a whole other kind of misery than the chase of zombies and survivors, for she is not alone. In this apocalyptic world, all misery is shared. * A zombie survival story. SEARCH KEYWORDS/CATEGORIES: apocalypse pandemic Armageddon doom cataclysm disaster calamity ruin catastrophe destruction downfall fall of civilization storm havoc end of the world gritty chaos survival society safety zombies woodland urban earth landscape battle flu illness virus, third person dystopian post-apocalyptic horror ebooks books fiction novels stories , freebie free ebook free books
Download or read book Unleashing the Crowd written by Ann Majchrzak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book disrupts the way practitioners and academic scholars think about crowds, crowdsourcing, innovation, and new organizational forms in this emerging period of ubiquitous access to the internet. The authors argue that the current approach to crowdsourcing unnecessarily limits the crowd to offering ideas, locking out those of us with knowledge about a problem. They use data from 25 case studies of flash crowds — anonymous strangers answering online announcements to participate in a 7-10 day innovation challenge — half of whom were unleashed from the limitations of focusing on ideas. Yet, these crowds were able to develop new business models, new product lines, and offer useful solutions to global problems in fields as diverse as health care insurance, software development, and societal change. This book, which offers a theory of collective production of innovative solutions explaining the practices that the crowds organically followed, will revolutionize current assumptions about how innovation and crowdsourcing should be managed for commercial as well as societal purposes.
Download or read book Crowd psychology Philosophical and Literary Works Illustrated Edition written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 2213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Crowd Psychology: Philosophical and Literary Works - Illustrated Edition" is a comprehensive collection that delves into the intricate dynamics of human behavior and group psychology. This anthology assembles influential philosophical and literary works that explore the collective consciousness of crowds, their impact on society, and the power of the masses. Included in this edition are "The Social Contract" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" by Gustave Le Bon, "Group Psychology and The Analysis of the Ego" by Sigmund Freud, and "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay. In "The Social Contract," Rousseau contemplates the nature of legitimate authority and the social contract that binds individuals into a collective body. His ideas on governance and the relationship between the individual and the state remain influential in political philosophy. Gustave Le Bon's "The Crowd" is a pioneering study of how crowds can exhibit unique behaviors and characteristics that differ from those of individuals. Le Bon's exploration of the psychology of crowds offers profound insights into their influence on culture, politics, and decision-making. Sigmund Freud's "Group Psychology and The Analysis of the Ego" delves into the dynamics of group behavior and the impact of group dynamics on the individual psyche. Freud's work explores the way in which individuals function within a collective and the subconscious forces at play. "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay is a fascinating study of historical examples of mass hysteria, speculative bubbles, and popular delusions. Mackay's work serves as a cautionary exploration of the irrational tendencies that can grip large groups of people. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Social Contract Gustave Le Bon. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Gustave Le Bon. The Psychology of Revolution Sigmund Freud. Group Psychology And The Analysis Of The Ego Charles Mackay. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Wilfred Trotter. Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War Everett Dean Martin. The Behavior of Crowds: A Psychological Study
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Download or read book WHAT IS MOB MENTALITY 8 Essential Books on Crowd Psychology written by Charles Mackay and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 2339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the compelling anthology WHAT IS MOB MENTALITY? - 8 Essential Books on Crowd Psychology, readers are presented with a thought-provoking exploration of the psychological phenomena of group behavior. Across a variety of literary stylesfrom treatises to analytical essaysthe collection delves into the mechanics of human behavior within large groups, offering insights into how and why individuals relinquish their sense of self to the collective. Highlighting the diversity and significance of the works included, the anthology stands out for its historical depth and the timeless relevance of its themes, adeptly weaving together seminal texts that have shaped our understanding of crowd psychology. The anthology not only serves as a compendium of foundational perspectives but also as a platform for critical engagement with the subject matter. The contributing authors and editors, Charles Mackay, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gerald Stanley Lee, Gustave Le Bon, William McDougall, Everett Dean Martin, and Wilfred Trotter, are distinguished for their pioneering contributions to social psychology and philosophy. Their collective works intersect with key moments in intellectual history, from Enlightenment thought to early twentieth-century sociology, reflecting a broad spectrum of viewpoints on mob mentality. This confluence of historical, cultural, and literary movements enables readers to appreciate the complexity of crowd dynamics, showcasing the anthologys role in fostering a nuanced understanding of collective human behavior. Scholars, students, and general readers alike will find WHAT IS MOB MENTALITY? - 8 Essential Books on Crowd Psychology an indispensable resource. This anthology not only offers educational value through its comprehensive coverage of crowd psychology but also invites readers into a dialogue with the past, encouraging a deeper interrogation of contemporary societal behaviors. Through its curated selection of texts, the collection provides a unique lens through which to explore the intricate interplay between individual agency and collective influence, making it a must-read for anyone seeking to unravel the mysteries of human social behavior.
Download or read book Introduction to Crowd Science written by G. Keith Still and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Case Studies from a Range of Event Sites Introduction to Crowd Science examines the growing rate of crowd-related accidents and incidents around the world. Using tools, methods, and worked examples gleaned from over 20 years of experience, this text provides an understanding of crowd safety. It establishes how crowd accidents and incidents (specifically mass fatalities in crowded spaces) can occur. The author explores the underlying causes and implements techniques for crowd risk analysis and crowd safety engineering that can help minimize and even eliminate occurrences altogether. Understand Overall Crowd Dynamics and Levels of Complex Structure The book outlines a simple modeling approach to crowd risk analysis and crowds safety in places of public assembly. With consideration for major events, and large-scale urban environments, the material focuses on the practical elements of developing the crowd risk analysis and crowd safety aspects of an event plan. It outlines a range of modeling techniques, including line diagrams that represent crowd flow, calculations of the speed at which a space can fill, and the time it takes for that space to reach critical and crush density. It also determines what to consider during the event planning and approval (licensing/permitting) phases of the event process. Introduction to Crowd Science addresses key questions and presents a systematic approach to managing crowd risks in complex sites. It provides an understanding of the complexity of a site, that helps youplan for crowds in public places.
Download or read book Introduction to Crowd Management written by Claudio Feliciani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will guide you in a simple and illustrative way through all aspects related to crowd behaviour, including sociological theories, methods of crowd control, people detection and tracking, and crowd simulation and prediction, while examining previous accidents to learn from the past. Crowds are a constant presence in most cities around the globe and mass gatherings are attracting an increasing number of people. While experience can help manage large crowds and plan mass events, knowledge on crowd behaviour is fundamental for successfully dealing with unexpected situations, improving current practices and implementing state-of-the-art technologies in management strategies. After letting people laugh about the controversy on colliding pedestrians, with this book, two of the Ig Nobel laureates on pedestrian traffic will make you think (and learn) presenting through a collaborative approach, combining theoretical with practical advice, the science behind crowd dynamics and the importance it plays in our increasingly urbanized society. Fundamental aspects related to crowd management are presented using simple concepts requiring little or no knowledge of mathematics or engineering. Professionals involved in pedestrian traffic, as well as students and researchers entering the field of crowd dynamics, will find this book a useful interdisciplinary introduction on the subject, exploring both fundamental background information and more specific topics related to crowd management.
