Download or read book Dissonance Rising written by Joshua Smith and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-03-18 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOSIAH FLED FROM ONE CULT— NOW HE’S PURSUING ANOTHER Josiah Knoll ran from a fringe sect called Divine Light—a world of abuse and the only reality he ever knew. He escaped with nothing but the homespun clothes on his back. Life on the outside is far from the hell they said it would be. But it certainly isn’t heaven either—it’s isolation of a different kind. In search of purpose and connection, he discovers both through a happenchance encounter. Nora—a captivating young woman with her own peculiar past—needs his help to save her friend, who’s trapped inside The Seekers, a deadly cult. Just one problem—she has no idea where to find them. Together, he and Nora stumble to infiltrate extremist groups reminiscent of what he risked everything to flee. Breadcrumbs leading to Nora’s friend put them on a dangerous collision course with some of society’s most despicable characters and their own conscience—as they scramble to cover the trail of collateral damage in their wake. A breach of long-held moral values leads to rising dissonance as they pursue their crusade at any cost. And the clock is ticking. With limited options, Josiah must submit himself to the unrelenting control of The Seekers holding Nora’s friend to save her. Disdain for pious duplicity and the merciless pursuits of this group will test Josiah’s mental and physical fortitude beyond anything he could have imagined. Between him and this cult, neither can bend far—one must break . . .

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Download or read book The Psychology of Marketing written by Gerhard Raab and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marketers and those aspiring to be marketers will find this book an invaluable help in their role as 'lay psychologists'. Drawing on consumer, management, industrial, organizational, and market psychology to provide an in-depth treatment that embraces: [ Cognition theories [ Personality, perception and memory [ Motivation and emotion [ Power, control, and exchange. Complemented by case studies from across the globe, The Psychology of Marketing provides a trans-national perspective on how the theories of psychology and their relevance to marketing, revealed here, is applied in practice.

Download or read book Social Science and Revolutions written by S. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-05-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Liquefaction of Publicness written by Slavko Splichal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The successful Brexit referendum campaign; Donald Trump’s election; and the rise of right-wing nationalist-populist political parties and movements – all of these events have incited renewed interest in public communication and the internetised media, deliberative democracy and public spheres, challenged by an informational abundance that generates a communicative liquefaction of publicness and politics. This book celebrates the 25th anniversary of the journal Javnost – The Public, bringing together internationally renowned scholars from 20 countries to discuss topical issues in contemporary media and communication research. It focuses on challenging issues of the changing nature of publicness and the public sphere in the internet age, issues of democracy and the crisis of public communication and the tasks of media and communication research as a social practice. It critically reflects on the democratisation crisis and the demise of popular and scholarly optimism, which the emerging internet inspired in early 1990s, when Javnost – The Public was founded.

Download or read book A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance written by Leon Festinger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, c1957.

Download or read book Global Issues written by CQ Researcher, and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CQ Researcher’s Global Issues offers an in-depth and nuanced look at a wide range of today’s most pressing issues. The 2016 edition of this annual reader looks at topics such as the European migration crisis, terrorism in Africa, emerging infectious diseases, robotic warfare, and restoring ties with Cuba. And because it’s CQ Researcher, the reports are expertly researched and written. Each chapter identifies the key players, explores what’s at stake, and offers the background and analysis necessary to understand how past and current developments impact the future of each issue.

Download or read book The Phoenix and the Swan written by Douglas Milewski and published by Elemental Pea. This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She who lives by the sword will die by it. Having caused a wake of destruction in Astrea, Targa accepts exile to the ground, returning to the Great Library of Rhakotis. With her travel three young women, all extraordinary, who she’s mentoring through these chaotic times. One of them is the heir to the Astrean throne, glad to escape a destiny that she never wanted. One is a brilliant inventor, rediscovering ancient techniques long thought lost. The third is her house maid, the one who actually gets stuff done, which is a skill one should never underestimate. Even with all this turmoil, life has yet more irony targeted at Targa. Love is in the air, and for an Astrean, that’s a lethal situation, a villain who’s a capable match to Targa’s tumultuous power.

Download or read book Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance written by R. A. Wicklund and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1976, Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Psychology.

Download or read book Methodologies for the Evaluation and Improvement of Emergency Medical Services Systems written by United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Russia s Revolution from Above 1985 2000 written by Gordon M. Hahn and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Relying on a wealth of detailed institutional, policy, and elite information, Hahn presents a magisterial study that fills a significant void in our understanding of USSR's destruction. While readers may at times feel overwhelmed.... readers are presented with a conceptual approach that can be useful for appreciating ongoing institutional changes and oftern subtle elite maneuverings in the post-Soviet era. --John P. Willerton, University of Arizona "This is a big book in all respects, weighty both in size and scholarship. The core is a meticulous analysis of the perestroika period of the Soviet Union (1985-91). Followed by a concluding general chapter that applies the earlier analysis to post-Communist Russia (1992-2000). The work is based on years of painstaking analysis, considerable archival research, and numerous interviews." -- The Russian Review "This is an important book with a number of substantive strengths." -- Slavic Review The fall of the Soviet communist regime in 1991 offers a challenging contrast to other instances of democratic transition and change in the last decades of the twentieth century. The 1991 revolution was neither a peaceful revolution from below as occurred in Czechoslovakia nor a negotiated transition to democracy like those in Poland, Hungary, or Latin America. It was not primarily the result of social modernization, the rise of a new middle class, or of national liberation movements in the non-Russian union republics. Instead, as Gordon Hahn argues, the Russian transformation was a bureaucrat-led, state-based revolution managed by a group of Communist Party functionaries who won control over the Russian Republic (RSFSR) in the mid-1990s. Hahn describes how opportunistic Party and state officials, led by Boris Yeltsin, defected from the Gorbachev camp and proceeded in 1990-91 to dismantle the institutions that bound state and party. These revolutionaries from above seized control of political, economic, natural and human resources, and then separated the party apparatus from state institutions on Russian Republic territory. With the failed August 1991 hard-line coup, Yeltsin banned the Communist Party and decreed that all Union state organs, including the KGB and military were under RSFSR control. In Hahn's account, this mode of revolutionary change from above explains the troubled development of democracy in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Hahn shows how limited mobilization of the masses stunted the development of civil societies and the formation of political parties and trade unions with real grass roots. The result is a weak society unable to nudge the state to concentrate on institutional reforms society needs for the development of a free polity and economy. Russia's Revolution from Above goes far in correcting the historical record and reconceptualizing the Soviet transformation. It should be read by historians, economists, political scientists, and Russia area scholars. Gordon M. Hahn is visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His articles on Soviet and Russian politics have appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Russian Review, and Russian History/Histoire Russe.

Download or read book Aria written by Moan Lisa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of poetry. These are poems from the heart, much of this volume touches on questions of spirituality and faith through a darker lens; there is love lost and hopelessness. Nature's revolt against the flesh and spirit. It is a depressive work.

Download or read book A Fundamental Theological Study of Radical Secularization and its Aftermath written by Alpo Penttinen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of various secularization processes, a growing number of people in Western societies are now describing themselves as “non-religious.” But what does this sociological fact really mean, for the Church and for society at large? Has human religiosity a future after secularization? It does, this book argues, but in a radically altered form. Taking its cue from Pope Francis’s suggestion that globalizing humanity is presently living through a genuine “epochal shift,” this book presents an original analysis of the transformative effect of secularization on our spiritual predicament in the Western, now definitively post-Christian, world. Instead of succumbing to the all-too-common polarizations in contemporary religious discourse, this book aspires to overcome the “religious” vs. “secular” dichotomy through developing the logic of “Radical Secularization,” arguably the genuine novelty of the particularly Western process of secularization. The past homogeneously religious culture is certainly dusking, but this only paves the way for the dawn of the future and radically open horizon for our human search for meaning. This challenging book will offer intellectual impulses and spiritual incentives to everybody who ponders the future of human religious evolution after secularization.

Download or read book Language of the Spirit written by Jan Swafford and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western music, introduces readers to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their music. Language of the Spirit is essential reading for anyone who has ever wished to know more about this sublime art.

Download or read book We Are Not Users written by Eswaran Subrahmanian and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world. We live in a material world of designed artifacts, both digital and analog. We think of ourselves as users; the platforms, devices, or objects provide a service that we can use. But is this really the case? We Are Not Users argues that people cannot be reduced to the entity called “user”; we are not homogenous but diverse. That buzz of dissonance that we hear reflects the difficulty of condensing our diversity into “one size fits all.” This book proposes that a new understanding of design could resolve that dissonance, and issues a call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world. The authors envision designing as a dialogue, simultaneously about the individual and the social—an act enriched by diversity of both disciplines and perspectives. The book presents the building blocks of a language that can conceive designing in all its richness, with relevance for both theory and practice. It introduces a theoretical model, terminology, examples, and a framework for bringing together the social, cultural, and political aspects of designing. It will be essential reading for design theorists and for designers in areas ranging from architecture to software design and policymaking.

Download or read book Experimental Social Psychology written by Chester A. Insko and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental Social Psychology: Text with Illustrative Readings represents a new approach to undergraduate social psychology by combining both text and readings. This book grew out of the authors’ laborious and yet rewarding collaboration as associate editors of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The book is organized into three parts that cover the three overlapping categories of social psychology: attitude and belief change, interpersonal processes, and small groups. The investigation of attitude and belief change typically involves the persuasive impact produced by a written or orally presented communication when directed at a person. The area of interpersonal processes typically involves two people, puts greater emphasis upon the interactive nature of social relations, and is not restricted to just certain effects such as attitude or belief change. The study of interpersonal processes includes person perception, interpersonal attraction, conformity, conflict resolution, norm formation, etc. The area of small groups includes the study of groups varying in size between two and the number beyond which face-to-face interaction among all the members does not, or cannot easily, occur. Included within this category is the study of leadership, status, group decision-making, etc.