Download or read book The WEIRDest People in the World written by Joseph Henrich and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020 A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries? In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world. Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.

Download or read book Strange But True written by Thomas Slemen and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Odd People written by Captain Mayne Reid and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Odd People by Captain Mayne Reid

Download or read book The man eaters and other odd people A popular description of singular races of man written by Mayne Reid and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The man-eaters and other odd people : A popular description of singular races of man" by Mayne Reid. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech written by Reinaldo Elugardo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural l- guage? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? As will emerge below, each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals speci?cally with nonsentential speech. Within the ?rst main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issueofwhethernonsententialspeechfallswithinthescopeofellipsisornot;within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. I. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF ELLIPSIS A. General Issue: How Many Natural Kinds? There are many things to which the label ‘ellipsis’ can be readily applied. But it’s quite unclear whether all of them belong in a single natural kind. To explain, consider a view, assumed in Stainton (2000), Stainton (2004a), and elsewhere. It is the view that there are fundamentally (at least) three very different things that readily get called ‘ellipsis’, each belonging to a distinct kind. First, there is the very broad phenomenon of a speaker omitting information which the hearer is expected to make use of in interpreting an utterance. Included therein, possibly as a special case, is the use of an abbreviated form of speech, when one could have used a more explicit expression. (See Neale (2000) and Sellars (1954) for more on this idea.

Download or read book The Complete Emily the Strange All Things Strange written by Rob Reger and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily the Strange is not your ordinary thirteen-year-old girl--she's got a razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-black hair, a posse of moody black cats, and famous friends in very odd places! She's got a broodingly unique way of experiencing the world, and you're invited along for the ride. Legions of fans worldwide have joined forces to make Emily a pop-culture phenomenon.

Download or read book Israel A Different Version written by Eljay King and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what the future holds for the United States and also for Israel? Surely a righteous God will not allow this country to continue in the downward spiral that is prevalent now. The bible gives a good foretelling of the events that await both of these countries. But there are so many different verses to contend with and they are scattered all through the bible. Also, there are so many different speakers who give an intelligent guess of what these events predict? I just don't understand. They all cannot be correct. Question, if THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL will return, how will the people know that they are members? How will Israel feed the whole world? Will the sicknesses that the whole world is experiencing at this time ever be cured? How will the false messiah fool so many people into accepting him as a god? In 1953, I started listening to different preacher on the radio. Those messages on Israel seemed to have more guessing of future events than fact. The messages also changed with the preacher. In 1986, I started reading the bible and making notes of the verses that referred to Israel in the latter days. I ended up with ten pages front and back of scripture verses. I bought my first computer with an orange screen and started compiling and writing. In 1993, I sent a copy to a publisher but never heard anything back. My time for studying ceased due to my outside workload. My house burned in 2001 with a complete loss of everything including my orange computer. I started reading and compiling notes again. The book that you are reading is the end results of the four following years.

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Download or read book The Cemetery written by Steven Huffine and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hardings were extremely happy with their recent move to Granite. The quiet country farmhouse was everything they had hoped for, but it held a dark secret. As Halloween approached, local ghost stories begin manifesting themselves into real-life nightmares. An abandoned cemetery had a long history of eerie sightings and strange occurrences. The family would be forced to confront evil face-to-face. Would they die in the grips of a demonic supernatural power, or find a way to destroy it?

Download or read book Enigmatarium written by E. D. Pedersen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enigmatarium is story founded on light and darkness. It begins with Jack, a young man who is the victim of a magic beyond his imagining. This magic has come to be known as the Jester Spell. It is a spell that transforms its victim into a deformed marionette. This is but the first knife to cut away a shroud covering his entire world. As time passes for him and as new characters come into his life, he begins to realize that truth becomes the only pursuit in a world that continually changes, a place where evil becomes good, enemy becomes friend and each new lie creates a seemingly endless prison of twists and turns. Together with some unlikely friends, they all strive to unravel the secrets of the Enigmatarium. But some secrets, they learn, are far more terrifying than anything they could ever fathom. And just when they think they may have figured it out, tragedy finds a way into their hearts. The Enigmatarium is a place where reality and fantasy combine with no clear boundaries, where time spans centuries, where magic and death go hand in hand with life and loss. And just as one world must endure its Onyx ruler, another world is simultaneously being governed by one of Pearl. Take the journey, play the game, trust no one and enter the Enigmatarium. It is waiting to welcome you to your fantasy.

Download or read book The Canyon of Bones written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the trapping trade on the decline, mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work as a guide, leading a wealthy Englishman, Graves Duplessis Mercer, and two companions on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer is a peculiar employer. He has come to the American wilderness seeking weird, morbid, thrilling, preferably slightly salacious, material to write up for British tabloids. He has little interest in such amazing natural phenomena as the geysers of the Yellowstone country but is adept in ferreting out stories of cannibalism and similar atrocities. To the Briton's disappointment, Skye has none of these to offer but does agree to take him to a Missouri River valley where gigantic bones of ancient monsters thrust out of canyon walls. Skye's Crow Indian wife, Victoria, warns that the bones are sacred among certain tribes, but Mercer insists on taking a "trophy" – a tooth from a tyrannosaurus-like fossil. This act nearly costs the lives of Mercer's party and its guide, Barnaby Skye. Wheeler's Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the Royal Navy who becomes a legendary mountain man, has been called "the Horatio Hornblower of the Rocky Mountains." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Friendly Fireside Meditations written by Don Fholer Shank and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One year our pastor gave us twenty-five scriptures, one a week for twenty-five weeks, urging us to memorize one each week. Frankly, my friend, I laughed when the pastor advanced such a frightening thought at my age of seventy-six. I was doing good as a youth to memorize John 3:16 and the twenty-third Psalm. No chance at my age and IQ level! Then the laughing ended abruptly when, in a most alarming voice, God let me know he wanted me to memorize every one of those assigned scriptures. Although memorizing a verse a week might seem as intimidating, you will find it surprisingly easy when you allow God to guide you. In Friendly Fireside Meditations, Don outlines twenty-five verses that will help you draw nearer to God as you write His word upon your heart. The conversational and moving daily meditations that accompany each week's memory verse will help further encourage you in your new undertaking. Don't stand out in the cold, come warm yourself with the word of God! This book is dedicated to the hungry, ill-clothed and ill-housed children and their families wherever they are. Note that after printing costs the money from this book will go to missions such as Deni's Isaiah 58 In His Service Ministry, and to all the others she and I know to be so helpful to hurting children and adults.

Download or read book The Early Modern Global South in Print written by Sandra Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it.

Download or read book My Cosmic Trigger written by Matt Vaughn and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High strangeness denotes happenings so uncanny they are deemed "utterly absurd." It involves the intersection of multiple paranormal phenomena, revealing an eerie undergirding of reality. MY COSMIC TRIGGER is a deep dive into the subject, covering its history, theories, and notable researchers, analyzing mechanisms behind this cosmic enigma. The author's personal experiences provide a penetrating understanding of the phenomenon by demonstrating how and why extramundane weirdness manifests on a personal level, helping people navigate their own 'synchromystic initiation' with a sense of clarity, fostering a constructive relationship with odd occurrences (not a destabilizing one), and enabling readers to successfully pull their own cosmic trigger.

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Download or read book SIGMUND FREUD Ultimate Collection Psychoanalytic Studies Theoretical Essays Articles written by Sigmund Freud and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 2287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund Freud's 'SIGMUND FREUD Ultimate Collection: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles' is a comprehensive compilation of the pioneering psychiatrist's most significant works, encapsulating the essence of psychoanalysis in a single volume. Freud's literary style is characterized by a blend of clinical observations, theoretical discussions, and case studies, making it a foundational text in the field of psychology. This collection features key concepts such as the unconscious mind, defense mechanisms, and the Oedipus complex, providing readers with a deep insight into Freud's revolutionary theories. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the development of psychoanalytic thought and its impact on modern psychology. Freud's contributions to the understanding of human behavior and mental processes are unparalleled, making this collection an essential addition to any scholarly library.