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  • Mindware

    Tools for Smart Thinking

    by Richard Nisbett ...
    Learn how to think more effectively, at work and at home.Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives at home and work and school to help us think smarter and more effectively about our behaviour and the world around us. Surprisingly, many of these ideas remain unknown to most of us.In Mindware, the world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count

    Why Schools and Cultures Count

    by Richard E. Nisbett ...
    “[Nisbett] weighs in forcefully and articulately . . . [using] a thoroughly appealing style to engage . . . throughout.”—Publishers WeeklyWho are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for group differences in test scores? From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson’s statements, one factor has been ... Read more

    $17.19 CAD

  • The Geography of Thought

    How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and

    by Richard Nisbett, Ph.D. ...
    A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture.Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. But what if everyone is wrong?The Geography of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

    by Lee Ross, Richard E Nisbett ...
    How does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks. ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Culture Of Honor

    The Psychology Of Violence In The South

    by Richard E Nisbett ...
    This book focuses on a singular cause of male violence—the perpetrator's sense of threat to one of his most valued possessions, namely, his reputation for strength and toughness. The theme of this book is that the Southern United States had—and has—a type of culture of honor. ... Read more

    Was $94.99 CAD Now $85.19 CAD

  • Thought and Feeling

    Cognitive Alteration of Feeling States

    by Richard E. Nisbett ...
    Recently there has been growing awareness and acceptance of the proposition that people do not exist in a world of physically defined forces and events, but in a world defined by their own perceptions, cognitions, conclusions, and imaginations. We respond and react not to some objectively defined set of stimuli, but to our own apperceptions of stimuli that we define subjectively. The original ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Rules for Reasoning

    Edited by Richard E. Nisbett ...
    This book examines two questions: Do people make use of abstract rules such as logical and statistical rules when making inferences in everyday life? Can such abstract rules be changed by training? Contrary to the spirit of reductionist theories from behaviorism to connectionism, there is ample evidence that people do make use of abstract rules of inference -- including rules of logic, statistics, ... Read more

    $138.78 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Geography of Thought

    How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why

    by Richard Nisbett, Ph.D. ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 13 min

    "A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture."Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. But what if everyone is wrong?The Geography of ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere

    Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

    by Lawrence Harrison, Evgeny Yasin, Oscar Árias Sánchez, Miguel Basáñez, Marita Carballo, Valery Chirkov, Oleg Chirkunov, Daniel Etounga-Manguelle, James Fox0, Mariano Grondona1, Geert Hofstede2, Ronald Inglehart3, Josef Joffe4, Jerome Kagan5, Irina Karatsuba6, Rob Kleinbaum7, Borris Knorre8, Andrei Konchalovsky9, Deepak Lal0, Nadezhda Lebedeva1, Vladimir Magun2, Matteo Marini3, Eric Maskin4, Richard Nisbett5, Douglass North6, Rachel Okunubi7, Fernando Reimers8, Maksim Rudnev9, Reese Schonfeld0, Shalom Schwartz1, Maria Snegovaya2, Guido Tabellini3, Katherine Taylor4, Natalya Tikhonova5, Pervez Hoodbhoy6, William Easterly7, Richard Lamm8, Tu Weiming9 ...
    This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

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  • The WEIRDest People in the World

    How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

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  • Boiling Point

    Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

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    Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for CanadiansWe are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water — water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada’s water reserves, including long-outdated water ... Read more

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