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A combination of fiction and documentation, Sound Museum fearlessly interrogates state-sanctioned violence and the psychology—and banality—of evil.In Iran, a curator has gathered foreign journalists for a VIP tour of her latest creation. As the guests sit to listen to her initial remarks, she shares the struggles she's faced in bringing together this exhibition—especially the gender inequity she's ... Read more

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A combination of fiction and documentation, Sound Museum fearlessly interrogates state-sanctioned violence and the psychology—and banality—of evil.In Iran, a curator has gathered foreign journalists for a VIP tour of her latest creation. As the guests sit to listen to her initial remarks, she shares the struggles she's faced in bringing together this exhibition—especially the gender inequity she's
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Surrounded by Liars

How to Stop Half-Truths, Deception, and Gaslighting from Ruining Your Life

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Protect yourself against lies and deception with bestselling author Thomas Erikson’s proven behavioral science methodsDo you ever have the feeling that your friend isn’t telling you the whole story? Or that your colleague’s answer doesn’t quite add up? Whether in your personal or social life, professional life, or on the news or media, sorting the lies from the truth can be exhausting and make you ... Read more

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Protect yourself against lies and deception with bestselling author Thomas Erikson’s proven behavioral science methodsDo you ever have the feeling that your friend isn’t telling you the whole story? Or that your colleague’s answer doesn’t quite add up? Whether in your personal or social life, professional life, or on the news or media, sorting the lies from the truth can be exhausting and make you
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Free Your Mind

The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

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The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerLearn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, ‘Still or sparkling?’Free Your Mind is your field manual to surviving the information battlefield. In this ... Read more

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Making Conversation

Seven Essential Elements of Meaningful Communication

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A former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful.Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are unconstrained, authentic and open—two or more people sharing thoughts and ideas in a way that bridges our ... Read more

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A former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful.Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are unconstrained, authentic and open—two or more people sharing thoughts and ideas in a way that bridges our
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Jam Cultures

About inclusion; joining in the action, conversation and decisions

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Inclusion is about participating. About establishing essential relations with strangers. About diversity, about cocreation. We need these elements because we are living and working together with people from different cultures and backgrounds. This makes inclusion, handling power and differences well, one of the greatest challenges of our times.Collaborations clash because of different ... Read more

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Inclusion is about participating. About establishing essential relations with strangers. About diversity, about cocreation. We need these elements because we are living and working together with people from different cultures and backgrounds. This makes inclusion, handling power and differences well, one of the greatest challenges of our times.Collaborations clash because of different
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The Story of Your Life

How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything

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An eye-opening and intimate look at how social media shapes our entire lives, from the writer Jia Tolentino calls “one of our greatest chroniclers of the norms of American domestic life”Over the past two decades, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have revolutionized how we document and share information about our lives. Social media is where our history lives now.In The Story of Your ... Read more

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Writing to Persuade

How to Bring People Over to Your Side

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From the former New York Times Op-Ed page editor, a definitive and entertaining resource for writers of every stripe on the neglected art of persuasion.In the tradition of The Elements of Style comes Trish Hall’s essential new work on writing well—a sparkling instructional guide to persuading (almost) anyone, on (nearly) anything. As the person in charge of the Op-Ed page for the New York Times, ... Read more

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The Social Labs Revolution

A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges

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Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges'Äîfrom poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change'Äîare not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a ... Read more

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Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges'Äîfrom poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change'Äîare not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a
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Culture as Weapon

The Art of Influence in Everyday Life

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One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us.The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the tools are ... Read more

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The Psychology of Secrets

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'Andrew Gold is the new Jon Ronson. Smart, funny, brave and deeply thoughtful, The Psychology of Secrets is an absolute must read' – Will Storr, author of The Status GameCult leaders, murderers, psychopaths – and you. Take a deep dive into the bizarre psychology of secrecy with Andrew Gold, award-winning investigative journalist and host of Heretics.We all keep se... ... Read more

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Radical Attention

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An essay on the battle for our attention in the age of distraction. Attention pays. In today's online economy it has become a commodity to be bought and sold. Bombarding us with free smartphone apps and news websites, developers and advertisers have turned what and how focus our attention into the world's fastest growing industry. In exchange for our attention, information and entertainment is ... Read more

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