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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jaap van ginneken”
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  • Collective Behavior and Public Opinion

    Rapid Shifts in Opinion and Communication

    by Jaap van Ginneken ...
    Series series European Institute for the Media Series
    This is a highly innovative and stimulating work with the outline of an entirely new approach to massive and rapid shifts in opinion and communication. It discusses and explains such mysterious phenomena as sudden crazes and crashes, fads and fashion, hypes and manias, moral outrage and protests, gossip and rumors, and scares and panics.Rich in alternative insights, the book is divided into four ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Screening Difference

    How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

    by Jaap Van Ginneken ...
    Did you know that Pocahontas probably never fell in love with John Smith, as the Disney and other film versions of those events pretend? That Godzilla was originally an anti-American and anti-nuclear movie, heavily cut and supplemented with new material? That Zorro was not created by an American author but derived from the much older Mexican struggle for independence? That Anna and the King was ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour

    A Rising Fickleness

    by Jaap van Ginneken ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces principles of Chaos theory (and Complex Adaptive Systems) to social science, in a lively and elegant way. It applies it to the twin disciplines of mass psychology (under social psychology, mostly in Europe) and collective behavior sociology (mostly in North America) that deal with emergent psychosocial phenomena that lie outside conventional approaches. Each of the eleven ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Psychology of Power

    Temptation at the Top

    by Jaap van Ginneken ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author tests the hypothesis that hubris and the Bathsheba syndrome tend to affect all top leaders, by zooming in on the best known and very highest executives of our own day and age, and examines the psychological forces tugging at the top level of political leadership. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Profile of Political Leaders

    Archetypes of Ascendancy

    by Jaap van Ginneken ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    By analysing a wide range of empirical research into leadership, this book provides a composite portrait of frequent characteristics, such as personality and demeanour, that influence both the success and popularity of political leaders. Through the lenses of mass psychology and collective behaviour sociology, the author offers fascinating observations on political leadership which reveal a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Understanding Global News

    A Critical Introduction

    by Jaap van Ginneken ...
    A lively and critical introduction to the news media, this book has been written specifically for media students and trainee journalists. Understanding Global News invites the reader to explore contemporary journalistic practice, and questions the assumption that the media provide a mere window on the world.Challenging the often unquestioned notions of media objectivity, the author turns the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • This Will Make You Smarter

    150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 11 - Edge Question Series
    Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—scientific concepts to expand every mind.What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Five Minds for the Future

    by Howard Gardner ...
    We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that's certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required to succeed?In Five Minds for the Future, bestselling author Howard Gardner shows how we will each need to master "five minds" that the fast-paced future will demand:The disciplined mind, to ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Enlightenment 2.0

    by Joseph Heath ...
    The co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us "slow politics": promoting slow thought, slow deliberation and slow debate.Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided--not between right and left but between crazy and non-crazy. Whats more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand. Rational thought cannot ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • What Should We Be Worried About?

    Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 13 - Edge Question Series
    Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Empathic Civilization

    The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    "One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" (Utne Reader) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto.Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases.No matter how much we put our ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Think!

    Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye

    by Michael R. LeGault ...
    This isn't the time to Blink.It's time toTHINK!-- before it's too late.Outraged by the downward spiral of American intellect and culture, Michael R. LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD