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  • Anxiety Culture

    The New Global State of Human Affairs

    Edited by John P. Allegrante, Ulrich Hoinkes, Michael I. Schapira, Karen Struve ...
    A collection of timely essays on the rising wave of anxiety in culture.The twenty-first century is characterized by uncertainty: from catastrophic climate change to the accelerating pace of technological change, societies around the world are gripped by anxiety about the future. In Anxiety Culture, editors John Allegrante, Ulrich Hoinkes, Michael Schapira, and Karen Struve bring together a ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

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  • The Truth About Denial

    Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion

    by Adrian Bardon ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. People believe what they want to believe. It is a striking-yet all too familiar-fact about human beings that our belief-forming processes can be so distorted by fears, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Ambiguities of Experience

    by James G. March ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources and uncertainties about the future. Many, but possibly not all, of the factors determining ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Spiral of Silence

    New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion

    Edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, Charles T. Salmon, Yariv Tsfati ...
    Since its original articulation in the early 1970s, the 'spiral of silence' theory has become one of the most studied theories of communication and public opinion. It has been tested in varied sociopolitical contexts, with different issues and across communication systems around the world. Attracting the interest of scholars from communication, political science, sociology, public opinion and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Impasse

    Climate Change and the Limits of Progress

    by Roy Scranton ...
    A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for August 2025!We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe.Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of serious responses from world leaders, we get increasing emissions, divisive politics, and ersatz solutions that offer more of the same: more capitalism, more complexity, more "progress."The impasse we ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts

    Edited by Anke Finger, Manuela Wagner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    In this book, authors engage in an interdisciplinary discourse of theory and practice on the concept of personal conviction, addressing the variety of grey zones that mark the concept.Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts discusses where our convictions come from and whether we are aware of them, why they compel us to certain actions, and whether we can change our convictions when ... Read more

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  • Vulnerable Minds

    The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies

    by Liya Yu ...
    Neuroscience research has raised a troubling possibility: Could the tendency to stigmatize others be innate? Some evidence suggests that the brain is prone to in-group and out-group classifications, with consequences from ordinary blind spots to full-scale dehumanization. Many are inclined to reject the argument that racism and discrimination could have a cognitive basis. Yet if we are all ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Knowledge and Action

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Benno Werlen, Laura Suarsana ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes.Readers will gain insight into key ... Read more

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  • Learning in the Global Era

    International Perspectives on Globalization and Education

    Edited by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco ...
    An international gathering of leading scholars, policymakers, and educators takes on some of the most difficult and controversial issues of our time in this groundbreaking exploration of how globalization is affecting education around the world. The contributors, drawing from innovative research in both the social sciences and the neurosciences, examine the challenges and opportunities now facing ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Evidence Contestation

    Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies

    Edited by Karin Zachmann, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Saana Jukola, Olga Sparschuh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence.Evidence is an essential resource for establishing claims of validity, resolving conflicts, and legitimizing decisions. In recent ... Read more

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  • Falsehoods Fly

    Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It

    by Paul Thagard ...
    Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century’s greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life

    Edited by Ernst Schraube, Charlotte Højholt ...
    Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life moves psychological theory and research practice out of the laboratory and into the everyday world. Drawing on recent developments across the social and human sciences, it examines how people live as active subjects within the contexts of their everyday lives, using this as an analytical basis for understanding the dilemmas and contradictions people face ... Read more

    $73.99 USD