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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and number-one best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers - and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach...
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"Marriage, or any long-term committed partnership, involves two subjects being exposed to a variety of scenarios and variables over time, hopefully leading to exciting discoveries throughout a long, successful relationship. In Experiments for Newlyweds, you'll find fifty science projects, based on real academic research in fields such as psychology, game theory, and more, designed for you and your partner to complete together. Uncover the ways your...
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TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"In Rise and Shine, veteran astrologer and columnist Christopher Renstrom unpacks all 144 Rising Sign/Sun sign combinations. This illuminating and engaging guide will help you navigate every relationship in your life-with a little help from the stars"--
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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A modern, inclusive guide to astrology that will illuminate your love life as well as your relationships with your family, your friends, and yourself. When it comes to friendship, family, and romance, we all want the same things: to love and be loved, to communicate, to fight fair, and to feel okay in our own skin.
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Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Shares tips and advice for accomplishing hundreds of unusual tasks, from organizing a personal fireworks display and getting a last-minute table at an overbooked restaurant to finding a reputable pet psychic and making a citizen's arrest.
14) Hablar con extraños: por qué es crucial (y tan difícil) leer las intenciones de los desconocidos
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Taurus/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...
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