An American Obsession - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An American Obsession write by Jennifer Terry. This book was released on 1999-12-15. An American Obsession available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jennifer Terry has written a nuanced and textured history of how the century-old obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the modern age.
Winning
Winning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Winning write by Francesco Duina. This book was released on 2010-08-16. Winning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why winning doesn’t always lead to happiness Most of us are taught from a young age to be winners and avoid being losers. But what does it mean to win or lose? And why do we care so much? Does winning make us happy? Winning undertakes an unprecedented investigation of winning and losing in American society, what we are really after as we struggle to win, our collective beliefs about winners and losers, and much more. Francesco Duina argues that victory and loss are not endpoints or final destinations but gateways to something of immense importance to us: the affirmation of our place in the world. But Duina also shows that competition is unlikely to provide us with the answers we need. Winning and losing are artificial and logically flawed concepts that put us at odds with the world around us and, ultimately, ourselves. Duina explores the social and psychological effects of the language of competition in American culture. Primarily concerned with our shared obsessions about winning and losing, Winning proposes a new mind-set for how we can pursue our dreams, and, in a more satisfying way, find our proper place in the world.
The Lie Detectors
The Lie Detectors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lie Detectors write by Ken Alder. This book was released on 2009-01-01. The Lie Detectors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this fascinating history of the lie detector, Ken Alder exposes some persistent truths about our culture: why we long to know the secret thoughts of our fellow citizens; why we believe in popular science; and why we embrace ?truthiness.? For centuries people searched in vain for a way to unmask liars, seeking clues in the body?s outward signs: in blushing cheeks and shifty eyes. Not until the 1920s did a cop with a PhD team up with an entrepreneurial high school student and claim to have invented a foolproof machine capable of peering directly into the human heart. Scientists repudiated the technique, and judges banned its results from criminal trials, but in a few years their polygraph had transformed police work, seized headlines, and enthralled the nation.ø In this book, Alder explains why America?and only America?has embraced this mechanical method of reading the human soul. Over the course of the twentieth century, the lie detector became integral to our justice system, employment markets, and national security apparatus, transforming each into a game of bluff and bluster. The lie detector device may not reliably read the human mind, but this lively account shows that the instrument?s history offers a unique window into the American soul.
American Obsession
American Obsession - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Obsession write by Seth A. Forman. This book was released on 2011. American Obsession available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Obsession argues that with Obama's presidency the vast political differences between blacks and whites in America have emerged as an explosive issue. Obama's aggressive agenda to change the vital structure of American life toward more governmental control and less individual initiative and enterprise does not sit well with most whites, but is seen positively by most blacks. Polls already reflect these trends, and deep racial resentment is emerging.
Race
Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race write by Studs Terkel. This book was released on 2012. Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the feelings of nearly one hundred Americans on such issues as affirmative action, changing neighborhoods, and secret prejudices.
