The WEIRDest People in the World - 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 WEIRDest People in the World write by Joseph Henrich. This book was released on 2020-09-08. The WEIRDest People in the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020 A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries? In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world. Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
More News of the Weird
More News of the Weird - 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 More News of the Weird write by Chuck Shepherd. This book was released on 1990. More News of the Weird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These newshound with a nose for the abnormal are back with more hilarious headlines of the time, having selected more than 500 unusual articles from America's top daily newspapers and compiled them into 50 strange and humorous chap ters. Line art.
News of the Weird
News of the Weird - 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 News of the Weird write by Chuck Shepherd. This book was released on 1989. News of the Weird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For news junkies and fans of the bizarre-but-true, here is an outrageous collection of all-real, all-weird news stories culled from the nation's mainstream newspapers. Line art throughout.
Beyond News of the Weird
Beyond News of the Weird - 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 Beyond News of the Weird write by Chuck Shepherd. This book was released on 1991. Beyond News of the Weird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of outlandish news stories, such as the nuns who sold their convent to buy a castle, and others
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County - 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 Little Giant of Aberdeen County write by Tiffany Baker. This book was released on 2009-01-08. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine perfection. When he, too, relinquished his increasingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated--Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town on the farm of the town sadsack, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation at the hands of her peers. Serena Jane's beauty proves to be her greatest blessing and her biggest curse, for it makes her the obsession of classmate Bob Bob Morgan, the youngest in a line of Robert Morgans who have been doctors in Aberdeen for generations. Though they have long been the pillars of the community, the earliest Robert Morgan married the town witch, Tabitha Dyerson, and the location of her fabled shadow book--containing mysterious secrets for healing and darker powers--has been the subject of town gossip ever since. Bob Bob Morgan, one of Truly's biggest tormentors, does the unthinkable to claim the prize of Serena Jane, and changes the destiny of all Aberdeen from there on. When Serena Jane flees town and a loveless marriage to Bob Bob, it is Truly who must become the woman of a house that she did not choose and mother to her eight-year-old nephew Bobbie. Truly's brother-in-law is relentless and brutal; he criticizes her physique and the limitations of her health as a result, and degrades her more than any one human could bear. It is only when Truly finds her calling--the ability to heal illness with herbs and naturopathic techniques--hidden within the folds of Robert Morgan's family quilt, that she begins to regain control over her life and herself. Unearthed family secrets, however, will lead to the kind of betrayal that eventually break the Morgan family apart forever, but Truly's reckoning with her own demons allows for both an uprooting of Aberdeen County, and the possibility of love in unexpected places.
