Look again : the power of noticing what was always there
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- ISBN: 9781668008201 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Edition: First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2024.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : how we habituate to everything, all the time -- Part I. Well-being -- Happiness : on ice cream, the midlife crisis, and monogamy -- Variety : why you should chop up the good but swallow the bad whole -- Social media : how to wake up from a technologically induced coma -- Resilience : a crucial ingredient for a healthy mind -- Part II. Thinking and believing -- Creativity : overcoming the habituation of thought -- Lying : how to keep your child from growing a long nose -- (Mis)information : how to make people believe (almost) anything -- Part III. Health and safety -- Risk : what the Swedes taught us on högertrafikomläggningen -- Environment : you could live next to a pig farm in the south during summer -- Part IV. Society -- Progress : breaking the chains of low expectations -- Discrimination : the gentle Jew, the miniskirt-wearing scientist, and the children who were just not cool -- Tyranny : the devastatingly incremental nature of descent into fascism -- Law : putting a price on pain? -- Experiments in living : the future of dishabituation. |
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Subject: | Change (Psychology) Conduct of life Habit Perception |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Stroud Branch | 158.1 Sha | 31681010363935 | NONFIC | Available | - |