Ambition: The Secret Passion

Who among us is not interested in success? Yet ambition, the chief means to success, is in bad repute these days, especially in America, and above all among educated Americans. Such is the reluctance even to approach the subject with candor, Joseph Epstein suggest, that many people live "with confusion and contradictions running up the center of their lives, in a state of perturbation, distract…

Fascinating Womanhood

Fascinating Womanhood shows simply but clearly the way to married happiness - how a woman can win and maintain a man’s complete love and devotion, and obtain from marriage the things every woman needs, while placing her husband’s happiness as a primary goal. Starting from the concept of the ideal woman as seen through a man’s eyes the book shows in specific terms how this goal may readily…

The Lonely Crowd

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7

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305.813

Youth, Brainwashing, and the Extremist Cults

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9780310242710 / 0310242711

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Softcover; 221 hlm.; 21.5 x 27.7 cm

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306.6

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around c…