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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Wharton professor Jonah Berger draws on his research to explain the six steps that make products or ideas contagious.
What makes things popular? If you said advertising, think again. People don't listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral? Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Dan is in advertising and a dedicated family man. He seems to have it all, until a younger man is hired to replace him. Before long, he is forced to be deferential to his new boss, not only in the office but also when Carter begins dating his daughter.
Author
Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Josh Korda left his high-powered advertising job--and a life of drug and alcohol addiction--to find a more satisfying way to live. In Unsubscribe, he shares his three-step guide to recovery from addiction to consumerism, self-deception, and life as you thought it had to be: (1) Reprioritize your goals. (2) Understand yourself. (3) Connect authentically with others. Revolutionary, compassionate, and filled with wonderfully...
Publisher
Distributed By Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible identification...
Publisher
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Provides basic consumer health information for teens on effects of alcohol use on adolescents, treatment of addictions, and alcoholism in families. Includes index, resource information and recommendations for further reading."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick--a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers--putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town"--
After Nessa James's husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she's left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In this book the author takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman compiles and contextualizes the best of his articles and essays from the past decade. Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports, while also addressing interpersonal issues, social quandaries, and ethical boundaries. Klosterman has written nine previous books, helped...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this hip, hilarious and truly eye-opening cultural history, menstruation is talked about as never before. Flow spans its fascinating, occasionally wacky and sometimes downright scary story: from mikvahs (ritual cleansing baths) to menopause, hysteria to hysterectomies - not to mention the Pill, cramps, the history of underwear, and the movie about puberty they showed you in 5th grade. Flow answers such questions as: What's the point of getting...
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