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"For years, Holly Whitaker wore her workaholic-party-girl persona as a badge of honor, while privately feeling increasingly miserable. She believed that if she could just eat cleaner, save more money, and be more perfect, her life would finally snap into place. Yet all of her attempts to fix herself just added up to more chaos and the chaos added up to more pain and so she added more wine. When she finally had enough and started looking around for...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control. Tracing these developments through many of the past century's major conflagrations,...
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Series
Giver quartet graphic novels volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community. In this new graphic novel edition, readers experience the haunting story of twelve-year-old Jonas and his colorless world of conformity and contentment through the brilliant art of P. Craig Russell. Witness Jonas's assignment as the Receiver of Memory, watch as...
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