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  • An Analysis of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect

    Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

    by Alexander O’Connor ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    What makes good people capable of committing bad – even evil – acts? Few psychologists are as well-qualified to answer that question as Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor who was not only the author of the classic Stanford Prison Experiment – which asked two groups of students to assume the roles of prisoners and guards in a makeshift jail, to dramatic effect – but also an active participant ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Gordon W. Allport's The Nature of Prejudice

    by Alexander O’Connor ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    With his 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice, American psychologist Gordon Allport displays the crucial skill of reasoning, producing and organizing an argument that was persuasive enough to have a major impact not only in universities, but also on government policy.The question that Allport tackled was an old one: why are people so disposed to prejudice against those from other groups? Earlier ... Read more

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    The Macat Analysis of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect

    by Alexander O’Connor ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 56 min

    Philip Zimbardo is fascinated by why people can behave in awful ways. ¶Some psychologists believe those who commit cruelty are innately evil. Zimbardo disagrees. In The Lucifer Effect, he argues that sometimes good people do evil things simply because of the situations they find themselves in, citing many historical examples to illustrate his point. Zimbardo details his 1971 Stanford Prison ... Read more

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    The Macat Analysis of Gordon Allport's The Nature of Prejudice

    by Alexander O’Connor ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 40 min

    Gordon W. Allport’s 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice not only helped mold the ways in which psychologists investigate prejudice it also shaped US society as a whole, making a substantial contribution to the Civil Rights Movement and America’s anti-discrimination and anti-segregation laws.¶The book was immensely influential in the cognitive revolution of the 1950s, showing scientists how to take ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

    by Dario Krpan, Alexander O' Connor ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, neurologist Oliver Sacks looked at the cutting-edge work taking place in his field, and decided that much of it was not fit for purpose. Sacks found it hard to understand why most doctors adopted a mechanical and impersonal approach to their patients, and opened his mind to new ways to treat people with neurological disorders. He explored the question of ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Leon Festinger's A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

    by Camille Morvan, Alexander O’Connor ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Leon Festinger’s 1957 A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance is a key text in the history of psychology – one that made its author one of the most influential social psychologists of his time. It is also a prime example of how creative thinking and problem solving skills can come together to produce work that changes the way people look at questions for good.Strong creative thinkers are able to look at ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Alan D. Baddeley and Graham Hitch's Working Memory

    by Birgit Koopmann-Holm, Alexander O'Connor ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The work of memory researchers Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch is a prime example of the ways in which good critical thinkers approach questions and the problems they raise.In the 1960s, researchers into human memory began to understand memory as comprising not one, but two systems. The first was a short-term system handling information for mere seconds. The second was a long-term system capable of ... Read more

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    Love You Always

    I Love You, Book 4

    by AJ Alexander ...
    Narrated by Connor Brown, Aure Nash ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - I Love You

    Unabridged

    6 hours 41 min

    A woman who's waiting for her love to return home... A man who doesn't believe he deserves her.I've been in love with my brother's best friend Brady Thomas since I was old enough to know what love was. It didn't matter that he was older than me or that my brother would disapprove; there was no changing the way that I felt about him. I planned to keep my feelings a secret, telling myself it was ... Read more

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  • Good Things out of Nazareth

    The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends

    by Flannery O'Connor ...
    A literary treasure of over one hundred unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends.Flannery O’Connor is a master of twentieth-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those familiar with her work know that her powerful ethical vision was rooted in ... Read more

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  • Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Chinese Connection to the Grand Canyon

    by Alexander McAllan, Connor Ashford ...
    In "Ancient Chinese Account of the Grand Canyon, or Course of the Colorado," Alexander McAllan intricately examines an overlooked intersection of geography and early intercultural exchange. This compelling narrative combines rich historical analysis with poetic prose, inviting readers to delve into the ancient Chinese perspectives on one of America's most breathtaking landscapes. McAllan ... Read more

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  • Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement

    23rd European Conference, EuroSPI 2016, Graz, Austria, September 14-16, 2016, Proceedings

    Edited by Christian Kreiner, Rory V. O'Connor, Alexander Poth, Richard Messnarz ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd EuroSPI conference, held in Graz, Austria, in September 2016.The 15 revised full papers presented together with 14 selected key notes and workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on SPI and the ISO/IEC 29110 standard; communication and team issues in SPI; SPI and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3 (Unabridged)

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    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Narrated by Trisha Brooks, Joaquin Robinett, Timothy Watson, Angie Connor ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 22 min

    This 3rd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins a decade after the close of "The Mesmerist’s Victim” and is based on a real scandal in Louis XVI’s court, commonly called “The Diamond Necklace Affair.” In this volume, the plotting of a powerful occultist, Count Cogliostro (or “Balsamo”), collides with the long-festering resentments of a previous royal house, Jeanne de Valois (de la Motte), ... Read more

    $4.99 USD