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Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America by Cass R. Sunstein
Category: Reference
With the election of Donald J. Trump, many people on both the left and right feared that America's 240-year-old grand experiment in democracy was coming to an end, and that Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel, It Can't Happen Here, written during the dark days of the 1930s, could finally be coming true. Is ...Show more
Conformity - The Power of Social Influences by Cass R. Sunstein
Category: Reference
Bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein reveals the appeal and the danger of conformity We live in an era of tribalism, polarization, and intense social division--separating people along lines of religion, political conviction, race, ethnicity, and sometimes gender. How did this happen? In Conformity, Cass ...Show more
How Change Happens by Sunstein, Cass R (A
Category: Business
The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. "Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think about change."--David Brooks, The New York Times How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual h ...Show more
How to Become Famous - Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be by Cass R. Sunstein
Category: General Biography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Fame is like lightning. Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Leonardo da Vinci, Jane Austen, Oprah Winfrey--all of them were struck. Why? What if they hadn't been?Consider the most famous music group in history. What would the world be like if the Beatles never existed? This was the question posed by the playful, t ...Show more
Impeachment - A Citizen's Guide by Cass R. Sunstein
Category: Politics
"Sunstein has written the story of impeachment every citizen needs to know. This is a remarkable, essential book." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public's ...Show more
Infotopia : How Many Minds Produce Knowledge by Cass R. Sunstein
Category: Culture
The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise. Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? In this book, Cass R. Sunstein develops a deeply optimistic understanding ...Show more
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There by Tali Sharot, Cass R. Sunstein
Category: Self
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday te ...Show more
Noise - A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman; Olivier Sibony; Cass R. Sunstein
Category: Personal Development
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones--"a tour de force" (New York Times). Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients ...Show more
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler
Category: Personal Development
The completely updated, final edition of the global bestseller - one of the most influential books of the 21st century'Few books can be said to have changed the world, but Nudge did. The Final Edition is marvellous: funny, useful, and wise' Daniel KahnemanNudge has transformed the way individuals, compa ...Show more
Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness (International Edition 2009) by Richard H. THALER and Cass R. SUNSTEIN
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children's health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad ...Show more
Nudge - Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, the Final Edition by Richard H. Thaler; Cass R. Sunstein
Category: Business, Economics and Law
The book that changed the way we think, work and live - a fully revised edition with 66% new materialNudge has transformed the way individuals, companies and governments look at the world - and in the process has become one of the most important books of the twenty-first century. This completely updated ...Show more
Nudge - The Final Edition by Richard H. Thaler; Cass R. Sunstein
Category: Business
An essential new edition―revised and updated from cover to cover―of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein * More than 2 million copies sold * New York Times bestseller Since the original publication of Nudge more than a de ...Show more