Society Behavior

“A thrilling tour de force of a novel. I’ll be recommending this book to everyone.”—ANN PATCHETT “[A] gorgeous and powerful debut.”—TOMMY ORANGE, The New York Times “A stunning read.”—KHALED HOSSEINI “Utterly addictive, Good People will have everyone talking.”—PAULA...

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women. This is not fiction. For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym...

A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures - including humans - think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can live only inside another animal, and, as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host's behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey.

A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.

The modern world believes it has outgrown mythology. It has not. We live in a civilization of data, algorithms, markets, elections, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and global brands. We tell ourselves that our age is rational, scientific, and secular. But beneath the glass, steel, and code, the ancient gods are still at work. Still Olympian is a powerful work of Greek mythology nonfiction that explores how the stories of Olympus continue to shape the modern mind. This is not a simple retelling of Greek myths. It is a bold cultural analysis of how ancient archetypes still ...

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future...

The nationally recognized, leading authority on choice exposes the surprising truths behind the decisions we make everyday. Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go? Whether mundane or life-altering, the choices we make define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar...

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research, an acclaimed author demonstrates how so much of our thinking is informed by false assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals. “Move over, truthiness: Todd Rose is here...

What if your social media feed is not simply showing you the world, but actively shaping how you see it? Every scroll, click, pause, search, and share becomes part of a powerful digital system designed to predict behavior, capture attention, and influence what people encounter next. Social media platforms are no longer optional communication tools. They have become essential infrastructures for identity, community, commerce, education, work, politics, and civic participation. Social Media Algorithms and the Platform Society is a practical and thought-provoking field guide to understanding ...

A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction. As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time...

Why does crime happen, and why does it take different forms in different places? The Sociology of Crime looks beyond simple explanations to explore how relationships, communities, institutions, inequality, and social change shape behavior and influence how society responds. This engaging introduction to crime through a sociological lens connects individual actions with larger social patterns. Explore how societies define crime, deviance, and harm, and how rules and expectations are learned through families, schools, and communities. Consider how social bonds, life transitions, and the ...

The most famous and important book on politics ever written The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the...

What does it really mean to be nice? In a globalized world shaped by cultural difference, moral signaling, and constant interaction, niceness has become both expected and deeply misunderstood. Actions intended as kind can offend. Politeness can feel hollow. Honesty can be mistaken for cruelty. This book explores why. Some People Are Nice; Others Cannot See the Difference is a reflective nonfiction inquiry into kindness, morality, honesty, and human behavior in the modern world. It examines how niceness is formed, how it is misread across cultures, and how good intentions can fail when ...

The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it. Saylor explains that the current generation of mobile smart phones and tablet computers has set the stage to become the universal computing platform for the world. In the hands of billions of people and accessible anywhere and anytime, mobile computers are poised to become an appendage of the human being and an essential tool for modern life.

Fear is not just felt. It is put to work. Most people think fear lives inside individuals: a racing pulse, a sleepless night, a weakness to be conquered. They are wrong. Fear lives in systems. In Fear: How Dread Built Empires, Sold Products, and Shaped Modern Life, Joel Thomas examines fear not as a private emotion, a personal failing, or a disorder to be treated, but as a structural force that determines how societies are governed, defended, persuaded, stabilized, and controlled. Across history, populations have been ruled less by force than by anticipation, because fear organizes itself ...

The modern world has changed. The influence of the masses over politics, culture, and social behavior has never been so intense. Ortega y Gasset offers a deep and thought-provoking vision of the challenges that arise when society is dominated by the collective and individuality is threatened. In The Revolt of the Masses, you will find a precise analysis of how the habits, values, and expectations of large groups shape the course of history and directly impact our daily choices. This book is not merely a work of philosophy, but a guide to understanding the dynamics of social and cultural ...

What if the qualities we call divine were never meant to be divine at all. Across cultures, the anointed one has been treated as an exception. A figure set apart. A bearer of coherence, authority, and healing that ordinary humans could admire but never fully embody. This book asks a different question. What if those qualities were always human. Beginning not with theology but with oil, a substance chosen for what it does rather than what it represents, this book traces a forgotten logic. How life sustains itself without force. How healing happens through conditions rather than control. How ...

"Only Memories Remain: Lessons from Destructive Behaviors of Extinct Ancient Civilizations, Whose Remains are Ashes, Dust, and Ruins" by Ali Muattar is a captivating exploration of the rise and fall of ancient civilizations and the lessons we can learn from their destructive behaviors. Through a compelling analysis of historical events, archaeological findings, and cultural dynamics, Muattar offers a thought-provoking examination of the patterns and factors that contributed to the downfall of once-thriving societies. Within the pages of "Only Memories Remain," readers will journey through ...

A missing heiress. A terrified horse. And a silence no one wants broken. When elite horse trainer Sofi Reyes receives a desperate call from one of Texas’s wealthiest families, she expects a problem horse—not a vanished girl. Seventeen-year-old Evelyn Monroe, heir to a powerful dynasty, disappeared during a routine trail ride. The sheriff calls it a runaway. The evidence says otherwise. Evelyn’s champion horse was found alone, traumatized beyond reason—and horses don’t lie. As Sofi steps onto the Monroe estate, she finds a world built on money, control, and appearances. A spotless ...

The ancient inheritance that made us who we areand is now driving us to ruin. Each of us is endowed with an inheritancea set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights: driving the...