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ISBN: 9780909647070
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Languages : en
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Anatomy of stupidity
Author: The Power of Stupidity
Author: Giancarlo LivraghiPublisher: Monti & Ambrosini SRL
ISBN: 8889479159
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Author: Carlo M. CipollaPublisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385546483
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"A masterly book" —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan "A classic" —Simon Kuper, Financial Times An economist explains five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local bar. It is human stupidity. Carlo M. Cipolla, noted professor of economic history at the UC Berkeley, created this vitally important book in order to detect and neutralize its threat. Both hilarious and dead serious, it will leave you better equipped to confront political realities, unreasonable colleagues, or your next dinner with your in-laws. The Laws: 1. Everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals among us. 2. The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves. 4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. 5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Author: Carlo M. CipollaPublisher:
ISBN: 9788815233813
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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The Lexicon of Stupidity
Author: Ross PetrasPublisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780761137917
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Look up Religion, and discover this from Paris Hilton: [The Kaballah] helps you confront your fears. Like, if a girl borrowed my clothes and never gave them back and I saw her wearing them months later, I would confront her. Or Anatomy, and find sportscaster Jerry Coleman: Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! ItÕs rolling all the way back to second base! Or Truth in GovernmentÑhereÕs Senator Alan Simpson: There are a lot of things that we do that are irrelevant, but thatÕs what the Senate is for. Arranged alphabetically, from Accident, Traffic to Zoology, Game Show ContestantsÕ Knowledge of (and you wouldnÕt believe how distorted that knowledge sometimes is), The Lexicon of Stupidity is an overstuffed dictionary of quotes, banalities, actual book titles, holdup notes, menu items, TV listings, and more, each meeting one exacting criterion: theyÕre so jaw-droppingly dumb you canÕt help but laugh. ItÕs the wit of the witless. The comedy of the clueless. The giggly fun of celebrities, athletes, politicians, newscasters, and other pompous types planting a foot (or two) firmly in mouth. And no authors could be more qualified to pull it together than Ross and Kathryn Petras, whose calendar celebrating stupidityÑThe 365 Stupidest Things Ever SaidÑis a perennial knock-out, with millions of copies sold since its debut in 1995. It even includes real courtroom testimony: Q. Are you sexually active? A. No, I just lie there.
The Anatomy of Disgust
Author: William Ian MILLERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041062
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to vivify the larger social order with the idiom it commandeers from the sights, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds of fleshly physicality. Disgust and contempt, Miller argues, play crucial political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for persons than on an equal distribution of contempt. Disgust, however, signals dangerous division.
You Stupid People!
Author: Ezio Flavio BazzoAnatomy of a Secret Life
Author: Gail SaltzPublisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0767923049
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
We think we know those who are close to us, and we want to believe that what we see is what we get. But we can never know for certain, because what really goes on inside another's head and heart is essentially a secret. How do you know if that secret is something that will hurt you? Your husband turns to face you in bed. Is he thinking about you or your closest friend? Your boss shows up in another new outfit. Did she get a raise or is she a compulsive shopper who is stealing money from the company? Your teenaged daughter is upstairs in her bedroom. Is she doing her homework or chatting online with a man twice her age? Anatomy of A Secret Life will take you inside the minds of secret-keepers and show you how secrets start, how they're kept, and how they exact their devastating emotional and social toll. Using contemporary case studies and historical examples, Dr. Gail Saltz shows you how to spot--through subtle behaviors and clues--and safely stop the potentially dangerous secrets that someone, even you, might be concealing from the world.
Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived By the Patient
Author: Norman CousinsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393326840
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities.
Stupefaction
Author: Keston SutherlandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906497972
Category : Fools and jesters in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Philosophy needs idiots. Stupefaction is a study in the artifice of idiots: how they are made, the uses they are put to and the types of truth that may depend on them. It explains how some important speculative and satirical descriptions of stupidity function in art and in philosophical and critical argument. Its roll call of idiots includes Pope's dunce, the master of 'bathos', Hegel's knowledge fussing over its skeleton, Adorno's 'cultivated philistine', Wordsworth's embarrassed readers who don't know the right way to like poetry, the 'savages' of enlightenment ethnography, and the compulsorily supersitious consumer genuflecting under the vat of human offcuts in Marx"--Dustjacket.