![]() ![]() ![]() How does it make people look to talk about a product or idea? Most people would rather look smart than dumb, rich than poor, and cool than geeky. We share information and stories with people who will find our information relevant and interesting.Ĭontagious explains what makes products, ideas, stories, and news likely to spread from person to person via word of mouth and social influence. Word of mouth recommendations are more objective and candid, so we are more likely to trust and listen to them. Word of mouth is more effective than traditional advertising for two reasons: While quality, price, and advertising contribute to products and ideas being successful, word of mouth drives 20 to 50 percent of all purchasing decisions. ![]() He explains 6 mechanisms that contribute to virality: social currency, triggers, emotion, practical value, public, and stories.īuy this book on Amazon (Highly recommend) Access My Searchable Collection of 100+ Book Notes Key Takeaways In it, Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger explains what makes certain ideas, products, and stories popular. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn more about how to spread ideas, increase brand awareness, or grow their customer base. ![]()
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![]() When I first found out about this book, I was highly intrigued because it features a subject matter I’ve always been curious about. POV: Shifting – First person & third person POV Sensitive readers should be cautious, especially if easily offended. They are lovers, besotted with each other besotted with a terrible secret. If you know Homer’s story, you will know that the Monster is proof that Queen Pasiphae was indeed guilty of a terrible perversion.Īnd my own tale “The Beast in Me ” the taboo ever present in Daisy and Noah. What she did, her shame exposed to all, when she gave birth to a monster. Men snigger about the royal couple – even now, centuries later. Homer tells her story –Pasiphae the unnatural the King, her husband, made a cuckold. ![]() The two stories presented here delve into the idea of ‘what happens next?’ What do you do – where do you go, after crashing and smashing your way through the final taboo?Ī Queen, her depravity told through the millennia. It will find its voice and it will demand to be heard. Freud tells us that repressing feeling will amount to neurosis – Jung says pretty much the same – the repressed will bubble to the surface in one way or another – it will find a way out. ![]() We crush the horror of the terrible deed that the little voice inside our head bids us do. We block feeling, turn away from feeling we do anything not to feel. We cannot talk about them – no one would understand. ![]() ![]() We have them, we know that they are there we hide them, we keep them secret – sometimes we act on them. ![]() ![]() Thus, the author reassesses these conflicts between the Natives and the federal government to reveal injustices and oppression. It was a massacre of the Lakota people that later ignited condemnation against manifest destiny in justifying violence. ![]() It is critical in its account of the history that altered the way of life for the Natives.Īkin to the title it accounts for prior events before the Wounded Knee massacre that took place at the close of the 19th century. Brown incorporates details from the English settling in 1492 to the Natives' turmoil that ensued in the mid-19th century. American expansionism accelerated by the idea of manifest destiny prompted the acts of violence between the European-Americans and the Natives. Dee Brown offers this Indian-centric point of view that probes into the details of this period in the American West. The history of the Native Americans and their plights during the era of Manifest destiny has been glossed over in modern literature. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. 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(The letter, handwritten on Pollard State University Library stationery, marked a turning point in Eric and Jen’s flirty, romantic relationship.) The other morning, I was so engrossed in a letter from Jen that I missed my subway stop. The book is so perfectly realized that it’s easy to fall under its spell. Straka, really, and what does he have to do with Eric’s sinister dissertation advisor?-you have to read not just “Ship of Theseus,” but all of Jen and Eric’s handwritten notes. To solve the book’s central mystery-who is V. Between the pages, they’ve slipped postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings, letters-even a hand-drawn map written on a napkin from a coffee shop. ![]() ![]() Open it up, though, and you see that the real story unfolds in Straka’s margins, where two readers, Eric and Jen, have left notes for each other. From the outside, it looks like an old library book, called “Ship of Theseus” and published, in 1949, by V. ![]() Abrams and Doug Dorst, may be the best-looking book I’ve ever seen. ![]() ![]() Propelled by Justin Hurwitz’s unrelenting wall-of-sound score, it’s often electrifying, to be sure, and certainly impressive in terms of sheer scale. Chazelle mashes up bits of historical Tinseltown lore and real-life inspirations with the kind of lurid detail that filled the pages of Kenneth Anger’s once-banned muck-raking compendium, Hollywood Babylon, and there’s no denying the hyper-kinetic energy of the enterprise. The opening half-hour here, from the sepia-toned vintage Paramount logo to the delayed appearance of the movie’s title, is such a syncopated concentration of hedonistic revelry - including a thinly veiled blow-by-blow of the Fatty Arbuckle-Virginia Rappe scandal - it could virtually have fleshed out a full-length feature. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Tobey Maguire, Max Minghella ![]() ![]() Cast: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, P.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of the war, returning WACs and WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) found they were expected to return to a submissive role some suggested that they sacrifice the opportunity for college to make room for male veterans. For example, members of the Women’s Army Corps torpedoed en route to service as officers’ secretaries in North Africa were told they had to replace their lost uniforms at their own expense, since they weren’t regular Army personnel. Eventually, a series of incident exposed the system’s bias. World War II exposed servicewomen to more increasingly dangerous conditions and let them prove what they could contribute. That meant putting them in auxiliary units separate from the actual armed service it also meant denying them equal pay or veterans’ benefits. At first the arguments seemed reasonable enough-protecting women by keeping them away from combat zones. Monahan and Neidel-Greenlee ( And If I Perish: Frontline Army Nurses in World War II, 2003, etc.) begin with the volunteer nurses of the World War I era, documenting what becomes a repeated strain in the book: the struggle against a male-dominated hierarchy, both civilian and military. ![]() military, by two former servicewomen who also worked at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the awful things they've done to me, they actually made me feel special. I hadn’t realized how much they’ve worn me down and made me feel complacent, but it turns out they’ve messed with my head just as much as they abused my body. Even having been subjected to his barbed tongue, he’s the first man to ever make me feel safe. Rath is the dark-eyed tempest who took me into his bed. To me, he’s the man who seeks to control me, with his cold eyes and possessiveness. Tristan is fair-haired and charming to anyone who doesn’t know better. He thinks I don’t know that he watches me when I sleep. Killian is two-hundred-and-twenty pounds of muscle, brutal physicality, and pure spite. ![]() I just wasn’t expecting punishment like this. I agreed to be in their beds, on my knees, and punished should I disobey. I agreed to the contract that made me the Lords’ Lady, a position that requires me to do whatever they want, but only as protection from someone worse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Devotion., the suspense was never about who will be killed or even the killer's identity. If everything that constitutes the essence of most crime novels has been revealed in the first two chapters, one may wonder what is the point of reading till the end? But those who have read Higashino’s unputdownable Devotion of Suspect X will know better. But she was visiting her parents in Hokkaido, hundreds of miles away from Tokyo. The mistress has a watertight alibi so the most logical suspect and the one person with a motive is Yoshitaka’s mysterious and beautiful wife Ayane. ![]() Nothing suggests a forced entry and he was alone at the time of death. The only traces of poison are in the coffee grounds and the cup. His distraught mistress finds his body in his upmarket Tokyo home. Suave CEO and ladies’ man, Yoshitaka Mashiba, is found dead with a cup of spilled coffee next to him. You will also know what will be used to kill him you get a hint that this is not the only death in the book.īy Chapter 2, there’s an extramarital affair followed by a dead body. ![]() Most readers will probably guess the who part of the whodunit. So it comes as no surprise when, by the end of the first chapter of Salvation Of A Saint, you already know who will die in the next few pages. Fans of Japanese author Keigo Higashino will know he likes to get straight to the point. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Fantastic Four have no choice but to journey into the Negative Zone, an alien universe composed entirely of anti-matter, risking not just their own lives but the fate of the cosmos!įantastic Four: Full Circleis the first longform work written and illustrated by acclaimed artist Alex Ross, who revisits a classic Stan Lee–Jack Kirby story from the 1960s and introduces the storyline for a new generation of readers. But for what purpose? And who is behind this untimely invasion? These carrion creatures composed of Negative Energy come to Earth using a human host as a delivery system. When an intruder suddenly appears inside the Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four-Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards), the Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards), the Human Torch (Johnny Storm), and the Thing (Ben Grimm)-find themselves surrounded by a swarm of invading parasites. It’s a rainy night in Manhattan and not a creature is stirring except for. An all-new Marvel Comics graphic novel starring the Fantastic Four, written and illustrated by renowned artist Alex Ross ![]() |