Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them 1416574654

Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don't 9780755624058, 9781780767352

Why believe? What kinds of things do people believe in? How have they come to believe them? And how does what they belie

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Dementia-Friendly Communities: Why We Need Them and How We Can Create Them 1785928163, 9781785928161

Creating dementia-friendly communities can give people with dementia the chance to continue meaningful lives with recipr

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On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, and What Can Be Done [Course Book ed.] 9781400851225

Many of us are being misled. Claiming to know dark secrets about public officials, hidden causes of the current economic

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Miracles: Do They Still Happen? Why We Believe in Them 9781614580584, 1614580588

Do miracles happen in our time? Did they ever happen? And if the answer is yes, is any explantion possible? The key migh

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Selfies: Why We Love (and Hate) Them 1787543595, 9781787543591

This book brings a rich and nuanced analysis of selfie culture. It shows how selfies gain their meanings, illustrates di

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How and why we age 0345339185

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Inventing the Victorians : what we think we know about them and why we're wrong 9780312283261, 0312283261

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Terrorism and National Security [1 ed.] 9781921507373, 9781921507328

According to the federal government, the threat of terrorism on Australian soil is real and enduring, and has become a p

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NATO and Terrorism: Catastrophic Terrorism and First Responders: Threats and Mitigation (Nato Security through Science Series B:) 1402035845, 9781402035845

September 11, 2001 in the U.S., March 11, 2004 in Madrid – just two examples of a series of major terror attacks against

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Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe ­Conspiracy Theories 9781472944528, 9781472915610, 9781472915627

We’re all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others. Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil ha

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