![]() ![]() Discover how six basic principles drive all sorts of things to become contagious, from consumer products and policy initiatives to workplace rumors and YouTube videos. In Contagious, Berger reveals the secret science behind word-of-mouth and social transmission. He’s studied why New York Times articles make the paper’s own Most E-mailed list, why products get word of mouth, and how social influence shapes everything from the cars we buy to the clothes we wear to the names we give our children. ![]() Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger has spent the last decade answering these questions. But why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral? ![]() People don’t listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. What makes things popular? If you said advertising, think again. “Jonah Berger knows more about what makes information ‘go viral’ than anyone in the world.” -Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness The New York Times bestseller that explains why certain products and ideas become popular. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In order to win this presidential contest, liberals need to accept that Trump supporters do not care if he were to scrap millions of mail-in votes or to welcome, and even solicit, Russian interference for his cause. The left should understand that many Trump supporters inherently believe that they would fare better under an autocratic system of white supremacy than under a multiracial democracy. Not only do some Trump supporters understand that he is an autocrat who will cheat the rules to stay in power, that’s precisely what they like about him. A major commentator just suggested: Bob Woodward’s book is the one that will land “like a hydrogen bomb.” Nope, neither Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” nor John Bolton’s “The Room Where It Happened” nor Mary Trump’s “Too Much and Never Enough” have clarified Trump’s reputation to his followers or undecided voters. ![]() Just pay attention to the urgent MSNBC, NPR, and New York Times exposés on each incriminating revelation into Trump’s misconduct or read the liberal nonprofit industrial complex’s battery of watchdog reports, and you will witness liberals acting as though a lack of information is damning our democracy, as though one more smoking gun would save it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later on its list of things for fire fighters to remember when fighting fires, the first item is: “Protect the valuable timber rather than the brush or waste.” The rangers who patrolled USFS land were also the only official means of detecting fires. An organization which will put out a fire before it gathers headway may save them many days’ hard work.” In those early days of the USFS, “protecting the reserves against fire” meant prevention and suppression. We can see what the USFS saw as the benefits of detecting and fighting fires early: “Not only is the prevention of fire to the interest of all property owners, but men under obligation to fight fire because they hold permits will profit greatly by any means of reducing the work which they may be called upon to do. Fire ecology was poorly understood, and fire was seen as a strictly negative force (controlled burns wouldn’t be used to support the USFS’s mission until the 1990s). Its approach was clear: to detect and suppress fires as early as possible. ![]() ![]() One of the main purposes of The Use Book was to clearly define how the USFS would approach managing forests for fire. Assist the people in their use See that are properly used ![]() ![]() The Fairy Court is blocking its supply, straining England's dangerously declining magical stores. Meanwhile, the Society is failing its vital duty - to keep stable the levels of magic within His Majesty's lands. He leads the eminent Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, but a malicious faction seeks to remove him by fair means or foul. In Regency London, Zacharias Wythe is England's first African Sorcerer Royal. Sorcerer to the Crown is the first in Zen Cho's thrilling magical adventure series, the Sorcerer Royal Trilogy. Shortlisted for the 2016 Locus First Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel ![]() Winner of the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Newcomer
![]() ![]() Huck goes about business as usual as the Widow and a local judge, Judge Thatcher, try to get custody of him so that he doesn’t fall into his father’s incapable and cruel hands. Pap rebukes Huck for trying to better his life and demands that Huck give him the fortune he made after discovering the robber’s gold. So Huck does as the Widow tells him and gets to play robbers with Tom and other boys once in a while.Įven as Huck grows to enjoy his lifestyle with the Widow, his debauched father Pap menacingly reappears one night in his room. However, Huck stays with the Widow and Miss Watson because Tom tells him that, if Huck doesn’t stick with his life in straight-laced civilization, he can’t join Tom’s gang. Huck resents the “sivilized” lifestyle that the widow imposes on him. ![]() He explains that at the end of that book, he and his friend Tom Sawyer discovered a robber’s cache of gold and consequently became rich, but that now Huck lives with a good but mechanical woman, the Widow Douglas, and her holier-than-thou sister, Miss Watson. ![]() ![]() Huckleberry Finn introduces himself as a character from the book prequel to his own, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ![]() ![]() ![]() As of September 2019, she had fifty-three of her fifty-seven total written works published. Career ĭespite receiving a great deal of rejections before her career began, Armentrout's first book was published in 2011. Despite her desire to be an author, she went to college and graduated with a major in psychology. Her first experience with writing an actual novel was in high school during algebra class. Upon completing the series she decided she wanted to leave the same impact on her future readers. ![]() The book series that remained close to her heart was The Forbidden Games, with the final novel bringing her to tears. Smith, such as The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle Series, The Forbidden Games Series, and myriad others. She was inspired to become a writer after reading the works of L.J. Armentrout was born on June 11 in West Virginia. Her current publishers include Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Publishing, Harlequin Teen, Disney/Hyperion, and HarperCollins. She is considered a "hybrid" author, having successfully self-published while maintaining active contracts with small independent presses, and traditional publishers. Several of her works have made The New York Times Best Seller list. ![]() Lynn, is an American writer of contemporary romance, new adult and fantasy. Jennifer Lynn Armentrout (born June 11, 1980), also known by the pseudonym J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the consequences can be explosive.Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion-the worst school disaster in American history-as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. SYNOPSIS: "This is East Texas, and there's lines. A Top Ten Most Challenged Book of the Year This is East Texas, and there’s lines. Review Source: De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for ChildrenĪlso by this author: The Knife and the Butterfly A dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death. ![]() Published by Lerner Publishing Group on 2015 Naomi and her twin siblings Beto and Cari are new to town, having recently been relocated from their San Antonio barrio to an oil-mining town by the twins’ father (and Naomi’s stepfather), Henry (their mother is dead). Ultimately, this powerful novel asks: What are we willing to sacrifice for friendship and love? For defying an unjust society? For working to bring about racial justice? Out of the Darkness is highly recommended. We leave this heart-wrenching and gruesome scene to jump back to September 1936. ![]() ![]() ![]() Phoebe listens to the poignant story of the little blue coat not knowing that it is to have a profound and uplifting connection with her own life. ![]() At first Therese wishes not to reveal the coat's history but, as the two women become friends, she opens up. In Therese's wardrobe Phoebe also finds a child's sky-blue winter coat, from wartime France. But what of the past lives these clothes have lived she often wonders? What stories would they tell if they could speak? One day Phoebe meets an elderly French woman, Therese, who wishes to sell her some elegant dresses and suits. So Phoebe takes refuge in her work - restoring these wonderful old clothes to their former glory so that they can go on to have new lives. At the same time she is coping with the recent loss of her best friend, Emma. In my eighth novel, 'A Vintage Affair', the heroine, Phoebe Swift, has just opened a vintage dress shop in Blackheath. A Vintage Affair published by HarperCollins in paperback January 19th 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ask any Philly fan a sports-related question and you'll undoubtedly find yourself in the middle of a lively, heated debate. ![]() Its fans are widely regarded as some of the most dedicated, outspoken, and impassioned sports enthusiasts in the country. When it comes to sports talk, no city has more to say than Philadelphia. While Philly's fans never lie dormant, they are especially fired up right now following a long-awaited Super Bowl victory (the city's first - have you heard. ![]() ![]() ![]() After several years of ill health, he died of complications from diabetes on 12 September 2003, only a few months after the death of his beloved wife. ![]() Amongst his biggest hit records were "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire" and "A Boy Named Sue". ![]() In the late 1980s he moved from Columbia Records to Mercury, then in the next decade moved again to American Recordings. In 1975 Cash wrote his autobiography, "Man In Black", which is now out of print. Cash made only a few films, but quite a few appearances on television, both in series and made-for-TV films, and was especially effective as a rural Southern sheriff in the 1930s determined to bring to justice a wealthy landowner who committed murder because he believed he was above the law in Murder in Coweta County (1983), a drama based on a true story. In 1971 he appeared in the western A Gunfight (1971) with 'Kirk Douglas (I)'. Today we celebrate the 55thAnniversary of At. He had long periods of drug abuse during the 1960s, but later that decade he successfully fought his addiction with the help of singer June Carter Cash, whom he married in 1968. On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash walked into Californias Folsom State Prison and made popular music history. He made his first single, "Hey Porter", for Sun Records in 1955. Johnny Cash was born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, to Carrie Cash (Rivers) and Raymond Cash. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June. ![]() |