Two novels and a graphic memoir tackle weighty issues, with grace and good humor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-07-08 04:06:37 UTC ]
Peggy Orenstein’s latest book, Girls & Sex: Navigating The Complicated New Landscape, is a deeply reported, passionately argued critique of the commercialization of sexuality and contemporary dating culture. Orenstein, a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, set out to talk to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three years ago Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist and associate professor at the Harvard Business School, garnered a lot of attention for a TED Talk on body language and power posing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is to publish a book by Harvard social psychologist Amy Cuddy, whose TED Talk on body language has been viewed more than 25m times. Deputy publisher non-fiction, Amanda Harris, bought UK and Commonwealth Rights from HBG USA for Presence: How to Bring Your Boldest Self... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook has gotten plenty of flack for its privacy practices, but here’s a new way to distrust the social media service: It may be playing with your emotions. As reported by The A.V. Club, in January 2012, Facebook adjusted its newsfeed algorithm for several hundred thousand users to see how... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]