Dark Social

This book will take you to the path where only the brave enter, the world of Dark Psychology. It's a deep dive into the mind's secret corners, where lies and manipulation wander. This book is about peeling back layers, revealing secrets, and giving you the power to see through the smoke and mirrors of human behavior. Don't just read it - use it like an x-ray to understand people and influence them.

This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control.

The fields of folklore have never been more popular—a recent resurgence of interest in traditional beliefs and customs, coupled with morbid curiosities in folk horror, historic witchcraft cases and our superstitious past, have led to an intersection of ideas that is driving people to seek out more information. Tracey Norman (author of the acclaimed play WITCH) and Mark Norman (creator of The Folklore Podcast) lead you on an exploration of those more salubrious facets of our past.

As cyber attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan.

Profiler Roy Hazelwood is one of the world's leading experts on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders - the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motive and thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes. He also catalogs the innovative and remarkably effective techniques that allow law enforcement agents to construct psychological profiles of the offenders who commit these crimes.

A CIA officer's inside account of how Libya's descent into rampant violence precipitated the harrowing overland evacuation of the entire US mission from Tripoli after being trapped in the city for weeks.

Strike Up a Conversation with Anyone, Connect to Others on a Deeper Level, and Establish Stronger Relationships It can be hard to know how to start or maintain a conversation, especially with people we don't know very well. It's not always easy to know what to say in social situations, and sometimes it feels like everyone else around us seems to have a better handle on conversation than we do. We've all been there before. You meet someone new and you're not sure what to say, so you end up saying nothing at all. This can make it difficult to form new relationships or strengthen existing ones...

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy - the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering.

With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide knowledge of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable.

In the digital age, where every click and keystroke is vulnerable to manipulation, understanding the intersection of dark psychology and cybersecurity is more crucial than ever. "Dark Psychology in Cybersecurity" unveils the hidden psychological tactics used by cybercriminals and equips you with the knowledge to defend against these threats. From social engineering and AI-driven phishing to the ethical implications of using psychological defenses, this comprehensive guide dives deep into the psychological underpinnings of cyber attacks. Learn how to build psychological resilience, ...

In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the Internet we don't know. Beginning with the rise of the Internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers, and vigilantes - and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous.

The year was 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses.

The American supermarket is an everyday miracle. But what does it take to run one? What are the inner workings of product delivery and distribution? Who sets the price? And who suffers for the convenience and efficiency we’ve come to expect? In this rollicking exposé, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on this highly secretive industry.

No sense of humor? Or want to make full use of the one you have? Turn that frown upside down with proven tips on How to Make People Laugh! Do all your jokes get crickets instead of laughs? Are your witty comebacks not resonating well to your audience (and maybe even sound offensive)? Do you have trouble making people at ease around you? It’s time to put comedy and humor in the spotlight of your daily life with How to Make People Laugh by sought-after life coach and master of dad jokes Cole McBride! In this guide, you will discover: How to be wittier: Make people feel at ease and win over ...

Put an End to Feeling Like You Aren’t Enough, Attract the Women You’ve Always Wanted, and Bring Success into Your Life Do you feel like you're not good enough? Do you hate what you see in the mirror? Do you feel like you could be doing so much more with your life? You are not alone. Millions of men around the world feel exactly the same way. After all, it's hard to stay confident when the media constantly shows off and glorifies men that look nothing like you. It makes you feel like you're not good enough because you aren't like them. But, the good news is, there's a solution – and it...

What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine - yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison - was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices.

If you are stuck in someone's control or don't want to be, you must know this favorite mind game of great manipulators. It is so powerful that most people won't be able to detect it even for many years of being enslaved. Why? Gaslighting is a very common method of manipulation that when intentionally or even unintentionally used, you'll be so influenced emotionally that you cannot think for yourself or for your own good. Sound nasty? It is. But you'll never know when you're participating as the inflictor or the prey until you explore this book.

Want to flirt with women without coming across as creepy? The secrets to building strong chemistry, make her laugh, and get her chasing you Is your dating life starting to feel stale? Are you struggling to make genuine connections with women you find attractive? Do you often come off as annoying, creepy, or desperate? These are a common frustration amongst men. Sometimes, our need for connection gets overshadowed by our shyness, anxiety, fears, and insecurities. But it doesn’t have to be that way forever. If you’re looking to learn how you can become irresistible to any women you meet, ...

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: The belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Author James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.

The American empire emerged from the shadows of World War II. As the nation's influence swept the globe with near impunity, a host of evil forces followed—from racism, exploitation, and military invasion to killer clowns, flying saucers, and monsters borne of a fear of the other. By viewing American imperial history through the prism of the horror genre, Dark Carnivals lays bare how the genre shaped us, distracted us, and gave form to a violence as American as apple pie.