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The cyber effect : a pioneering cyberpsychologist explains how human behavior changes online / by Aiken, Mary,author.(CARDINAL)413224;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-370) and index.When humans and technology collide -- The normalization of a fetish -- Designed to addict -- Cyber babies -- Frankenstein and the Little Girl -- Teenagers, monkeys, and mirrors -- Cyber romance -- Cyberchondria and the worried well -- What lies beneath: the deep web -- The cyber frontier."From one of the world's leading experts in cyberpsychology--a discipline that combines psychology, forensics, and technology--comes a groundbreaking exploration of the impact of technology on human behavior. In the first book of its kind, Mary Aiken applies her expertise in cyber-behavioral analysis to a range of subjects, including criminal activity on the Deep Web and Darknet; deviant behavior; Internet addictions; the impact of technology on the developing child; teenagers and the Web; cyber-romance and cyber-friendships; cyberchondria; the future of artificial intelligence; and the positive effects on our digital selves, such as online altruism"--
Subjects: Human behavior.; Internet users; Internet addiction.; Interpersonal relations; Social psychology.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Wife number seven / by Brown, Melissa,author.(CARDINAL)807742;
Lipstick. Bright, red lipstick. Nothing but lipstick. Even though it's against our faith to wear a color that screams of sexual promiscuity and deviant behavior, I'm not allowed to protest. But, I want to. So badly. You see, there's more to me than the braid that spills down my back. More to me than the layers of heavy fabric that maintain my modesty. And so much more than the oppressive wedding band that adorns my finger--the same band that each of my sister wives wear. So much more. To protest would be sinful. I must keep sweet, that is my duty. So I'll wear the lipstick. I'll do as I'm told. And I'll do my best to silence the resistance within me, to push him from my mind. If only my heart would do the same.
Subjects: Fiction.; Polygamy; Man-woman relationships; Polygamy.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Duane's depressed : a novel / by McMurtry, Larry.(CARDINAL)139604;
Sequel to: TexasvilleAt 62, ever-dependable oil man Duane Moore ditches his pickup and starts walking everywhere--deeply deviant behavior in one-stoplight Thalia, Texas. "It occurred to him one day--not in a flash, but through a process of seepage, a kind of gas leak into his consciousness--that most of his memories, from his first courtship to the lip of old age, involved the cabs of pickups." Yet oddly enough, Duane's marriage, four children and nine grandchildren, his career highs and lows, all occurred when he was nowhere near his vehicle. "He realized that for the first time in his life he had too much time to think; of course he had wanted more time to think, but that was probably because he hadn't realized how tricky thinking could be." The final book of the marvelous trilogy McMurtry began with The Last Picture Show and Texasville.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Romance fiction.; Middle-aged men; Thalia (Tex. : Imaginary place); City and town life; Depression, Mental; Middle-aged men; City and town life;
Available copies: 45 / Total copies: 51
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Live right and find happiness (although beer is much faster) : life lessons and other ravings from Dave Barry / by Barry, Dave.(CARDINAL)732986;
"During the course of living (mumble, mumble) years, Dave Barry has learned much of wisdom,* (*actual wisdom not guaranteed) and he is eager to pass it on--to the next generation, the generation after that, and to those idiots who make driving to the grocery store in Florida a death-defying experience"--Presents the author's humorous takes on his daughter's learning permit, the deviant behaviors of the men in his hometown, the perils of home repair, and the loneliness of being a high-school nerd.
Subjects: Humor.; Life; Families;
Available copies: 32 / Total copies: 36
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Understanding and overcoming fear [videorecording] / by Moraes, Roberto de,film director.; Perez-Thompson, Ines I.,film producer.; Teaching Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lecturer, Margee Kerr.Presented by sociologist Margee Kerr, this series of lectures examines the physiological foundations of fear, discusses why people engage with fear-inducing content and activities, and explores ways to overcome fear.DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Educational films.; Instructional films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Self-help publications.; Fear.; Fear; Phobias.; Phobias;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The alcoholics / by Thompson, Jim,1906-1977,author.(CARDINAL)742028;
"Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic. A recovery center for the most severe cases of alcoholism in the state--even if no one ever does quite seem to get dry there--El Healtho has been the bane of Dr. Murphy's existence ever since he started running it. But now that its doors are about to close forever, Dr. Murphy finds he'll do anything to keep it open. Up to and including admitting Humphrey Van Twyne III, a patient with an extremely violent past whose wealthy family has the means to keep El Healtho open for business. Sure, the man isn't exactly an alcoholic. And yes, what he really needs is to be under the care of the surgeons who performed the lobotomy that's rendered Van Twyne all but a vegetable. But the money's good--until the rag-tag group of ne'er-do-wells at El Healtho begin to wreak havoc with Dr. Murphy's plans, and suddenly no one day has ever seemed so long. A literary precursor to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, THE ALCOHOLICS is Thompson like you've never read him before, a pitch-black, mad-cap portrait of deviant behavior that is at once darkly comic, humane and harrowing"--
Subjects: Black humor.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Alcoholics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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I will break you / by Styx, Gigi,author.;
"Prey. I see dead people, and not just the men I murdered. I'm in danger of being committed because I can't tell what's real from my hallucinations. Everyone thinks I'm crazy when the serial killer I jilted starts haunting my house. He assassinates any man who shows me interest, leaving their body parts under my pillow. During the day, his gaslighting destroys my peace of mind. But at night, he invades my nightmares and makes me crave the depravity. Predator. She ghosted me at the altar. Now, I'm aching for revenge. I want to break her, piece by delicious piece. Revel in her terror. Bathe in her screams. Make her moan my name. Someone from her past wants her captured or dead, so it's up to me to protect her from the shadows. She belongs to me and no one else -- body, mind, and soul. If I don't take out her enemies, I'll lose more than just my beautiful obsession. I Will Break You is a dark psychological thriller romance with unreliable narrators, and disturbing themes. It ends on a cliffhanger. Please check the two pages of trigger warnings." --
Subjects: Erotic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction).; Horror.; Serial murderers; Stalking; Ghosts; Psychological abuse;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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The dysfunctional library : challenges and solutions to workplace relationships / by Henry, Jo,author.(CARDINAL)406541; Eshleman, Joe,author.(CARDINAL)356140; Moniz, Richard,author.(CARDINAL)356139;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The dysfunctional self -- Dysfunctional organizational culture -- Incivility in the work environment -- Toxic behaviors of staff -- Organizational deviance and workplace politics -- Poor communication in the workplace -- Conflict management -- Ineffective collaboration -- Difficulties with team composition -- Leading away from library dysfunction.Frankly, it's not something we like to talk about. There is an unfortunate stigma to acknowledging workplace dysfunction, let alone trying to grapple with the problem. But negative behaviors such as incivility, toxicity, deviant behavior, workplace politics, and team and leadership dysfunction not only make the library a stressful workplace, they also run counter to the core values of librarianship. An important tool for library leaders and managers as well as library staff, this book examines these negative relationship-based issues and suggests practical, research-based solutions by discussing the importance of understanding oneself as related to the library workplace; identifying attributes specific to libraries that foster personal success; showing how organizational dysfunction is rooted in problems such as poor communication, inadequate leadership, and lack of employee engagement; breaking down relatable scenarios to analyze what's behind them and how to defuse them, ranging from a gossipy coworker who fails to contribute to the organization to workplace bullying and mobbing; exploring causes, results, and potential solutions in the areas of cyberloafing, fraud, theft, and sabotage; delving into the importance of conflict management, surveying a variety of approaches and applications; examining the use of teams in libraries and the impact of favoritism, nepotism, and sexism; and providing techniques for successful collaboration, leadership, organizational communication, and other key management topics. By tackling the dysfunctional library head on, managers as well as library workers who find themselves in a toxic situation will be poised to better meet library goals and move the library forward.
Subjects: Library personnel management.; Communication in library administration.; Library employees; Team librarianship.; Conflict management.; Organizational behavior.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The new absolutes / by Watkins, William D.(CARDINAL)741376;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index."God" in Fresno -- The rule of relativism -- The betrayal of behavior -- Freedom from religion -- Death, what a beautiful choice -- Do, for now -- Family is who you come home to -- Love the one you're with -- Dial deviant for normal -- I am woman, hear me roar -- Race colors everything -- History in the remaking -- The politically correct life -- When worlds collide -- A plea for intolerance.
Subjects: Watkins, William D.; Apologetics.; Relativity; Skepticism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Delinquency, crime, and social process / by Cressey, Donald R.(Donald Ray),1919-1987.(CARDINAL)146808; Ward, David A.(CARDINAL)154570;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1. Crime in America. 1. Crime in America / The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- Part 2. The definition of behavior as "criminal." 1. Plains Indian law in development : the Comanche / E. Adamson Hoebel -- 2. Morals and the criminal law / Richard C. Fuller -- 3. White-collar crime and social structure / Vilhelm Aubert -- 4. Crime and the commercial revolution / Jerome Hall -- 5. Deviance and public policy / Edwin M. Schur -- Part 3. The administration of justice as a selective process. 1. Court records, undetected delinquency and decision-making / Maynard L. Erickson and Lamar T. Empey -- 2. Police encounters with juveniles / Irving Piliavin and Scott Briar -- 3. Police discretion not to invoke the criminal process : low-visibility decisions in the administration of justice / Joseph Goldstein -- 4. Noninvocation of the criminal law by police / Wayne R. LaFave -- 5. White-collar crime and the criminal process / The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- 6. Pleading guilty for considerations : a study of bargain justice / Donald J. Newman -- 7. Acquittal of the guilty to control police enforcement methods / Donald J. Newman -- Part 4. The epidemiology of delinquency and crime. 1. Social structure and anomie / Robert K. Merton -- 2. Affluence and adolescent crime / Jackson Toby -- 3. Illegitimate means, anomie, and deviant behavior / Richard A. Cloward -- 4. Lower class culture as a generating milieu of gang delinquency / Walter B. Miller -- 5. White-collar criminality / Edwin H. Sutherland -- 6. Juvenile delinquency in the middle-class youth culture / Edmund W. Vaz -- 7. Delinquency and community action in nonmetropolitan areas / Kenneth Polk -- 8. Socio-economic class and area as correlates of illegal behavior among juveniles / John P. Clark and Eugene P. Winninger -- 9. Class position, peers and delinquency / Maynard L. Erickson and Lamar T. Empey.Part 5. Crime and delinquency as products of interaction. 1. A sociological theory of criminal behavior / Edwin H. Sutherland and Donald R. Cressey -- 2. Psychoanalysis and crime / David Feldman -- 3. The skills and training of the pickpocket / David W. Maurer -- 4. A vocabulary of motive for law violations / Frank E. Hartung -- 5. Delinquent stereotypes of probable victims / Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger -- 6. Becoming a marihuana user / Howard S. Becker -- 7. Apprenticeships in prostitution / James H. Bryan -- 8. Criminality theories and behavioral images / Daniel Glaser -- 9. A differential association-reinforcement theory of criminal behavior / Robert L. Burgess and Ronald L. Akers -- 10. Epidemiology and individual conduct / Donald R. Cressey -- Part 6. Societal reactions to deviant behavior. 1. Deviance and the responses of others / Howard S. Becker -- 2. Societal reactions to deviant behavior : problems of theory and method / John I. Kitsuse -- 3. Primary and secondary deviation / Edwin M. Lemert -- 4. The labeling process / Stanton Wheeler and Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr., with the assistance of Anne Romasco -- 5. Delinquency and moral character / Carol Werthman -- Part. 7. The development and maintenance of delinquent subcultures. 1. A general theory of subcultures / Albert K. Cohen -- 2. The evolution of delinquent subcultures / Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin -- 3. Perceived opportunities, gang membership, and delinquency / James F. Short, Jr., Ramon Rivera, and Ray A. Tennyson -- 4. Violent crime in city gangs / Walter B. Miller -- 5. Delinquent subcultures : theory and recent research / Lamar T. Empey -- 6. The sociology of the deviant act : anomie theory and beyond / Albert K. Cohen -- Part 8. Formal and informal organizations of delinquents and criminals. 1. The differentiation of delinquent subcultures / Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin -- 2. Patterns of deliquent subculture behavior / Irving Spergel -- 3. Cats, kicks, and color / Harold Finestone -- 4. Worlds of drug use on the street scene / Alan G. Sutter -- 5. Different types of pickpocket mobs / David W. Maurer -- 6. The activities and location of organized criminals / The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- 7. The national and local structures of organized crime / Donald R. Cressey -- 8. The incredible electrical conspiracy / Richard Austin Smith -- Part 9. Symbiotic relationships between criminals and others. 1. The numbers racket / Ted Poston -- 2. Gambling and political corruption / John A. Gardiner, with the assistance of David J. Olson -- 3. The respectables / Robert F. Kennedy -- 4. The business of sex / Columbia Broadcasting System -- 5. The social integration of queers and peers / Albert J. Reiss, Jr. -- 6. The mark / David W. Maurer -- 7. Victim-precipitated criminal homicide / Marvin E. Wolfgang -- Part 10. Loners in a criminal world. 1. Sexual aggression against adult females / Paul H. Gebhard, John H. Gagnon, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Cornelia V. Christenson -- 2. Physician narcotic addicts / Charles Winick -- 3. The behavior of the systematic check forger / Edwin M. Lemert -- 4. The white-collar thief / Frank E. Hartung -- 5. Role theory, differential association, and compulsive crimes / Donald R. Cressey.Book on criminological research studies and theories in the areas of crime, delinquency and social process. The emphasis in this book, however, is not exclusively on the problems of explaining what statistical distributions of crime and delinquency mean and how individuals become criminals and delinquents. The reader should be aware that as one examines statistical distributions of delinquency and crime rates and offender characteristics one must pay close attention to variables that relate to the settings and circumstances under which the statistics were collected. Once social scientists simply analyzed the available statistical facts. The datum for study is the process by which the statistical information is assembled, not just the final assembly. For example, arrest statistics are often used as the basis of generalizations about the social class distribution of delinquency and crime, but there is systematic underreporting of crimes of respectable segments of the society. Thus, among the selections reprinted in this book are research studies, descriptive accounts, and essays devoted to the illegal activities of businessmen, labor union officials, physicians, politicians, policemen, and middle-class youngsters. The theoretical framework of this book is designed to make these violations just as understandable as the criminal violations of persons in the lower socioeconomic class.
Subjects: Crime.; Criminals.; Criminology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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