The Persuaders

Author: Anand Giridharadas
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593319001
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist “Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America—by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.” —Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of The System The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts. In The Persuaders, Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization. We meet a leader of Black Lives Matter; a trailblazer in the feminist resistance to Trumpism; white parents at a seminar on raising adopted children of color; Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a team of door knockers with an uncanny formula for changing minds on immigration; an ex-cult member turned QAnon deprogrammer; and, hovering menacingly offstage, Russian operatives clandestinely stoking Americans’ fatalism about one another. As the book’s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don’t agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.

The Persuaders

Author: James Garvey
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848316984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
'A work of engaging pop philosophy and accessible social science [and] a boisterous dissection of the forces jellifying our minds' Sunday Times Includes brand new material covering the US election and Brexit Every day, many people will try to change your mind, but they won't reason with you. Instead, you'll be nudged, anchored, incentivised and manipulated in barely noticeable ways. It's a profound shift in the way we interact with one another. Philosopher James Garvey explores the hidden story of persuasion and the men and women in the business of changing our minds. From the covert PR used to start the first Gulf War to the neuromarketing of products to appeal to our unconscious minds, he reveals the dark arts practised by professional persuaders. How did we end up with a world where beliefs are mass-produced by lobbyists and PR firms? Could Google or Facebook swing elections? Are new kinds of persuasion making us less likely to live happy, decent lives in an open, peaceful world? Is it too late, or can we learn to listen to reason again? The Persuaders is a call to think again about how we think now.

The Persuaders-The Series

Author: Scott V. Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781647864231
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description

Persuader

Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440333865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • The inspiration for season three of the hit streaming series Reacher! “Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.”—The Denver Post Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs—and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord’s waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence—and confront some unfinished business from his own past.

The Hidden Persuaders

Author: Vance Packard
Publisher: Ig Publishing
ISBN: 9780978843106
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A discussion of how modern advertising attempts to control our thoughts and desires in order to make us buy the products it produces. Exploring the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including subliminal tactics, this book shows how advertisers secretly manipulate mass desire for consumer goods and products. In addition, Packard also discusses advertising in politics, predicting the way image and personality rapidly came to overshadow real issues in the televised age.

The Persuaders Guide To Eliminating Resistance And Getting Compliance

Author: Jack N. Raven
Publisher: Gem delos Santos
ISBN: 1310367191
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
If you are a Persuader (who isn't), this book can teach you techniques of persuasion that will allow you to navigate the persuasion, and make your offers (or get them to do what you want) while minimizing -- even com,pletely eliminating resistance from their heads! The goal of this book is to introduce a special way of looking and treating the persuasion process, so that resistances are targetted and neutralized, while giving you unprecedented leverage in how to control people much more smoothly and consistently. You can collect all the trial closes and fancy shmancy persuasion techniques in the world -- but if you lack the innergame or how to see the whole picture? You wont successfully persuade and get the Compliance (acceptance of offer, target makes the desired action etc.)! If you can master resistance? You can master persuasion! And No persuader can succeed without mastering neutralization of resistance. For my readers interested in subjects on how to be a Spy, or on how to be a Con artist? Well this book does not cover those subjects directly, HOWEVER to learn how to spy for example requires the skillsets of getting compliance and simple resistance management -- which are indeed covered in this book. ============== Table of Contents ============== Table of Contents I - Nature of the Offer Targets TRUE need for the offer The Size of the Compliance People don't like to be sold to Pull back tactics Safety/Dangers/Integrity II External Factors Influencing Resistance or Acceptance Time Based on you or offers past performance Presentation of yourself and offer Future Projections Speed Decision making Values/Social Conditionings/Family/Corporate Values etc... Buyers’ Remorse Targets personal criteria and metaprograms Target's stock knowledge and experience about the offer at hand Positive or Negative effects the perception of the offer directly Relationship Dynamics/Frame Prospect in relation to the item Persuader’s relationship with the offer 3rd Party Opinions Social Proof positive or negative Advisers and Invisible decision makers III Compliance or Resistance Logical resistance They don't like you personally They decided on another offer Emotional or State based/BT Baby steps leading, to sneak past resistance

The Persuaders

Author: Anand Giridharadas
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593312643
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Hidden Persuaders in Cocoa and Chocolate

Author: Renata Januszewska
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 0128154489
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Hidden Persuaders of Cocoa and Chocolate: A Flavor Lexicon for Cocoa and Chocolate Sensory Professionals provides an overview of the tastes, aromas and notes describing cocoa and chocolate. In addition to exploring tastes, aromas and notes, the book broadens the language for describing chocolate by relating tasting experiences to the process of pairing flavors. This resource, designed for both academics and those working in research and development, equips the reader to describe these attributes in a sensory language for the purposes of new product development or quality improvement. - Provides an overview of the tastes, aromas and notes describing cocoa and chocolate - Features scientific explanations of the volatile and non-volatile aspects of each flavor - Contains science-based categorization of taste, various aromas, trigeminal sensations and atypical flavors

Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign

Author: Katherine H Adams
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252090349
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence. Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene also chronicle other dramatic techniques that Paul deftly used to gain publicity for the suffrage movement. Stunningly woven into the narrative are accounts of many instances in which women were in physical danger. Rather than avoid discussion of Paul's imprisonment, hunger strikes, and forced feeding, the authors divulge the strategies she employed in her campaign. Paul's controversial approach, the authors assert, was essential in changing American attitudes toward suffrage.

The Necessary Art of Persuasion

Author: Jay A. Conger
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1633691020
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 81

Book Description
In an age when managers can no longer rely on formal power, persuading people is more important than ever. Persuasion is a process of learning from colleagues and employees and negotiating shared solutions to solving problems and achieving goals. In The Necessary Art of Persuasion, Jay Conger describes four essential components of persuasion and explains how to master them, providing the information you need to fulfill your managerial mandate: getting work done through others.