Nasty People

Author: Jay Carter
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071435859
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Fourteen years since its first publication, the bestsellerNasty People has been revised and updated to cover the motivations of nasty people, how to avoid confrontation with a nasty boss, how to handle a nasty spouse, and much more, including: How to break the cycle of nastiness A new understanding of personality disorders and depression Narcissism, nasty behavior, and self-doubt Nasty people and self-validation The role adrenaline plays in nasty behavior and our responses to it. Everyone knows a person who has been hurt, betrayed, or degraded by nasty individuals or has experienced it themselves. In three books, Jay Carter, Psy. D., shows readers how to stop this cycle of overt and covert abuse, without resorting to nasty tactics. Now for the first time, this series is released together to cover all areas of dealing with difficult people. With straight-talking advice, real-life anecdotes, and psychology that makes sense, Carter explains how to handle and stop painful behavior that harms both the perpetrator and the victim.

Bloody Nasty People

Author: Daniel Trilling
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844679608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
The past decade in the UK saw the rise of the British National Party, the country’s most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, ‘enforced multiculturalism’ and benefit ‘scroungers’, these groups have been working overtime to shift the blame for the nation’s ills onto the shoulders of the vulnerable. What does this extremist resurgence say about the state of modern Britain? Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews with key figures, such as BNP leader Nick Griffin, Daniel Trilling shows how previously marginal characters from a tiny neo-Nazi subculture successfully exploited tensions exacerbated by the fear of immigration, the War on Terror and steepening economic inequality. Mainstream politicians have consistently underestimated the far right in Britain while pursuing policies that give it the space to grow. Bloody Nasty People calls time on this complacency in an account that provides us with fresh insights into the dynamics of political extremism.

Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People

Author: Richard J. Perry
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421417529
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
Misunderstood—or deliberately twisted—biological science leads to overheated rhetoric and bad policy. We like to think that science always illuminates. But the disturbing persistence of the concept of biological determinism—the false idea that human behavior is genetically fixed or inherently programmed and therefore is not susceptible to rapid change—shows that scientific research and concepts can be distorted to advance an inhumane and sometimes deadly political agenda. It was biological determinism that formed the basis of the theory of eugenics, which in turn led to the forced sterilization of “misfits” and the creation of Nazi death camps. In Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People, anthropologist Richard J. Perry delivers a scathing critique of determinism. Exploring the historical context and enduring popularity of the movement over the past century and a half, he debunks the facile and the reductionist thinking of so many popularizers of biological determinism while considering why biological explanations have resonated in ways that serve to justify deeply conservative points of view. Moving through time, from the prevalence of overt racism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to “human nature” arguments, from the rise of sociobiology in the 1970s to the current fixation on evolutionary psychology, the book argues that both history and cross-cultural studies amply demonstrate the human capacity for growth and self-determination. Clearly written, conversational, and rationally argued, this book promotes sound and careful research while skewering the bogus ideological assertions that have been used to justify colonialism, slavery, gender discrimination, neoliberal economic policies, and the general status quo.

Taking the Bully by the Horns

Author: Kathy Noll
Publisher: Unicorn Press (PA)
ISBN: 9780937004111
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Explores different ways children and teenagers are bullied (both mentally and physically), how the bully becomes a bully, how the victim becomes a victim, and what can be done about it.

Nasty Men

Author: Jay Carter
Publisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780071417761
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Do you know a nasty man? Someone who always puts you down in front of others? Who constantly reminds you of your shortcomings? Lies to you? Most of us, at some point, have been hurt, betrayed, or degraded by a nasty man. Now Jay Carter, Psy.D., bestselling author of Nasty People shows readers how to put a stop once and for all to this cycle of overt and covert abuse without resorting to nasty tactics themselves. With straight-talking advice and real-life anecdotes, Carter explains how to handle a whole cast of nasty characters including: The Verbal Batterer - who uses your own intimate secrets as ammunition to attack your self-esteem The Don Juan - whose charming attentiveness conceals a chronically deceitful personality The Liar - who says one thing in front of you but something else behind your back The Cro-Magnon Man - whose uncaring attitude turns your relationship into a battleground Carter shows you just what to do when these nasty men try to use guilt, manipulation, and reason to get their way. He also helps differentiate between truly nasty behavior from the plain, everyday frustrations that arise between men and women. You'll learn how to tell if a man is lying to you, s

Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People

Author: Richard J. Perry
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421417510
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
In Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People, anthropologist Richard J. Perry delivers a scathing critique of determinism. Exploring the historical context and enduring popularity of the movement over the past century and a half, he debunks the facile and the reductionist thinking of so many popularizers of biological determinism while considering why biological explanations have resonated in ways that serve to justify deeply conservative points of view.

Nasty People

Author: Jay Carter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Control (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
Discusses nasty people--people who bring themselves up by putting others down. Talks about how nasty people think, the nasty boss, husband or wife, the typical victim, what to do if you think you might be a nasty person and how to break the cycle of nastiness.

The Civility Solution

Author: P. M. Forni
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429945575
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 141

Book Description
The acclaimed author of The Choosing Civility returns to the subject of common decency and thoughtful behavior. Many of us find ourselves confronted with rudeness every day and don't know how to respond. From the intrusive cell-phone user who holds loud conversations in public to the hostile highway driver who cuts one off with a quick swerve of his car, politeness seems to be on a downward spiral, surprising us at every turn. P.M. Forni, the author of Choosing Civility, has the answer. He knows that rudeness begets rudeness and, in The Civility Solution, shows us what to do when confronted with bad behavior by being assertive as well as civil. In more than one hundred different situations, he shows us how to break the rudeness cycle by responding to a variety of confrontations from bullying to rude internet behavior or the hurtful words of an insensitive family member. How would you respond to the following? ...A salesperson ignores your requests ...A fellow driver gives you the infamous "finger" ...Your child's playmate misbehaves ...Your boss publicly reprimands you P. M. Forni has solutions for all of these and many more. In yet another simple and practical handbook, P. M. Forni presents logical solutions that reinforce good behavior and make our world a more civil place.

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

Author: Kathleen M. Brown
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518

Book Description
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, along with making slavery hereditary through the mother, contributed to the cultural shift whereby women of African descent assumed from lower-class English women both the burden of fieldwork and the stigma of moral corruption. Brown's analysis extends through Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, an important juncture in consolidating the colony's white male public culture, and into the eighteenth century. She demonstrates that, despite elite planters' dominance, wives, children, free people of color, and enslaved men and women continued to influence the meaning of race and class in colonial Virginia.

Hyena

Author: Jude Angelini
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476789304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Hyena is a collection of autobiographical stories by Jude Angelini, which takes the reader on his journey of heartbreak, depravity, and hilarity, deftly moving between his adult life and his childhood growing up in a factory town outside of Detroit. Each story is told with brutal honesty, yet maintains a gallows humor that will leave you shaking your head in disbelief. Jude is one of the top hip-hop radio hosts on Sirius Satellite radio. His self-published, print-on-demand edition of Hyena has been an indie bestseller, despite having no ebook or physical distribution. Its exploration of drugs, sex, and the human condition compares to Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Artie Lange, and Jim Norton. It also captures the hardscrabble culture, language, and landscape of post-industrial Detroit, from which came some of pop culture's most compelling artists.