Monroe Eisenberg's Books

The Heart of Altruism

Perceptions of a Common Humanity

By: Kristen Renwick Monroe

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The Heart of Altruism

Perceptions of a Common Humanity

By: Kristen Renwick Monroe

Is all human behavior based on self-interest? Many social and biological theories would argue so, but such a perspective does not explain the many truly heroic acts committed by people willing to risk their lives to help others. Kristen Monroe boldly lays the groundwork for a social theory toward altruism by examining the experiences described by altruists themselves.

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Princeton University Press

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0691058474

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9780691058474

Growing Up to Be Violent

A Longitudinal Study of the Development of Aggression

By: Monroe M. Lefkowitz,Leonard D. Eron,Leopold O. Walder

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Growing Up to Be Violent

A Longitudinal Study of the Development of Aggression

By: Monroe M. Lefkowitz,Leonard D. Eron,Leopold O. Walder

Growing Up to be Violent: A Longitudinal Study of the Development of Aggression deals with the study of psychosocial development concerning aggressive behavior in third-grade schoolchildren and their upbringing. The design of the study is longitudinal—a follow-up research has been made when the children reached the twelfth grade. The book explains that certain child-rearing practices and some environmental factors can be predictors of aggressive behavior during young adulthood. The text also reviews the various theories of aggression including the theory of innate aggressiveness and the social learning of aggression. The book discusses the roots of aggression, the four classes of environmental variables (instigators, punishment, identification, sociocultural variables), as well as, sex differences and perinatal complications in aggression. The book addresses the effects of television in the development of aggressive behavior: that television can incite aggression and present certain ways of practicing aggressiveness. The book points that young adults who were intelligent, popular and polite as young children have positive social position as young adults. This book can prove insightful for psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioral scientists, child educators, students or professors in psychology, and for parents of young children.

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Elsevier

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148318174X

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9781483181745

When Conscience Calls

Moral Courage in Times of Confusion and Despair

By: Kristen Renwick Monroe

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When Conscience Calls

Moral Courage in Times of Confusion and Despair

By: Kristen Renwick Monroe

This is a book about moral choice and courage. It is not, however, an abstract work of moral philosophy or psychology. Rather it is an exploration of the choices made by real individuals faced by moral quandaries. Monroe and her students interviewed people who faced moral dilemmas to see what motivated them to make difficult moral choices. These ranged from public officials dealing with issues of honesty and equity in public policy, to individuals facing private difficulties as well as people who choose to focus their lives helping those in need. What explains a courageous choice? Monroe argues that moral courage comes from one's understanding of their identity. As she found in her previous work on rescuers of Jews during the holocaust, the people she interviews in this book felt that they had no choice but to take a courageous stand. Monroe explores how this identity develops through the life stories of these individuals"--

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University of Chicago Press

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022682909X

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9780226829098

Savage Appetites

True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

By: Rachel Monroe

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Savage Appetites

True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

By: Rachel Monroe

A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession. In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession. From a frustrated and brilliant heiress crafting crime-scene dollhouses to a young woman who became part of a Manson victim’s family, from a landscape architect in love with a convicted murderer to a Columbine fangirl who planned her own mass shooting, these women are alternately mesmerizing, horrifying, and sympathetic. A revealing study of women’s complicated relationship with true crime and the fear and desire it can inspire, together these stories provide a window into why many women are drawn to crime narratives—even as they also recoil from them. Monroe uses these four cases to trace the history of American crime through the growth of forensic science, the evolving role of victims, the Satanic Panic, the rise of online detectives, and the long shadow of the Columbine shooting. Combining personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological examination of violence and media in the 20th and 21st centuries, Savage Appetites is a “corrective to the genre it interrogates” (The New Statesman), scrupulously exploring empathy, justice, and the persistent appeal of crime.

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288

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Scribner

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1501188895

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9781501188893

Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide

Identity and Moral Choice

By: Kristen Renwick Monroe

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Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide

Identity and Moral Choice

By: Kristen Renwick Monroe

The significance of identity and psychology in determining moral choice What causes genocide? Why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted? Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide analyzes riveting interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to lay bare critical psychological forces operating during genocide. Monroe's insightful examination of these moving—and disturbing—interviews underscores the significance of identity for moral choice. Monroe finds that self-image and identity—especially the sense of self in relation to others—determine and delineate our choice options, not just morally but cognitively. She introduces the concept of moral salience to explain how we establish a critical psychological relationship with others, classifying individuals in need as "people just like us" or reducing them to strangers perceived as different, threatening, or even beyond the boundaries of our concern. Monroe explicates the psychological dehumanization that is a prerequisite for genocide and uses her knowledge of human behavior during the Holocaust to develop a broader theory of moral choice, one applicable to other forms of ethnic, religious, racial, and sectarian prejudice, aggression, and violence. Her book fills a long-standing void in ethics and suggests that identity is more fundamental than reasoning in our treatment of others.

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452

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Princeton University Press

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1400840368

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9781400840366

The Political Process and Economic Change

By: Bruno S. Frey,Kristen R. Monroe

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The Political Process and Economic Change

By: Bruno S. Frey,Kristen R. Monroe

In this book, 10 international scholars examine the complex relationship between the economy and the polity from a scientific rather than an ideological point of view. In so doing, they present an overview of the exciting new work now being done, the main ideas and controversies now prevalent, and the new approaches to the study of political economy now being pursued.

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254

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Algora Publishing

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087586273X

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9780875862736

Shattered Mirrors

Our Search for Identity and Community in the AIDS Era

By: Monroe E. Price

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Shattered Mirrors

Our Search for Identity and Community in the AIDS Era

By: Monroe E. Price

AIDS is precipitating a fundamental re-examination of societal attitudes toward not only intimacy, but the way we think about ourselves, others, and government. This slim volume by the Dean of the School of Law at Yeshiva University raises well-reasoned questions on the broad ramifications of these changes. "As AIDS in its second decade becomes more and more a matter of class and race,'' Price says, a careful balance must be maintained between the individual, the church, and the state in areas of media, education, medicine, sexuality, privacy, and discrimination. We should prepare, however, for the likelihood of greater governmental intervention to preserve individual rights.

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180

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Harvard University Press

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0674805909

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9780674805903

Science, Ethics, and Politics

Conversations and Investigations

By: Kristen Renwick Monroe

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Science, Ethics, and Politics

Conversations and Investigations

By: Kristen Renwick Monroe

The relationship between science and ethics has been subject to much debate. This volume demonstrates the mutually beneficial relationship that can take place between ethics and science. It presents work that utilises the tools of science - broadly conceptualised - to elucidate ethical issues, showing that careful scientific analysis of ethical issues can reveal new insights. This is supplemented by conversations with the authors - some of them pre-eminent scientists addressing issues of ethics, including two Nobel laureates - to learn how they came to the study of ethics and ask how they conceptualise and think about ethical issues. Science, Ethics and Politics provides substantive insight into particular ethical issues, ranging from issues of torture during war to parents' obligations to children. This book is designed as a complement to traditional texts on ethics and should appeal to students of ethics as well as to the general public.

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263

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Routledge

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131725242X

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9781317252429

Unspeakable Acts

True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

By: Sarah Weinman

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Unspeakable Acts

True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

By: Sarah Weinman

A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I'll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Country, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable. Acclaimed author ofThe Real Lolitaand editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. Michelle Dean's "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick" went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV showThe Act and Pamela Colloff's "The Reckoning," is the gold standard for forensic journalism. There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader.

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416

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Ecco

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0062839888

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9780062839886

Fragments

Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

By: Marilyn Monroe

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Fragments

Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

By: Marilyn Monroe

Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe's humanity. Marilyn's image is so universal that we can't help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety—and by the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her. Beyond the headlines—and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation—was a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Now, for the first time, readers can meet the private Marilyn and understand her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts—notes to herself, letters, even poems—in Marilyn's own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. Jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, these texts reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny, and impossibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive lightness that made her performances indelible emerge on the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last appearances so affecting.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429988401

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9781429988407

Fragments

Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

By: Marilyn Monroe

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Fragments

Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

By: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe's image is so universal that we can't help but believe that we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety -- and the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her. But what of the other Marilyn? Beyond the headlines -- and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation -- was a woman far more curious, searching and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Even as Hollywood studios tried to mold and suppress her, Marilyn never lost her insight, her passion, and her humour. To confront the mounting difficulties of her life, she wrote. Now, for the first time, we can meet this private Marilyn and get to know her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts -- notes to herself, letters, even poems -- in Marilyn's own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. These bits of text--jotted in notebooks, typed on paper or written on hotel letterhead -- reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny and impossibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive lightness that made her performances so memorable emerge on the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last appearances so heartbreaking. Fragments is an event -- an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest stars of the twentieth century and which, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe's humanity.

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1443402680

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9781443402682

Marilyn

Her Life in Her Own Words : Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Photographs

By: Marilyn Monroe,George Barris

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Her Life in Her Own Words : Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Photographs

By: Marilyn Monroe,George Barris

Fulfilling Marilyn Monroe's dream of putting together a picture book-autobiography, the author, a personal friend of Marilyn's, provides a fascinating glimpse into her life, in this stunning tribute to one of America's most beloved celebrities, who would have been seventy-five years old on June 1, 2001. Reprint.

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188

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Citadel Press

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0806524537

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9780806524535

Marilyn Monroe

A Never-ending Dream

By: Guus Luijters

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Marilyn Monroe

A Never-ending Dream

By: Guus Luijters

Uitspraken van de Amerikaanse filmactrice (1926-1962), geïllustreerd met bijpassende foto's.

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0859651703

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9780859651707

Marilyn Monroe

In Her Own Words

By: Marilyn Monroe,Guus Luijters

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In Her Own Words

By: Marilyn Monroe,Guus Luijters

A compilation of both well-known and lesser-known quotes from Marilyn Monroe on youth, men, sex, stardom, Hollywood, marriage and more.

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Ominibus Press

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0711923027

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9780711923027

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The Heart of Altruism

The Heart of Altruism

Growing Up to Be Violent

Growing Up to Be Violent

When Conscience Calls

When Conscience Calls

Savage Appetites

Savage Appetites

Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide

Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide

The Political Process and Economic Change

The Political Process and Economic Change

Shattered Mirrors

Shattered Mirrors

Science, Ethics, and Politics

Science, Ethics, and Politics

Unspeakable Acts

Unspeakable Acts

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