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Look at Me!

The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death

By: Orville Gilbert Brim

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Look at Me!

The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death

By: Orville Gilbert Brim

Four million adults in the United States say that becoming famous is the most important goal in their lives. In any random sampling of one hundred American adults, two will have fame as their consuming desire. What motivates those who set fame as their priority, where did the desire come from, how does the pursuit of fame influence their lives, and how is it expressed? Based on the research of Orville Gilbert Brim, award-winning scholar in the field of child and human development, Look at Me! answers those questions. Look at Me! examines the desire to be famous in people of all ages, backgrounds, and social status and how succeeding or failing affects their lives and their personalities. It explores the implications of the pursuit of fame throughout a person's lifetime, covering the nature of the desire; fame, money, and power; the sources of fame; how people find a path to fame; the kinds of recognition sought; creating an audience; making fame last; and the resulting, often damaged, life of the fame-seeker. In our current age of celebrity fixation and reality television, Brim gives us a social-psychological perspective on the origins of this pervasive desire for fame and its effects on our lives. "Look at Me! is a fascinating in-depth study of society's obsession with fame. If you ever wondered what it's like to be famous, why fame comes to some and is sought by others, it's all here . . ." ---Jeffrey L. Bewkes, Chairman and CEO, Time Warner "In a voice filled with wisdom and insight, daring and self-reflection, Orville Brim masterfully traces the developmental origins and trajectory of fame. Look at Me! lets us see---with new eyes---the cultural priorities and obsessions that feed our individual hunger and appetites. A rare and rewarding book." ---Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University and author of Respect and The Third Chapter Orville Gilbert Brim has had a long and distinguished career. He is the former director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, former president of the Foundation for Child Development, former president of the Russell Sage Foundation, and author and coauthor of more than a dozen books about human development, intelligence, ambition, and personality. Cover image ©iStockphoto.com/susib

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University of Michigan Press

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0472026577

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Look at Me!

The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death

By: Orville Gilbert Brim

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Constancy and Change in Human Development

By: Orville Gilbert Brim (Jr.)

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Constancy and Change in Human Development

By: Orville Gilbert Brim (Jr.)

How malleable is human nature? Can an individual really change in meaningful ways? Or, are there immutable limits on the possibilities of human growth set in place by genes and early childhood experiences? These questions touch our deepest political and personal concerns, and have long been a matter of fierce debate in the behavioral sciences.

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784

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Harvard University Press

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0674166256

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9780674166257

The Dying Patient

By: Orville G. Brim Jr.,Howard E. Freeman,Sol Levine,Norman A. Scotch

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The Dying Patient

By: Orville G. Brim Jr.,Howard E. Freeman,Sol Levine,Norman A. Scotch

Recommended for the provocative questions it raises concerning the effect on the patient of the structure of medical care, concerning the important decisions regarding policy facing the medical profession, the hospital administrator, and the public, and for the discussions of legal and economic dimensions which are frequently forgotten by personnel working directly with the patient." - Edmund C. Payne, Psychiatry in Medicine. The fourteen original articles in The Dying Patient examine the problems of dying and medical conduct from the perspectives of sociology, economics, medicine, and the law.

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355

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Routledge

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1000679632

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Learning to be Parents

Principles, Programs, and Methods

By: David Harman,Orville Gilbert Brim

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Learning to be Parents

Principles, Programs, and Methods

By: David Harman,Orville Gilbert Brim

This is the book I have been waiting for since first reading Volume 2 of the Plowden Report in 1972. In its comprehensive survey and analysis it covers the aims of parent education, its assumptions, structures, techniques, methods, clients, and includes some very useful statistical data, results and evaluation. The authors quote from over 450 sources. Their arguments are carefully qualified and deployed with economy....It is the definitive work on the subject and will last ten years.' -- Adult Education, December 1982

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SAGE Publications, Incorporated

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0803912722

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9780803912724

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