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How gossip can help your work and social life
Gossip can be traced back to the origins of language. Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar even argues that language evolved to enable people to gossip. From its earliest form to today, gossip has …
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
Did mankind evolve unusually large brains simply in order to gossip? Primates differ from other animals by the intensity of their social relationships, by the amount of time they spend grooming one another. Not just a matter of hygiene, grooming is all about cementing bonds, making friends and influencing your fellow ape. Early humans, in…
The Virtues of Our Vices
The hidden value of some of our everyday vices Are there times when it’s right to be rude? Can we distinguish between good and bad gossip? Am I a snob if I think that NPR listeners are likely to be better informed than devotees of Fox News? Does sick humor do anyone any good? Can…
Don't Gossip in the Teachers' Lounge
This book is vital for new teachers! Most of the tips in this book are not taught in education classes in college, but are learned through trial and error and only after years of experience. This book will help the new teacher learn the inter-workings of school relationships, acquire classroom management strategies, learn effective parent…
THE FROTH OF LONDON LIFE; EPHEMERAL DIVERSION IN PRINT. THE CANARD OF THE ROYAL NOSES–SOCIETY JOURNALS AND THEIR TRICKS–SOME NEW NOVELS–"OUIDA'S" LATEST EFFORT–THE NEWEST LIBEL SUIT. JOURNALISTIC GOSSIP. NEW NOVELS. A SOCIETY SCANDAL AND LIBEL.
THE FROTH OF LONDON LIFE; EPHEMERAL DIVERSION IN PRINT. THE CANARD OF THE ROYAL NOSES–SOCIETY JOURNALS AND THEIR TRICKS–SOME NEW NOVELS–“OUIDA’S” LATEST EFFORT–THE NEWEST LIBEL SUIT. JOURNALISTIC GOSSIP. NEW NOVELS. A SOCIETY SCANDAL AND LIBEL.
Body Gossip
Everybody’s body has a story to tell. Whether it’s about trying to be a size zero, blooming in pregnancy, slowing down in old age or living through the angsty days of puberty, each body is unique and its story should be celebrated. This book is a compilation of body stories. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“8-UzLgEACAAJ”, 500,400);
Exposed
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It applies ethnological perspectives to empirical materials from a Swedish context to highlight the existential level of the phenomenon. How does it feel to be exposed through scandalisation? How does such an experience affect a person’s everyday life? These are…
Connecticut’s recent celebrity gossip and sightings, April 2023
Celebrity comedian Stephen Colbert was seen on April 21 cooking pizza at Yorkside Pizza and Restaurant. Colbert spun dough and loaded pizzas into the oven and was awarded the “Employee of the Month” …
Just Talk
“A very carefully thought out and also a very innovative piece of work . . . the book will have an appreciative readership among Melanesian specialists, students of political anthropology, and sociolinguists.”—Andrew Strathern, University of Pittsburgh