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"Based on an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, the fascinating results of an important nationwide conversation about guns: Can complete strangers representing every point along the political divide engage in civil and productive discourse on the topic of gun control?"--

"From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events-and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses. Stories people tell-about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin-can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril-and how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behavior-what he calls "narrative economics"-may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics. In a new preface, Shiller reflects on the major challenges facing narrative economics."

1 Current research on human rights education globally.- 2 A review of human rights education in higher education.- 3 Insights from students on human rights education in India, South Africa, Sweden and the United States.- 4 The state of HRE in higher education worldwide.- 5 Human rights education as a link to the counterbalance strategy of the Sanctuary Cities against federal immigration programs in the USA.- 6 The promises and challenges of human rights cities.- 7 HRE in the era of global aging: The human rights of older persons in contemporary Europe.- 8 Human rights as an instrument of social cohesion in South Asia.- 9 Evaluating research on human rights education globally.

The burning man of Tunisia -- The universal political animal -- What economics can and cannot predict -- The invention of the political litmus test -- Unearthing the three roots of political orientation -- Tribalism on the political spectrum -- Ethnocentrism vs. xenophilia -- Religiosity vs. secularism -- Attitudes toward sexuality, homosexuality, and gender roles -- The biology of tribalism -- When outbreeding is fit and inbreeding isn't -- When inbreeding is fit and outbreeding isn't -- How optimal mating happens -- Why gender inequality and fertility change across human history -- The biology of war and genocide -- Do we live in a just world? -- Attitudes toward inequality and authority in society -- Attitudes toward inequality and authority within the family -- The biology of family conflict -- Why sibling conflict occurs and polarizes political personalities -- Are people by nature cooperative or competitive? -- Sages through the ages -- Do perceptions of human nature change as we age? -- Illuminating our true human nature -- The conservative altruism : kin-selection -- The liberal altruism : reciprocity -- Altruism across the lifespan : the neurological development of -- Cynicism -- The altruism that isn't : self-deception among people and -- Politicians -- The enigmatic altruism of heroic rescuers.

This multiauthor collection of essays analyzes Russia's Great War and Revolution from the perspective of the Central Powers and their encounters with Russia and the Revolution. The peoples of the Central Powers, from elites to civilians, understood the violent clash of armies in a variety of ways. Essays highlight the variety of military and civilian experiences and deal with topics of how soldiers, civilians, and intellectuals perceived Russia and how these understandings translated into security goals, utopian plans for conquered territories, and interethnic violence