The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession

Daniel Beer. Renovating Russia: The Huma

Daniel Beer. Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 248 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4627-6. Henry A. Murray. Explorations in Personality (70th Anniversary ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 816 pp. $98.50 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530506-7. Ken Alder. The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession. New York: Free Press, 2007. 337 pp. $27.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 0-7432-5988-2. John C. Malone. Psychology: Pythagoras to Present. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 568 pp. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01296-6

📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 36 KB 👁 1 views

In this book, Daniel Beer, Lecturer in Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London, examines the use of medical and scientific theories of degeneration, particularly that of Bénédict Augustin Morel, by liberal professionals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and criminology

The Truth Machine: A Social History of the Lie Detector

✍ Bunn, Geoffrey C 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Johns Hopkins University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

How do you trap someone in a lie? For centuries, all manner of truth-seekers have used the lie detector. In this eye-opening book, Geoffrey C. Bunn unpacks the history of this device and explores the interesting and often surprising connection between technology and popular culture. Lie detectors a

The Power of Gold- The History of an Obs

The Power of Gold- The History of an Obsession

✍ Bernstein, Peter L 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession

✍ Bernstein, Peter L 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Wiley & Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 4 MB

"[T]he quest for gold" has been "gluttonous," says Bernstein, tracing the metal's impact on human myth and history: gold has inspired art, battles, conquests and discoveries, including Columbus's trip to the New World, where he hoped to secure enough gold to buy back the Holy Sepulcher from the Musl

The Power of Gold: The History of an Obs

The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession

✍ Bernstein, Peter L 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Wiley & Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

"[T]he quest for gold" has been "gluttonous," says Bernstein, tracing the metal's impact on human myth and history: gold has inspired art, battles, conquests and discoveries, including Columbus's trip to the New World, where he hoped to secure enough gold to buy back the Holy Sepulcher from the Musl

The Power of Gold: The History of an Obs

The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession

✍ Bernstein, Peter L 📂 Fiction 📅 2000 🏛 Wiley 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

### Amazon.com Review In the first chapter of his book *The Power of Gold*, Peter Bernstein quotes the immortal words of King Ferdinand of Spain, who once declared: "Get gold, humanely if possible, but at all hazards--get gold." As ensuing chapters reveal, man's obsession with finding, keeping, sel