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Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought
In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all w ...Show more
Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought
Updated edition. Now includes the complete text of Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie. Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and asked a co ...Show more
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by JON RONSON
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Category: Social Thought
UPDATED EDITION INCLUDING TWO EXTRA STORIES Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and asked a conscious robot if she's got a soul. Fascinated by madne ...Show more
Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought
A collection of Jon's newspaper features, reworked and with new material, with a common theme: the ways in which people get themselves into wholly irrational bubbles, within which all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense. In Jon's previous two books, Them and The Men Who Stare at Goats, the nuttiness to ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
In 2012, Jon Ronson's online identity was stolen. Jon publicly confronted the imposters, a trio of academics who had created a Jon Ronson Twitter bot obsessed by unlikely food combinations and weird sex. At first, Jon was delighted to find strangers all over the world uniting to support him in his outra ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' The rise of social media has seen a great renaissance in public shaming. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doin ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.'It's about the terror, isn't it?''The terror of what?' I said.'The terror of being found out.'For the past three years, Jon Ronson h ...Show more
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: 16
American military paranoia at its most extreme, insane, amusing -- and alarming Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners-of-war with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? And why have 100 de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? ...Show more
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
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Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the US Army. Defying all known military practice -- and indeed the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. They were the Fir ...Show more
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: good
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness.Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including ...Show more
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Picador Collection
The Sunday Times bestseller - now with a new introdution and part of the Picador Collection'The belly laughs come thick and fast' - The Observer_____What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the worl ...Show more
Them: Adventures with Extremists: Picador Classic by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Russell Brand What if a tiny, shadow elite rule the world from a secret room? My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did. What ...Show more