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Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 is a 1984 book about the effectiveness of welfare state policies in the United States between 1950 and 1980 by the political scientist Charles Murray. [2] Both its policy proposals and its methodology have attracted significant controversy. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The Orwell Archive at University College London contains undated notes about ideas that evolved into Nineteen Eighty-Four.The notebooks have been deemed "unlikely to have been completed later than January 1944", and "there is a strong suspicion that some of the material in them dates back to the early part of the war".
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism is a fictional book in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (written in 1949). The fictional book was supposedly written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the principal enemy of the state of Oceania's ruling party (The Party).
The Evolution of Cooperation is a 1984 book written by political scientist Robert Axelrod [1] that expands upon a paper of the same name written by Axelrod and evolutionary biologist W.D. Hamilton. [2] The article's summary addresses the issue in terms of "cooperation in organisms, whether bacteria or primates". [2]
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab–Jewish Conflict over Palestine is a 1984 book by Joan Peters, published by Harper & Row, [1] about the demographics of the Arab population of Palestine and of the Jewish population of the Arab world before and after the formation of the State of Israel.
The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? is a 1984 book written by British sociologist Eileen Barker. The book describes the religious conversion process to the Unification Church, whose members are sometimes informally referred to as "Moonies". Barker spent close to seven years studying Unification Church members.
Reasons and Persons is a 1984 book by the philosopher Derek Parfit, in which the author discusses ethics, rationality and personal identity. It is divided into four parts, dedicated to self-defeating theories, rationality and time, personal identity and responsibility toward future generations .
Cialdini wrote the 1984 book on persuasion and marketing, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.It was based on three "undercover" years applying for and training at used car dealerships, fund-raising organizations, and telemarketing firms to observe real-life situations of persuasion.