Society

Facebook Attracts Middle-Aged And Older Users
by eNotAlone.com
New numbers from an online marketing firm iStrategy Labs indicate that more middle-aged and older people now make up the biggest group using the social networking giant Facebook.

Americans Prefer Media That Shares Their Views
by eNotAlone.com
Americans spend more time reading political articles that tend to agree with the opinions they hold rather than the ones that challenge their views, say U.S. experts. The study found that individuals spent 36 per cent more time reading articles that agree

Americans Prefer Video Games To Movies
by eNotAlone.com
A new study by market research firm NPD Group claims that Americans these days prefer to play video games at home rather than to take a trip to the local movie theater. According to the latest survey, 53 per cent of individuals in the United States have

Why French Women Are The Slimmest In Europe?
by eNotAlone.com
A report by the National Institute of Demographic Studies in France has revealed that French women, who are the slimmest in Europe, consider themselves as fat, while British ladies, who are the most overweight - are the most comfortable with their size.

Demand For Natural And Green Products On A Rise
by eNotAlone.com
According to the 2009 BBMG Conscious Consumer Report: Redefining Value in a New Economy, in the current times of economic crisis and global recession consumers are more likely to prefer eco-friendly food, beauty and household-cleaning products.

Media Advertising Still Works For Consumers
by eNotAlone.com
During the time of worst economic recession since 1930s, a study by market researcher Yankelovich and the Television Bureau of Advertising, found that media advertising still has an influence on how the consumers spend their money.

Facebook Active Users Have Lower GPA
by eNotAlone.com
If a survey of college students is to be believed, then we have to blame Facebook for significantly lower GPA (grade point averages) in young people who regularly use this social networking Web site.

Twitter And Facebook Make Us Immoral?
by eNotAlone.com
Social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook can have a negative influence on people's moral values and can make them indifferent to human suffering, according to a new report by the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern

Western Music Affects People Worldwide
by eNotAlone.com
New scientific evidence suggests that three basic emotions that evoke after listening to Western music, affect people all over the globe, regardless of their religion, culture or habits.

TV Dominates The Lives Of American Adults
by eNotAlone.com
According to a group of the TV industry's leading researchers funded by the Nielsen Company, American adults spend, on average, 8 hours a day in front of all kinds of screens - TV, computer monitors, cell phones and other devices.

Shopping Addiction
by eNotAlone.com
For many people shopping is considered to be one of the favorite pastimes. For most of them it is just buying some new clothes or presents for close people. But there is another category for whom shopping is much more than just enjoyable pastime

Part 1
Madness and Civilization; A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault has achieved something truly creative in this book on the history of madness during the so-called classical age: the end of the sixteenth and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Part 1
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
by Alex Kotlowitz
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.

Part 1
The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream
by John Zogby
According to super pollster John Zogby, whom The Washington Post calls the maverick predictor, the conventional wisdom about the United States-that we're isolated from the world, politically fragmented, and inclined toward material pleasure-isn't just

Introduction
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
by Bill Clinton
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations - and by individuals

The Revenge of the Radcons; Wealth and Power
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
by Robert B. Reich, Ph.D.
For anyone who believes that liberal isn't a dirty word but a term of honor, this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason, one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical

Defining Bohemia; a Diagnosis
Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge
by Laren Stover
Bohemianism is a way of life, a state of mind, an atmosphere. It is not a trend, it's a timeless movement. It is about living beyond convention. Bohemian Manifesto explores and joyfully celebrates the creativity, the originality, and the splendor

The $200 Billion Colossus
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
by Dr. Marcia Angell
The American pharmaceutical industry needs to be saved, mainly from itself, and Dr. Angell proposes a program of vital reforms, which includes restoring impartiality to clinical research and severing the ties between drug companies and medical education.

Are you a cultural creative?
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
by Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.
Do you dislike all the emphasis in modern culture on success and 'making it,' on getting and spending, on wealth and luxury goods? Do you care deeply about the destruction of the environment and would pay higher taxes or prices to clean it up and to stop

The Opening
Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women
by Alexa Albert, M.D.
When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study as the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result.