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    Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World
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    Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World

    By Tina Rosenberg

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    In the style of Nudge or The Spirit Level - a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world. Tina Rosenberg has spent her career tackling some of the world's hardest problems. The Haunted Land, her searing book on how Eastern Europe faced the crimes of Communism, was awarded both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in the US. In Join the Club, she identifies a brewing social revolution that is changing the way people live, based on harnessing the positive force of peer pressure. Her stories of peer power in action show how it has reduced teen smoking in the United States, made villages in India healthier and more prosperous, helped minority students get top grades in college calculus, and even led to the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. She tells how creative social entrepreneurs are starting to use peer pressure to accomplish goals as personal as losing weight and as global as fighting terrorism. Inspiring and engrossing, Join the Club explains how we can better our world through humanity's most powerful and abundant resource: our connections with one another.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIcon Books
    Release dateApr 8, 2011
    ISBN9781848313361
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    Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World
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    Tina Rosenberg

    Leaving behind careers in nursing, art historical research, and parent education, award-winning author, Tina Rosenberg has turned to her love of writing fiction. Her debut novel was inspired by a visit to Scotland’s Glenapp Castle Hotel in 2004. Tina lives with her husband on Mount Desert Island, Maine.

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    • 4/5
      Interesting book about how social groups affect society - for worse or better - with surprising results. Makes one think about how to apply these techniques to one's own life.
    • 3/5
      I thought the title seemed a bit overreaching when I first read about this book, but I was hopeful. Wouldn’t it be lovely to discover that something as simple as peer pressure could actually transform the world?Of course, as I had anticipated, the title was too good to be true. Rosenberg offers up story after story of ways that peer pressure is working to improve the world. Reducing rates of smoking. Cutting AIDS levels. Improving calculus scores in African-American men. Improving rates of infant mortality. All happy stories.A good book, yes. A cure-all? No.I suppose by now I should approach any book that offers quick fixes with skepticism instead of starry-eyed eagerness. As should we all. Still one can always dream….