Alison Winter

Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain

Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain

Managing Investment Firms: People and Culture

Investment professionals face significant challenges from the ''technical'' side of the business--a plethora of asset classes, for example--but the ''people'' side of the business remains critical to firm success. This proceedings explores the authors unique experiences and opinions to provide answe...

AEIOU Islands: A Book About Long and Short Vowels

AEIOU Islands is an educational book about telling the difference between long and short vowels. The students in Mrs. Wiggin's class take a field trip to the AEIOU Islands and visit the long and short cities on each island. Each city has a specific vowel sound for the students to relate to. One exam...

Memory: Fragments of a Modern History

Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you’re remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gon...

Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain

Across Victorian Britain, apparently reasonable people twisted into bizarre postures, called out in unknown languages, and placidly bore assaults that should have caused unbearable pain all while they were mesmerized. Alison Winter's fascinating cultural history traces the history of mesmerism in Vi...