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The History of Sexuality
The History of Sexuality (Histoire de la sexualité) is Michel Foucault's four-volume genealogy of Western sexuality: The Will to Knowledge (1976), The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self (1984), and the posthumous Confessions of the Flesh (2018), attacking the repressive hypothesis.
The Interpretation of Dreams
Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams), Freud's 1900 book founding psychoanalysis: dreams as disguised wish fulfillments, manifest versus latent content, the dream-work, and its scientific criticism.
The Joy of Sex
The Joy of Sex (Cordon Bleu Sex) is Alex Comfort's 1972 illustrated sex manual, cookbook-structured, about 12 million copies sold, revised by Susan Quilliam in 2008, and source of The Joy of Gay Sex.
The Kallikak Family
The Kallikak Family (1912) is Henry H. Goddard's eugenic study of a pseudonymous New Jersey family, actually Emma Wolverton's, claiming hereditary feeblemindedness; its genealogy, including the barmaid ancestor, was later shown to be fabricated.
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
Miller's 1956 Psychological Review paper 'The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two' arguing human information processing is limited to about 7±2 chunks; Cowan (2001) later revised the short-term memory limit to about four.
The Man
The Man is American slang first recorded in 1918 for a boss figure, which later became a term for the establishment and is now used to praise individuals.
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's 1981 Norton book (revised 1996), critiques craniometry, IQ testing, and biological determinism, centering on his reanalysis of Samuel Morton's skull measurements, later challenged by the 2011 Lewis et al. remeasurement.
The Most Hated Family in America
The Most Hated Family in America is a 2007 British documentary television film in which Louis Theroux lives with the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), founded 1951 in the U.S., is a global environmental nonprofit conserving lands and waters in 86 countries and territories, protecting 125M+ acres, with FY2025 revenue over $2 billion, known for easements, water funds, blue bonds, and past controversies.
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action (Moynihan Report) is a March 1965 U.S. Department of Labor report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan arguing that weak family structure in the urban black poor perpetuates poverty.
The Negro Motorist Green Book
The Negro Motorist Green Book, an annual guide for Black American travelers under Jim Crow, published by Victor Hugo Green 1936-1967, listing businesses serving Black patrons, distributed via Esso stations.
The personal is political
Feminist slogan and 1970 Carol Hanisch essay holding that private experiences such as housework, sexuality, and child care are political; rooted in consciousness-raising, contested across feminist waves.
The Population Bomb
The Population Bomb is Paul Ehrlich's 1968 Sierra Club book predicting mass 1970s famine from overpopulation; it sold about 2 million copies, founded the ZPG movement, and its failed forecasts made it a landmark of discredited Malthusian demography.
The Power of Positive Thinking
The Power of Positive Thinking (1952) is Norman Vincent Peale's self-help bestseller, 20 million copies, 42 languages, Bible-based affirmations and visualization; also the cultural idea behind positive psychology, debunked cancer-survival claims, and toxic positivity.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman's 1956 Edinburgh monograph and 1959 US book, founded dramaturgical sociology: social interaction as staged performance, with front stage, backstage, teams, and impression management, still applied to digital life.
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 (PCMA), India's Act No. 6 of 2007, enforced 1 November 2007, replaced the 1929 Sarda Act, defining child marriage as involving a male under 21 or female under 18, with voidable marriages, two-year imprisonment penalties, and CMPO enforcement officers.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus), Max Weber's 1904/05 two-part essay, argues ascetic Protestantism, especially Calvinism, fostered a calling-based work ethic that was a pre-condition of modern capitalism; its empirical validity remains contested.
The Psychopath Test
The Psychopath Test (2011) is Jon Ronson's nonfiction journey through psychopathy diagnosis, from Broadmoor inmate Tony to Robert Hare's PCL-R checklist, corporate psychopathy, and DSM over-medicalization.
The Red Book (Jung)
The Red Book (Liber Novus) is Carl Jung's illuminated manuscript of 1914–1930, transcribed from his Black Books, foundation of analytical psychology, unpublished until the 2009 W. W. Norton facsimile edited by Sonu Shamdasani.
The Red Pill
The Red Pill is a 2016 American documentary directed by Cassie Jaye, exploring the men's rights movement through interviews with Warren Farrell and Paul Elam.
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians is a May 11, 2026 New York Times opinion column by Nicholas Kristof on alleged sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces, and the disparity in condemnation compared with October 7 victims.
The Social Construction of Reality
The Social Construction of Reality (Berger and Luckmann, 1966) is the foundational sociology-of-knowledge treatise explaining how subjective meanings become objective social reality via externalization, objectivation, and internalization; ranked fifth-most important sociology book of the twentieth century.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson's 2016 HarperCollins self-help book (A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life), argues for choosing values worth struggling for; 15M+ copies, 65 languages, NYT No. 1, 2023 documentary.
The TerraMar Project
The TerraMar Project, also called TerraMar, was a 2012–2019 ocean-conservation nonprofit founded and funded by Ghislaine Maxwell, with US 501(c)(3) and UK charity arms; it closed six days after Jeffrey Epstein's July 2019 arrest and gave no recorded grants.
The Third Wave (experiment)
The Third Wave, also called The Wave, was Ron Jones's 1967 classroom fascism experiment at Cubberley High School, Palo Alto, lasting about 5 to 8 days and ending with a rally of up to 200 students.
The Tinder Swindler
The Tinder Swindler is a 2022 Netflix documentary by Felicity Morris about Shimon Hayut, aka Simon Leviev, who posed as a diamond billionaire's son on Tinder and defrauded women of millions.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project: American nonprofit founded 1998 (film 'Trevor') providing 24/7 suicide prevention and crisis intervention for LGBTQ+ young people via TrevorLifeline, plus TrevorSpace, research, education, and advocacy.
The Who concert disaster
The Who concert disaster: December 3, 1979 crowd crush at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, killed 11 fans during festival-seating ingress after a soundcheck was mistaken for the show; task force blamed crowd management.
Thematic analysis
Thematic analysis (TA) is a flexible qualitative research method for identifying and reporting themes in interview transcripts, surveys, and documents, standardized by Braun and Clarke's 2006 six-phase framework.
Thematic Apperception Test
The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a projective psychological test in which respondents invent stories about ambiguous picture cards so underlying motives and needs can be inferred.