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Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's interviewed a robot and asked her if she has a soul. He's travelled to the Alaskan theme town of North Pole (where every day is Christmas Day) to investigate a high school mass-murder plot. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and another who's preparing to welcome the aliens to earth. Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, strange behaviour and the human mind, and he has spent his life exploring mysterious events and meeting extraordinary people. Collected here from various sources (including the Guardian and GQ) are the best of his adventures. Frequently hilarious, sometimes disturbing, always entertaining, these compelling stories of the chaos that lies on the fringe of our daily lives will have you wondering just what we're capable of.

In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them.

In this eye-opening portrait of extremist groups--75 percent of which are located in this country--Jon Ronson takes readers inside the hearts and minds of people often summarily dismissed as kooks and crazies.

From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of bei

In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all went wrong. Twenty-five years later and Jon has co-written a movie, Frank , inspired by his time in this great and bizarre band. Frank is set for release in 2014, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Domhnall Gleeson and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie is a memoir of funny, sad times and a tribute to outsider artists too wonderfully strange to ever make it in the mainstream. It tells the true story behind the fictionalized movie.

Jon Ronson’s subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare, and people who believe that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In Out of the Ordinary, a collection of his journalism from the Guardian, he turns his attention to irrational beliefs much closer to home, investigating the ways in which we sometimes manage to convince ourselves that all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense – mainstream, domestic, ordinary insanity. Whether he finds himself promising his son that he will be at his side for ever, dressed in a Santa costume, or trying to understand why hundreds of apparently normal people would suddenly start speaking in tongues in a Scout hut in Kidderminster, he demonstrates repeatedly how we all succumb to deeply irrational beliefs that grow to inform our everyday existence. Out of the Ordinary is Jon Ronson at his inimitable best: hilarious, thought-provoking and with an unerring eye for human frailty – not least his own. Praise for The Men Who Stare at Goats: ‘Not only a narcotic road trip through the wackier reaches of Bush’s war effort, but also an unmissable account of some of the insanity that has lately been done in our names’ Observer Praise for Them: Adventures with Extremists: ‘A funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world’ Louis Theroux, Guardian

"A jaw-dropper of a non-fiction story. It moves with wry, precise agility." The New York TimesIn 1979, a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known military practice - and indeed the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them.They were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting George Bush's War on Terror. Often funny, sometimes chilling and always thought-provoking, journalist Jon Ronson's Sunday Times bestseller The Men Who Stare at Goats is a story so unbelievable it has to be true.PRAISE FOR THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS"Not only a narcotic road trip through the wackier reaches of Bush's war effort, but also an unmissable account of the insanity that has lately been done in our names" Observer"Funny and gravely serious, what emerges is a world shrouded in secrecy, mystery and wackiness, where Warrior Monks and psychic spies battle it out for military thinking. Mind-blowing stuff" Metro"Few more earnest investigative journalists would have had the brilliant bloody-mindedness to get what he has got and hardly any would have the wit to present it with as much clarity." The Observer"Simultaneously frightening and hilarious." The Times"A hilarious and unsettling book." The Boston Globe

A collection of pieces of memoir by contemporary international writers. Edited by the author of 'IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU'.

Ein fast vergessenes Gefühl haben die sozialen Medien wiederbelebt: Scham. Es kann jeden treffen. Ein schlechter Scherz in sozialen Netzwerken genügt, um die Wut der Internetgemeinde auf sich zu ziehen. Negative Kommentare und schwere Vorwürfe entfachen einen Shitstorm, der nicht mehr zu stoppen ist. Jon Ronson beschreibt die irren Mechanismen und Auswirkungen öffentlicher Demütigungen in unserer Zeit. Jahrelang ist er durch die Welt gereist, auf der Suche nach Menschen, die Opfer eines Shitstorms wurden. Diese Menschen sind Leute wie du und ich, die sich einen Fehler erlaubt haben. Sobald ihr Vergehen ans Licht kam, traf sie ein wahrer Sturm der Entrüstung. Ehe sie sich versahen, wurden sie in der Öffentlichkeit auseinandergenommen, ausgelacht, verteufelt und manchmal sogar gefeuert. In unserer Zeit wird die öffentliche Blamage neu erfunden. Die schweigende Mehrheit bekommt eine Stimme. Aber was tun wir mit dieser Stimme? Wir nutzen sie dazu, die Fehler, die wir in unseren Mitmenschen suchen und finden, lauthals zu verkünden.

Uri Geller ist für die CIA als parapsychologischer Spion in Mexiko tätig. In einem verlassenen Bunker versuchen Soldaten, Ziegen per Telekinese totzustarren. Und ein General ist davon überzeugt, früher oder später durch Wände gehen zu können. Unglaublich, aber wahr. Jon Ronson entlarvt humorvoll die Absurdität geheimer US-Militärexperimente.