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"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding."--
2) Charisma
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It began well, an experiment in techniques to teach high-risk children, poor, minority, children, the life-strategies that will allow them to succeed in life. And, not just succeed, but overcome the odds and become wildly successful. They chose as their model a man who had done it all, Alexander Marcus, a black man who raised himself up from poverty to become one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in America.
The imprinting is effective. The children...
3) Acid test
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Acid Test takes off like a rocket in the first chapter and never slows down, speeding listeners around the globe for an electrifying adventure. The premise is chilling: What if the world was suddenly rocked by widespread murder, political chaos, and the peril of nuclear attack? The ruthless Batu Khan has forged an empire across Mongolia and central Asia. He has developed a frightening arsenal of weaponry and uses mind-altering drugs to give his minions...
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Para ganar dinero fácil, Jessica Farris acepta ser objeto de un estudio clínico sobre ética y moral. Pero a medida que pasan los dias, se desdibuja la línea entre lo que es real y los experimentos psicológicos a los que ha aceptado someterse. Quien dirige el estudio parece saber en todo momento lo que Jess sabe... y lo que oculta. ¿Es posible que además de estudiar el comportamiento de Jessica, la estén manipulando? Atrapada en una telaraña...
5) Pharmakon
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William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in 1952, has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness and that can make him a famous man. When his experiment goes awry, and a research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt him and his family forever.
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Naoki Urasawa's monster volume 10
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A killer is on the loose and Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him. Tenma goes to Prague and meets up with an investigative reporter who is tracking a former director of the 511 Kinderheim orphanage. They try to find out if the terrible experiments that took place at 511 Kinderheim are being recreated in the city of a hundred spires.
11) The subjects
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"Daniel is a sixteen-year-old drug dealer and he's going to jail. Then, suddenly, he's not. A courtroom intervention. A long car ride to a big country house. Other 'gifted delinquents' - the elusive, devastating Rachel, and Alex, so tightly wound he seems about to shatter. So where are they? It's not a school, despite the 'lessons' with the headsets and changing images. It's not a psych unit - not if the absence of medication means anything. It's...