How Many Non Fiction Books Sell Two to Three Million Copy?

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i grew up a fan of tev, but my background was really more literarymy father is a literary travel writer and novelist called pau ther. And then i noticed that when i wrote something, almost no one gave me any feedback. So having slid into tev sideways and without fully kind of a, you know, it almost feels unearned in some ways, teveh, the natural reach that you have. I'm now very grateful for it.

Shermer and Theroux discuss: how documentary films are made • religious fanaticism and why people believe • UFO cults, end-times sects, and cognitive dissonance • Scientology: religion or cult? • neo-Nazis and anti-Semitism • prisons, pornography, and prostitution • Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile • self-help movements and gurus • deception and self-deception • social proof and human conformity • are humans naturally rational, irrational, or both?

Louis Theroux is a genre-defining documentary filmmaker best known for his explorations of controversial and complex topics. Using a gentle questioning style and an informal approach, Louis has shone light on intriguing beliefs, behaviors, and institutions by getting to know the people at the heart of them — from the officers and inmates at San Quentin prison to the extreme believers of the Westboro Baptist Church; from male porn performers in California to young women with eating disorders in London.