| |
|
Psychology (6th Edition Study Guide) 22 reviews
Richard O. Straub, David G. Myers
Worth Publishers, 2000
Very thorough and interesting!
I love this book, I'm 16 and I have no trouble understanding it (though I am smarter than your average teen). It's quite interesting and explains a lot. It's the perfect introduction to psychology for someone like myself looking to pursue it as a career.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Feng Shui for the Rest of Us: What You Can Do Right Now to Change Your Life22 reviews
Gabrielle Alizay
Writers' Collective, 2005
Feng Shui Confusion Cleared
I have purchased several books in the pursuit of understanding and applying feng shui to my home. After all, I know that I feel better in rooms that are uncluttered and clean per basic feng shui principles. Therefore I hoped to dig deeper into feng shui applications to discover how to increase the sense of peace and comfort into my home.
This is the book that I needed to make sense of the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Struggle, politics, and reform: Collective action, social movements and cycles of protest (Cornell studies in ...32 reviews
Sidney G Tarrow
Center for International Studies, Cornell University, 1989
Motel of the Mysteries
It was recomended by a teacher friend. It's quirky, funny & full of imagination. I have read books by Elisabeth Peters on archeology & discovering Egyption tombs so I enjoyed this because it challenges the imagination on what future scientists might discover about our civilization.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children40 reviews
Daniel A. Hughes
Jason Aronson, 1999
eye-opening
I teach At-Risk 4 year olds and in reading this book I was struck once again with the fact that our words have such power with children....with everyone! This book documents a journey of positive, healing language and loving hope between a foster mom and her daughter. It reinforced to me that the best I can do with the limited time I have with my students is to be consistent with "the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Unfair & Unbalanced: The Lunatic Magniloquence Of Henry E. Panky21 reviews
Patrick M. Carlisle
Writers' Collective, 2004
A General Absence of Free Will
Henry isn't sure why at age 15 he bought the John Denver album. He continues, "Let's chalk it up to raging pubescent hormones, psychotropic drugs at too early an age, too many Herman Hesse books, a compromised decision making capacity, and a general absence of free will."
Well, I don't know why I think it's so funny when he makes fun of John Denver, especially since I've always liked his ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Final Gifts159 reviews
Patricia Kelley, Maggie Callaghan
Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1994
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
This is one of the finest books to help you understand the dying process both on helping the dying person and helping yourself.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved23 reviews
Matthew Kelly
Fireside, 2007
Should be must reading
We are all involved in relationships. But most do not achieve real meaningful ones. Our relationships don't turn sour, we just become indifferent.
We have been bombarded by messages that promise fun, excitment, pleasure and possessions are the answer to our emotional needs. But those are all feelings. And feelings change. They are not permanent. So no matter how much fun and excitement we ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart22 reviews
Thich Nhat Hanh
Shambhala, 2006
A mini version of "A New Earth"
The copyright of this book is 1997. Eckart Tolle's book "A New Earth" came out in 2005... 8 years later. This book is like the pocket book for "A New Earth". Eckart Tolle goes into greater dept in his book on the same topics that are mentioned in Thick Nhat Hanh's book. "True Love" gets right to the heart of awakening the heart. I especially enjoyed the chapters on The Energy of Mindfulness, ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming46 reviews
Paul Hawken
Viking, 2007
A book full of hope
This is a wonderfully documented guide about groups working for social justice and for bringing balance and restoring our planet's seriously damaged environment.
Among many issues, Paul Hawken tells us that fighting for those important objectives, ideology or partisan politics play a secondary role, because civilization survival is on the balance and people's direct involvement is vital.
...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Obedience to Authority21 reviews
Stanley Milgram
Pinter & Martin Ltd., 2005
Disturbing Insights About Humanity
Are you and I any different from Heinrich Himmler or Adolph Eichmann? Of course, we want to believe that we are made from entirely different clay than those evil monsters, but reading Stanley Milgram's book, _Obedience To Authority_, will make you wonder.
The book describes an experiment that was conducted in the 1960s by Yale University psychology professor Stanley Milgram. Milgram placed ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Politics of Experience17 reviews
R.D. Laing
Pantheon, 1983
Portrayiing schizphrenic astuteness via complex and cyclical words.
Schizophrenics often--not always--have a sensitivity for the Unconscious and what might be going on the mind of the other as well as themselves,but few of us ever get to "hear" it. In the very first three pages Laing gets into the mind and mind- reading of interpersonal relations of the schizophrenic ;eg" you can only experience the fact that I am experiencing your experience..."
this ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning16 reviews
James W. Fowler
Harpercollins College Div, 1981
Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development
This book presents a skillful conceptualization of the relationship between human development and spiritual maturity.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Applied Behavior Analysis19 reviews
John O. Cooper, Timothy E. Heron, ...
Prentice Hall, 1987
Amazing Text
This text is spectacular. This edition is a triumph. I was a bit dubious when the forward obliquely compared this book to The Beatles (The White Album), but have become more sympathetic to the perspective as I have spent more time with it. Cooper/Heron is simply the book to use in studying Applied Behavior Analysis. It's not chummy or dated like some texts of 70s (an effort to reduce the response ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Journey of the Heart: The Path to Deeper Fulfillment in Relationship (Classics of Personal Development)20 reviews
John Welwood
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1995
Great sensible book for facing modern relationship dilemmas
I have read this book several times and never cease to come away with a new understanding. It has depth, compassion and useful information for moving through some of the modern relationship dilemmas that cause so many of us suffering.
John Welwood is a Ph.D. psychotherapist with a deep knowledge of world religions, especially Buddhism. He also has a lot of life experience and has written many ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Parents Do Make a Difference: How to Raise Kids with Solid Character, Strong Minds, and Caring Hearts (The ...18 reviews
Michele, Ed.D. Borba, Michele Borba
Jossey-Bass, 1999
All Diamonds In The Rough Need Polishing
This book is one of the gems -- a diamond in the rough -- on parenting. Written in simple language, it's the "basic course" on "HOW TO RAISE KIDS WITH SOLID CHARACTER, STRONG MINDS, AND CARING HEARTS". So read, use, and understand. Hmm. Understand? What do you do when the kids ask, "WHY?"! Hmm. You'll need a book that makes you understand -- in simple language -- the philosophy of WHY character ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Crowd17 reviews
Gustave LeBon
Transaction Publishers, 1995
The Irrationality of Crowds.
_The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind_ is an English translation of the classic work on crowd psychology of French theorist and social scientist Gustave le Bon first published in 1895. Gustave le Bon (1841 - 1931) was a French social theorist whose works played a prominent part in the understanding of nationality, racialism, herd behavior, and crowd psychology. Le Bon writes from the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Moosewood Restaurant Book of Desserts17 reviews
Moosewood Collective
Clarkson Potter, 1997
Delightfully Delicious ^.^
Unlike the other Moosewood cookbooks, this one doesn't even pretend to be healthy, and is filled with refreshingly decadent dessert recipes. But for the health conscious, there are also some healthy / light / low-fat / low-sugar recipes included -- and even those are spectacular.
From poached fruit... to angel food cake... to cowboy cookies... to rice pudding... to ice cream... this book has ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Calcium Bomb: The Nanobacteria Link to Heart Disease & Cancer16 reviews
Douglas Mulhall, Katja Hansen
Writers' Collective, 2004
Extraordinary Book
I just finished reading an extraordinary book, The Calcium Bomb: The Nanobacteria Link to Heart Disease and Cancer. It also explains for the first time, the possible etiology and outline for a real treatment of my own ailment (which I know quite a bit about) ankloysing spondylitis. This is a work of excellent investigative scholarship and if its basic premise is true, namely that nanobacteria ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis)16 reviews
Thomas C. Schelling
W. W. Norton, 1978
The Golden Rule and Self-Restraint
Schelling's book covertly drafts a model of economic support for the Golden Rule. While many of his examples may be repetitive, ultimately, we learn that by restraining ourselves in various enterprises, such as energy conservation, we are able to produce overall benefits for society. However, the hitch is that without critical mass or some basis for keeping rebels in line, no one adheres to the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence18 reviews
Mitch Earleywine
Oxford University Press, USA, 2002
Awesome Overview
I first experienced pot at age 16 and soon learned that what little I was told was NOT TRUE. This book lays it out in all its splendor. It is not a harmless drug- but it is the next best thing. The pharmacology section was very useful as it explained the way THC is produced and broken down by the plant. On the way up to THC Cannabidiol is produced. Cannabinol is produced as the plant starts ...
|
|
|
|
|
|