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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales 99 reviews
Oliver Sacks
Touchstone, 1998
A Fascinating Read
A neurologist, Oliver Sacks, discussed and brought to light the neurological disorders in case by case in this book with an interesting choice of the title: "Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat." This is the first book by Sacks that I have read, and I found his writing style to be quite enjoyable.
Not only that, this book contains an extraordinary collection of cases of individuals with ...
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The Other Boleyn Girl744 reviews
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 2003
great book
Most of the time i read shorter books because i get bored easy. I read this book because a few people i know enjoyed it. I also never read history kind of books but im hooked now. I loved this because it had lust,history and a good story line. This is a must read.
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How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book)99 reviews
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Touchstone, 1972
Wish I'd read this back in school
In spite of this book's oxymoronic title, it is a book for every one who wants to do serious reading. It could have saved me countless hours in grad school while researching my thesis. The book discusses 4 levels of reading. As bonuses, it also includes tests to help you understand how to use these techniques on passages from famous books and it has Mortimer Adler's famous bibliography that he ...
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The Constant Princess 152 reviews
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 2006
great !1!1
This is a wonderful book!!! I couldn't put it down. The author is a wonderful story teller. You will love this book.
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The Virgin's Lover143 reviews
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 2005
read in chronoligcal order
This is a great series, but you sometimes get lost in who is who and when did it happen. My suggestion is to read them in this order and not the order that Ms Gregory wrote them. Then you would have a better understanding of the events of history: The Constant Princess; The Other Boleyn Girl; The Boleyn Inheritance; The Queen's Fool; The Virgin's Lover. I am awaiting the final one in this series ...
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The Queen's Fool: A Novel 173 reviews
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 2004
No Foolin'
Right after I finished The Other Boleyn Girl I had to pick this one up and continue, sort of, the story.
I liked Hannah well enough. I could see many traits in her that I see in myself. Surprisingly one situation she has in extremely close to one I had, and it was interesting to see someone elses take on it, even if the person is fictitious. I was a bit bored with her always talking about her ...
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The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual ...167 reviews
M. Scott Peck
Touchstone, 2003
An all-time classic filled with penetrating insights which brings purpose and meaning to life
I remember receiving this book as a gift from an aunt of mine a number of years ago and reading it more out of an attempt to show appreciation to her than out of interest. Well, was I pleasantly surprised! Remembering this, I recently decided to read it again. M. Scott Pecks' Road Less Travelled is filled with deep, penetrating and original insights that most people at some level would concur are ...
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The Boleyn Inheritance138 reviews
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone Books, 2007
One of my favorite books!
Absolutely enjoyed this book. Picked it out at the library just to read something different. Fell in love with it! "The Other Boleyn Girl" movie came out while I was reading this book. I read "The Other Boleyn Girl" and enjoyed it even more! I am currently reading "The Constant Princess". I read the trilogy backwards, but it didn't make a difference! I recommend Philippa Gregory to ...
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Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through ...127 reviews
Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
Touchstone, 1995
Driven to Distraction
The ADD/ADHD "Owners Manual." Understand how your "engine" works, what kind of fuel it needs, how to tune-up, rev-up and just plain operate your race-car brain to it's highest potential! This book clears up myths and gives you the low-down on what ADD's all about. Great for parents, spouses and teachers as well. Knowledge about this often confusing and misunderstood subject will give the ...
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Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder 5 reviews
Herschel Walker
Touchstone, 2008
Great Courage in Revealing Truth
I am very moved by the great courage it took for Herschel Walker to write this book and disclose this deeply personal and difficult aspect of his life. I am also very grateful to him. I hope his brave choice to share this will help validate those of us that struggle with the stigma of DID. His ex-wife should also be commended for her willingness and courage to support him and speak out on the ...
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The Other Queen: A Novel
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 2008
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A Respectable Trade26 reviews
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 2007
Not Up to Philippa Gregory's Usual Standards
I love Philippa Gregory, but found this book to be somewhat less gripping than others she has written. It was worth reading, but would not be my first choice of her novels. If there are others you have not read that Gregory has written, purchase those first.
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People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil143 reviews
M. Scott Peck
Touchstone, 1998
Must Read for Mobbing Mediators
Mobbing experts need an incredible amount of knowledge to understand group evil and its capability to destroy.
The People of the Lie explains the motivation behind group evil - and how it is justified in the minds of group. The book makes an important point: that the group is collectively immature and willing to do things that no one would do alone.
Mobber alone are cowards. But once the ...
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People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts40 reviews
Robert Bolton
Touchstone, 1986
People Skills:How to AsertYourself. Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicks
This is an very detailed people skills guide on how to be sucessful in today's complex world. I found it a very high caliber read about communication.
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Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China346 reviews
Jung Chang
Touchstone, 2003
The reality of China for three generations of women
Some books are to be savored slowly and take me months to finish. Other books, like this one, are a delicious overindulgence of reading, the narrative sweep so compelling that I gobbled up all 505 in almost one fell swoop. Subtitled "Three Daughters of China", this 1991 autobiography is the story of 20th Century China itself. Here we meet three women, the grandmother and mother of the ...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong397 reviews
James W. Loewen
Touchstone, 2007
Lies My Teacher Told Me
A must have for any history buff who is seeking the truth. I purchased this book for a class and wish I would have heard about this book many, many years ago!
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Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era22 reviews
Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Touchstone, 2005
This book should be in every woman's home
I just got this book and wished I'd had it in my teens, twenties, thirties, but thankfully now in my 40's I do. I bought two copies used. The 1984 edition and the 1998 edition. Now after reading the reviews for the 2005 edition I am going to get that new. The 2005 edition is the 8th edition and in 35 years has never gone out of print.
Truly a wealth of information and a treasure to have ...
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The Cost of Discipleship82 reviews
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Touchstone, 1995
A book to be read more than once
I have just finished reading "The Cost of Discipleship" for the third time. It seems I pick it up about once a decade. I found it as convicting this last time as I did the first time. If Bonhoeffer wrote this in the midst of a church culture that was making room for the rise of Nazism, it makes one wonder what lies ahead for our own culture. In an age in which so-called Christianity has grown ...
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Survival In Auschwitz64 reviews
Primo Levi
Touchstone, 1996
The meaning of being 'human'
This account of the imprisonment, internment, survival of Primo Levi in Auschwitz is written as a straightforward chronological narrative. Levi recounts his initial capture , the horrendous suffering of the journey of Italian Jews to Auschwitz, the selection there in which all the woman and children were immediately sent to their deaths in the gas- chambers, and in which the able- bodied sent to ...
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The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-Edge Science that ...12 reviews
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Touchstone, 2008
A Medical Provider Must
I agree with many of the other reviews - everyone in the medical community should read this book. It is not only extremely well-written and thoroughly researched, but it also conveys the true anguish and fear that patients with autoimmune disease experience. I had to take numerous breaks from reading because it was so emotionally draining. Donna is a phenomenol writer who is able to truly get to ...
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