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Thoughts & Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life (Workbook Workbook)

16 reviews
Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, ...

New Harbinger Publications, 2007

Read this book. It will help.
This book was recommended to me by an LCS when I sought help for depression several years ago. I was also perscribed Prozac which I took for several months. The combination worked for me and the book in particular was a great tool for me long term. CBT worked for me and this book was key. I appreciated that this book was about DOING something about your emotions vs. thinking about and ...

Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

191 reviews
Wayne W. Dyer

Hay House, 2007

It really did change my life
Reading this book really did help me change my thoughts, and thereby my life. When my wife tells me "You are different" I guess it means that it really does work. Oh, and the changes have been in a positive direction. I look at life in a completely different way, and I am truly enjoying life today. I have also purchased many more Wayne Dyer books since reading this, and they are all wonderful!

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

33 reviews
Steven Pinker

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

The chicken-and-egg of language
Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist involved in research into the human mind, but he is also an unabashed popularizer whose books are full of pop culture references (especially comic strips). Apart from a few tedious sections, "The Stuff of Thought" is one of his best books. It applies a scientific perspective to a favorite subject of mine, the relationship between language and thought. ...

Great Catholic Writings: Thought, Literature, Spirituality, Social Action

1 review

St Marys Pr, 2006

Student need
I bought this for one of my students. He needed it for a class.

Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction

10 reviews
Ellin Oliver Keene, Susan Zimmermann

Heinemann, 2007

Second Edition of Mosaic much more practical!
Ellin Keene has added a lot more depth and practicality in her second edition. All teachers of reading should read this book!

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics)

6 reviews
Patrici Collins

Routledge, 2008

Great Book for All People
I'm a gay white male and I loved this book! Collins does an amazing job presenting her compelling thesis, and I continue to thank Sociology in general for being the most daring, critical-thinking academic discipline ever. It's no surprise sociologists like Collins dare to speak out on gay rights issues (see her section on homophobia/heterosexism) - sociology is the only area of thought that ...

Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition

23 reviews
S.I. Hayakawa

Harcourt, 1991

If This Book Were a Manadatory School Text...
The "debates" wouldn't continue to be evasive exercises in meaningless rhetoric. People would distinguish sound bites from actual information. People would lose interest in non-issues like flag burning. People would take control of the objects and symbols that now control them. In short, nobody could give a reasonable excuse to pay attention to FOX News anymore, we'd demand more of ...

The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why

51 reviews
Richard Nisbett

Free Press, 2004

Buy everything in Amazon
This is the first I bought book from Amazon, I am in China, but it still very convenient for me, and very fast. Thank you for Amazon, you are the best.

American Political Thought, Fifth Edition (American Political Thought (CQ Press))

CQ Press, 2004

In the aftermath of 9/11, Dolbeare and Cummings challenge students to examine their own political identities. They are asked to take their newfound concern about Islamic fundamentalism and focus it toward the issue of American fundamentalism , or the foundations of American political thought. Students are invited to examine such basic ideals as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as well as private and free enterprise, the rule ...

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God

28 reviews
Robert Louis Wilken

Yale University Press, 2005

a feast of the church fathers
In a previous volume called The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (1984), Robert Louis Wilkin, professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, explored the broad and deep antipathy that developed in the first five centuries toward the Christian movement, at least as that was expressed by the cultured elites. He presented the views of the pagan critics with both sympathy ...

Princeton Readings in Political Thought

3 reviews

Princeton University Press, 1996

Where the Great Political Philosophers Dwell
A very enjoyable book. I especially like the selections on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Machiavelli. Such selections reflect a theoretical unity, rather than a distance, between the theorists' works. Thus, rather than select excerpts unconnected to other excerpts, the editors attempt to develop chronological theme(s) around the works--when possible--that allow students to see progressions, ...

Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction

3 reviews
Rosemarie Putnam Tong

Westview Press, 2008

Comprehensive
It is often hard to recommend books for first-timers. I have no compunction recommending this one to anyone taking their first stept into the complex world of feminism. As an introduction, its most valuable contribution lies in the intelligent manner almost all major thinkers were presented. The bibliography is also indispensible.

Readings in Christian Thought

7 reviews

Abingdon Press, 1990

Great for beginning or experienced scholars
A great intro to the important figures in Christian thought but also a great review course for those who think they've read it all before. Well-written with substantial pieces from women theologians as well as black and liberation perspectives, plus noted theologians such as Thomas Merton, Karl Rahner, etc. Each selection has a very detailed introduction and commments on the life of each ...

Classics of Western Thought Series: The Ancient World, Volume I (Classics of Western Thought)

1 review
Donald S. Gochberg

Wadsworth Publishing, 1988

A Great Anthology of Classical Thought
Got this for a college course I took on the Classical World. I actually own Vol. I, II, and III. The book gives you snipets of great classical works, which has nevertheless led me to purchasing the actual books in many instances.

Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye

1 review
Janet M. Ruane, Karen A. Cerulo

Pine Forge Press, 2008

For those who say "sociology is just common sense"!..Think
I have read more than half the book.This book brings out the what society preaches in public and what public practices in private.Its a basic and higly accesible version for a wonderful subject. In some chapters the authors "deviates" and just shows the supportive arguments for his thoughts....but doesn't provide "critical"/"balanced" view..(he does so in that chapter on gender).

Thoughts In Solitude

25 reviews
Thomas Merton

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

Reflections in a Life of Solitude
Perhaps meant more as his inner reminders of purpose than for the general public, Merton's "Thoughts in Solitude" show him to be reminding himself of his mission. As is implied in the title, this book discusses Merton's thoughts about the solitary life as he journeys though that life. Told in chapters that average 2-3 pages long, these passages are easy to digest for the average reader. ...

Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics)

4 reviews
Martin Heidegger

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001

The Thing
One of the clearer expositions of Heidegger's later thought is Das Ding, anthologized in this volume. You are free to read the other selections ("the essence of language is the language of essence" ad nauseum) but das Ding begins with a phenomenological description of a Krug (a cup) that became rarer as Heidegger got older. The emptiness in the cup is the origin, like the hand that reaches out ...

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment

11 reviews
Anthony Lewis

Basic Books, 2008

Great perspective: Understanding how tenuous the right can be makes us more likely to protect it
One of my favorite things about reading history is getting a perspective on how new some ideas are even when they feel like they've been around forever. This book absolutely has that effect... and it's a really healthy thing. Lewis does a nice job of laying out the history of free speech. He starts before the founding of the United States, but spends most of his time exploring the ...

Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop

28 reviews
Susan Zimmermann, Ellin Oliver Keene

Heinemann, 1997

Excellent book for the progressive teacher
As an educator, I try to look for teacher's literature that goes beyond the worksheets and attempts to get at the belief system and structure of what is considered "best practices" in education. This book challenges teachers to delve/question their belief systems, practices and own schema to help better understand how our students think and eventually teaching them a new and deeper way of looking ...

Classics of Western Thought Series: Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, Volume II (Classics of Western ...
Karl F. Thompson

Wadsworth Publishing, 1988

Originally edited by Thomas H. Greer, this series emanates from the Humanities Department at Michigan State University. Today, these books remain outstanding sources for the comprehensive study of most subject areas included under the umbrella of humanities. Most major literary forms are represented: essay, poem, short story, play, novel, memoir, epigram, scientific discourse, philosophical treatise, political manifesto, and religious ...

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