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Thursday, June 30, 2011
A Small Treatise On The Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life (Paperback)
By André Comte-Sponville
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Two Little Angels: When A Child Drowns (Kindle Edition)
By Mike Cyra
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As I watch the Casey Anthony trial I’m reminded that I know exactly what a parent, or anyone for that matter, will do, when they find the lifeless body of a child floating in a pool. They call 911. That is, unless there’s foul play involved.
This is a short (2000 word), true story of the drowning of not one, but two small girls in an above ground pool. It shows the heartbreaking reaction and action taken by a Mother. It’s also an inside look at what Emergency Medical Services personnel see, feel and deal with on a call that is everyone’s worst nightmare.
Two Little Angels is told through the eyes of Author Mike Cyra, a former EMT who responded to this tragedy.
This story shows what actually happens when children drown. It also shows how Casey Anthony should have reacted and the actions she should have taken if the Defense scenario of an accidental drowning is based on reality.
Since I don’t like to leave anything on a sad note, and you’re paying hard earned money for this, albeit only .99 cents, I’ve added two bonus stories- Delivering Babies: My First Woman In Labor, which is an excerpt from my current book, Emergency laughter: It Wasn’t Funny When It Happened, But It Is Now.
And Tales From The Psych Ward: an excerpt from my soon to be released book: Emergency Emotions.
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The Personality Puzzle (Fifth Edition) (Hardcover)
By David C. Funder
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The Personality Puzzle explores the past, present, and future of the discipline to show students why personality psychology matters.
Organized according to the six main domains of modern personality psychology, David Funder’s market-leading text shows students the field as it exists in the present. By incorporating significant coverage of the great theorists of personality psychology throughout, the book helps students understand how the field developed. And by showcasing the questions driving the research of today, The Personality Puzzle enables students to see the exciting future of the discipline.For the Fifth Edition, every chapter has been updated. A new illustration program supports visual learners with updated versions of the book’s much-loved cartoons and new in-text features to help students visualize and remember concepts. The text covers classic theories of personality as well as all the latest findings, including up-to-date coverage of the biological domain, new material on cross-cultural psychology, and expanded treatment of positive psychology.
As always, The Personality Puzzle is a book that students will read, enjoy, and remember, with a writing style that is engaging, distinctive, and humorous. Read more
The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents (Hardcover)
By Nancy A. Ratey
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For the millions of adults diagnosed with ADHD The Disorganized Mind will provide expert guidance on what they can do to make the most of their lives. The inattention, time-mismanagement, procrastination, impulsivity, distractibility, and difficulty with transitions that often go hand-in-hand with ADHD can be overcome with the unique approach that Nancy Ratey brings to turning these behaviors around.
The Disorganized Mind addresses the common issues confronted by the ADHD adult:
“Where did the time go?”
“I’ll do it later, I always work better under pressure anyway.”
“I’ll just check my e-mail one more time before the meeting…”
“I’ll pay the bills tomorrow – that will give me time to find them.”
Professional ADHD coach and expert Nancy Ratey helps readers better understand why their ADHD is getting in their way and what they can do about it. Nancy Ratey understands the challenges faced by adults with ADHD from both a personal and professional perspective and is able to help anyone move forward to achieve greater success. Many individuals with ADHD live in turmoil. It doesn’t have to be that way. You can make choices and imagine how things can change – this book will teach you how. By using ADHD strategies that have worked for others and will work for you, as well as learning how to organize, plan, and prioritize, you’ll clear the hurdles of daily living with a confidence and success you may never before have dreamed possible.
Nancy Ratey has the proven strategies that will help anyone with ADHD get focused, stay on track, and get things done - and finally get what they want from their work and their life.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
By Stephen A. Mitchell
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This look at today's revolutions in psychoanalytic thought and practice is by a central figure in the modernization of psychoanalysis, Stephen A. Mitchell. The book shows how the field is moving beyond the confines of Freudian drive theory to encompass the wishes and needs of both analyst and analysand. The tensions and reconciliations between them - "hopes and dreads" - become the medium for change. Read more
How Could You Do That?! The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience (Hardcover)
By Laura Schlessinger
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Arguing that values and character are the key elements to a richer and more fulfilling life, a syndicated radio host explores current trends in irresponsible behavior. 200,000 first printing. $120,000 ad/promo. Tour.Laura Schlessinger takes the quotation marks off the phrase "bad behavior," and makes an impassioned argument against the self-indulgent subjective morality rampant in our society. Following her previous New York Times bestseller, 10 Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, Dr. Laura Schlessinger -- the internationally syndicated radio superhost who reaches 15 million listeners per week -- argues effectively that doing good leads to feeling great. Read more
Whole World Blind (Paperback)
By Michael B. Mefford
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When Dr. Jack Carson falls asleep at the wheel and loses his son in a tragic car accident, his life crumbles around him. Struggling to put the broken pieces back together, Carson faces death again three years later when he finds a body at the mental hospital where he serves as a psychiatrist. A note on the body says the killing will only end with Carson's murder. Alex Tanner, the beautiful and intelligent detective assigned to his case, gives Carson reason for optimism. However, the killer, who blames Carson for his mother's suicide, is watching and waiting, whispering despair from the shadows. A childhood spent with a sadistic father has left the murderer with a calculated and awful purpose. He doesn't just want to kill Carson; he wants to create an existence so miserable the psychiatrist will understand the true meaning of evil. Can Carson swim through a river of darkness and come out clean on the other side, or will the darkness prove indelible? Read more
Answers to Distraction (Paperback)
By Edward M. Hallowell
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The book that answers your questions about ADD—now revised and updated
After decades of being unfairly diagnosed, children and adults with attention deficit disorder are now recognized as having a common and treatable neurological condition. Drs. Hallowell and Ratey answer the questions most frequently asked at their nationwide workshops and seminars, resulting in an easy-to-read reference that covers every aspect of the disorder: from identifying symptoms and diagnosis, to the latest treatment options, as well as practical day-to-day advice on how you or a loved one can live a normal life with ADD.
Whether you are a patient, parent, teacher, or health-care professional, Answers to Distraction will help those whose ADD has caused persistent problems in school, at work, and in relationships.
Q&As include:
- What is the single most important scientific finding about ADD in the last decade?
- How early can ADD be diagnosed?
- Where can a parent get support for dealing with a child who has ADD?
- What advances in the field of medication have taken place since the original version of this book was published?
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Psychosynthesis Made Easy: A Psychospiritual Psychology for Today (Paperback)
By Stephanie Sorréll
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Dr Roberto Assagioli's innovative work, which began in 1n 1910, went beyond his contemporaries, Freud, Jung and Reich, to embrace wholeness on all levels. Because of this, psychosynthesis has become known as 'the psychology of the soul.' This psychospiritual psychology aims to uncover the layers of complexity which render the personal will powerless. Through a process of bringing awareness to unconscious processes in the psyche, each masquerading as 'sub personalities' the self can achieve integration and synthesis between the personality and the Self (spirit). Read more
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Kindle Edition)
By Sigmund Freud
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Read more
Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day (Paperback)
By Anne Katherine
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
In the perennial favorite Boundaries, Anne Katherine introduced the concept and importance of personal limits. In Where to Draw the Line, she takes the next step with a practical guide to establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in a wide range of situations.
With every encounter, we either demonstrate that we'll protect what we value or that we'll give ourselves away. Healthy boundaries preserve our integrity. Unlike defenses, which isolate us from our true selves and from those we love, boundaries filter out harm.
This book provides the tools and insights needed to create boundaries so that we can allow time and energy for the things that matter -- and helps break down limiting defenses that stunt personal growth. Focusing on every facet of daily life -- from friendships and sexual relationships to dress and appearance to money, food, and psychotherapy -- Katherine presents case studies highlighting the ways in which individuals violate their own boundaries or let other people breach them. Using real-life examples, from self-sacrificing mothers to obsessive neat freaks, she offers specific advice on making choices that balance one's own needs with the needs of others.
Boundaries are the unseen structures that support healthy, productive lives. Where to Draw the Line shows readers how to strengthen them and hold them in place every day. Read more
Shame & Guilt: Masters of Disguise (Paperback)
By Jane Middelton-Moz
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"It is my feeling that debilitating shame and guilt are at the root of all dysfunctions in families," says Jane Middelton-Moz.
A few common characteristics of adults shamed in childhood:
If you see yourself in any of these characteristics, you can learn how shame keeps you from being the person you were born to be and how to change that. Shame And Guilt describes how debilitating shame is created and fostered in childhood and how it manifests itself in adulthood and in intimate relationships. Through the use of myths and fairytales to portray different shaming environments, Dr. Middelton-Moz allows you to reach the shamed child within you and to add clarity to what could be difficult concepts.
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Last Door (Paperback)
By K. Raven Rozier
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Everybody has a secret. Some are darker than others.This is the true story of a father reunited with his young son. He discovers, over time, that the boy's mind is fractured into more than 400 multiple personalities that protect his secrets. The family's lives are threatened when they discover he is also possessed by demons that seek to destroy them. The boy's mother offered her son up to a satanic cult and to abuses so horrific that they seem more like fiction than reality.How does this happen to a God-fearing family, and how do they deal with what is revealed to them? A young boy's secrets could destroy this family, or, at the very least, bring it to its knees.When the O'Neal family is threatened by mysterious forces, cultic rituals, and a labyrinth of obstacles, they find out how far they will go and how hard they will fight to save one of their own and themselves in the ultimate, real life battle of good verses evil.What would you do to protect your secrets? Read more
Stumbling on Happiness (Paperback)
By Daniel Todd Gilbert
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• Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?• Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight? • Why do dining companions insist on ordering different meals instead of getting what they really want? • Why do pigeons seem to have such excellent aim; why can’t we remember one song while listening to another; and why does the line at the grocery store always slow down the moment we join it?In this brilliant, witty, and accessible book, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes the foibles of imagination and illusions of foresight that cause each of us to misconceive our tomorrows and misestimate our satisfactions. Vividly bringing to life the latest scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, Gilbert reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future, and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there. With penetrating insight and sparkling prose, Gilbert explains why we seem to know so little about the hearts and minds of the people we are about to become.Do you know what makes you happy? Daniel Gilbert would bet that you think you do, but you are most likely wrong. In his witty and engaging new book, Harvard professor Gilbert reveals his take on how our minds work, and how the limitations of our imaginations may be getting in the way of our ability to know what happiness is. Sound quirky and interesting? It is! But just to be sure, we asked bestselling author (and master of the quirky and interesting) Malcolm Gladwell to read Stumbling on Happiness, and give us his take. Check out his review below. --Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of bestselling books Blink and The Tipping Point, and is a staff writer for The New Yorker.Several years ago, on a flight from New York to California, I had the good fortune to sit next to a psychologist named Dan Gilbert. He had a shiny bald head, an irrepressible good humor, and we talked (or, more accurately, he talked) from at least the Hudson to the Rockies--and I was completely charmed. He had the wonderful quality many academics have--which is that he was interested in the kinds of questions that all of us care about but never have the time or opportunity to explore. He had also had a quality that is rare among academics. He had the ability to translate his work for people who were outside his world.
Now Gilbert has written a book about his psychological research. It is called Stumbling on Happiness, and reading it reminded me of that plane ride long ago. It is a delight to read. Gilbert is charming and funny and has a rare gift for making very complicated ideas come alive.
Stumbling on Happiness is a book about a very simple but powerful idea. What distinguishes us as human beings from other animals is our ability to predict the future--or rather, our interest in predicting the future. We spend a great deal of our waking life imagining what it would be like to be this way or that way, or to do this or that, or taste or buy or experience some state or feeling or thing. We do that for good reasons: it is what allows us to shape our life. And it is by trying to exert some control over our futures that we attempt to be happy. But by any objective measure, we are really bad at that predictive function. We're terrible at knowing how we will feel a day or a month or year from now, and even worse at knowing what will and will not bring us that cherished happiness. Gilbert sets out to figure what that's so: why we are so terrible at something that would seem to be so extraordinarily important?
In making his case, Gilbert walks us through a series of fascinating--and in some ways troubling--facts about the way our minds work. In particular, Gilbert is interested in delineating the shortcomings of imagination. We're far too accepting of the conclusions of our imaginations. Our imaginations aren't particularly imaginative. Our imaginations are really bad at telling us how we will think when the future finally comes. And our personal experiences aren't nearly as good at correcting these errors as we might think.
I suppose that I really should go on at this point, and talk in more detail about what Gilbert means by that--and how his argument unfolds. But I feel like that might ruin the experience of reading Stumbling on Happiness. This is a psychological detective story about one of the great mysteries of our lives. If you have even the slightest curiosity about the human condition, you ought to read it. Trust me. --Malcolm Gladwell
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Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume I: Conceptual Issues and Neurobiological Advances (Hardcover)
By Michael S. Ritsner
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A few disorders have some of the same symptoms as schizophrenia including schizoaffective disorders, schizophreniform disorder, schizotypal and schizoid personality disorders, delusional disorder, and autism (schizophrenia spectrum disorders). Since the 2000 there has been significant progress in our understanding of the early presentations, assessment, suspected neuropathology, and treatment of these disorders. Recent technological breakthroughs in basic sciences hold promise for advancing our understanding of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. This collective monograph reviewers recent researches regarding the origins, onset, course, and outcome of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. In particular, this book will be illustrate new developments in terms of conceptual models, and research methodology, genetics and genomics, brain imaging and neurochemical studies, neurophysiology and information processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders patients. Also will be highlighted new developments in our understanding of the childhood psychosis, prodromal and first-episode states, in treatment and rehabilitation. Thus, the purpose of this book is to provide up-to-date overview of the rapid advances made in the clinical and basic science studies supporting our understanding of the relationship between cerebral processes and clinical, cognitive and other presentations of the schizophrenia spectrum disorders. In addition, this book aims to monitor important research developments, which may be relevant to treatment, and rehabilitation of patients. Read more
Just Stop Having Problems, Stupid! The Anti-Self-Help Guide (Kindle Edition)
By Dr. Matt
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Are you tired of having problems? Want them to stop? Have you tried not having them? With advice like this, "Just Stop Having Problems, Stupid!" is a brilliant satire of self-help books by Dr. Matt, the self-proclaimed "most famous fake doctor of our time".
In a concise book that Internet fans are calling "the best self-help book ever", Dr. Matt brings the same great material and personality of his blog and podcast, delivering a spot-on caricature of the rise of celebrity for those who dispense advice. Yet despite himself, Dr. Matt manages to produce actual wisdom. It's hilarious and clever, both at the same time. As Dr. Matt says, one copy of the book may not be enough. Read more
Sunday, June 26, 2011
The Symbolic and the Real (Holistic Depth Psychology Trilogy Ser.) (Paperback)
By Ira Progoff
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Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers (Paperback)
By Karyl McBride
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The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBride helpsyou recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.
An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life. Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers' often unreasonable expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, sadness, and emotional emptiness. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage and frustration.
Herself the recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse has manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show you that you're not alone and that you can take back your life and have the control you want.
Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to:
(1) Recognize your own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of your life
(2) Discover how you have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage
(3) Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim your life and enhance your sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. You will also learn how not to repeat your mother's mistakes with your own daughter.
Warm and sympathetic, filled with the examples of women who have established healthy boundaries with their hurtful mothers, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? encourages and inspires you as it aids your recovery. Read more
ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY---quick, rough and powerful psychological strategies and adventures. (Kindle Edition)
By PhD Ernest Kinnie
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ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY, and THE MAGIC THEATER II, complement each other, and there is considerable overlap between them. ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY provides adventures, many methods for exploring and changing your life, and the folly and wisdom of many people. THE MAGIC THEATER II explores the ideas and methods of people like Freud and Skinner. The goal of both books is to expand what you can feel, what you can think, and what you can become. I’m a retired psychologist, using a lifetime of experience to create entertaining and useful books for your enjoyment and personal growth.
INTRODUCTION
The ELEMENTS OF STYLE, by Strunk and White, described the most important elements in the use of the English language. The ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY does the same for self-help psychology.
THE ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY is not meant to be read as you would a text book. Experiential, not intellectual, understanding is emphasized. For instance, ELEMENT #5 doesn’t spend any time describing and analyzing Pavlovian conditioning and the creation of conditioned responses. You create the Power Word RELAX, and then use it in your life.
Alfred North Whitehead, in THE AIMS OF EDUCATION, believed that concepts and strategies become alive only when they are experienced. Otherwise, they become more like playing chess with words---which can be very enjoyable, but doesn’t have much relevance beyond itself. In ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY you directly experience concepts and strategies, and think about them later, except for the theoretical section at the end of book.
Seriously consider writing down your experiences, maybe even keep a journal. The words WHAT I FOUND will be the cue to do so. Writing down adds a dimension to the experience. Reading later what you wrote adds another.
Use good judgment as you move through ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY. If you feel uncomfortable as you read something, or you are asked to do something that does not feel right, stop, pass on, and do something else.
The book is divided into four sections:
A. ELEMENTS
The 75 adventures and strategies in this section invite you to explore and enhance many aspects of your life. The descriptions of the ELEMENTS are very short, but the time to complete each will often take a week or more. Some ELEMENTS are fun adventures. Others will change your life, if that is your wish.
B. DEEP RELAXATION
ELEMENT 5 creates a connection between RELAX and relaxation, and that may be all you need. But, if you have trouble relaxing, or want to deepen the connection, follow the directions in this section. It is a very long, very detailed, very effective relaxation program that will create a powerful connection between the word RELAX and deep relaxation. The ability to use the word RELAX to quickly relax is a fundamental skill used many times in the book to help manage and change emotions and behaviors.
Also, fantasy adventures are much more vivid when you are deeply relaxed. You will be invited to go on a number of fantasy trips after you have completed the relaxation exercise---you deserve a big reward after all of your hard work. In the final adventure, you’ll recover a past life. In groups I’ve run, most people bring back past lives, and are very excited by what they find. Of course with no collaborating evidence the probability is what they found is only an enjoyable fantasy trip. But who knows. I still enjoy magic, so 10% of me believes.
C. WISDOM AND FOLLY
360 quotations. You decide which are wise and which are foolish.
D. THEORETICAL FRAMWORK FOR THE BOOK
This section is for those who believe that logic and concepts further their understanding of what they experience as they go through life. Maybe so. Maybe not.
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Hardcover)
By Malcolm Gladwell
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In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like. --Barbara Mackoff Read more
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
By Daniel H. Pink
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Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:
*Autonomy- the desire to direct our own lives
*Mastery- the urge to get better and better at something that matters
*Purpose- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves
Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.
Drive is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live. Read more
Candles in the Window (Paperback)
By Karl G. Larew
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Candles in the Window, a novel, examines the sexual and psychological experiences of college students in the l950s. The setting is the University of Connecticut. In method, this sometimes comic, sometimes tragic story will remind some readers of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. Multiple viewpoints raise the question of "objective" truth. Some readers will also find the nostalgic quality of the book to be attractive. Read more
Slow Love: A Polynesian Pillow Book (Paperback)
By Jim Powell
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Just as you see more of Nature when you are quiet-you discover more of your own sexual-emotional depths when you become more still. In Slow Love: A Polynesian Pillow Book, you will discover a more pacific, unifying approach to passion. James N. Powell's writings on Polynesian lovemaking have been warmly embraced in Japan, where they sparked the "Polynesian sex" vogue. Inspired by Powell's writings, Hiroyuki Itsuki, Japan's über author and Buddhist thinker, penned two volumes on South Seas sensuality. Also, Kunio Kitamura, Head of Japan's Family Planning Association, enthusiastically promotes Powell's thoughts on Polynesian-style passion as a way for couples to deepen sexual sensitivity and fulfillment. He writes: "Polynesian sex...involves taking a long time...and...allows energy in the form of weak electromagnetic waves-similar to the concept of ki-to flow, building up to create large waves that encompass the entire body and bring enormous pleasure and happiness." Read more
The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers (Paperback)
By Alberto Villoldo
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The Four Insights are the wisdom teachings that have been protected by secret societies of Earthkeepers, the medicine men and women of the Americas. The Insights state that all creation—humans, whales, and even stars—is made from light manifest through the power of intention. The Earthkeepers mastered the Insights, and used them to heal disease, eliminate emotional suffering, and even grow new bodies that age and heal differently. Mastery of the Insights allows you to reinform your DNA and participate consciously in your biological, emotional, and spiritual evolution. According to the prophecies of the Maya, Hopi, and Inka Earthkeepers, we’re at a turning point in human history, when a new species of human will give birth to itself. We’re going to take a quantum leap into what we’re becoming and will no longer be Homo sapiens but Homo luminouos. The Four Insights reveal ancient technologies we can practice for becoming beings of light with the ability to perceive the energy and vibration that make up the physical universe at a much higher level. Read more
Friday, June 24, 2011
The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women (Hardcover)
By Joan Lachkar
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Dr. Joan Lachkar examines the origins and early warning signs of the psychological violation she describes as a dance between abuser and abused. She goes on to introduce typologies of each (the narcissistic or passive-aggressive abuser, the unentitled self) and to explore the bases for their collusive attachments. Read more
Shrapnel (Paperback)
By Thorin
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Shrapnel is Thorin's fifth offering. Shrapnel is a collection of over 100 essays, bullet statements, witticisms, and smaller fragments reflecting the man's keen psychological, philosophical, and sociological perceptions that are all delivered in Thorin's trademark streetwise style. Shrapnel starts out by challenging our mechanized routines, and then moves into strengthening the inner spirit (fostering self-confidence), then Thorin finally finishes off his choices of expansive subject matter by analyzing the meaning of life and helping people to discover their purpose in it. Shrapnel also contains the philosophically-deep short story called: A Conversation With God. Shrapnel is an every-thing-but-the-kitchen-sink philosophical collection that is sure to make its readers look at life in an entirely new way. If you are tired of the cliches and standard formula that most writers seem to rehash and regurgitate, Shrapnel will be a breath of fresh air (be it a smoldering one). Read more
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
By Dan Ariely
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Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. Predictably Irrational is an intriguing, witty and utterly original look at why we all make illogical decisions. Why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can't? If an item is "free" it must be a bargain, right? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn't be? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions? In this astounding book, behavioural economist Dan Ariely cuts to the heart of our strange behaviour, demonstrating how irrationality often supplants rational thought and that the reason for this is embedded in the very structure of our minds. Predicatably Irrational brilliantly blends everyday experiences with a series of illuminating and often surprising experiments, that will change your understanding of human behaviour. And, by recognising these patterns, Ariely shows that we can make better decisions in business, in matters of collective welfare, and in our everyday lives from drinking coffee to losing weight, buying a car to choosing a romantic partner. Read more
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