books about: affects

books about: affects

books:

Affects

The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making

Scott Plous

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1993

A Wonderful Work
This work by Scott Plous should not be taken lightly. Dr. Plous, indeed, reviews the literature, but he also puts the missing pieces to the puzzle together as you try to understand how we got to the point we are today in the Psychology of judgment and decision making. ...

How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research (Jossey-Bass Higher & Adult Education)

Ernest T. Pascarella, Patrick T. Terenzini

Jossey-Bass, 2005

Terrible!
Too heavy on research and not enough answers. Not easy to read and not applicable to real life. Most research is common sense and authors like to use the phrase "research was inconclusive".

Tug of War: Classical Versus "Modern" Dressage: Why Classical Training Works and How Incorrect Riding ...

Gerd Heuschmann

Trafalgar Square Books, 2007

Tug of War
Every trainer and rider and judge of dressage horses needs to read this book. After doing so, you will never again wonder if hyperflexion of the neck (rollkur) and absolute elevation are legitimately sound methods of riding and training. You will also be able to spot ...

Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life

Ronald Potter-Efron, Patricia Potter-Efron

Hazelden, 1989

Practical Guide to Resolving Shame
Letting Go of Shame is an excellent self help guide. Each chapter ends with practical excercises. The material is presented in an orderly fasion, working through the issues one by one. The positive role that shame plays is covered, but the focal issue is toxic ...

The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

Michael Marmot

Holt Paperbacks, 2005

A topic in its infancy
You are a hot shot in a company, though not the boss. You are paid extremely well, but, again you have plenty of bosses above you (say the partners of an investment firm). Is it better than deriving a modest income being your own boss? The counterintuive answer is NO. ...

The Supremes' Greatest Hits: The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life

Michael G. Trachtman

Sterling, 2006

Things I should have learned in high school
I bought this as a gift, decided I'd better preview it first, and now I don't want to give it up. I'm ordering another one. Believe what the other 5-star reviewers have written.

PricewaterhouseCoopers 2009 Guide to Tax and Financial Planning: Including Analysis of the 2008 Tax Law ...
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Richard Kohan, ...

Wiley, 2008

In order to understand how the 2008 tax laws will affect youand properly plan your financial futureyou need clear explanations, not complicated tax jargon. With this accessible guide, the tax professionals at PricewaterhouseCoopers take a straightforward approach to explaining how todays tax rules may affect your personal finances and how you may ...

Potatoes Not Prozac, A Natural Seven-Step Dietary Plan to Stabilize the Level of Sugar in Your Blood, Control ...

Kathleen DesMaisons

Simon & Schuster, 1999

Life saver
I wish I'd stumbled across this book years ago! I knew I had a problem with sugar that was unlike other people, but no one really believes in sugar addiction or sugar sensitivity, so I received no help, or even empathy, elsewhere. Some weight loss gurus suggest there ...

One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All

Mark Robert Rank

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Strong Argument
What I really enjoyed about this book was its organization and the strength of its arguments. It begins by laying out the extent and reasons for poverty in America. Then it shifts to developing several lines of reasoning as to why poverty is such an important issue ...

Secret Societies...and How They Affect Our Lives Today

Sylvia Browne

Hay House, 2009

A very important subject to investigate.
Sylvia offers some good information here and I enjoyed listening to it multiple times. Especially if you are new to the subject of secret societies this might be good for you to hear. Once you jump in and really do some research you begin to uncover a huge can of ...

The Self-Conscious Emotions: Theory and Research

The Guilford Press, 2007

Critical Advances in Understanding Self-Regulation and Social Conformity
Not a day passes without something in the news that is a direct consequence of a failure of regulation. A student commits a crime because he has been teased and taunted; a woman is attacked because she has supposedly brought shame on a family or people abuse substances ...

Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning

Stenhouse Publishers, 2004

In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills: they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings. Choice Words shows how teachers accomplish this using ...

The Thousand Year War in the Mideast: How It Affects You Today (An Uncle Eric Book)

Richard J. Maybury

Bluestocking Press, 1999

An unusual interpretation of events in the Middle East
This book is not the best way to learn about the history of the Middle East. Not if one wishes to learn in detail of what has happened and when. However, if one wanted to learn the why of these events, this book is invaluable. It provides a simple clear cut reason for ...

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Series Q)

Eve Sedgwick

Duke University Press, 2003

amazing
This is one of the best works of "post-" theory that I've read, and the essay on paranoia is a much-needed light in the haze of contemporary grad school education. My copy is dog-eared and dirty and filled with underlined passages / scrawled notes to myself (mostly ...

The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our ...

Gary S. Becker, Guity Nashat Becker

McGraw-Hill, 1998

Very readable, very practical
This book brings economic theories down to earth. The Beckers are excellent writers and the book is easy to read because it is broken down into short segments. The book would be great as supplementary reading for a principles of economics class.