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Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, ...
Free Press, 2008
Great fast read with real knowledge :)
I just finished this book today, and I absolutely loved it !!! I am actually buying more copies for my friends and family in sales, own their own business or have positive ambition :)
There are like 50 chapters with 3-5 pages each, kinda. It makes it easy to read ...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Free Press, 2004
It's all in the habit!
Habits! Yes, consistent, belief-based, and optimized habits are the only way to be your best self. Thoughts are the parents of our experience and performance. This guy will guide you to it. You will also learn how to optimize these habits with Rosalene Glickman's ...
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association (APA), 2001
Handbook
I like this version. Smaller, lighter, easier to take. I use it when reading papers and doing mine. However it will be more diserable if they keep the red blod words which make the title and keywords more clear. I know some of the student buy it because the instructors ...
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel H. Pink
Riverhead Trade, 2006
A whole new way to see the world
A Whole New Mind is written for those who are looking to increase their abilities and engage their brain. The book offers a holistic approach to changing your life and changing how you see the world and approach problems. Pink makes the argument that we all need to ...
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition (Text Revision)
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2000
IF YOU ARE BUYING THIS BOOK, READ THIS!!!!!
Let me start by saying if you find this useful, please click on the "Yes" next to the question "Did you find this review uesful". The reason i ask is because i think this is important information and with enough yes's, it can move to the top of the reviews.
My ...
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
Oliver Sacks
Vintage, 2008
Our love of music and what can happen to it and to us
Sacks looks at music and the neurological basis for music within the mind. He presents a variety of case studies.
People who are obsessed with music, some born so and others becoming so late in life. We read of victims of dementia who have lost all mental functions ...
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Free Press, 2001
Management tool
Probably the best management and personnel development tool around! Four staff members were each given a copy to read and to follow the instructions for getting an analysis. Each was asked to bring the analysis for their annual job review. They expected the typical ...
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, ...
Daniel G. Amen
Three Rivers Press, 1999
Fabulous book
This is a most helpful book. It is the only real help I have found on a most complex and difficult subject. What a revelation to find useful information for a lay person to use to help themselves and loved ones. His ideas are simply explained and extremely useful and, ...
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
HarperCollins, 2008
Reality is absolutely relative.
At first glance, the title of Dan Ariely's book seems to be an oxymoron. (It certainly catches one's attention.) Can irrational thought and/or behavior be predicted? Perhaps if it is repetitive? (The judgment and behavior of at least some people can be repetitive and ...
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay Books, 2002
Must read book
Macolm Gladwell's approach in this book is that of an observer. His deductions are thoroughly logical and offer a refreshing alternative to traditional thought. This book was a joy to read. I am also half way through his second book entitled Blink. As an author he ...
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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. ...
Norman Doidge
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
amazing
This is such a revelation. The book is so easy to read.
What an amazing brain we have been given.
I marvel the older I get at Gods' wonderful creation and how he made us.
And we are learning this with these sorts of discoveries.
A great book and so very easy to ...
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
Robert B. Cialdini
Collins Business, 2007
Should be required reading
Nutshell review - This should be required reading. It discusses and explains many ways in which we are being influenced and persuaded, often to our detriment. If you want to know how it is done, and how to defend yourself against it, then read this book - a few times.
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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Spencer Johnson
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1998
Who moved my cheese
I received the book very quickly, I needed it for school and got it in time. It was like new if not new.
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Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Alex Harris, Brett Harris
Multnomah Books, 2008
dizzydax
I loved this book! These two incredible teen authors break the mold of the "typical teenager" and share their wonderful advice to other teens on how to prove the "lazy teenager" stereotype wrong.
A MUST READ FOR ALL TEENS (AND SOME ADULTS TOO!)
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Melody Beattie
Hazelden, 1992
Codependent No More
I haven't finished reading it yet but just by reading introduction and couple of chapters, I knew that book was what I was searching for... It is just what I need to get through difficult time...
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