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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
John Medina
Pear Press, 2008
Outstanding tips with a sense of humor
+ Paradim Shifting
+ Read this Book if You Teach, Learn, Manage, Work, Raise Children, or Age (Did I leave anyone out?)
+ Brain Rules: RULE!
+ So far, so good...
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Darwin and Facial Expression: A Century of Research in Review
Malor Books, 2006
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The Psychology of Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts
Mark Pettinelli
Lulu.com, 2008
This book puts forth the idea that life is divided into three groups, emotion, thinking, and feeling. These three groups make humans feel in certain ways, thinking, physical stimulus, and emotion all contribute to feeling. But what is the difference between a thought, an emotion, and a feeling? Is there an overlap between the three? Probably, since any emotion can be broken down into the ...
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Handbook of Cultural Psychology
The Guilford Press, 2007
handbook review
This book is well-written and covers a broad number of topics relevant to cross-cultural psychological research. I've found the book a useful reference/guide to my own cross-cultural work in industrial/organizational psychology. I particularly like the chapter on 'Culture and Motivation' written by ...
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New Monetarism
David Roche, Bob McKee
Lulu Enterprises, UK Ltd, 2007
Old Tricks on a Larger Stage
+ Brilliant
+ Documents what I have long believed
This a great, quick read. Many topics can be misleadingly easy to read but difficult to piece together at a deeper level. David Roche is so familiar with his topic that many of the discussions have been distilled many times over. So it may be best to re-read parts.
The recurring theme of new ...
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Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
Deepak Malhotra, Max Bazerman
Bantam, 2007
Realistic, detailed negotiation manual
+ This is a solid book on negotiation
+ Fantastic book and easy read
+ Negotiation Genius
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Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal Control
Christopher Peterson, Steven F. Maier, ...
Oxford University Press, USA, 1995
A fascinating read for students of psychology
+ If you feel like a rat in a cage - READ THIS!
I enjoyed this book but I have to admit to a prejudice. I am a huge fan of Seligman's books and grab everything I can get my hands on.
This book is well argued and provides compelling evidence of the phenomenom of 'Learned Helpnessness' which can lead to depression, low motivation and poor ...
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The Future of Money
Benjamin J. Cohen
Princeton University Press, 2006
A Good Read!
+ A decent introduction to what's going on with the world's money
+ A Good Read!
This book is a thoughtful, amply documented reflection on the future of currency. The dollar, euro and yen dominate the global monetary order, with the dollar now unrivaled at the top and unlikely to be threatened in the future. The countries that issue lesser currencies face a trade-off between ...
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The Limits to Capital, New Edition
David Harvey
Verso, 2007
The most thorough exposition of Marxist political economy in print
+ classic book
+ A great book to get started on understanding Marx's Captial
David Harvey is actually a geographer, but from reading this book, one would think him one of the great political economists. Based on this work alone, he should be in the popular range of Stiglitz, Schumpeter, Milton Friedman etc., but it is not likely that such 'honor' will ever befall a Marxist ...
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Dirty Dealing: The Untold Truth about Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism
Peter Lilley
Kogan Page, 2006
Highly Recommended!
+ Strongly recommended reading for students of economics, criminology, and global terrorism
The subtitle of this book promises the "untold story" of dirty international financial dealings. That's not quite what it delivers, because the book compiles already-published accounts, public reports and Congressional testimony, and adds to them. Given that money laundering involves drug dealers, ...
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When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as ...
Paul J. Nahin
Princeton University Press, 2007
More would be better !
+ Pretty darn amazing
+ A fabulous book!
+ Delightful read, just avoid the the diagrams
+ excellent - I want all his books
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John Maynard Keynes
Hyman P. Minsky
McGraw-Hill, 2008
A Book on Financial Instability
+ Minsky understood the importance that uncertainty played in the GT but never grasped the technical details in chapters 20and 21
This is a great book. But it is a book about the views of Minsky, and not really on Keynes. The first chapter examines the way in which Keynes' 1936 book was received and interpreted, and Minsky's explanation is for the most part correct, namely, that Keynes' work represents more a revolution ...
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Pierre Bayard
Bloomsbury USA, 2007
Don't read this review
+ Clever & Entertaining Scholarship
+ Audio Books - Yet Another Way of not Reading a Book
Translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman
Writing a review of this book after reading it is somewhat problematic for several reasons. I selected it based on the idiosyncratic and seemingly tongue-in-cheek title, because of a propensity I have been accused of indulging in the past, ...
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The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (Culture of the Land)
University Press of Kentucky, 2008
Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, and so too has the notion that we can fix environmental problems with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this hubristic, shortsighted, and dangerous worldview. The contributors argue that uncritical faith ...
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The Strategy of Conflict
Thomas C. Schelling
Harvard University Press, 2007
Everyone should read this book
+ Good intro read
+ NOBLE PRIZE WINNER ON CONFLICT
+ Major contribution and still relevant after decades
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