books about: collective     books:     Collective      The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation Drew Westen PublicAffairs, 2008 Want to Win? Read this Book! Drew Westen's The Political Brain describes why Democrats routinely lose to Republicans despite being right on the issues. Democrats approach elections like job interviews, whereas Republicans see elections as dates. Specifically, Democrats foolishly believe that ...             Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life Laura Whitworth, Karen Kimsey-House, ... Davies-Black Publishing, 2007 A powerfull technique of coaching The best book to learn how to practice Co-active coaching. This is a book for coaches or for coaching students . You can hear two sessions of coaching in the CD included.             For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women Shaunti Feldhahn, Jeff Feldhahn Multnomah Books, 2006 Great read- fun and insightful! Our pastor recommended this book (who knew!). My husband read "For Men Only" and I read "For Women Only." Before we were married, we decided that each year, we would read a 'foster our relationship' book together. This is by far the best read we've done! Very ...             Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications Toby Segaran O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Great, simple presentation of some powerful techniques Programming Collective Intelligence is a book about applying data mining techniques to analyse collections of data. There is submerged information in Ebay prices, in Facebook profile networks, in collections of movie reviews, in news sites, in the stockmarket; this ...             The Wonder of Boys Michael Gurian Tarcher, 2006 Fantastic Book As the mother of three boys I've read a lot of books to gain a better insight into their minds and hearts. This is by far the best book I've read on the subject. I understand some feminist types are offended by the notion that a father is an important (if not the ...             Applied Behavior Analysis (2nd Edition) John O. Cooper, Timothy E. Heron, ... Prentice Hall, 2007 Amazing Text This text is spectacular. This edition is a triumph. I was a bit dubious when the forward obliquely compared this book to The Beatles (The White Album), but have become more sympathetic to the perspective as I have spent more time with it. Cooper/Heron is simply the ...             The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less Barry Schwartz Harper Perennial, 2005 Provides an interesting look at how too much choice has a negative impact on well-being My husband and I, both professionals (he's an attorney, I'm a psychologist), had previously had many conversations about how the plethora of choices available in modern-day life--from being able to find virtually every TV program ever made online to owning an iPod that ...             How to Win Friends & Influence People Dale Carnegie Pocket, 1998 Life Changing No wonder this is a classic. It is a good reminder of all the things you inherently know, but forget as a normal part of daily life. Immediately upon starting to read it, the way I was dealing with people changed - and business improved quickly! Obviously, a book ...             The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and ... Peg Tyre Crown, 2008 Why are boys falling behind? This book is a follow on to the author's Newsweek cover story about the widening gap between boys and girls academic performance in the United States. She makes the case that, just as we rallied in the 90s to help girls catch up to boys in math and science, we need to ...             Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations Clay Shirky Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 Great Quality Political Analysis Clay Shirky provides insightful and well-developed analysis of today's new technology and its possible impact on politics and other areas of society, such as journalism. This is interspersed with stories to keep the reader interested. All in all, I am very glad I ...             The SocialAtom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You Mark Buchanan Bloomsbury USA, 2007 Finally, a path from Social alchemy to Social Science! As an avid reader of the late, great Isaac Asimov's fabulous "Foundation" novels in my miss-spent youth, I was thrilled to read this book. I see it as the first faint glimmering of the possibility of developing the kind of social science which Asimov described in his ...             The Four Agreements Toltec Wisdom Collection: 3-Book Boxed Set don Miguel Ruiz Amber-Allen Publishing, 2008 Mastery of Love, The Four Agreements Amazing! So Much Personal Power in such a small Book! Easy read and Makes you Think! I've only read the first two books so far but they showed up at a time of upheaval in my life. Who doesn't ever have That? Whether your life is in flux or no, This is a Must Read for ...             The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation Drew Westen PublicAffairs, 2007 People vote their passions! The Republican Party, to its credit, has exploited this fundamental principle of politics for decades, while many Democratic candidates have retreated into a "safe" strategy of not offending the electorate. This has lead to an extremely unhealthy state of ...             Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls Rachel Simmons Harvest Books, 2003 must read for youth workers and parents i'm not sure how i missed this book. it was published in 2002, and is absolute must reading for EVERY youth worker (male or female) and every parent of a girl. it's a tough read and an easy read. easy, because simmons is an excellent writer and fills the book with ...             Social Psychology with SocialSense Student CD-ROM David G. Myers McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006 For a textbook, it's actually pretty decent. However, face it: you're buying this for a class so you really don't have a choice. So, you're taking Social Psychology and this is the book that made it through the stringent textbook selection and review process, and now you find yourself blessed with the opportunity to pay 3x what a book is worth, because it's a textbook! Lucky you. Well, at least ...          products you might be interested in search for books applications, intelligence, organizations, programming, socialsense, straightforward      toavi.com    web we recommend Life Changing randomly chosen book: Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship (Jewish and Christian ...