books about: confusions

books about: confusions

books:

Confusions

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided ...

Roy Spencer

Encounter Books, 2008

Light & Breezy With Much Good But Not Scholarly
This is an interesting and enjoyable book to read on a "Hot" issue but do not expect a scholarly treatise that presents fact after scientific fact to support the author's points. Rather is an introduction to the subject from the viewpoint of an interested layman ...

Holding the Center: Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion

Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Frog Books, 1997

An excellent makes-you-think book
I don't know what words I can use to adequately describe Dr. Heckler's work. Enlightening, thought provoking and comforting are among the few. As a former serviceman and martial artist this book provided me with a wonderful insight into the world around me. Dr. ...

First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography: Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Collection (Yale ...
Joshua Chuang

YU Art Gallery, 2008

Many photographers have been intrigued with the baffling distortions?both subtle and disquieting?that can occur when the camera ?captures? the real world. Not always intentional, some images dazzle with impossible juxtapositions or disorienting spatial orders, while others confound the viewer?s belief in the documentary promise of photography. ...

Quintessential Dzogchen: Confusion Dawns as Wisdom

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

North Atlantic Books, 2006

Clear, Concise and Comprehensive Teachings
This is a wonderfully produced collection of ancient and modern Dzogchen lineage teachings. I've read several of Schmidt and Kunsang's other translation efforts (although neither of the other two books in this compendium series), and they all have the air of authentic, ...

Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion

Peter Kreeft

Ignatius Press, 1992

Virtue-Can We recover It?
Philosopher and Cultural Critic Peter Kreeft has written an outstanding book discussing virture in Western Culture. He opens the book by asking "Is Virtue Out of Date?". This sets the tone as he spends the next couple of chapters on how Western Culture got to the ...

God Save the Mark: A Novel of Crime and Confusion

Donald E. Westlake

Forge Books, 2004

Still As Good As It Was Forty Years Ago
I've owned two previous copies of this hilarious novel by the best comic mystery writer I've ever encountered, Donald Westlake. I bought it when it first came out in the late 1960s, later had it in paperback, and now it's been reprinted again. Fred Fitch has to be one ...

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Michael Shermer

Holt Paperbacks, 2002

Well thought out book showing how even smart people can believe weird things.
Well written easy to understand book about the psychology of how people (even smart people) can fall into common logical fallacies and come to wrong conclusions if they aren't careful. Must read.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusión de Confusiones (A Marketplace Book)

Charles Mackay, Joseph de la Vega, ...

Wiley, 1995

Timeless!
This was the warning shot ahead of the internet bubble. Hearing about the Dutch tulip bubble in 1995 (when I first read the book) we should have been well prepared to duck when Amazon, Ebay and their fallen comrades shot to the moon. If only we had listened... The ...

Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of ...

Pete Dexter

Ecco, 2007

Blast from Past
I remember Pete from his time at the Philadelphia Daily News. It truly was a different era. We still have columnists, but Pete was something special. Many of the columns collected here have the power to break your heart. Those that do not will make you laugh, or ...

The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)

Neal Stephenson, 2004

a must for Stephenson fans
Excellent. This continuation of the Baroque Cycle Saga is even more enthralling than Quicksilver. Stephenson maintains his storytelling style of exquisite detail, interspersed with quirky, ribald humor and intellectual subtleties. Expanding the domain of action ...

State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind

Bryant Welch

Thomas Dunne Books, 2008

A "must-read" for every caring, thinking voter
If you're interested in -- or just curious about -- how the US got where it now is in Iraq and among the nations of the world, you need to read this book. It explains how the "gaslighters" [Karl Rove, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, etc] manipulated the minds of American ...

The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China

Timothy Brook

University of California Press, 1999

An internal view of an understudied dynasty
The Ming dynasty in China does not receive much attention since it mostly lacks the bloodshed or philosophical grandeur of the Qing, the Tang or the Han. Brook is one of the leading authorities on this era, and this book is, I believe, his most accessible. Beginning ...

Confusion No More: For the Spiritual Seeker

Ramesh S. Balsekar

Watkins, 2007

Life is simple
Reading this book is hard for the seeker (i.e., the ego): there is no free will, there is no meaning, and you are not the doer. Forget about spirituality, about seeking... Thank you Ramesh Balsekar for not offering any carrots! After reading this book there are no more ...

Effective Coaching

Marshall J. Cook

McGraw-Hill, 1998

A fine overview of the dynamics of interpersonal leadership.
After reading the book Effective Coaching, by Marshall J. Cook, I now have some helpful insights about the role of coaching. I initially wanted to see how closely the role of coach and mentor was, and decided to see if this could help make that distinction. As I ...

When Life Changes or You Wish It Would: A Guide to Finding Your Next Step Despite Fear, Obstacles, or ...

Carol Adrienne

Harper Paperbacks, 2003

Life-Changing Book
This book provided insights and information that have changed my life. I have since bought copies for friends and they agree that it is a book that will quide you through the tough times and keep you on track to achieve your goals and dreams.