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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay Books, 2002
Terrifically readable...
...theory about the factors that combine and cause some emerging trends to catch fire and spread.
Gladwell's strength is his ability to separate the factors and illustrate them through interesting case studies and repetition -- he turns a complex theory into ...
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008
Couldn't put it down
One of the best books I have read in the last year and one of the most riveting memoirs I've read in a long, long time.
David Sheff is able to portray the frustration, anger, angst and incredible agony of living with a loved one who is addicted without being ...
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Free Press, 2001
Now, Discover Your Strengths
This is the most important book I've read about developing people. With the inclusion of the internet-based Strengths Finder Profile, the reader gets much more than a book. This is an interactive tool that will help the reader understand how his talents are best used ...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Back Bay Books, 2007
In the blink of an eye
Malcolm Gladwell did a great job explaining thin-slicing. His examples were very memorable and easy to connect with for the most part. I couldn't put this book down! I am going into education and find this book really interesting on how we can set up schema's and think ...
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, ...
Daniel G. Amen
Three Rivers Press, 1999
Change Your Brain Change Your Life
I watched a program 0n TV in which the author Daniel G. Amen discussed this book and and that is why i ordred it.So far I am enjoying reading it. As a person who has suffered from anxiety all my life, I was searching for answers and Dr.Amen's theories interested me ...
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
HarperCollins, 2008
Pridicatably irational
Compulsary reading for anyone in business,retail, or marketing or anyone who is a consumer! An enlightening book which points out the idiosyncracies of our purchasing decisions.
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Yale University Press, 2008
Nudged to read Nudge
One of my two favorite financial journalists suggested I read this book. So I went in with very high expectations. This book more than delivered.
Like anyone of my age (50), I learned that economics was about supply and demand, and the rational choices we humans ...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Free Press, 2004
A book for ALL seasons...
There's a good reason why this book remains a bestseller - it makes sense and has something for everyone, including the most seasoned professionals. A most critical point is Covey's notion of the relationship between being a great leader and inspiring others to find ...
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association (APA), 2001
APA Must
This is an
APA must, like a Bible for professional papers required for submission. Some parts are so scholarly written and this makes it a little complicated to understand. However, a highligher, sticky notes and make a 3 x 5 card with favorite pages are helpful ...
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Pocket, 1998
A Drop of Honey Is Better than a Gallon of Vinegar
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" is the definitive self-help book. Whether you're trying to make friends, improve your sales closing ratio or persuade others to your way of thinking, this is the preeminent book for learning how to do so. Many books that have ...
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The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits
Gregg Braden
Hay House, 2008
Gregg Braden
This book is on of the most benifical books that I have ever read. It combines Sientific reshearch, with how your Thougts combine to let you see how there is one Source in the Universe, How your Heart felt thoughts not only are energy, but how they have actual efects ...
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
Robert B. Cialdini
Collins, 2007
Surprisingly entertaining and accessible.
This was a really enjoyable book -entertaining and accessiblly written while still being informative and empirically grounded. Cialdini avoids sounding like Machiavelli or Robert Greene by writing from the perspective of someone who is the target of influence rather ...
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Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems
Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier
Three Rivers Press, 2007
The Very Best
Cesar knows what goes on it a dogs head. It all put out in clear easy to understand language. I would recommend this book to any person who is a dog owner or before they become one. Its an update to some very old thinking about dog training. Definitely a must have.
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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
The only book you need on the subject
Johnson's book was a life saver. It is informative, it responded to my doubts and fears, it answered my questions. It showed me a way to live with change. It taught me to think positively about something that was making me very negative.
I have given the book to ...
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, ...
McGraw-Hill, 2002
Crucial Conversations A Must
I feel this book can help with Crucial Conversations at home as well as in the workplace. If applied, it can improve basic interpersonal relationships and improve your life as well as those around you. Excellent, easy to read and understand, and gives the hows to put ...
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