books about: selfish

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Selfish

How to be Your Own Selfish Pig: And Other Ways You've Been Brainwashed

Susan Schaeffer, Susan Macaulay Susan Schaeffer-Macaulay

Summit Press, 2003

Delves into the "why" behind the rules
In How to be Your Own Selfish Pig, Susan Schaeffer Macauley, the daughter of Christian thinker Francis Schaeffer, takes many of the ideas in her father's works and places them in simpler language geared to teenagers, kind of "easy apologetics" if you will. While the ...

Don't Give Me That Attitude!: 24 Rude, Selfish, Insensitive Things Kids Do and How to Stop Them

Michele, Ed.D. Borba

Jossey-Bass, 2004

Highly Recommended For All Parents
I've read all of Michele Borba's books. To me, she stands for the kind of parent I want to be: you can't just sit back and expect everything to go well. You have to get engaged and if there's a problem you have to deal with it. I love my kid -- he's great-- but he's ...

Bratty Brothers and Selfish Sisters: All about Sibling Rivalry (Elf-Help Books for Kids)

R. W. Alley

One Caring Place, 2007

Love this book series!
I buy a lot of these series of books for my 7 year old. There is one for almost every emotion and many situations. Love books with a message especially if they have a good story line.

Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements

Austin Burt, Robert Trivers

Belknap Press, 2008

Fascinating
The concept of a "selfish gene" has made its way into the popular and semi-popular press, and because of this has provoked many discussions in ethical circles as well as in the area known as evolutionary psychology. Some of these discussions attempt to set the record ...

Selfish Mr. Mermaid (Yaoi)

Nabako Kamo

Digital Manga Publishing, 2008

WOW!!!! What can I say but WOW!!!
First of all I loved this book way too much almost as much as Our kingdom. The charcters feel so real, the art is very beautiful, and the story itself was so funny. I just got the book today and I read it in 30 min I could not put it down.(for a norm person it would ...

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author

Richard Dawkins

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

If you read one book on evolution...
If you want to learn about evolution, this is the first book you should read. If you think you know evolution, this is the book you need to read.

Trapped in the Mirror

Elan Golomb

Harper Paperbacks, 1995

Rich, indepth study of narcisssism
I have been searching for some time to find a readable book on this subject and how to understand how living with a narcisstic parent has affected my life. This is the book! Golomb takes a psychoanalytic approach that is very helpful in understanding the development ...

How to Be Your Own Selfish Pig, And Other Ways You've Been Brainwashed

Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Chariot/Victor Publishing, 1982

Funny but serious
Suzanne Shcaeffer is the daugter of the late great Christian thinker, Francis. She takes the ideas of his work and puts them in down to earth, humourous but compelling language. Even better, the cartoons are excellent. This book is intensely human, serious and will ...

The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of ...

Robert Shaw

Harper Paperbacks, 2004

Have the negative reviewers even read this book?
I recently read this book and found it to be both relieving and empowering. I could fill a library with the books I've bought about babies and raising children, but this is one of the ONLY books I've read that really tells you to trust your own instincts and to feel ...

The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction

Robert L. Dupont

Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, 2000

Best Resource Available
I have found this to be an excellent resource for every aspect of addiction. Dr. Robert Dupont is emminently qualified to author this text. He does an excellent job of personalizing his writing with examples from his practice. He offers a message of hope for addicts ...

The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War

Tony Vaux

Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2003

self-recognition
Tony Vaux took a job that landed him in Kosovo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia, Azerbaijan and Rwanda. He worked for Oxfam, one of the world's premier development and relief organizations. In his work, he helped some of the poorest and ...

Selfish Giant

Oscar Wilde

Scholastic Trade, 1991

Kindness Goes a Long Way
In this story, there is a very selfish giant. He hates kids and won't let them play in his garden. This causes spring not to come. This goes on for years; no children playing, no spring. Finally, one day, many many years later, the children just play in the garden ...

Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy

Tim Roughgarden

The MIT Press, 2005

Bringing Theory to Practice
Besides containing original results from the author's own PHD thesis, the book has complied results and concepts that can not only jump start a new comer in the field, but also give practical tools for network designers. Starting from the very simple description of ...

Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution

David Stove

Encounter Books, 2007

Dawkins ridiculed....
Dawkins' "memes" and "selfish genes" have been critically scrutinized in a brilliant and amusing way ("intelligent" genes smarter and more manipulative than humans?). Stove writes: "I try to think of what, or anyone, could say to Dawkins, to help restrain him from ...

Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution

David P. Barash

Bellevue Literary Press, 2007

A matter-of-fact accounting that does not excuse or justify immoral behavior
Professor of psychology and proponent of sociobiology David P. Barash presents Natural Selections, a matter-of-fact look at how human biology and evolution affect human behavior, and what this has to say about both practical and ethical dilemmas in today's world. ...