General Books


Successful Intelligence: How Practical and Creative Intelligence Determine Success in LifeSuccessful Intelligence: How Practical and Creative Intelligence Determine Success in Life
Quite a few years ago - at least ten - I read another book by Yale pyschologist Robert Sternberg...
Replays: Using Play to Enhance Emotional And Behavioral Development for Children With Autism Spectrum DisorderReplays: Using Play to Enhance Emotional And Behavioral Development for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Best Price: $12.71
I'm a fan of any book that opens with a quote from Jerry of Ben and Jerry's ("If it's not...
Contemporary Human Behavior Theory: A Critical Perspective for Social Work (2nd Edition)Contemporary Human Behavior Theory: A Critical Perspective for Social Work (2nd Edition)
Best Price: $68.40
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1Q7PNVLPF4DT1 Contemporary Human Behavior The A...
Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New DisciplinePositive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline
Best Price: $35.64
Happiness is something different than the absence of misery and health is something more than...
The Affect Effect: Dynamics of Emotion in Political Thinking and BehaviorThe Affect Effect: Dynamics of Emotion in Political Thinking and Behavior
Best Price: $17.95
"The Affect Effect" is a welcome volume. In political science--and in the study of...


Extraordinary Minds: Portraits Of 4 Exceptional Individuals And An Examination Of Our Own Extraordinariness (Masterminds Series)Extraordinary Minds: Portraits Of 4 Exceptional Individuals And An Examination Of Our Own Extraordinariness (Masterminds Series)
Best Price: $4.19
I first read this book in 1998 or 1999, and since have lost my copy, but I remember enjoying...
On Human NatureOn Human Nature
Best Price: $19.60
In 1975 Wilson published 'Sociobiology' which proposed the idea that social structures in the...
Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral SciencesFundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Best Price: $92.95
It's a good book, as far as statistics textbooks go. It makes a tough subject very easy to...
The Spectrum of Consciousness (Quest Books)The Spectrum of Consciousness (Quest Books)
Best Price: $2.00
Wilber wrote this book as a young man, but dont think you get less - on the contrary! I read...
What's Wrong With My Mouse: Behavioral Phenotyping of Transgenic and Knockout MiceWhat's Wrong With My Mouse: Behavioral Phenotyping of Transgenic and Knockout Mice
Best Price: $82.32
"...this valuable book is currently the most complete overview of behavioral procedures...


Inside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind WorksInside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works
Best Price: $6.99
This is a good book in that it is readable and entertaining. The first half was of greater...
Favorite Counseling and Therapy Homework Assignments: Leading Therapists Share Their Most Creative StrategiesFavorite Counseling and Therapy Homework Assignments: Leading Therapists Share Their Most Creative Strategies
Best Price: $27.47
I was hoping for some fresh ideas using homework assignments in my private practice counseling...
Unsmiling FacesUnsmiling Faces
Best Price: $23.35
I recommend Unsmiling Faces to teachers of young children more than any other book in my...
A Piaget Primer: How a Child ThinksA Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks
Best Price: $39.29
At last, Piaget's concepts are presented in an enjoyable, memorable manner. For decades,...
Thinking (4th Edition)Thinking (4th Edition)
Best Price: $32.25
This book was very enlightening and I've added to my collection of foundational works. The book...

The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and ReasoningThe Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning
Best Price: $49.68
This book is comprehensive. For anyone interested in psychology, thinking, analogical, spatial...
Treating the Trauma of Rape: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSDTreating the Trauma of Rape: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSD
Best Price: $26.00
Unfortunately, I loaned my copy of this book and can't provide exact quotes to make my case. But...
Men's LivesMen's Lives
Best Price: $48.70
I had this book for SOC381, Men and Masculinity. great read, some of the articles are hard to...
Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)
Best Price: $27.14
I decided to read that book because of its frequent appearance in other highly interesting...
Social Cognition: Understanding Self and Others (Texts in Social Psychology)Social Cognition: Understanding Self and Others (Texts in Social Psychology)
Best Price: $32.67
I just finished taking my candidacy exams, and this book was probably the only well-written...

Images of Deviance and Social ControlImages of Deviance and Social Control
Best Price: $91.25
The book is excellent: comprehensive, thought-provoking, fair, and interesting. Reading it...
Visualize Confidence: How to Use Guided Imagery to Overcome Self-DoubtVisualize Confidence: How to Use Guided Imagery to Overcome Self-Doubt
Best Price: $8.77
Dr. Rockefeller has penned an important guide to attaining a greater sense of self-worth, which...
Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems)Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems)
Best Price: $25.00
This book was a great help in my quest to understand the Recognition Process. Very informative.
FUNDAMENTALIST MIND: How Polarized Thinking Imperils US AllFUNDAMENTALIST MIND: How Polarized Thinking Imperils US All
Best Price: $14.83
This highly readable book presents to those skeptics among us who love our religions a priceless...
A Teacher's Guide to Cognitive Type Theory & Learning StyleA Teacher's Guide to Cognitive Type Theory & Learning Style
Best Price: $15.00
This book has an interesting combination of the MBTI learning theory(N) and the author's...

Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary PotentialGifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
Best Price: $13.94
This book is a collection of anecdotal evidences of gifted grownup's behavior. The author...
The Archetypal Imagination (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)The Archetypal Imagination (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)
Best Price: $10.18
I've read most everything that Hollis has written. His style is quite difficult, but most...
Attachment, Evolution, and the Psychology of ReligionAttachment, Evolution, and the Psychology of Religion
Best Price: $38.40
Although I have read other theories with which I agree more (evolutionary theories elaborated...
Emotion and AdaptationEmotion and Adaptation
Best Price: $42.40
This is not late-night, send-me-off-to-sleepy-time reading, even for those with Ph.D's, and...
Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory (Prentice-Hall Series in Social Learning Theory)Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory (Prentice-Hall Series in Social Learning Theory)
Best Price: $156.83
In this important volume, Bandura advances a view of human functioning that accords a central...

The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our UnderstandingThe Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
Best Price: $14.48
In my view, this is one of the more important books written in the last couple of decades. In...
The Growth of the Mind: And the Endangered Origins of IntelligenceThe Growth of the Mind: And the Endangered Origins of Intelligence
Best Price: $4.00
In this work, Dr. Greenspan provides the reader with a general thesis on human development, from...
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
Best Price: $16.99
Reading Bruner is as easy as putting on a wet suit just out of the drier. Many times, he...
Causal Models: How People Think about the World and Its AlternativesCausal Models: How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives
Best Price: $28.00
Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires...
The Great Mother (Mythos Books)The Great Mother (Mythos Books)
Best Price: $22.74
Neumann's book is really a masterpiece. I reccomend reading it after The origins and history of...

Secrets of EveSecrets of Eve
Best Price: $16.97
I searched high and low to find a book on female sexuality (not just sex "how-to," or...
Teachers, Change Your Bait! Brain-Compatible Differentiated InstructionTeachers, Change Your Bait! Brain-Compatible Differentiated Instruction
Best Price: $21.33
This is an easy read with many easy strategies to help differentiate instruction. Scenerios...
Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation (Evolution and Cognition Series)Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation (Evolution and Cognition Series)
Best Price: $34.65
This book provides a clear and informative summary of the evolutionary theories that explain why...
Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of StoryStory Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story
Best Price: $20.99
This book summarizes the many studies that prove that the most effective way to communicate...
Six Blind Elephants: Understanding Ourselves and Each Other, Vol. 2: Applications and Explorations of Scope and CatagorySix Blind Elephants: Understanding Ourselves and Each Other, Vol. 2: Applications and Explorations of Scope and Catagory
Best Price: $10.48
This is the same review I wrote for Vol 1 but I'm giving Vol 2 one more star, b/c vol 2 is more...

Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (Blackwell Handbooks of Experimental Psychology)Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (Blackwell Handbooks of Experimental Psychology)
Best Price: $38.83
i am still plowing through this material because there is so much of it. anyone who really wants...
Narrative Mediation : A New Approach to Conflict ResolutionNarrative Mediation : A New Approach to Conflict Resolution
Best Price: $32.99
I read this book in this entirety and now I read sections before almost every mediation I...
A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human ConsciousnessA Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness
Best Price: $10.46
Like Donald, Dennet, and others, I too have no idea how sentences come forth from what must be a...
Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics (Bradford Books)Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics (Bradford Books)
Best Price: $17.88
This book offers an outstanding survey of philosophy, psychology, brain science, economics, and...
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm Therapist Guide (Programs That Work)Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm Therapist Guide (Programs That Work)
Best Price: $7.04
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects an estimated 2% of children in the United States and...

3 Seconds: The Power of Thinking Twice3 Seconds: The Power of Thinking Twice
Best Price: $1.47
I have just finished reading the foregoing book by Dr Les Parrott. Quite an entertaining book, I...
Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange SexDeviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex
Best Price: $7.95
This is a book that's fun to read, informative, and great at parties. As a sexuality researcher,...
The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern PsychologyThe Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology
Best Price: $12.10
This book explains psychology starting from the most basic biological principles. It uses a...
Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (Cognitive Science of Religion Series)Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (Cognitive Science of Religion Series)
Best Price: $19.75
As an atheist, it is easy to view those with traditional religious beliefs in a condescending...
The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City LifeThe Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life
Best Price: $13.53
An intriguing and convincing argument: modern affluent societies suffer from a malaise. People...

Conducting School-Based Functional Behavioral Assessments: A Practitioner's GuideConducting School-Based Functional Behavioral Assessments: A Practitioner's Guide
Best Price: $25.44
The book is well-written and easy to read, and makes the topics very clear and easy to...
Facilitator's Guide: How the Brain LearnsFacilitator's Guide: How the Brain Learns
Best Price: $14.99
This is a very usable complement to the main title in this series. Well written and very easy to...
The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter ChildThe Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child
Best Price: $6.38
The book that I ordered came on-time and in great shape. I couldn't have asked for an easier...
Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-BrainNeurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain
Best Price: $10.94
You will find Churchland's arguments compelling. She builds her case methodically and...
The Road To Excellence: the Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and GamesThe Road To Excellence: the Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games
Best Price: $38.00
Good book but not for everyone i.e. me. I agree with the major points of the work but it was a...

Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.5)Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.5)
Best Price: $15.00
This book is great for clarifying some complicated and misunderstood ideas like "infantile...
The Compassionate Brain: A Revolutionary Guide to Developing Your Intelligence to Its Full PotentialThe Compassionate Brain: A Revolutionary Guide to Developing Your Intelligence to Its Full Potential
Best Price: $2.01
Never judge a book by its cover! This is one of the most terrible books that I have read in a...
   
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