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Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul: Second Dose: More Stories to Honor and Inspire Nurses (Chicken Soup for the Soul)

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, L.P.N., LeAnn Thieman

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Nearly one million people have been touched by the stories in the first edition of Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul. Now this second edition ministers to millionsmore!

Most people don't become nurses because of the pay, working conditions, or the convenient hours. Men and women become nurses because they want to make a difference in the lives of others through the use of their compassionate skills and hard work. Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul, Second Dose, underscores why nurses enter the profession . . . and why they stay.

This collection of true stories encourages, uplifts, and honors nurses; reenergizing them with hope, health, and healing during challenging times. Through laughter and tears, nurses share their memories and tales, inspiring and honoring one another as they continue their journey. You will be moved by the heartwarming revelations of nurses who have just started out in the field, as well as by veteran nurses who share their experiences of making a difference in the lives of their patients.

Sexing The Body: Gender Politics And The Construction Of Sexuality

Anne Fausto-Sterling

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Total reviews: 16 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Gender seen from a particular perspective 3 out of 5 stars.
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.

As a transgendered person who is trying to read as much information as possible about gender, this book does supply alot of historic, scientific and theoretical background. It is another important addition to my library. That being said, I was taken aback by her comments regarding transexuals on pp 253 as a "type of human" and "stereotypical member of their sex to be". If I misunderstood the inference, I apologize. If not, I am greatly offended and wonder why marginalizing my existence supports yours. Read Judith Butler as a comparison to this work.

Editorial Review:

Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced.Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms - sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed - and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.

Lead Like Jesus: Lessons from the Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Time

Ken Blanchard, Phil Hodges

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"The more I read the Bible, the more evident it becomes that everything I have ever taught or written about effective leadership over the past 25 years, Jesus did to perfection. He is simply the greatest leadership role model of all time." Ken Blanchard

Effective leadership-whether on the job, in the community, at church or in the home-starts on the inside. Before you can hope to lead anyone else, you have to know who you are. Every leader must answer two critical questions: Whose are you going to be? Who are you going to be? One deals with your relationship to Christ. The other with your life purpose.

With simple yet profound principles from the life of Jesus, and dozens of stories and leadership examples from his life experiences, veteran author, speaker and leadership expert Ken Blanchard, guides readers through the process of discovering how to lead like Jesus. It really could be described as the process of aligning two internal domains-the heart and the head-and two external domains, the hands and the habits. These four dimensions of leadership form the outline for this very practical and transformational book.

The New Creative Artist

Nita Leland

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Definitely Creative! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book will get any creative body with a block back into their creative hobby. She gives so many great ideas, like that you should write down all the great creative ideas you think of and put them in to a jar. That way, whenever you can't think of something to get your creative juices flowing, just grab your jar and do whatever the piece of paper says!

On a sidenote: I also love that the binding is ring - so that you can fold the book flat and not worry about pages closing on you when you are trying out something new - but that it is also protected by a larger cover so the ring binder doesn't fall apart like they usually do - THANK YOU PUBLISHER!

Anyhow, great buy for any artist or artists' library - a book I will forever reference...I only wish that Leland explained more of the techniques behind rare art forms (but that would add a whole other book!).

Editorial Review:

This updated version of The Creative Artist breathes new life into a popular North Light classic, helping artists reach greater levels of creativity, inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Perfect for fans of the original--and anyone who wants to be more creative--this book includes:

-A fresh, eye-catching design that showcases 50 percent new material

-New instruction to address the creative challenges of today’s artist

-More than 60 fun, fabulous activities for achieving greater creativity

-Artwork in a wide variety of styles and mediums

Practical advice combined with inspiring exercises and insights from other artists make this the ultimate creativity guide!

The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work

Jon Gordon

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Postive Approach to a Negative 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I was a bit struck by the title which is allegedly a positive book but speaking about complaining and negativity seemed a little strange.

This book is told in storybook fashion and generally speaking, I prefer books to get to the point than using storybook style; however, I do know there are a number of people who do like storybooks.

I totally agree with the thesis of the book which is you will have more fun and you will do better, the company will do better if you don't complain and look at things positively.

The book has numerous good ideas on how to reduce complaining and the one thing that I liked was a no complaining week personal action plan which includes:

Day one - monitor your thoughts and words
Day two - make a gratitude list
Day three - take a thank you walk
Day four - focus on good staff
Day five - start a success journal
Day six - let go
Day seven - breathe

Although the book is fairly shallow, I would still recommend it and think it has some good ideas.

Editorial Review:

Negativity in the workplace costs businesses billions of dollars and impacts the morale, productivity and health of individuals and teams. In The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work, acclaimed motivational speaker Jon Gordon shares an enlightening story that demonstrates how you can conquer negativity and inspire others to adopt a positive attitude. Based on one company’s successful No Complaining Rule, the powerful principles and actionable plan are practical and easy-to-follow, making this book an ideal read for managers, team leaders and anyone interested in generating positive energy.

The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

Christine Kenneally

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A compelling look at the quest for the origins of human language from an accomplished linguist

Language is a distinctly human gift. However, because it leaves no permanent trace, its evolution has long been a mystery, and it is only in the last fifteen years that we have begun to understand how language came into being.

The First Word is the compelling story of the quest for the origins of human language. The book follows two intertwined narratives. The first is an account of how language developed—how the random and layered processes of evolution wound together to produce a talking animal: us. The second addresses why scientists are at last able to explore the subject. For more than a hundred years, language evolution was considered a scientific taboo. Kenneally focuses on figures like Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker, along with cognitive scientists, biologists, geneticists, and animal researchers, in order to answer the fundamental question: Is language a uniquely human phenomenon?

The First Word is the first book of its kind written for a general audience. Sure to appeal to fans of Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct and Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, Kenneally’s book is set to join them as a seminal account of human history.

Dragons of Eden

Carl Sagan

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The Dragons of Sagan 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This is an instructive and entertaining book, but there is an underlying philosophical message that the reader needs to be aware of.

"The Dragons of Eden" is based on a theory that divides the human brain into three concentric layers that have evolved over millions of years, with each successive layer corresponding to a level in our evolutionary history. This may be a useful model, but it also lends itself to being misused as the basis for a narrow view that looks down upon the role of the older parts of the brain and exaggerates the status of the neocortex. Such a misuse is exactly what Sagan is guilty of. Instead of emphasizing the interplay between the three areas of the brain, which allows us to balance reason with emotion and instinct, he takes the model and twists it to suit his overly rational view of human nature.

His is a negative, Freudian view of the unconscious. But whereas Freud stressed the misunderstood importance of these functions, Sagan merely stresses their primitive aspect. For example, he feels that dreams and sleep are a holdover from our evolutionary past. They are a period when the reptilian brain comes alive, takes over, and turns what is by day a well-ordered and rationally supervised operation into a nighttime playground of bizarre symbolism, illogical foolishness, and disguised sexuality. It bothers him that he has such weak linguistic skills in his dreams and that he can't even perform simple arithmetical calculations. He openly confesses his admiration for those unusual individuals who seem to need only two or three hours of sleep a night. In fact, one suspects that Sagan would ideally have humans living totally in the waking world of the neocortex, although it is very unappealing to contemplate a machine-like mind that never turns off and lets the unpredictable and creative unconscious take over, giving it free rein to roam, do the impossible, and experience exhilarating or frightening things.

Sagan idealizes the cerebral cortex as a logical, computer-like operation, and he seems to have an aversion toward the primitive depths of the mind. Who knows what beasts may lurk there? And yet his book itself is proof of how we use rational arguments to justify underlying attitudes and impulses. The impression one gets is that a conflict between cool intellect and emotional passion or obsession is present in Sagan's own complex personality. This was sublimated into a drive to become a proselytizer for science, to the point where popularizing almost turns into evangelicizing, or something even worse. Not content with merely spreading the news of the good works of science, Sagan seems overly preoccupied with stamping out the heresy of "pseudo-science"-- a category that naturally includes such things as astrology.

This self-righteous posture might have been appropriate a century or two ago, as a reaction to the repression that the young field of science had to endure and overcome, but that is well behind us now. The fact is that our romance with science has ended and the marriage has begun. The crusade is long over and the infidels have been converted, but Sagan on his Quixotic quest seems oblivious to this, and so what is left for a knight to do but fight imaginary enemies or dragons. But before we add the name of Sagan to Sigurd and Siegfried, perhaps we should remember than no matter how many times the dragon was slain in the past, it always seemed to emerge somewhere else in another form, as various legends contributed to the gradual evolution of its features and character.

And just as every Eden or idyllic kingdom requires its dragon, so does the rational mind need its irrational unconscious. The more safe, sane, and sterile we make our world, the more we create the need for that which is dangerous, disruptive, and beyond our control. The dragon may be fictitious,but what it symbolizes is something real, something that is a part of human nature. Better to be accepted as such, then denied and made into something external that is fiercely suppressed until the day when, grown immense and unrecognizable, it suddenly rears its head, like the huge mushroom cloud rising above a leveled city.

Entropy and Alchemy: The Problem of Individuality in an Age of Society

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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday...It's a delight."
THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All

Nick Tasler

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In his work as research and development director at cutting-edge think tank TalentSmart, where he helps businesses work better and employees think smarter, Nick Tasler realized that the recent discovery by scientists of a potential-seeking gene could have a remarkable impact on how we understand decision making. Those who have this gene -- about one quarter of the population -- are endowed with impulsive tendencies that can lead to fast and decisive action or to foolish choices. The cautious majority that Tasler calls risk managers can make carefully considered decisions or become hopelessly lost in the fog of details. Now The Impulse Factor offers readers a unique online opportunity to analyze their own decision-making style and harness it to improve their everyday lives. Each book comes with access to a proprietary assessment developed specifically to evaluate impulsivity. With examples from business, psychology, and Tasler's own research at TalentSmart, the book also vividly illustrates how susceptible we are to the events around us and how our reactions often run contrary to our best interests.

By combining his research with real-world examples of extreme decision making, Tasler teaches readers how to thrive when faced with difficult choices. More than just a book, The Impulse Factor provides a clear understanding of why you make the choices you do -- and the tools to make those decisions change your business and your life.

Behavior Modification: Principles and Procedures

Raymond G. Miltenberger

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Excellent book discussing real psychology 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book has increased my understanding of human behavior greatly.
The method of behavior modification proposed here does not make assumptions about inner mental states, but it discusses what we are able to measure directly.

The book contains tons of examples, not only technical definitions. The chapters are easy and fun to read

QUITE BASIC CONTENT but GOOD, however ... 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I was personally disappointed when receiving the book. Particulary disappointed : In matter of content, which is clearly not bad, it is easy to find superior introductory manuals in the field. Certainly not a major book nor a classic as suggested in the presentation.

However, if you are attracted by strange phenomenas in the edition sector, you'll not miss this unique opportunity to acquire for a high price, one of the most fragile, cheep and poorly manufactured book I ever see. A unique book that destroy itself when you turn the pages or touch the "soft" ( very, very soft ) cover.

Such content deserve better ...

Editorial Review:

With Miltenberger's Behavior Modification, students first master the principles and concepts of behavior modification before they move on to the procedures. This approach gives students a chance to understand why they are going through the procedures before they actually do them. The author takes equal care with the content in presenting a precise, step-by-step scientific approach to explain human behavior. Numerous case studies help to illustrate the principles of behavior modification.

You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference

Mark Sanborn

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In his inspiring new book, You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader, Mark Sanborn, the author of the national bestseller The Fred Factor, shows how each of us can be a leader in our daily lives and make a positive difference, whatever our title or position.

Through the stories of a number of unsung heroes, Sanborn reveals the keys each one of us can use to improve our organizations and enhance our careers.

Genuine leadership – leadership with a “little l”, as he puts it, is not conferred by a title, or limited to the executive suite. Rather, it is shown through our everyday actions and the way we influence the lives of those around us. Among the qualities that genuine leaders share:

• Acting with purpose rather than getting bogged down by mindless activity
• Caring about and listening to others
• Looking for ways to encourage the contributions and development of others rather than focusing solely on personal achievements
• Creating a legacy of accomplishment and contribution in everything they do

As readers across the country discovered in The Fred Factor, Mark Sanborn has an unparalleled ability to explain fundamental business and leadership truths through simple stories and anecdotes. You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader offers an inspiring message to anyone who wants to take control of their life and make a positive difference.