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Interpersonal Communication

Sarah Trenholm, Arthur Jensen

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Good Introductory Interpersonal Communication Textbook 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This book as a good overview of the field of interpersonal communication. It highlights the communicative aspect of daily life, but suffers when it focuses on psychological issues (perception, etc.) The best aspect is the intermixing of cross-cultural and historical perspectives on current communication practices.

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This text's five-step learning model helps students improve interpersonal competence in well-defined ways-through conceptual understanding, modeling of realistic examples, practicing of skill-building exercises, self-assessment, and translating learning into behavior. Intended for the instructors who take a theory/research approach.

Cognitive Psychology

Douglas L. Medin, Brian H. Ross, Arthur B. Markman

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Cognitive Psychology, Third Edition, presents a coherent overview of cognitive psychology organized in terms of themes that cut across topic areas. Written by well-known researchers, the book is completely current in describing ongoing controversies in research; it provides summaries of key experiments that distinguish between them; and it encourages the reader to think critically about current research and theories. The focus on the importance of physical and computational constraints on cognition is preserved throughout the book.

The Art of Memory

Frances A. Yates

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An excellent exploration of a forgotten art 4 out of 5 stars.
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If you are fascinated by history or by scholarship throughout recorded time, you should enjoy this book. Francis Yates has created a detailed examination of memory techniques and their evolution over the course of generations. Beginning in ancient Greece and continuing through the Middle Ages, Yates shows how the art of remembering began as a sort of parlor trick and developed into an important skill in both religion and the occult. The influence from both individuals and cultures is described in a scholarly (yet not annoyingly so) way. While this book is not for everyone, its intended audience should be delighted.
NOTE: This book is not a "how-to" manual for memory. It provides only a very general description of memory methods and is instead an exploration of the history of the art.
An excellent companion piece to this book is _The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci_. Both books were listed in the acknowledgements of Thomas Harris' _Hannibal_.

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In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.

Why We Do What We Do

Edward L. Deci

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Autonomy, competence and relatedness 3 out of 5 stars.
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This is a very interesting book to read if you are a leader in your organization, a coach, a parent or have a role leading or motivating people.

It does not have an easy flowing style and could well be re-edited and updated to include the changes technology has brought up in how we communicate and create social networks.

A lot of emphasis is put on self-motivation and respecting autonomy, yet I could not envision how to apply it in the business world.

The consideration of three fundamental human needs: autonomy, competency and relatedness is very interesting.

a good read to understand how to encourage autonomy. I wonder about its applicability for self-determination in groups of people, within an organization or a society.

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Arguing that human motivation is driven more by autonomy than a system of rewards and punishments, a guide for parents, teachers, and managers offers insight into how to promote learning and effectiveness by instilling freedom-based practices.

The Vein of Gold

Julia Cameron

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Cameron Has Done It Again! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Julia Cameron has done it again. I read her first book The Artist's Way and this book is just as great. I've experienced an increase in creativity that I never thought possible. It truly is a journey inward. I'm 35 yrs. old and a mother of two. I had no idea that there was still so much to discover about myself. As mentioned in the book, a great symptom of increased creativity, is greater spirituality. This book has truly changed my life!

The Vein of Gold opens the creative heart! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Julia Cameron's books should be mandatory coursework in all creative writing classes or any kind of dramatic and performing arts programs around the world! Luminous, loving, and healing are the trademarks of her artistic recovery programs. Climb this mountain and find your creative muse! The book follows a weekly development plan to exacavate the voice within. A gradual mentorship no matter where you are on the journey to expressing your artistic birthright.

Don't we all have a story to tell that is uniquely our own? Or perhaps there is that song that is one which places us in our element like nothing else? And then again, there are those stage roles that seem written just for us, or are they? The answer in Julia Cameron's Vein of Gold is ... YES! Cameron describes in her book how the actor Robert De Niro seems born to play certain mystery roles and when he steps out of them the thespian magic seems to disappear. This is the basis for the Vein of Gold, which followed the very successful Artist's Way, as a 12-week study in artistic recovery.

The Vein of Gold continues upon Cameron's practice of morning pages, artist dates to be taken solo, and a series of tasks designed to coax out the creative child. Each chapter begins with a rich collection of Cameron's wisdom as a professional writer herself and follows a particular theme. Readers are encouraged to stay on each theme presented in the chapter, such as abundance, and do homework assignments such as a collage or add decoration to their living space. The point of this is to draw out in a reader what is uniquely their own story, song, or poem to birth. In the commercial world of art, Cameron notes, a lot is being quantified by how much money a movie earned, how much a painting was sold for, or how many hits songs a record spawned. This message is often what gets in the way of finding one's vein of gold because the artists believes that they must deliver art that is "acceptable" rather than "authentic". In the Vein of God, Cameron strives to draw out what is already there and meant to expressed rather than mould a person's art into a template of popular opinion.

Beyond the 12 distinct chapters, the book is divided into kingdoms to illustrate the kind of inner journey that Cameron is taking her students on. Each kingdom (sight, story, sound, attitude, relationship, and spirituality) reflects the kind of "sense" training that is intended to help readers excavate their own vein of gold as practical exercises probe leading questions into the psyche. What Cameron wants is for those who seek their inner gold, to not only find it, but to claim it as theirs alone.

The Buddha once said that there are three things never hidden for long: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Finding gold in the hills of our inner life is only possible through the truth. Cameron's Vein of Gold is a literary prospector's guide to seeing our truth underneath all the beliefs, emotions, and patterns we have long hidden under.

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The companion to the best-selling The Artist's Way contains essays on the creative process and more than one hundred imaginative exercises that help readers reach new spiritual heights and expand their creativity. 150,000 first printing. BOMC & QPB Alt. One Spirit Main.

Conceptual Blockbusting

James L. Adams

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Cultivate Your Thinking! 5 out of 5 stars.
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My dad gave me a copy of this book for Christmas in 1978 when I was a junior in college. I enjoyed reading it then, and I've read it numerous times since. I can say now with some length of perspective that in my opinion it's a definitive classic on this topic and I'd say it is probably the most influential single book in my engineering career. It's enabled me to think of things of that no one else does, and more often than not it's because of ideas I picked up here. The solutions are enduring too. The nine-dot problem, the ping-pong ball in the tube, the spacecraft panels opening without a damper are examples I think back to when faced with technical challenges that have no apparent easy answer.

I cringe inside when people want and push for systematic and methodical ways to solve problems. It's almost a religon to some that the pretense of an imagined rigor akin to mathematical proof will always lead them to "correct" answers. It's not that those methods are wrong but they're quite incomplete and tend to only reinforce the mental blocks you already have.

If you want to unconfine your thinking and leverage the power of both halves of your brain, then put this book in your cart, buy it, and read it.

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We all run up against mental blocks, and there’s no better map for getting around them than Conceptual Blockbusting. This proven and popular book is packed with eye-opening exercises and original thought problems that will stretch your mind. Whether you’re a student or a teacher, an artist or an executive, you need to think flexibly and creatively.

Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel

Alan Loy McGinnis

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How to succeed without lettings ethics get in your way 2 out of 5 stars.
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I fault this book for many reasons. First, the title is misleading. This is not a book about helping other people. It is basically a motivational book about how to succeed when working with others. The approach is to use numerous motivational anecdotes weaved into the author's 12-point approach. The author, has a blatant disregard of ethics. He doesn't ignore ethics, on the contrary, he often argues against them, frequently railing against idealists for their impractical approach. For example, "the idealists might suppose that the only way to inspire people is to appear to their benevolent instincts, but the best motivators usually appeal to anger as well." Another example: "For all our talk about love, I have never seen a congregation genuinely fired up which did not have the conviction that they fighting a common enemy." But whatever works is what we should do, and damn the "idealists." When McGinnis advocates truly helping others, it is always because it works to your own advantage from a practical standpoint. Appeals to pride are also common in this book, he even relates a story from his own past: " . . . I remember 35 years later my deep pride as he chewed out certain members of the team for poor performances . . . the coached praised me before the team." The exultation of pride is reprehensible, especially since McGinnis is purportedly a Christian. Since antiquity, Pride has been one of the seven deadly sins of Chrisitanity; the great popular Christian author C.S. Lewis rails eloquently against it, devoting a chapter to it in "Mere Christianity," calling it the cardinal sin. For McGinnis, all this ancient wisdom is simply "idealism" or he simply ignores it. My final complaint is that some of the information is simply inaccurate. For example, he states that "Most studies show that parents who run a tight ship and who are fairly strict produce the most secure children". This is dead wrong. The vast majority of modern psychology and research is dead against this approach; i.e. see T. Berry Brazelton, or virtually any other of book written by a mainstream M.D. or psychologist. As with all McGinnis's statements, he provides no research to back it up.
The appeal to non-benovolent (e.g. malevolent) instincts, the denigration of the Christian ideal of love, and the exaltation of the cardinal sin of pride display a pattern of disregard for ethics and the worship of the practical.

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Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the best- selling book The Friendship Factor, studied the great leaders throughout history, the most effective organization, and many prominent psychologists to discover their motivational secrets. There are actually a small number of principles used by good motivators, and the best leaders were using them long before psychology had a name. Fascinating case studies and anecdotes about Lee Iacocca, Sandra Day O’Connor, and many others show how you can put 12 key principles to work in your family or organization. Whether you are a parent, executive, teacher, or friend, you can gain the satisfaction that comes from Bringing the Best Out in People.

BEYOND FEELINGS (A GUIDE TO CRITICAL THINKING)

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero

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Beyond Feelings 4 out of 5 stars.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This book is a clear and concise guide to Critical Thinking. It presents subject matter in an easy to read fashion in a book that is not overly long. It was a great addition to my College English class.

A text students will enjoy reading and talking about 5 out of 5 stars.
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"Beyond Feelings: A Guide to Critical Thinking," 8th ed. is everything I have ever hoped for in a text on critical thinking. It is nearly jargon free. It focuses on how we--students and instructor alike--come to think the way we do, how to recognize critical thinking weaknesses in ourselves and others, and how to take this knowledge and apply it not only to coursework but also to our lives. Chapters are mercifully short, easily accessible, and filled with contemporary applications, which the students enjoy. As the students progress through the text, they find topics recycled. Each time the same topics reappear, the students are able to refine their critical thinking processes and points of view. Most importantly, however, my students tell me that "Beyond Thinking" is not only relevant and easily understandable, but also fun to read. What more can an instructor ask for in a text?

Essentials of WAIS-III Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series)

Alan S. Kaufman, Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger

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Complete coverage of administration, scoring, interpretation, and reporting.

Expert advice on avoiding common pitfall.s.

Conveniently formatted for rapid reference.

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WAIS-III.

The latest version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, WAIS-III, which includes several significant modifications and structural changes, three new subsets, and a variety of optional procedures, is a more sophisticated and complex instrument than its predecessors. Professionals who wish to use it properly need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to properly administer, score, and interpret the updated test. Coauthored by Alan S. Kaufman, who worked closely with David Wechsler on the WISC-R, Essentials of WAIS-III Assessment is that source.

Like all the volumes in the new Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health practitioners quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of a major psychological assessment instrument. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you to gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.

The initial chapters of Essentials of WAIS-III Assessment provide step-by-step guidance on test administration, scoring, and interpretation. In the chapters following, the authors provide their expert assessment of the test's relative strengths and weaknesses, valuable advice on its clinical applications, exciting new research data on aging and IQ, and several illuminating case reports.

Learning and Behavior

Paul Chance

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Okay 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 20 people found this review helpful.

This product was in okay shape. It was bent and there is some writing in it.

recommended by Ruff Love 4 out of 5 stars.
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Not just for people. This book is recommended reading by top agility dog trainer Susan Garrett, in her book Ruff Love: A Relationship Building Program for You and Your Dog.

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LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR looks at learning as an evolutionary mechanism. Chance's book is stimulating, interactive, and peppered with high-interest queries and examples. Chance provides the depth of conceptual knowledge usually associated with books twice as dense and infinitely less interesting. Chance's engaging work has become a favorite of students because of his ability to illuminate how the psychology of learning can offer insight into their own behavior.