All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Consumer Neuroscience
In a nutshell, Consumer Neuroscience is a comprehensive introduction to the contribution that neuroscience can make to the field of marketing. T…
Dictator
Discrimination against the Mentally Ill
A holistic effort has been made in the book titled “Discrimination against the mentally ill” by Monica A. Joseph to contribute to increased awareness and…
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Flat Lake in Winter
Originally published in 1999, Flat Lake in Winter has recently been released as an unabridged audiobook performed by George Newbern. Klempner’s…
Forgiveness is Really Strange
This little illustrated book takes a psychological approach to a moral concept. The authors argue for the psychological benefits of forgiveness, giving m…
Full Disclosure
If everybody loved Laura, I want to yell, then who the hell killed her? “From the former Chief Justice of Canada comes a riveting…
Good and Gone
Good and Gone is a YA novel narrated by high school girl Lexi, who goes on a road trip with her brother Carlie, a college student who has just b…
I Am I Am I Am
O’Farrell has established herself as an impressive novelist, with 7 novels since her debut…
On Being an Introvert or Highly Sensitive Person
Author Ilse Sand, from Denmark, is a former parish priest who currently works as a supervisor, speaker, trainer, and therapist. In 2010, she wrote…
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Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida
The DSM-5 defines a mental disorder as “a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual cognition, emotion regulation, or…
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Portraits of Resilience
Daniel Jackson is a professor of computer science at MIT. Following a number of suicides at MIT he engaged in a…
Psychotherapy East and West
Psychotherapy East & West by Philosopher Alan Watts was first introduced to us in 1961 and has been recently reissued by New World Library.…
Self-Determination: The Ethics of Action
“Self-Determination” is the first volume of a two-volume book project by Thomas Pink addressing broadly construed topics evolving around action theory, t…
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Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans
Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans is aimed at fostering public engagement, scientific engagement concerning the applications of fMRI (functional magnet…
The Extended Selfish Gene
While consensus around Darwin’s theory of evolution in its most broad sense has been clearly established, debates within biology around the foundations o…
Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals
John Gluck’s autobiography traces the journey of a psychologist who begins his research career as a star protégé working on Harry Har…
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Ways to Die in Glasgow
Ways to Die in Glasgow is a mystery set in Glasgow, living up to all of the stereotypes of Glasgow being a crime-ridden city full of drunks. It…
When My Heart Joins the Thousand
When My Heart Joins the Thousand is a YA novel about a 17 year old girl Alvie Fitz who has Asperger’s and has had a very troubled past. She live…
White Houses
Amy Bloom’s novel imagines a romance between first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok. This relationship has been hinted at by a non-fic…
Constructing Pain
As opposed to the more traditional, purely medical approach to pain, namely pain killers, more modern approaches since WWII have involved techniques that…
Current Controversies in Bioethics
Following progress in bioethics the volume at hand presents five currently important, albeit controversial topics in five areas of the ongoing bioethical…
Don’t be Fooled
First an exchange with the author: I am working my way through your book on common sense and will be writing a review for “Metapsychology” wh…
Down Girl
In Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Kate Manne provides the reader with an understanding of the nature of misogyny along with an extended defin…
Every Note Played
Lisa Genova specializes in novels featuring protagonists with neurological disorders. She has previously published Still Alice,…
Five Constraints on Predicting Behavior
Five Constraints on Predicting Behavior, written by Jerome Kagan, is a seminal narrative that has the potential of reshaping the growing field o…
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