All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Measuring Happiness
The current edition is the first translation into English from the original edition, published in German as, …
On Romantic Love
The aim of the book is to “provide answers to these [i.e. asked in the Preface, e.g. “[w]hy do we fall in love with people who aren’t good…
The Emotional Journey of the Alzheimer’s Family
The Emotional Journey of the Alzheimer’s Family provides a guide to common psychological reactions of people diagnosed with dementia to the…
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The Forgiveness Project
What does forgiveness look like? It is a word that many of us use fairly often, and in some situations, we use the term forgiveness quite loosely, talkin…
The Last Asylum
The venerable literary genre of madness memoirs has so proliferated in the decades since the 1970s and 80s that even those with a scholarly interest must…
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter
This first book in Malcolm Mackay’s Glasgow trilogy sets the scene of the local underworld and the main characters. Callum is in his l…
The Porcupine of Truth
The Porcupine of Truth is a comedic and enthralling coming of age story about two children who find meet accidentally at a small zoo with l…
The Sudden Arrival of Violence
This is the third in Mackay’s Glasgow Trilogy, about competition between different crime lords in that Scottish city. The plot focuses on a paid ki…
The Ultra Mindset
The Ultra Mindset is a book about the eight mindsets comprising collectively the Ultra Mindset.The author is Travis Macy (with John Hanc).M…
Those Girls
Parents are likely to be disturbed by this young adult novel of three 16-year-old girls in a private high school in suburban Philadelphia. It’s a story o…
Cut Both Ways
Cut Both Ways is a coming of age story about a boy, Will, who discovers he is sexually attracted to both his girlfriend and his male best f…
Focus
Daniel Goleman already enjoys a vast following for his many books, public lectures, and more recently, YouTube videos teaching meditative techniques. His…
From Symptom to Synapse
In From Symptom to Synapse: A neurocognitive perspective on clinical psychology, Mohlman, Deckersbach, and Weissman discuss the likely futu…
George
George is a to-the-point story about a young transgender girl, Melissa (whom others refer to as George), trying to get her family and friends to understa…
Kissing Ted Callahan (And Other Guys)
It’s hard to resist a teen novel narrated by a smart high school student who is funny and into a lot of indie bands. Riley is 16-years-old and she is in…
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Lizard Radio
Lizard Radio follows a young gender bending teenager named Kivali or, as her friends call her, Lizard. The book opens with Lizard being dro…
Love
Oxford’s “Very Short Introductions” series, which began in 1995, now has an astounding 350 volumes. Obviously, the series sells well, and one would think…
Making Space
The first two chapters of this well-received book is a well written, standard account of the most basic mechanism of vision, and includes a historical pe…
Mindful America
“Thirty years ago, ‘mindfulness’ was a Buddhist principle mostly obscure to the West,” Jeff Wilson writes in Mindful America. Today, howeve…
Mindfulness for Carers
This is a short and simple book advocating the benefits of mindfulness practices for both people in the caring professions, and for those who do unpaid w…
Philosophizing About Sex
When it comes to introductory books about the philosophy of sex, there is not much of a selection. There are a few that make the cut such as Alan S…
Playing a Part
Playing a Part follows Grisha on his journey of self-discovery and development of self-confidence. Grisha has grown up in a Moscow puppet t…
Punishment in Popular Culture
Punishment in Popular Culture, edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat is a compilation of essays that describe ways in which popula…
The Doctor Is In
Author Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer (herein “Dr. Ruth”) is generally considered to be a household name, as she rose to fame in the early 1980s with her live ra…
The Last Time We Say Goodbye
Alexis is a Nebraska high school senior. She is hoping to go to MIT, but she has not been doing well since her younger brother Tyler recently killed hims…