Books | Psychology & Psychiatry

Outliers: The Story of Success

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Review: I always argued with friends that we never quite know how a successful individual or a company as made it big. Of course we all know about the endless working hours, the "talented" individual and the help of a focused team. But if this was the rule we will have ha....

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The Secret

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Review: Normally one finds these new age tracts mildly amusing. However there is something particularly offensive about the absurdly titled The Secret. The book is little more than a glossy coffee table revamp of the old "power of positive thinking" schtick. However The S....

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How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks For Big Success In Relationships

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Review: I have not even finished this book, yet I felt the urge to write a review - its brilliant! It does exactly what it says on the cover, and is full of bitesize pieces of advice on... how to talk to anyone! Really well written with excellent examples. I have alread....

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Review: Not good: will I finish it? Won't I? Guess I'll have to if I want to assess fairly, but it'll be hard work. Arrogance seeps through every word and, at the end of the day, he's repeatedly hammering home one point that anyone with a degree of critical thinking will b....

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies

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Review: At first glance a lot of the information in this book seems like common sense but, as the authors explain, it is quite rare for us to act in these ways. We tend to act in ways that are harmful to ourselves and our relationships and this book goes some way to showi....

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

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Review: I assure you that unless your father is John D. Rockefeller, you will certainly learn something new on the subject of handling people by reading this book! Have you ever wanted to rationalize human interaction into a set of logical rules? Have you ever wandered ho....

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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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Description: : For Blink, Malcolm Gladwell, author of the bestselling The Tipping Point explores the extraordinarily perceptive and deceptive power of the sub-conscious mind. Gladwell's major claim is that decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as a decision made ....

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Instant Confidence (Book and CD)

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Review: I was deeply cynical of this book at first because it sounds a bit dipsy and the actions involved make you feel more than a bit silly, esspecially sitting down to be hypnotised. But the CD is quite interesting because it does change the way you think - even though ....

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7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Description: According to Steven R. Covey, to live with security and wisdom, and to have the power to take advantages of the opportunities that change creates, we need fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity. Quite a tall order when you consider that most of us live ou....

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Irrationality

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Review: This book was first published in 1992, but don't let that put you off - the topics are more relevant today than ever before, particularly given the way we appear to be sliding head-first into another age of unreason. One example would be the chapter on stereotypes:....

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