18 books like Duped

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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade Walter Kirn · 2014 · ★ 3.5 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the… Shares: Impostors and imposture, Case studies

Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy Gerald Corey · 1977 · ★ 4.0 · 554p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Incorporating the thinking, feeling, and behaving dimensions of human experience, the tenth edition of Corey's best-selling book helps students compare and contrast the therapeutic models expressed in counseling theories. Corey introduces students to the major theories (psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems,… Shares: Psychotherapy, Psychology

Serial killers Francesca Biagi-Chai · 2011 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Francesca Biagi-Chai’s book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist in France, with extensive experience working in institutional settings, analyses the logic informing… Shares: Études de cas, Case studies, Psychology

Malicious bots Ken Dunham · 2008 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Originally designed as neutral entities, computerized bots are increasingly being used maliciously by online criminals in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Malicious Bots: An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet explores the rise of dangerous bots and exposes the nefarious methods of "botmasters". This valuable resource… Shares: Études de cas, Case studies

A new guide to rational living Albert Ellis · 1975 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Since the groundbreaking first edition of Rational Emotive Approaches to the Problems of Childhood by Albert Ellis and Michael Bernard two decades ago, our understanding of the nature and treatment of children’s problems has grown considerably. Now in a completely new volume, Albert Ellis and children’s REBT specialist Professor Michael Bernard have revised and updated this pioneering volume to… Shares: Psychotherapy, Psychology

Recollections of an old soldier Capt. David Perry (b. 1741) · 1822 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging As they were in those days, the full title of Capt David Perry's book is its own description: Recollections of an old soldier. The life of Captain David Perry, a soldier of the French and revolutionary wars, containing many extraordinary occurrences relating to his own private history, and an account of some interesting events in the history of the times in which he lived, no-where else… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Forbidden narratives Kathryn Church · 1995 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Forbidden Narratives: Critical Autobiography as Social Science explores overlapping layers of voices and stories that convey the social relations of psychiatric survivor participation within a community mental health service system. It is written from the perspective of a woman who, in the course of working with the survivor movement, had a physical and emotional breakdown. Ironically, the author… Shares: Psychotherapy, Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

A rip in Heaven Jeanine Cummins · 2004 · ★ 4.2 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate It was a headline story in the New York Times and USA Today. It was covered by Court TV and profiled on the Ricki Lake Show. Now, here is the intimate memoir of a shocking crime and its aftermath...one family's immediate and unforgettable story of what victims can suffer long after they should be safe. Shares: Case studies, Biography & Memoir

The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt · 1894 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Public policy praxis Randall S. Clemons · 2000 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This readable and conceptual approach to public policy carefully balances theory and practice to provide students at all levels with a solid grounding in policy analysis. Authors Randy S. Clemons and Mark K. McBeth explore the impact of mixed methodologies on policy analysis, supported by interesting and useful teaching cases. Offering a balanced view of public policy, the text addresses the… Shares: Études de cas, Case studies

... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen Viktor E. Frankl · 1946 · ★ 4.3 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. At the heart of his theory, known… Shares: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Biography & Memoir

Integrating Spirit and Psyche Mary Pat Henehan · 2002 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this extraordinary collection, the voices of women's experience ring out loud and true!The power of narrative in therapy for women is undeniable. Used well, other women's narratives can help us to understand and rewrite our own. Here, women bare their souls, reflecting on self-enhancement and growth, on discrediting negative family scripts, on seeing through demeaning cultural messages, on… Shares: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Biography & Memoir

I'm OK, you're OK Thomas Anthony Harris · 1969 · ★ 3.8 · 282p · ≈ 9h · Moderate El análisis conciliatorio es un método para enseñar y para aprender que constituye un planteamiento novedoso al enfrentar al individuo con el hecho de que es responsable de lo que le ocurrirá en el futuro, cualquiera que haya sido su pasado. A partir de la distinción de tres elementos activos en la elaboración de la personalidad: el Padre, el Adulto y el Niño, se marca como objetivo el… Shares: Psychotherapy, Psychology

Better Atul Gawande · 2007 · ★ 4.2 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Explores the efforts of physicians to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of insurmountable obstacles, discussing such topics as the ethical considerations of lethal injections, malpractice, and surgical errors. Shares: Personal narratives, Case studies, Biography & Memoir

The private diary of Lyle Menendez Lyle Menendez · 1993 · ★ 4.6 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The personal story of Lyle Menendez is based on a four-and-a-half-year intimate correspondence with the author and covers the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez by Lyle and his brother Erik and the court trials that ended in hung juries. Shares: Case studies, Biography & Memoir

Journeys with the Black Dog Tessa Wigney · 2008 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Depression can be a dark and lonely experience: sharing with a friend can make all the difference.In Journeys with the Black Dog many people share their stories of living with depression. Personal stories of first symptoms, the path to getting diagnosed, the confusion and frustration, and all the many ways of keeping depression at bay whatever it takes. Written with raw honesty and sharp humour,… Shares: Psychology, Biography & Memoir

Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson · 1870 · ★ 3.9 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "Army Life in a Black Regiment has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War," wrote historian Henry Steele Commander. "Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of 'praise the Lord and pass the ammunition' and his reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the black regiment are unsurpassed for eloquence." A Union colonel wrote… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Advances in Psychology Research Alexandra M. Columbus · 2008 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial psychology advances across a broad spectrum. Shares: Psychology

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