18 books like What the dog saw and other adventure stories

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Planet Simpson Chris Turner · 2004 · ★ 3.6 · 458p · ≈ 15h · Moderate "D'oh - it's The Simpsons. And here's the book with the behind-the-scenes story of how America's favorite nuclear family first arrived at a TV near you, how the series grew into a worldwide icon, and who brings it to life so brilliantly week after week, year after year."--BOOK JACKET. Shares: Popular culture, Social life and customs

Lightning Dean Koontz · 1986 · ★ 4.1 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When a bolt of lighting brings a blond-headed stranger into Laura Shane's life, she wonders if he's the guardian angel he seems - or the devil in disguise. Shares: Media Studies, History

Growing Yourself Up Jenny Brown, MSW · 2012 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate To be human is to be in relationships. We can't survive without them but at the same time it's in our relationships that we so easily come unravelled. There are certain relationships that seem to just do us in. Either we feel like we lose ourselves or we feel burnt out from unsuccessful efforts to make things right for another. In our relationships we can experience the very best of ourselves and… Shares: Social psychology, Psychology

Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But… Shares: Popular culture, Psychology, Business

How to Market Books Alison Baverstock · 1990 · 472p · ≈ 15h · Moderate How to Market Books, now in its fourth edition, has for many years been the place to turn for professionals in the industry charged with maximizing revenues and minimizing costs. In recent years the selling and marketing of books has come under more and more pressure. The industry has become dominated by the larger chains, by new channels to market, by new players such as supermarkets, and by… Shares: Media Studies, Business

Psychology John B. Watson · 1913 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging While this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with accuracy. In approaching subjective psychology for the first time, the reader meets with one great difficulty. He comes in from the world of things-a world which he can manipulate, hold up, examine and… Shares: Psychology, History

Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell · 1949 · ★ 3.9 · 101p · ≈ 3h · Challenging From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority & the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority & human freedom. With characteristic clarity & deep understanding, he explores the formation & purpose of society, education, moral evolution & social, economical & intellectual progress. First of the… Shares: Popular culture, Social psychology, Psychology

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton · 1905 · ★ 4.0 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world. Shares: Social values, Social life and customs

The Definitive Book of Body Language Allan Pease · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This book isolates and examines each component of body language and gesture and makes you more aware of your own non-verbal cues and signals and demonstrates how people communicate with each other using them. Shares: Social psychology, Psychology

Made to stick Chip Heath · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others--struggle to make their ideas "stick." Why do some ideas thrive… Shares: Social psychology, Psychology, Business

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 · ★ 3.8 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his… Shares: Popular culture, Psychology

The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the… Shares: Social psychology, Psychology, Business

I Am America (And So Can You!) Stephen Colbert · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Congratulations--just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic.From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23¿ hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.Dictated directly into a microcassette… Shares: Social values, Social life and customs

The Bush Agenda Antonia Juhasz · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 393p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz exposes a radical corporate globalization agenda that has been refined by leading members and allies of the Bush administration over decades and reached its fullest, most aggressive implementation under George W. Bush—and Bush Agenda adherents plan for it to outlast him. Juhasz uncovers the history and key role of U.S. corporations in the creation of this… Shares: Social values, Social life and customs

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

Voices Staroba · 2015 Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors. Shares: Psychology

The principles of psychology William James · 1890 · ★ 3.9 · 897p · ≈ 29h · Demanding The Principles of Psychology is a monumental text in the history of psychology, written by William James and published in 1890. There were four methods in James' psychology: analysis (i.e. the logical criticism of precursor and contemporary views of the mind), introspection (i.e. the psychologist's study of his own states of mind), experiment (e.g. in hypnosis or neurology), and comparison (the… Shares: Psychology

Psychology Saundra K. Ciccarelli · 2006 · ★ 3.2 · 792p · ≈ 26h · Moderate Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior.https://www.apa.org/support/about-apa Frequently asked questions about APA] Retrieved on November 28th, 2023. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of broad scope,… Shares: Psychology

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