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Book Review: Stop Walking on Eggshells

Stop walking on eggshells : coping when someone you care about has borderline personality disorder by Paul T. Mason I’d heard this book recommended on various blogs and found the concept fascinating. How do you deal with people who are incapable of acting in an emotionally mature manner? At first, I wasn’t sure if “Borderline …

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Book Review: Reefer Madness

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Schlosser wrote FAST FOOD NATION, which I felt was well researched but lacked consistent writing. I figured he might be a better writer by now, so I picked up REEFER MADNESS, the perhaps poorly-named book that is not strictly about …

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Book Review: The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman I got this as an audiobook, based on the fact that it falls within my usual taste for non fiction and because it’s been referred to by many other books. In many ways, this is a classic book that inspired many people to think more seriously …

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Book Review: What every BODY is saying

What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro This book is yet another book on how to read body language that purports to teach you how to read people by reading their bodies. Like all of these books, I find it more of a refresher course on stuff …

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Book Review: How Many Friends Does One Person Need

How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks by Robin Dunbar This book was recommended to me off of Amazon, and it seemed a sure bet: pop science, original research, and heavy on the sociology. The title refers to Dunbar’s number, the maximum number of people that a person can …

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