Gen BuY: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought Gen BuY to learn more about why my teenagers and their friends are so into shopping and what retailers are doing to try to get them to buy things. It's so much more than that. This is one of the best books on the psychology of today's teenagers that I've ever read. It's not only deep, it's clever and funny too. I highly recommend it anyone who wants to know more about the psychology of shopping, today's teenagers or what retailers do to get them to spend money. learned a lot about my teen by reading this book!



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Procrastination and Blocking Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm a huge fan of Robert Boice and believe that his thoughts about how to overcome procrastination and writer's block are seminal. He is one of the few people who has done research on how to help people overcome procrastination and increase their scholarly productivity.
However, unless you are (like me) a Boice addict, I would suggest starting with his other works -- especially "Professors as Writers" and "Advice to New Faculty Members". Most of his books are quite repetitive and rather plodding -- but his ideas are life-changing.
I'm a clinical psychologist and professional coach and I use his theories and interventions all the time when I counsel students, faculty and fiction writers.

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Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution Is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live Review

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(More customer reviews)Spend Shift described a hopeful scenario for America as it emerges from the Great Recession. Over the past two years the cavalcade of bad news on the economy and the state of our union economically and socially has been non-stop. In particular, this notion of the New Normal described by some of the savvier investing minds out there has given me the impression that we are a country in decline. What Spend Shift revealed was that the apparent decline was simply a re-shuffling of priorities and a re-engineering of business to align with those priorities. Rather than declining America was simply establishing a foundation for growth for the decades to come.
I did not purchase Spend Shift to be inspired, but rather to understand resonant marketing themes that I might tap into as I start my own business. However, I came away inspired by the entrepreneurs who were taking the risks and connecting with customers and building sustainable businesses by understanding that customers were connecting their product choices to their values. It is stunning to read about these success stories during one of the worst economic periods in economic history. It was also fun to discover businesses like Brooklyn Brin (based in the city that I call home) that I had never heard about and now feel compelled to patronize.
I came to Spend Shift thinking I would learn a thing or two about marketing in the recession and I left Spend Shift having learned that America can go on and in fact can thrive during a time of massive deleveraging. Spend Shift had the requisite marketing lessons, but it was the narrative style and inspiring examples that lead me to rate this a 5.

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Social Psychology Review

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(More customer reviews)I read every word of this textbook instead of going to my 400 level social psychology class at 8 a.m. two days a week and I got an A in the class. Pretty much the only textbook I've ever read as if it were a novel, I liked it.

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Psychologists have been searching for a reference that unifies the disparate topics of social psychology around a central theme. Social Psychology follows that approach as it presents the most fundamental concepts in the field. It touches on all of the major concepts researchers are currently addressing but is firmly grounded in the basic social psychological theories and principles. A single chapter is included on the impact of culture in psychology, focusing on how the findings and theories might differ in different cultures. Psychologists will benefit from two research studies in each chapter that provide a real world perspective of the material.

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Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Science Review

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(More customer reviews)I needed an instrument to measure caring. I am interested in applying Watson's theory of human caring to our hospital in the pursuit of magnet
status and I needed an instrument that has been tested. This book is full of them!

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Dr. Watson and her colleagues have gathered all the available measurement instruments on caring in nursing in this book, along with discussion of their origins, development, and use. Nurse clinicians, educators, researchers, and managers will find this a valuable resource.

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Human Exceptionality: School, Community, and Family Review

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(More customer reviews)The reading from the book was required for my class, but I actually enjoyed it! Very well written, easy to read, and worthwhile.

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Maintaining its widely respected and unique focus on the critical role of a variety of professionals--in education, psychology, counseling, health care, and human services--HUMAN EXCEPTIONALITY: SCHOOL, COMMUNITY AND FAMILY, Tenth Edition, is a testament to how cross-professional collaboration can and does enhance the lives of exceptional individuals and their families as it strengthens and supports the work of the professionals themselves. After a comprehensive six-chapter introduction to the foundation and challenges across the lifespan for people with exceptionalities, the successive nine chapters focus on definitions, classifications, prevalence, causation, and characteristics of the major categories of exceptionality. Categorical chapters also provide practical information on the educational, medical, and social services aspects of working with people who are exceptional. An excellent resource for pre-service and in-service teachers as well as a range of human services professionals, the book's unique, human approach combines the most current research, detailed personal stories about exceptional persons, and fresh pedagogical features that help students understand and apply the material.

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