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  • Mayer, Jeffrey J.: If You Haven't Got the Time to Do It Right, When Will You Find the Time to Do It Over?
  • Sheed, Wilfrid: In Love With Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery
  • Cooper, Alan: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
  • The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
    by Alan Cooper
    ISBN 0672326140 (0-672-32614-0)
    Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub

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    In this book about the darker side of technology's impact on our lives, Alan Cooper begins by explaining that unlike other devices throughout history, computers have a "meta function:" an unwanted, unforeseen option that users may accidentally invoke with what they thought was a normal keystroke. Cooper details many of these meta functions to explain his central thesis: programmers need to seriously reevaluate the many user-hostile concepts deeply embedded within the software development process.

    Rather than provide users with a straightforward set of options, programmers often pile on the bells and whistles and ignore or deprioritize lingering bugs. For the average user, increased functionality is a great burden, adding to the recurrent chorus that plays, "computers are hard, mysterious, unwieldy things." (An average user, Cooper asserts, who doesn't think that way or who has memorized all the esoteric commands and now lords it over others, has simply been desensitized by too many years of badly designed software.)

    Cooper's writing style is often overblown, with a pantheon of cutesy terminology (i.e., "dancing bearware") and insider back-patting. (When presenting software to Bill Gates, he reports that Gates replied: "How did you do that?" to which he writes, "I love stumping Bill!") More seriously, he is also unable to see beyond software development's importance--a sin he accuses programmers of throughout the book.

    Even with that in mind, the central questions Cooper asks are too important to ignore: Are we making users happier? Are we improving the process by which they get work done? Are we making their work hours more effective? Cooper looks to programmers, business managers, and what he calls "interaction designers" to question current assumptions and mindsets. Plainly, he asserts that the goal of computer usage should be "not to make anyone feel stupid." Our distance from that goal reinforces the need to rethink entrenched priorities in software planning. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]

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  • Hume, David: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding: With a Supplement, An Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature
  • Swensen, Clifford H.: Introduction to Interpersonal Relations
  • Bugelski, B.R.: An Introduction to the Principles of Psychology: An Essay Concerning Understanding Humans
  • Greeson, Janet: It's Not What You're Eating, It's What's Eating You
  • Greeson, Janet: Its Not What You're Eating Its Whats Eating You: The 28-Day Plan to Heal Hidden Food Addiction
  • Keeping the Love You Find
    by Harville Hendrix
    ISBN 0671734202 (0-671-73420-2)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    Your dream of finding a partner is a natural and normal human instinct and your dream is perfectly achievable. Whatever your history, whatever your heartbreak, as a single person you are in an ideal position to learn what you need to know what what you can do to greatly improve your chances for finding, and keeping, love. With Keeping the Love You Find, renowned relationship therapist and bestselling author Harville Hendrix will help you to: IDENTIFY your Imago -- the fantasy partner that your unconscious mind, which has a hidden agenda of its own, has chosen for you BREAK FREE from those patterns in your parents' marriage that you have unknowingly accepted as your relationship model CREATE hope in place of despair, companionship instead of loneliness DEVELOP communication skills to turn conflict into contact -- and togetherness TRANSFORM every past relationship into a source of positive growth DISCOVER the rewards of real love -- and the little things that make it last ...and more. Filled with wisdom and compassion, Keeping the Love You Find will help get your next relationship off to the best start and keep your love strong for a lifetime. [via]

  • The Language of Feelings
    by David Viscott
    ISBN 0671733362 (0-671-73336-2)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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    The Language of Feelings [via]

  • The Language of Love
    by Gary Smalley, John T. Trent, Denise Silvestro
    ISBN 067175047X (0-671-75047-X)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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    Family counselors and bestselling authors Smalley and Trent offer a key to a life-transforming communication method--one that has been used instinctively by great speakers throughout the ages--emotional word pictures. "The authors of The Blessing have once again broken new ground. . . ".--Bookstore Journal. [via]

  • Carnegie, Dale: Leader in You: How to Win Friends, Influence People, and Succeed in a Changing World
  • Norwood, Robin: Letters from Women Who Love Too Much
  • Letting Go
    by Philip Roth
    ISBN 0671736167 (0-671-73616-7)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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    Leting Go is Philip Roth's masterly novel about the social and ethical constraints of the fifties. "A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most desolating scenes somehow amusing".--Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's. [via]

  • Kramer, Helen: Liberating the Adult Within : Moving from Childlike Responses to Authentic Adulthood
  • Wetzler, Scott: Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man
  • Wetzler, Scott: Living With the Passive-Aggressive Man: Coping With Personality Syndrome of Hidden Aggression-From the Bedroom to the Boardroom
  • Millett, Kate: Loony-Bin Trip
    Loony-Bin Trip
    by Kate Millett
    ISBN 0671740288 (0-671-74028-8)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Bloom, Allan David: Love and Friendship
    Love and Friendship
    by Allan David Bloom
    ISBN 0671891200 (0-671-89120-0)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Miles, Rosalind: Love, Sex, Death, and the Making of the Male
  • Schaller, Susan: A Man Without Words
    A Man Without Words
    by Susan Schaller
    ISBN 0671779702 (0-671-77970-2)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl
    ISBN 0671834657 (0-671-83465-7)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl's logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is," Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips." [via]

  • Rappaport, Herbert: Marking Time
    Marking Time
    by Herbert Rappaport
    ISBN 067174027X (0-671-74027-X)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science
    by Thomas Levenson
    ISBN 0671787306 (0-671-78730-6)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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    An account of how scientific thinking developed from its Pythagorean origins to the present day. The story unfolds through the tales of both scientific instruments and musical ones: the organ, the microscope, the still, scales, violins and cellos, computers and electronic synthesisers. Yet the tools that have enabled us to scrutinize nature have also revealed to us the limitations of the scientific approach. In every age they have provided new answers, but in the process they have rewritten the questions we thought we were asking, altering the scope and shape of scientific enquiry. [via]

  • The Mismeasure of Woman
    by Carol Tavris
    ISBN 0671797492 (0-671-79749-2)
    Softcover, Touchstone Books

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    When "man is the measure of all things," woman is forever trying to measure up. In this enlightening book, Carol Tavris unmasks the widespread but invisible custom -- pervasive in the social sciences, medicine, law, and history -- of treating men as the normal standard, women as abnormal. Tavris expands our vision of normalcy by illuminating the similarities between women and men and showing that the real differences lie not in gender, but in power, resources, and life experiences. Winner of the American Association for Applied and Preventive Psychology's Distinguished Media Contribution Award [via]

  • Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
    Moby Dick
    by Herman Melville
    ISBN 0671836706 (0-671-83670-6)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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  • Skaggs, Merrill Maguire: The Mother Person
    The Mother Person
    by Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Virginia Barber
    ISBN 067251995X (0-672-51995-X)
    Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill

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  • Fitzgerald, Helen: The Mourning Handbook: A Complete Guide for the Bereaved
  • Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality
    by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan
    ISBN 0671792261 (0-671-79226-1)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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    Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, linguistics, and politics, the authors trace the evolution of human sexual behavior and our complex feelings about sex. "A universally appealing subject presented with clarity, creativity, and conviction".--Booklist. Lynn Margulis is a leading evolutonary biologist and Sagan is a writer. [via]

  • Farrell, Warren: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
  • New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women
    by Boston Women's Health Book Collective
    ISBN 0671791761 (0-671-79176-1)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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    Three decades ago, information about women's health was hoarded by physicians and doled out sparingly to their female patients. Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published in 1969, helped change that situation. The latest edition runs 752 pages and covers a stunning range of territory about women's physical beings: fitness (this section includes a reminder that overweight women have a right to not exercise), reproductive health, aging, sexuality, and childbirth. It also includes thick chapters on relationships and information about mental-health issues, including psychotherapy. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves is the straightest-talking, most comprehensive book about women's health on the market. [via]

  • Kaplan, Louise J.: No Voice Is Ever Wholly Lost
    No Voice Is Ever Wholly Lost
    by Louise J. Kaplan
    ISBN 0671798685 (0-671-79868-5)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Oedipus the King: Uses And Abuses
    by Sophocles, Bernard Knox
    ISBN 0671888048 (0-671-88804-8)
    Softcover, Pocket Classics

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    A new edition of a dramatic classic about a king's struggle with pride, incest, and murder features period illustrations and photographs, a historical background, and a modern critical perspective that relates the piece to contemporary issues. Reissue. [via]

  • Bornoff, Nicholas: Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage, and Sex in Contemporary Japan
  • Reynolds, George Stanley: A Primer of Operant Conditioning
    A Primer of Operant Conditioning
    by George Stanley Reynolds
    ISBN 0673079643 (0-673-07964-3)
    Hardcover, Scott Foresman & Co

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  • Hillman, Carolynn: Recovery of Your Self Esteem: A Guide for Women
  • The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane
    ISBN 0671740814 (0-671-74081-4)
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    Stephen Crane's classic work [via]

  • Keppel, Robert D.: The Riverman : Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
  • Hamer, Dean: Science of Desire
    Science of Desire
    by Dean Hamer
    ISBN 0671887246 (0-671-88724-6)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Jacobs, David M.: Secret Life: Firsthand, Documented Accounts of Ufo Abductions
  • MacK, John E.: Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of Ufo Abductions
  • A Separate Reality: Further Conversations With Don Juan
    by Carlos Castaneda
    ISBN 0671732498 (0-671-73249-8)
    Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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    "A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived." --don Juan

    In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back.

    Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs, and to a world of experience no man from our Western civilization had ever entered before. [via]

  • Sheehy, Gail: The Silent Passage: Menopause
  • Silva, Jose: The Silva Mind Control Method of Mental Dynamics
  • Welford, A. T.: Skilled Performance: Perceptual and Motor Skills
  • Mintz, Harold K.: Speak With Confidence: A Practical Guide
    Speak With Confidence: A Practical Guide
    by Harold K. Mintz, Albert J. Vasile
    ISBN 0673382222 (0-673-38222-2)
    Hardcover, Scott, Foresman

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  • Miller, Lyle L.: The Stress Solution
    The Stress Solution
    by Lyle L. Miller
    ISBN 0671753118 (0-671-75311-8)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Stone, W. Clement: Success System That Never Fails
  • Yapko, Michael D.: Suggestions of Abuse: True and False Memories of Childhood Sexual Trauma
  • Sweet Suffering: Woman As Victim
    by Natalie Shainess
    ISBN 0672527669 (0-672-52766-9)
    Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill

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    "Why are so many women their own worst enemies? The answer is in this book- a book that could literally save lives. It belongs in the hands of every woman (and her name is legion) who feels she is always being stepped on by others, is always being put down, ignored or abused. Such a woman feeling that she is somehow a born victim suffers, in fact because she is locked into a pattern of inflicting psychic pain on herself. Submiting always to the will and whim of others, she perpetuates her own misery by living in fear that she would some how offend if she tried to stand up for herself. Such torment we now know is self imposed a masochist metes out her own punishment. Pointing no finger of blame, Dr. Natalie shainess, who is this country's foremost authority on masochism explains why no woman in our culture escapes masochism altogether. A searching but easy to take questionnair allows you to discover to what degree you yourslef may have the problem." This excerpt is taken from the dust jacket. [via]

  • Gall, John: Systematics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
  • Tales of Power
    by Carlos Castaneda
    ISBN 0671732528 (0-671-73252-8)
    Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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    Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most powerful and mysterious lesson in the sorcerer's art -- a dazzling series of visions that are at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell. [via]

  • Bristol, C.: Tnt the Power Within You
  • Brodsky, Archie: The Truth About Addiction and Recovery
    The Truth About Addiction and Recovery
    by Archie Brodsky, Stanton Peele
    ISBN 0671755307 (0-671-75530-7)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Smalley, Gary: The Two Sides of Love
    The Two Sides of Love
    by Gary Smalley, John T. Trent
    ISBN 0671750534 (0-671-75053-4)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
    ISBN 067179700X (0-671-79700-X)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Benson, Herbert: The Wellness Book: The Comprehensive Guide to Maintaining Health and Treating Stress-Related Illness
  • Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women
    by Christina Hoff Sommers
    ISBN 0671794248 (0-671-79424-8)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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    Philosophy professor Christina Sommers has exposed a disturbing development: how a group of zealots, claiming to speak for all women, are promoting a dangerous new agenda that threatens our most cherished ideals and sets women against men in all spheres of life. In case after case, Sommers shows how these extremists have propped up their arguments with highly questionable but well-funded research, presenting inflammatory and often inaccurate information and stifling any semblance of free and open scrutiny. Trumpeted as orthodoxy, the resulting "findings" on everything from rape to domestic abuse to economic bias to the supposed crisis in girls' self-esteem perpetuate a view of women as victims of the "patriarchy." Moreover, these arguments and the supposed facts on which they are based have had enormous influence beyond the academy, where they have shaken the foundations of our educational, scientific, and legal institutions and have fostered resentment and alienation in our private lives. Despite its current dominance, Sommers maintains, such a breed of feminism is at odds with the real aspirations and values of most American women and undermines the cause of true equality. Who Stole Feminism? is a call to arms that will enrage or inspire, but cannot be ignored. [via]

  • Ogden, Gina: Women Who Love Sex
    Women Who Love Sex
    by Gina Ogden
    ISBN 067186551X (0-671-86551-X)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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  • Ogden, Gina: Women Who Love Sex/Enhancing Your Sexual Pleasure and Enriching Your Life
  • You Must Be Dreaming
    by Barbara Noel
    ISBN 0671741535 (0-671-74153-5)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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    A woman sexually abused by the man she trusted most describes her battle to bring her psychiatrist, Dr. Jules Masserman, to justice for drugging and raping her, describing how the doctor's own colleagues refused to believe her charges. 50,000 first printing. Tour. [via]

  • Young-Eisendrath, Polly: You're Not What I Expected: Learning to Love the Opposite Sex
  • Your Inner Child of the Past
    by W. Hugh Missildine
    ISBN 0671747037 (0-671-74703-7)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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    Based on the groundbreaking bestseller that pointed therapy in a new direction. Missildine tells how to seek the inner child, identify how the inner child shapes behavior, and create ways to integrate the inner child into the adult personality. [via]