The Husbands and Wives Club: A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group
The Husbands and Wives Club is a strikingly intimate, thoughtful snapshot of a year in the life of American marriage. Laurie Abraham, a senior Elle editor who has written widely about relationships,...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
From varieties of toothpaste to investment options, we have all experienced the paralysis that can come with too many choices. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz synthesizes a wealth of social...
View ArticleThe Male Brain
Neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine follows up her much-discussed The Female Brain with this frank and well-researched look at the male counterpart. Brizendine acknowledges that the human brain is...
View ArticlePredictably Irrational
Beginning with its wonderfully paradoxical title, Dan Ariely’s sharp and sly book challenges our assumptions about our own decision-making. We all acknowledge that the irrational intrudes from time to...
View ArticleReconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity
In this pathbreaking book, psychologist Mardy Ireland takes on womanhood without parenthood. She does an insightful historical examination of the development of female identity from a psychoanalytic...
View ArticleThe Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook
This book has to do with how living true includes understanding and managing stress! Here is the review by a favorite professional book reviewer colleague, Deborah Spitz: I decided this year I was...
View ArticleDelusions of Gender
While Louann Brizendine analyzes the differences in male and female brains in the Male Brain and the Female Brain, in Delusions of Gender, you could say that author Cordelia Fine is up to just the...
View ArticleDrive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel Pink’s first book, A Whole New Mind, explored his thesis that society, and the workplace in particular, is in the midst of a fundamental shift from left-brain, rule-based routine work to...
View ArticleQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
If you delve into personality theory, you inevitably run into psychologist Carl Jung’s theory of introverts and extroverts. One thing you won’t learn, however, is how our society has come to value the...
View ArticleThe (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty
The LiveTrue book collection is all about what it means to live true to self, others and our world. This book comes at this theme from the opposite direction; it delves into why it is we can be...
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