Customer Review: I did not enjoy reading this book. While many of the concepts presented are no doubt accurate and often enlightening, there is just far too much use of unecessarily complex and obscure language. You just about need to have a Thesaurus handy to interpret the text along the way. Unless you... more info
Customer Review: Okay, I was prepared to get drowsy as I opened this book. The subject of social intelligence intrigued me, but books like this can be so chock-full of scientific jargon that your eyes cross before you've finished the first half dozen pages. But what Goleman offers is a highly readable text,... more info
Customer Review: memoir written by a brilliant woman trained in child psychiatry, whose path was influenced by a need to heal the damages of her own childhood. That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist by Susan Rako, M.D. owes its title to a song by Leonard Cohen: "There is a crack, a crack in... more info
Customer Review: Working with emotional intelligence is a landmark book in that when it came out it made the first strong case for how emotional intelligence operates and work and why it's so important to have it. The information linking emotional intelligence to job performance is fascinating. The only place the... more info
Customer Review: It's hard to summarize this book better than fellow Amazonian P. Lozar "plozar" when she says: "the overriding theme here seems to me to be ridiculously simple: good nurturing (rather than aptitude) is more likely to produce exceptional humans; bad nurturing creates people with a bunch of... more info
Customer Review: This book by Mattieu Ricard really breaks down happiness. He differentiates between pleasure and happiness and how happiness is something that must be cultivated and practiced. Mattieu Ricard also gives a handful of in depth meditation exercises at the end of a few chapters. And he points out that... more info
Customer Review: i am a healthcare provider. For me this book offered a link between the spiritual and physical worlds. it demystifies meditation making it more "accessible" to everyone.
Customer Review: As part of the respected research on mindfulness, cultivating inner strength in children has been mentioned but parents had no guide. This book is extraordinarily concrete. It not only gives parents (and grandparents!!) means to help children, but it strengthens the bond between them. In a day when... more info
