by Laura | Sep 11, 2012
Review by Deborah at The Bookstop 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 going to work on bringing down my...
by Laura | Sep 3, 2012
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 time, but think of this joker card as random and capricious. ...
by Laura | Jun 18, 2012
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 enormously malleable, and considers how much of the gender...
by Laura | Feb 14, 2012
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 science research to show us in clear language exactly why this is so,...
by Laura | Nov 29, 2011
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, got to do something I’d love to do; for a year she sat in on...
