Review:According to the product description of SYBIL EXPOSED, "Nathan gives proof that the allegedly true story was largely fabricated."

Although Nathan did a good job of constructing a narrative of how and why she believes the book SYBIL came to be, neither the patient (Shirley Mason aka Sybil, the psychiatrist (Wilbur), nor the author (Schriebner) are alive to defend against Nathan's interpretations of their interactions and their motivations to produce the book.

On p. 396 (Kindle), Nat... Read more

Review:It intends to break up the confidence game into phrases much in the way the movie, The Sting did, but really it just becomes repetitive. There are good examples of the confidence men and women and their victims. The book makes clear that, yes, smart people, do fall for the con. Konnika writes about techniques the con men use to get their victims to believe their stories even though many sound ridiculous. It's worth reading, but I think the phases of the con aren't as distinct as she lets on, whi... Read more

Review:First Semester Nursing student. I have got to say this book was great. It explained material better than the instructor. The instructor broke the book into 3 tests within 1 month and I have got to say I am very grateful for the detailed information in this book. I finished with 2 A's(100's) and 1 B (87.) I would highly recommend this book for all first semester nursing students. Read more

Review:I read this book for a college class and thoroughly enjoyed reading it, not because it was a comfortable read, but because it challenges the reader to think beyond preconceived notions of masculinity. I highly suggest reading it after researching sociology because the writer is a premier Sociologist and not a pop culture writer.

This book will illicit extremely negative male reactions for the same reasons it was written: this book challenges patriarchy and male privilege which will defi... Read more

Review:It was a very good book and quite informative. It helped me discover much about myself and those around me. It also helps one to understand much of how the world works and why it does the way it does. Read more

Review:Content wise...I found the book well researched but very dry. Research material like this is difficult to use on the Kindle. I prefer to flip thru pages reading what interests me...going back and forth.

I would have preferred a less scholarly treatment of the medial effects of cannabis. It was too hard to plow thru to get the facts and summaries that I wanted. Read more

Review:The Culture Map is not only a very informative text, but fun to read, too. I kept finding the examples on the book very reminiscent of what I have found within our own Company. I found the concept of cultural relativity quite interesting. Culture maps seem very useful, too as a tool to understand global teams. Read more

Review:Lyubomirsky is a die hard researcher who keeps quoting statistics and disgarding the travails of life faced by people with ongoing depression. She does have a chapter on the subject, but I didn't find it to be as thorough as the rest of the book. All rumination is self induced and at the root of all unhappiness, in her opinion. Although the questionnaires she provides are good for self introspection and soul searching, many of the twelve suggested activities one can choose from to "gain happine... Read more

Review:The central argument of this book is that the default state of our brains, based largely on functional MRI (fMRI) scans, is being social and connected to others. When we are not doing anything, in so called idle state, our brain fMRI looks like when we are being social. And in that state of doing nothing we mostly think about other people.

Then Mr. Lieberman forces that argument, in rest of the book, to a conclusion that being social is like one of our basic needs for air, water, food and... Read more

Review:Book is an alright comprehensive coverage of the basics in microbiology. Good for resource in medical school. HOWEVER, I highly DO NOT recommend the purchase of the physical copy of the book. Many other classmates also purchased this book and we all had the same problem. Within the first week and a half of use, the book's binding starts falling apart and pages start falling out, starting from the back. RECOMMENDATION: purchase or find an electronic version of this book, the hard-copy of the book... Read more