Review:An easy-to-read, easy-to-understand, intuitive—and yet, somehow, completely game-changing—way to think about kids' brain development and our role as parents in helping them develop their whole brains. It's full of the kind of info you find yourself finding opportunities to share with other people, unsolicited. Makes the scary world of child-rearing less scary by putting it into a framework that makes sense and can become second nature. I highly recommend this book to new parents and seasoned par... Read more

Review:"Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes" is a fascinating, easy to read balance between detail and simple-to-comprehend explanations unraveling the mysteries of our genetic composition. Dr. Moalem transports us on a journey of discoveries and information, while adding humor and interesting anecdotes and revealing that we are not destined by what has been encoded in our DNA. Until now, we have had an incomplete picture of the complexities of genetic science. ... Read more

Review:Campbell's examples are very difficult to get through but the brilliance of the parallels he draws can not be overlooked. As a first time writer it was very insightful and interesting. Good price too. Read more

Review:Closer to 4.5 stars.

My nearly ten year-old smarty pants son read this; early in the book, he set it down and turned to me, saying "you know how sometimes when you read a book and someone dies you really feel sad and need to take a break 'cause it's hard to keep going?" I replied "don't forget -- I'm the person who cried during the opening scene of [the movie] 'Hachi' and never stopped!" He laughed and said "oh yeah."

His younger brother (our youngest son) is profoundly development... Read more

Review:Very useful in many ways. I have listened to every CD and now I need to use them every now and than - jump right in to a chapter or listen to the whole CD again. I highly recommend you to read the book or buy the CD's!! Read more

Review:I was most definitely not the intended audience for this book, but I also dislike Rutherford’s style; I did not get much past Part I. I had hoped that the book would be an update and elaboration of the books by Spencer Wells – now "we have approximately 150,000 fully sequenced human genomes, and useful samplings from literally millions of people, from all over the world." Rutherford’s stated objective in Part I is “the rewriting of the past using genetics, from a time when there were at leas... Read more

Review:Leadership is clearly a contact sport and a process of purposeful choice. People have essential needs and requirements and Sinek has a wonderful way of reminding us of that.
Dr. George L Dempsey, PhD, CEO
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Review:The author is apparently a narcissist by all means. The whole book smells like that all your ordinary people are stupid and she is the very God that can save you. I don't know how she manages to enjoy such a tired life so many years. Like the cruise example in chapter 10, her suggestions about all those questions to ask the trip organizer, i.e. the lady in the church, reflect extreme self-center personality and lack of social skills. They don't even care whether she would go or not, just being p... Read more

Review:I like this book a lot more than I though I would. It appeared by the title and cover photo that it would be watered-down psychology, but the author is legit and knows his stuff. A great intro psyche text, full of in-text citations and reference lists if you're interested to research in further detail.

Only qualms are that chapters get a little long-winded, and there is a little bit of a corny undertone at times, probably meant to keep things from being too dry. Otherwise a very nice read... Read more

Review:The Blank Slate is a brilliant synthesis of biology, psychology and humanism, composed by a polymath who is also a gifted writer. Perhaps the highest compliment I can give it is that in the future it will be regarded as boringly obvious. Today, however, it is a presentation of insights that, singly, are recognized by only few, and combined, by practically no one.
Drawing to a considerable extent on the work of R. Trivers and E. O. Wilson, The Blank Slate carries their thinking further, con... Read more