I've heard "Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manners" is a great summer read, combining etiquette and psychology!
(Actually, at the moment I'm reading Norgate's "Beyond 9 to 5: Your Life in Time," which I'm enjoying a good deal. Another recommendation: "Helping" by Ed Schein at the Sloan School of Business--particularly recommended if you like the work of Erving Goffman.) Robin Robin Abrahams www.robinabrahams.com My first book, "Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manners," is available now on Amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/bvcfzr. --- On Mon, 6/1/09, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mike Palij <[email protected]> Subject: [tips] What's on Your Summer Reading List To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Cc: "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 3:14 PM Among other things, I'll be taking a look at Matthew Goodman's "The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York" which is an account of how tabloid journalism got its start in New York City with the newspaper New York Sun. It might be of general interest as it points out the role that the popular media plays in influencing what people think they know about reality (e.g., the moon is inhabited by Man-Bats [not to be confused with Bat-Man]). It is available on Amazon and one can read the reviews there: http://www.amazon.com/Sun-Moon-Remarkable-Journalists-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0465002579 And it is available on books.google.com in limited preview: http://books.google.com/books?id=0aSGLYbQIEMC&dq=%22Matthew+Goodman%22+%22the+sun+and+the+moon%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=o6IQetVYIt&sig=xsxq9x0AHcsoZyx4g4D4KDTu2mE&hl=en&ei=JDQkSozUEKWxmAf-vbWsCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPP1,M1 or http://tinyurl.com/nfp7pd -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
