In an Instant: Family's Journey of Love and Healing by Lee and Bob Woodruff
Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us about Leading Longer, Healthier Lives by David Snowdon (not new but might have lost track of) Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life with David Helfgot by Gillian Helfgot Better: A Surgeon's Notes on (Improving) Performance: Atul Gwande About Alice by Calvin Trillin (A very tender and touching memoir of his wife) The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (A touching and brilliantly written memoir of the her first year after her husband's death. So well-written that her grief is transmitted in heart rendering ways.) Joan [email protected] > 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]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
