Jason's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 16 Mar 2018 04:30:19 -0700 60 Jason's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten]]> 1091633 Expanded, with twenty-five new stories

A book to raise the spirits and warm the heart. Includes the famous Kindergarten essay that was read on the floor of the U.S. Senate.]]> 320 Robert Fulghum 0375432884 Jason 4 3.78 1986 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> <![CDATA[Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents]]> 1649373 264 Nina W Brown EdD LPC 1572245611 Jason 4 4.00 2000 Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents
author: Nina W Brown EdD LPC
name: Jason
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Life On the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife]]> 1141476 Sylvia Browne 0451201515 Jason 3 4.15 1999 Life On the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife
author: Sylvia Browne
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day]]> 736399 229 Scott Dikkers 0752223909 Jason 0 3.60 1999 You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
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average rating: 3.60
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]]> My Lives 1728012 249 Roseanne Arnold 0345378156 Jason 2 3.42 1994 My Lives
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average rating: 3.42
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]]> The Funny Thing Is... 71978
Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...And I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book.

After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collaborating with lexicographers, plumbers, and mathematicians, DeGeneres has crafted a work that is both easy to use and very funny. Along with her trademark ramblings, The Funny Thing Is... contains hundreds of succinct insights into her psyche and offers innovative features

-More than 50,000 simple, short words arranged in sentences that form paragraphs.
-Thousands of observations on everyday life—from terrible fashion trends to how to handle seating arrangements for a Sunday brunch with Paula Abdul, Diane Sawyer, and Eminem.
-All twenty-six letters of the alphabet.]]> 179 Ellen DeGeneres 0743247639 Jason 4 3.58 2003 The Funny Thing Is...
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]]> My Point... And I Do Have One 71979 211 Ellen DeGeneres 0553573616 Jason 4 3.65 1995 My Point... And I Do Have One
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]]> It's Always Something 248170 256 Gilda Radner 038081322X Jason 4 4.09 1989 It's Always Something
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> The Interpretation of Dreams 93981 630 Sigmund Freud 1566195764 Jason 4 3.86 1899 The Interpretation of Dreams
author: Sigmund Freud
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book published: 1899
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]]> <![CDATA[The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom]]> 6596 The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The Four Agreements are: Be Impeccable With Your Word, Don't Take Anything Personally, Don't Make Assumptions, Always Do Your Best.]]> 152 Miguel Ruiz 1878424505 Jason 4 4.20 1997 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[Blessings From the Other Side: Wisdom and Comfort from the Afterlife for this Life]]> 601742 190 Sylvia Browne 0525945741 Jason 3 3.95 2000 Blessings From the Other Side: Wisdom and Comfort from the Afterlife for this Life
author: Sylvia Browne
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction]]> 217350
If you're tired of following the rules, dating people from Mars and Venus, gorging on chicken soup for your soul, or getting lost on a road less traveled, then it's time you listened to Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo, two people who actually sweat the small stuff . . . because, let's face it, if your body doesn't sweat, it dies--much like Ben and Janeane's train wreck of a relationship many years ago. From that experience came wisdom and self-reproachment. Now, in Feel This Book, they tackle the tough

- Is love necessary?
- How can I make money off my spouse?
- Compassion--is it overrated?
- Why can't I sleep around and still love you?
- How many times have you told your significant other that you would pick up something for dinner on your way home from the office, and next thing you knew you're at an all-night eatery with some hermaphrodite you found on the strip, having eggs and bacon at three in the morning?

Through helpful tips, completely fabricated case studies, the six laws of spiritual success, the fourteen by-laws of spiritual awakening, and the twenty-three addendums and sub-laws regarding anything spiritual and successful, Stiller and Garofalo teach such valuable lessons

- When it comes to family, grasp onto the blame and don't let go
- Make the connection . . . between Deepak and Tupac
- Your mother lied; looks are everything, and the sooner you submit and stop denying the inevitable, the happier you will be
- And much more!

Feel This Book. Let it be your path, your compass, your sensible shoes, your Frappuccino®. It's what self-help was meant to be.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 240 Ben Stiller 0345412931 Jason 4 3.13 1999 Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction
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]]> <![CDATA[Break Up or Break Through: A Spiritual Guide to Richer Relationships]]> 561021 Dina Bachelor Evan is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist with a PhD in psychology and one in holistic health. She has offices in Phoenix and Los Angeles.

An interview with Dina Bachelor Evan, Ph.D. author of Break Up or Break Through

You meet, you fall head over heels in love, you change your life for this person, and then suddenly you find you have nothing in common. You begin to fight, break up, and start the whole cycle over again. Sound familiar?

There has to be a better way. According to Dr. Dina Bachelor Evan, a psychotherapist with 16 years of couples counseling under her belt, there is. Her ideas, coupled with an astounding 90% success rate, are on display in the new book, Break Up or Break Through: A Spiritual Guide to Richer Relationships. Focusing on gay and lesbian couples, the book presents new paradigm for healthier, more fulfilling relationships. Dr. Evan talks about her book, her beliefs, and what most commonly goes wrong with gay and lesbian relationships.

Alyson: Why did you write this book?

Dr. Dina Bachelor Evan: In the gay community there are very few visible role models for successful relationships. We're in trouble. To make matters worse, today we are experiencing a relationship revolution in this country both in the straight community and the gay community. Divorce rates are skyrocketing, and statistics indicate the rates for long-term successful relationships in our communities are outrageously low. I have a 90% success rate with couples. I believe relationships are the finest spiritual teachers on the planet! Our ability to create long-term commitments and healthy families is thevery foundation of stability and health in our community, just as it is in every civilization. Our ability to love profoundly, ethically, spiritually is a reflection of our character. I believe we all want these deeper values and commitments, yet we haven't been given the tools with which to create meaningful relationships. This book gives you those tools.

Alyson: What questions do people ask most about relationships?

Dr. Dina Bachelor Evan: Most people want to know how to tell when they are really in love.

]]> 356 Dina Bachelor Evan 1555836399 Jason 3 3.44 2001 Break Up or Break Through: A Spiritual Guide to Richer Relationships
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average rating: 3.44
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]]> Nasty People 304195 Self-help 87 Jay Carter 076072766X Jason 3 3.71 1989 Nasty People
author: Jay Carter
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average rating: 3.71
book published: 1989
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]]> <![CDATA[Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death]]> 1827957
You don't know a thing...

She was famous for being famous- Americana at its Scarlet Letter-wearing best. A bodacious young girl from Texas , Anna remade herself into the centrefold of the world. She was a "dumb blonde," a stripper, a Playboy Playmate, who boldly took her case against her billionaire husband's family all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her tragic life and untimely death evoke an odd mix of fascination, shock, and dismay. And through it all, there still exists a voracious thirst to discover more about who she actually was...and how she really died.

In a book that is sure to surprise even the most avid pop culture junkies, Rita Cosby blows the lid off this astounding story. After an in-depth investigation, this is the definitive journalistic account of the Anna Nicole Smith saga -- with unearthed secrets and explosive, never-before-told information.]]> 256 Rita Cosby 0446406112 Jason 3 3.51 2007 Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death
author: Rita Cosby
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average rating: 3.51
book published: 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective]]> 100287 165 Richard Carlson 1577311108 Jason 3 4.10 1992 You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight]]> 217119
With all her notorious, righteous comic rage, Margaret Cho lays out in no uncertain terms what's wrong, what's right, and what's definitely worth fighting for.

That includes: freedom of expression, gay rights, racial equality, the right to choose, and the right to life-a real life, on your own freethinking, liberty-loving all-American terms.

Cho's is a vehement, principled, and resoundingly funny political agenda, and with this manifesto she encourages us all to go through our warrior rituals now-it's time to get visible, get loud, and "get your war on."]]> 272 Margaret Cho 1594482209 Jason 4 3.42 2005 I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
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average rating: 3.42
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]]> I'm the One That I Want 28356 I’m the One That I Want, Margaret Cho has written a book every bit as hilarious, shocking, and insightful as she is.]]> 228 Margaret Cho 0345440145 Jason 4 3.70 2001 I'm the One That I Want
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]]> Life After God 3383 How do we reach the quiet, safe layer of our lives? In this compellingly innovative collection of stories, bestselling author Douglas Coupland responds to these themes. Cutting through the hype of modern living to find a rare grace amid our lives, he uncovers a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast-forward. A culture seemingly beyond God.]]> 361 Douglas Coupland 0671874349 Jason 2 3.71 1994 Life After God
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> Hey Nostradamus! 3381 244 Douglas Coupland 1582344159 Jason 0 to-read 3.74 2003 Hey Nostradamus!
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]]> All Families are Psychotic 3379
The Drummond family, reunited for the first time in years, has gathered near Cape Canaveral to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah. Against the Technicolor unreality of Florida's finest tourist attractions, the Drummonds stumble into every illicit activity under the tropical sun-kidnapping, blackmail, gunplay, and black market negotiations, to name a few. But even as the Drummonds' lives spin out of control, Coupland reminds us of their humanity at every turn, hammering out a hilarious masterpiece with the keen eye of a cultural critic and the heart and soul of a gifted storyteller. He tells not only the characters' stories but also the story of our times--thalidomide, AIDS, born-again Christianity, drugs, divorce, the Internet-all bound together with the familiar glue of family love and madness.
]]> 288 Douglas Coupland 1582342156 Jason 0 to-read 3.73 2001 All Families are Psychotic
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]]> <![CDATA[Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture]]> 3378 Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertiser's target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut themselves adrift in the California desert. Unsure of their futures, they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking and working at no-future McJobs in the service industry.
Underemployed, overeducated, intensely private and unpredictable, they have nowhere to direct their anger, no one to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie. So they tell stories; disturbingly funny tales that reveal their barricaded inner world. A world populated with dead TV shows, 'Elvis moments' and semi-disposable Swedish furniture...

]]> 211 Douglas Coupland 0349108390 Jason 4 3.76 1991 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
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average rating: 3.76
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]]> Girlfriend in a Coma 3384 'What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she would flee into a refuge of bottomless sleep? Why would she leave me?'

It's 15th December, 1979, and Richard's girlfriend Karen has entered a deep coma. She only took a couple of valium washed down with a cocktail, but now she's locked away in suspended animation, oblivious to the passage of time. What if she were to wake up decades later - a 17-year-old girl in a distant future, a future where the world has gone dark?]]> 288 Douglas Coupland 0060987324 Jason 2 3.63 1998 Girlfriend in a Coma
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average rating: 3.63
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]]> Polaroids from the Dead 3382 198 Douglas Coupland 0060987219 Jason 3 3.28 1996 Polaroids from the Dead
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]]> Shampoo Planet 22312 282 Douglas Coupland 0743231538 Jason 4 3.53 1992 Shampoo Planet
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]]> The Informers 9914 240 Bret Easton Ellis 0330339184 Jason 4 3.43 1994 The Informers
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average rating: 3.43
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]]> The Rules of Attraction 9912 From the bestselling author of American Psycho comes this satirical black comedy about the death of romance.

Set at an affluent liberal arts college during the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction follows a handful of rowdy, spoiled, sexually promiscuous students with no plans for the future—or even the present. Three of them—Sean, Paul, and Lauren—become involved in a love triangle of sorts within a sequence of drug runs, "Dressed to Get Screwed" parties, and "End of the World" parties.

As Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at the self-consciously bohemian Camden College, treating their sexual posturing and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion, he exposes the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.]]> 283 Bret Easton Ellis 067978148X Jason 4 3.74 1987 The Rules of Attraction
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]]> American Psycho 28676 American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.]]> 399 Bret Easton Ellis 0679735771 Jason 3 3.82 1991 American Psycho
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average rating: 3.82
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]]> Less Than Zero 9915
Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs, and into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.]]> 208 Bret Easton Ellis Jason 4 3.62 1985 Less Than Zero
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average rating: 3.62
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books]]> 832916 With 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do-Insight and Inspiration, Tom Butler-Bowdon introduces readers to the great works that explore the very essence of what makes us who we are. Spanning fifty books and hundreds of ideas, 50 Psychology Classics examines some of the most intriguing questions regarding cognitive development and behavioral motivations, summarizing the myriad theories that psychologists have put forth to make sense of the human experience.

Butler-Bowdon covers everything from humanism to psychoanalysis to the fundamental principles where theorists disagree, like nature versus nurture and the existence of free will. In this single book, you will find Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, and the most significant contributors to modern psychological thought.

From the author of the bestselling 50 Self-Help Classics, 50 Success Classics, and 50 Spiritual Classics, 50 Psychology Classics will enrich your understanding of the human condition.

Includes:
1. Alfred Adler "Understanding Human Nature" (1927)
2. Gavin Becker "The Gift of Fear" (1997)
3. Eric Berne "Games People Play" (1964)
4. Edward de Bono "Lateral Thinking" (1970)
5. Robert Bolton "People Skills" (1979)
6. Nathaniel Branden "The Psychology of Self-Esteem" (1969)
7. Isabel Briggs Myers "Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type" (1980)
8. Louann Brizendine "The Female Brain" (2006)
9. David D Burns "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" (1980)
10. Robert Cialdini "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" (1984)
11. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi "Creativity" (1997)
12. Albert Ellis & Robert Harper (1961) "A Guide To Rational Living" (1961)
13. Milton Erickson "My Voice Will Go With You" (1982) by Sidney Rosen
14. Eric Erikson "Young Man Luther" (1958)
15. Hans Eysenck "Dimensions of Personality" (1947)
16. Susan Forward "Emotional Blackmail" (1997)
17. Viktor Frankl "The Will to Meaning" (1969)
18. Anna Freud "The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense" (1936)
19. Sigmund Freud "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1901)
20. Howard Gardner "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" (1983)
21. Daniel Gilbert "Stumbling on Happiness" (2006)
22. Malcolm Gladwell "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" (2005)
23. Daniel Goleman "Emotional Intelligence at Work" (1998)
24. John M Gottman "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" (1999)
25. Harry Harlow "The Nature of Love" (1958)
26. Thomas A Harris "I'm OK - You're OK" (1967)
27. Eric Hoffer "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)
28. Karen Horney "Our Inner Conflicts" (1945)
29. William James "Principles of Psychology" (1890)
30. Carl Jung "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious" (1953)
31. Alfred Kinsey "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" (1953)
32. Melanie Klein "Envy and Gratitude" (1975)
33. RD Laing "The Divided Self" (1959)
34. Abraham Maslow "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature" (1970)
35. Stanley Milgram "Obedience To Authority" (1974)
36. Anne Moir & David Jessel "Brainsex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women" (1989)
37. IP Pavlov "Conditioned Reflexes" (1927)
38. Fritz Perls "Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality" (1951)
39. Jean Piaget "The Language and Thought of the Child" (1966)
40. Steven Pinker "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" (2002)
41. VS Ramachandran "Phantoms in the Brain" (1998)
42. Carl Rogers "On Becoming a Person" (1961)
43. Oliver Sacks "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (1970)
44. Barry Schwartz "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less" (2004)
45. Martin Seligman "Authentic Happiness" (2002)
46. Gail Sheehy "Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life" (1974)
47. BF Skinner "Beyond Freedom & Dignity" (1953)
48. Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen "Difficult Conversations" (2000)
49. William Styron "Darkness Visible" (1990)
50. Robert E Thayer "The Origin of Everyday Moods" (1996)

]]> 312 Tom Butler-Bowdon 1857883861 Jason 4 4.02 2006 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books
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