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Metapsychology Online Reviews
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Metapsychology Online Reviews Volume 16, Number 20
By Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler Review by Christian Perring on Tue, May 15th 2012.
For today's teens, 1996 is the distant past, and The Future of Us provides a strong dose of nostalgia for those AOL CD-ROMS, dial-up logging in, VCRs, the first signs of cell phones in popular use, and the Macarena. The two narrators are Emma and Josh, 16-year-old high school students who live next to each other. They take alternating chapters, telling the story of what happened when Emma's new computer gave her access to her Facebook page 15 years in the future, in 2011. They get to see what will happen to them, and they soon realize that they can affect what happens.&
By Elisa Lorello Review by Natalie Kelley-Wilson on Tue, May 15th 2012.
The purpose of this book seems to be to explore human sexuality and love through fiction. As a bonus the reader is introduced to some rhetorical theory. It seems that while enjoying a fictional story one is also receiving a lesson in rhetoric and writing. The author uses her knowledge of rhetoric to emphasize her message.
This book is intended for the general fiction reader, however those with a particular interest in sexuality or rhetoric will find it particularly enjoyable. The book might provide useful discussion in a fiction writing class or even in a psychology class dealing with sexual
By Elisabeth Halfpapp and Fred DeVito Review by Pratima Sampat-Mar on Tue, May 15th 2012.
Exhale Core Fusion Power Sculpt is a 55-minute yoga and sculpting workout. Light hand weights are used to work the upper body, and the yoga poses help work the core and lower body.
The main menu options are Intro, Workout Options, Bonus Features, Also From Acacia, and Credits. The Workout Options menu consists of:
Play All
Play All Without Introductions
Pick a Segment:
Power Fusion
Strength Flow
Power Flow
Strength and Balance
Abs and Glutes
Bonus: Stretch With Weights
Main Menu
Each segment is 10 minutes long, with the exception of the stretch, which is 5 minutes. The first time
Not by Design Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker By John Reiss Review by Christina Behme, Ph.D. on Tue, May 15th 2012.
To say that the topic of evolution has been covered extensively is an understatement. The Wikipedia entry cites 288 sources and interested readers with all levels of background knowledge can chose from a wide selection of publications. The easily accessible Zimmer (2001) and Dawkins (2006), the more demanding but rewarding Gould (2002), Maynard Smith & Szathmáry (1997) and Mayr (2001) offer introductions for general readers, Hull & Ruse (2007) and Okasha (2007) for philosophers, and recently Hurford (2011) for language evolution. Countless volumes are available for those who wan
The Meaning of Nice How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life By Joan Duncan Oliver Review by Dan Buccino on Tue, May 15th 2012.
As befitting an author who has spent her career largely in journalism and magazine editing, Joan Duncan Oliver's slim paperback, The Meaning of Nice, reads briskly, as if it were a collection of articles from Self or O magazines. Though the premise of the book is timely in our increasingly uncivil times, and the organization of the book intelligently highlights some of the key themes that pertain to the concept of "nice," The Meaning of Nice makes liberal use of anecdote, aphorism, personal confession, newspaper clippings, and comments from respondents to the author's online Nice S
In How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas, David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton take on five evolutionary enigmas concerning women's bodies. These enigmas include: menstruation, ovulation, breasts (and other curves), orgasm, and menopause. The authors use evolutionary biology to discuss, analyze and pick apart various theories and hypotheses concerning the female body. The authors dedicate a chapter to each enigma, starting with menstruation.
Barash and Lipton discuss several hypotheses and "just-so stories" in their quest of understanding why women menstr
By John Symons and Paco Calvo (editors) Review by Luc Faucher, Ph.D. on Tue, May 15th 2012.
In their introduction to The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, editors John Symons and Paco Calvo compare the content of their book to what for some time was the official introduction to the discipline for philosophers, i.e. Ned Block's Readings in Philosophy of Psychology. Recall that Block's first volume was centered on issues of explanation in psychology, such as criticism of the various forms of behaviorism or the exposition of the central tenants of functionalism; while the second volume was devoted to issues such as mental representation, mental imagery, grammar and innate
Taking Wittgenstein at His Word A Textual Study By Robert J. Fogelin Review by Kenny Siu Sing Huen, Ph.D. on Tue, May 8th 2012.
In an attempt to fully respect Wittgenstein's texts and his notion of philosophizing ('Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything' [Philosophical Investigations (PI), §126]), Fogelin selects several central themes of the later Wittgenstein for a renewed treatment, namely, rule-following, private language and topics in philosophy of mathematics.
A new term 'defactoism' is used in this work to refer to Wittgenstein's overall position (see pp. 28-29). Declining to give this position a definition, Fogelin traces out a line of thinking from Wittgens
Attached The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind -- and Keep -- Love By Amir Levine and Rachel Heller Review by Chris Vaughan on Tue, May 8th 2012.
We are all different but subterranean forces exist which compel us into similar patterns of attitude and behavior and allow us to be typed by psychologists into a single collective category. In intimate relationships we fall into one of three according to Levine and Heller.
The authors take their lead from Mary Ainsworth’s groundbreaking experiment which has come to be known as the strange situation test where infants had differing reactions to their mother’s short absence. In Ainsworth’s scheme the children fell into one of these same three categories -- secure, avoi
Bethenny's Skinnygirl Workout DVD By Bethenny Frankel with Mike McArdle Review by Pratima Sampat-Mar on Tue, May 8th 2012.
This DVD sounded promising to me, a full-time working mother of two, because according to Bethenny, this is how she got and stayed in shape after having her baby. I have read magazine interviews with Bethenny but have never watched either of her TV shows. I find her perspective and comments down-to-earth and her perspective therefore appealing. The DVD is appealing because it contains 3 yoga workouts--two are 15 minutes each and the third is 25 minutes. There is also a bonus 12-minute stretch segment. This allows for a lot of flexibility in the length and intensity of your workout. In addition
Obesity Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives By Alexandra Brewis Review by Cicely Alsbury on Tue, May 8th 2012.
Obesity Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives provides an easy to read overview o f the contemporary phenomenon of obesity by introducing the complexities which intertwine to provide reason why the population is becoming increasingly overweight, as some might say, at an alarming rate. Brewis provides an analysis of each of the different factors which can influence the populous both in the conceptuality of obese persons and the self-conception of body image. This analysis is completed by providing an expansive literature review across a multitude of academic disciplines, referencing the
5. The Innate Mind Structure and Contents by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence and Stephen Stich (Editors) Review by Luc Faucher, Ph.D., Jean Lachapelle, Ph.D., and Pierre Poirier,Ph.D. on Oct 3rd 2006 [7]
36. The Paradoxical Primate by Colin Talbot Review by Alice Andrews, M.A. on Jun 13th 2005 [32]
37. Here Is New York A Democracy of Photographs by Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Sullivan, Charles Traub Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 23rd 2002 [36]
52. Suffering, Death, and Identity by Fisher, Robert, N., Daniel T. Primozic, Peter A. Day and Joel A. Thompson (Eds.) Review by Stan van Hooft, Ph.D. on Apr 7th 2003 [61]
