 | That's Not What I Meant! by Deborah Tannen
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 We all have to interact with other people. This book helps aide in understanding why conversations with other well-meaning people can go wrong. It is best for explaining relationships between people with different conversational expectations. A lot of the examples are stereotyping men and women, but it doesn't take much extrapolation to understand how the examples relate to all your conversations.
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 | The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) by Norman Doidge
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.88 In our lifetimes, we will all meet someone that has had a stroke, brain cancer, has a learning disability, or lost a limb. This book explains brain plasticity and the remarkable ways that it can recover and adapt despite the severity of the injury or symptoms.
Reading this book can help turn tragedy into triumph.
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 | The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap by Susan Pinker
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $3.89 Susan does her best to explain why many brilliant women don't succeed and she goes further than simply claiming it is overt discrimination or poor choices made by women. This book doesn't have all the answers but may help intelligent, driven women find their place in a world built by men. This is probably the only book where I found descriptions of woman that were substantially similar to myself.
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 | The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.49 This book covers the basics of understanding stereotypical women. Was very beneficial to me (a tom-boy that almost always Identifies with men first) to understand myself and other girls.
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 | The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke by Elizabeth Warren
Buy used from: $3.87 Food for thought that is especially poignant with the economy how it is. This book especially covers how women more than men end up suffering financially.
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 | Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans De Waal
Buy new: $8.24 / Used from: $5.00 This book helps explain the parts of ourselves that we don't necessarily think about. It helps explain how our biological drive to survive might surface and how it could affect us and our behavior. Though I don't always agree with the author. It helped me understand why I am the way I am, especially for those traits that I don't consciously try to have.
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