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Summary: Not what I expected...
Review: Call me manipulative, but you can't accuse this book of the same quality. I was expecting something telling me how to do some down-and-dirty "social engineering"...but...alas, no. It did give me a few tips/tricks that were cool, but it was hokey ... on how to make people feel better and garbage like that. Nothing to make someone insecure about their looks all day...or how to make someone trust you with a few carefully placed words. It doesn't even cover simple things like surveying people, and how to determine body language. Not worth the buy, AT ALL. If you can borrow it from a friend, it's fun for a couple minutes.
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Summary: Buy it!
Review: I made my friends read this after I got done. I couldn't put it down and I'm not even a big psychology fan.
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Summary: Fluffy, "tip of the day" style book
Review: The best part first: this is a fun book. It has straight-forward tips on dealing with 62 different situations, all of which are...more or less...founded in psychology research.But... It's not particularly good for providing *general* information as implied by the sub-title ("What to Do When Hard Work, Honesty, and Perseverance Fail"). For readers interested in those issues, wider reading is necessary.
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Summary: Fluffy, "tip of the day" style book
Review: The best part first: this is a fun book. It has straight-forward tips on dealing with 62 different situations, all of which are...more or less...founded in psychology research. But... It's not particularly good for providing *general* information as implied by the sub-title ("What to Do When Hard Work, Honesty, and Perseverance Fail"). For readers interested in those issues, wider reading is necessary.
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Summary: Excellent Advice for the Weary
Review: The title holds true. Sometimes hard work is overlooked and the kinder you are the worse you feel you are treated. The advice in this book helps to put everything in perspective in a very straight and to the point fashion. From avoiding feeling dizzy in an amusement ride to keepnig the flame in your love life; the pointer are little lessons to remember your entire life. A book to cherish, for you will read it many times over.
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Summary: Excellent Advice for the Weary
Review: The title holds true. Sometimes hard work is overlooked and the kinder you are the worse you feel you are treated. The advice in this book helps to put everything in perspective in a very straight and to the point fashion. From avoiding feeling dizzy in an amusement ride to keepnig the flame in your love life; the pointer are little lessons to remember your entire life. A book to cherish, for you will read it many times over.
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Summary: Great tricks!
Review: These "Cheap Tricks" have great worth. Actually, the information in this book is quite valuable. It's about using knowledge of brain function to one's advantage in everyday life. Dr. Buff's style of writing is absent of mumbo-jumbo. He has a practical, common-sense approach to science, mixed with great humor, charm and fun-facts. This is the kind of book your friends will ask to borrow and not return. It happened to me.
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Summary: a light, fun book on managing yourself, your children, et al
Review: This book offers some fairly lighthearted
means of improving your life via psychological
tricks, each presented in its own mini-chapter.
Some of these tricks are amazing, some are fairly obvious (listening to other
people's problems gives you a new perspective
on your own.)
Unfortunately, the chapters concerning
interactions
with others are frequently a bit simplistic and
naive: people aren't automatons. The large
number of references to articles in Psychology
Today is probably the best guide to the quality
and scope of this book.
It covers: insomnia, dealing with your boss,
children, depression, relationships, sex, etc. It's a book you're likely to give to someone else to read as soon as you're done.
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