Day: August 15, 2014

Author: Andrew Gersten, PhD Publisher: Pearson – 412 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Most of us have taken some sort of assessment test: aptitude test, intelligence test, personality test, or other test. And there are variations of each of these tests. These are means to take stock of ourselves and make decisions as what profession or vocation to pursue, how to improve our mental acuity, what strengths to further build on, and what weaknesses to work on. But there are those who have mental health issues and behavioral problems: pent-up anger that leads to shootings and killings for...

Editors: Bridget Robinson-Riegler, and Gregory Robinson-Riegler Publisher: Pearson – 602 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This book is about cognition or how we think. We seldom think about how we think until something goes wrong, Bridget and Gregory Riegler point out. What has gone wrong in your life that is related to your thinking? And what were the short-term and long-term negative (or positive) consequences of those actions? Do you forget where you kept your car keys? Do you remember faces but cannot verbalize people’s names? Can you remember ideas you discussed with someone, but not when and...

Author: Diana Kendall Publisher: Pearson – 474 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram The author Diana Kendall shows us in this book that social problems occur and persist in the United States and around the world because of social inequality. She shows us further that age, class, gender, and race are key factors in our understanding of social problems in most societies. She points out that some other causes of social problems, particularly in the international arena, are ethnicity and nationality. In my opinion, and as amply evidenced by the numerous acts of terrorism and fighting around the world,...