I purpose a thread where ask otehre M&Mers "how is this book"? and anyone who can offer a good answer would help decide if its worth a read.

how are these books?

1. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide To Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping

2. The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better

3. The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person

4. http://www.amazon.com/Power-Full-Engagemen...1021&sr=1-1

1) not bad
2) bla
3) bla bla
4) fishsticks

nightop did you read 2,3,4? + I dint get the fishsticks comment

I'm gonna make this my thread to post about interstin( or at least judging by hype and title, interesting) books and info

1. Fat Is Not Your Fate: Outsmart Your Genes and Lose the Weight Forever

2. YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger

3. The No Diet Diet: Do Something Different I posted about this book, interesting

4. Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise Your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment

http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com

a great site for finding happiness (or rather unburying it from within) without all the fuss.

yeah, I know that site. IMO its alot of words and no prcatical ideas. I can't stand reading this kind of "Advice".

I've read five or six books on the happiness theme now -- the best of them all, by far, is The Happiness Hypothesis. I highly recommend it.

ordered.

man I've already ordered 10 books these last two days . feels so damn good. I'll report on those I find good. right now I'm reading Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. its very good, a little repeptetive but I'm just through about a quarter.

Are you still on the pursuit of happiness? Is it something you are doing to enrich yourself or do you feel all those books (can) provided a solution to your situation?

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Jones' and Pennick's A History Of Pagan Europe is a good resource for bitch-smacking pagans who like to believe in a idealized pre-xian world.

Read Oprah.

I just listened to the first chapter; its awful. alots of stupid hippie pseudo science remarks, gross overgeneralizations and plain dumb shit and very little in the way of useful data.


NEXT!

I heard a great interview with a guy named Michael Dowd who wrote a book called Thank God for Evolution. Sounds reallly cool.

The Omnivore's Dilemma

I just finished this one and it is excellent. Hippie crap the way hippie crap is ought to be:)

I recommend the book on stress by Sapolsky. The guy is amazing, his research is innovative, and his lectures are engaging. It is partially his influence that swayed me from being a lawyer (high stress) to being a philosopher (lower stress).

Curious, as a philosopher what type of job do you/most have?

Well PhD students have many paths, my path is to become a professor of my subject of study. Others go on to do a variety of things, but my comment above was really about being a so called "professional philosopher" aka philosophy professor.

Kind of like Plato?

IMO a professional philosopher these days can also describer coaches.