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Is there anybody there?

Advantages: Easy reading
Disadvantages: Not totally convincing

Whilst browsing in my local library recently, I picked up this book and took it home more out of curiosity than through any great belief in the power of spirit mediums. I'm as sceptical as the next person when it comes to ghoulies, ghosties and things tha ...

ladybracknell 11.11.2010 · Read full review
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Review of My Psychic Life - Sally Morgan

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A very useful,informative and easy to read book

Advantages: has the potential to help make sense of a lot of things
Disadvantages: could seriously start you off on the self-analysis road

...Alice Miller writes in an easily readable and understandable way (which cant always be said of a lot of psychology / counselling material!). She focuses on issues of child development, partental needs, inner-self etc and explains the intricate linking ...

decroisic 12.08.2004 · Read full review
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Review of The Drama of Being a Child (The Search for the True Self) - Alice Miller

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Gen-X guilt trip

Advantages: Inspiring and invigorating
Disadvantages: Too tired to make ‘big things happen fast’

...“Commerce induced coma can be very comfortable” (McConnell, 2002: 190). change activist is a volume from the career angst, self help section of my library. This shelf is devoted to my squashed idealistic notions that were truncated to make way for a p ...

researchguru 15.04.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast - Carmel McConnell

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Fire burn, and cauldron bubble

Advantages: An engaging account of human folly
Disadvantages: Reminds us that we are all fallible

You are, I'm sure, dear reader, a sensible person, just like me. Left to ourselves, we think about things clearly, come to considered conclusions and act rationally. You would not, I'm sure, pay more for a tulip bulb than for a house, denounce your ...

torr 28.10.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay

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Davina should retire

Advantages: She's not bad looking I suppose
Disadvantages: Please shut your mouth Davina!

...today's television I would like to voice my opinion (and where better to do it) on Davina McCall. I have no idea what The Dating Game is like but I feel that I can be sure about how bad it is. I feel quite offended that it's classe ...

cebrey 15.09.2000 · Read full review
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Review of The Dating Game - Davina McCall

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