Category Archives: Martha’s Bookshelf

Martha’s Bookshelf: Marriage Rules

This month’s book is a fresh offering from one of my favorite authors in psychology, Dr. Harriet Lerner. The book is called Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up. Those of you who have read Dr. Lerner’s various books such asThe Dance of Anger and The Dance of Intimacy will be happy to hear that - Continue Reading

Martha’s Bookshelf: Incognito – The Secret Lives of Brains

The statement “truth is stranger than fiction” is more true of current neuroscience than it is of soap operas.  Fabulous new books seem to come out on a monthly basis, and more and more things are being discovered about the strange little blob of cells our heads that are capable of changing the world and - Continue Reading

Martha’s Bookshelf: Now You See It

Anyone with school-aged children — or for that matter anyone who has ever been to school — should read Now You See It:  How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn by Duke University Professor Cathy Davidson.  Davidson is a brilliant academic who, being gifted with dyslexia, noticed something radically important - Continue Reading

Martha’s Bookshelf: Mary Roach

I read two very entertaining books last month by non-fiction author Mary Roach. The first, and best, is Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. You wouldn’t expect this to be a riotously funny and deeply fascinating book, but the same perverse interest that makes CSI and Bones such popular TV shows — plus Mary Roach’s hilarious and ingenious word-play - Continue Reading

Martha’s Bookshelf: Anything You Want

I don’t know if ya’ll are following The Domino Project, Seth Godin’s brilliant publishing experiment based on good solid research into what makes entertaining, high value reading.  I, myself, am a hard core fan.  Godin and the authors in The Domino Project (I hope to be one of them) are publishing a series of very short books - Continue Reading

Martha’s Bookshelf: The Sociopath Next Door

This month’s selection is The Sociopath Next Door.    It is a brilliant combination of expert social science and fascinating story telling from one of the world’s leading authorities on sociopathy, Martha Stout.    Sociopaths are people who are born without a conscious the same way a person born blind is born with no eyesight.  Some anthropologists - Continue Reading

Martha’s Bookshelf: Beyond Boundaries

I am all hopped up about the latest book I’ve read about the brain:  Beyond Boundaries by Miguel Nicolelis.  The author is a professor of neuroscientist at Duke University who works with the interface between the brain and machines.  The first half is a rather dense read, but it’s worth it to get to the stories in the - Continue Reading

Martha’s Bookshelf: The Wayfinders

On a recent tribe conference call, someone (I don’t know who it was, but God bless you), mentioned the term “Wayfinder” as another label for what we are now calling “Life Coach.”  After a quick Google search, I found that this term is the title of a book by an anthropologist named Wade Davis.  This got my - Continue Reading

Martha’s Bookshelf: July 2011

One book the tribe will love is Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again by Roger Housden.  If you love a book that can inspire you every time you pick it up and open to a random page – and who doesn’t? – you’ll love all of Roger Housden’s poem anthologies.  Poetry is condensed, intense language, - Continue Reading

Martha’s Bookshelf: February 2011

Last week I read Spontaneous Evolution, by Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman. Bruce Lipton is a cell biologist who, in the middle of a successful medical career, began to believe that there is an almost magical quality to the intelligence to which cells function. He began running studies on quantum behavior in cell membranes and began - Continue Reading