You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
10 best books like You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Deborah Tannen): Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century, Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, The Dysfunctional Relationship Manual: A Checklist and Workbook, Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds, Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation, Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of us Have, I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better: Six Practical Principles That Empower Others to Solve Their Own Problems While Enriching Your Relationships, Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray, The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships
| Author | Boston Women's Health Book Collective |
| ISBN | 0684842319 |
The essential resource on women's health and sexuality comes of age in this newly revised and updated edition of a long-loved classic. "Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century" reflects the vital health concerns of women of diverse ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds, and sexual orientations....
Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types
| Author | David Keirsey |
| ISBN | 0960695400 |
I have been using the 16 types as an analytical social tool for over a decade, as taught by my Jungian-influenced father. The authors here do credit Jung at moments, but they tend to ignore, underestimate, or occasionally outright reject many Jungian principles in favour of other theories. These newer...
| Author | Carol Gilligan |
| ISBN | 0674445449 |
This book started a revolution. Published decades ago, it made women's voices heard, in their own right, with their own integrity, for virtually the 1st time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate & continues in the academic world & beyond. Translated into...
The Dysfunctional Relationship Manual: A Checklist and Workbook
| Author | Stanley M. Giannet |
| ISBN | 0615235395 |
The Dysfunctional Relationship Manual provides a penetrating opportunity for you to thoughtfully reflect on your relationship and identify issues that might be inhibiting your relationship growth and individual satisfaction with the relationship. This book will serve as the catalyst for meaningful...
Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds
| Author | Howard Gardner |
| ISBN | 1422103293 |
Think about the last time you tried to change someone’s mind about something important: a voter’s political beliefs; a customer’s favorite brand; a spouse’s decorating taste. Chances are you weren’t successful in shifting that person’s beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds,...
Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation
| Author | Michael H. Agar |
| ISBN | 0688149499 |
The key to communication, says linguistic anthropologist Michael Agar, is understanding the context and culture of conversation. In Language Shock, Agar reveals how deeply our language and cultural values intertwine to define who we are and how we relate to one another. From paying an electric bill...
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 0684844958 |
From grief and mourning to aging and relationships, poet and Redbook contributor Judith Viorst presents a thoughtful and researched study in this examination of love, loss, and letting go.
Drawing on psychoanalysis, literature, and personal experience, Necessary Losses is a philosophy...
I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better: Six Practical Principles That Empower Others to Solve Their Own Problems While Enriching Your Relationships
| Author | Gary B. Lundberg |
| ISBN | 0140286438 |
In their weekly radio show and in their popular workshops, Gary and Joy Lundberg have already helped thousands of people and their families to communicate more effectively. Now, the Lundbergs address an all too common dilemma that arises when others expect you to solve their problems for them, showing...
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
| Author | Helen Fisher |
| ISBN | 0393349748 |
First published in 1992, Helen Fisher’s “fascinating” (New York Times) Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic. Since then, Fisher has conducted pioneering brain research on lust, romantic love, and attachment; gathered data on more than 80,000 people to explain why you love who you love;...
In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged--by distance, intensity, or pain--she teaches...
| Author | David Richo |
| ISBN | 1570628122 |
"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present." In this book, Richo offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships—one that focuses not on finding an ideal mate, but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Drawing...
| Author | Joan Borysenko |
| ISBN | 1573226513 |
A Woman's Book of Life teaches women how to align with the physical changes that occur at every stage of life in order to maximize health and well-being. In the growth of early childhood, hormonal ups and downs, the possibility of childbearing, and growing older are powerful keys to unlocking a woman's...
| Author | John Gray |
| ISBN | 0060507861 |
Men and women are different -- there's no denying it. So why do we constantly expect the same actions and feelings from them? This enormously helpful book not only enables you to recognize the differences between you and your loved one but also leads you toward an acceptance of those differences, thereby...
Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets
| Author | Joanne Smith |
| ISBN | 1558616691 |
At every stage of education, sexual harassment is common, and often considered a rite of passage for young people. It’s not unusual for a girl to hear “Hey, Shorty!” on a daily basis, as she walks down the hall or comes into the school yard, followed by a sexual innuendo, insult, come-on, or assault....
You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships
| Author | Richard C. Schwartz |
In this new audio version, Richard Schwartz, the developer of the Internal Family Systems Model, applies the IFS Model to the topic of intimate relationships in an engaging, understandable, and personal style. Therapists and lay people alike will find this book to be an insightful exploration of...
Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women
| Author | Anne Moir |
| ISBN | 0385311834 |
Bought this book in Portland, OR in 1992 - read it out aloud to my girl friend while she was trying to fall asleep in our tent after each long day's trek up and down ravines in the Snake River wilderness - ordered many more copies to give away to the near and dear ones I used to regularly discuss gender equality/women's...
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time
| Author | Marcia Bartusiak |
| ISBN | 0425186202 |
In a handful of observatories around the world, scientists are waiting, and listening. Their quest: to be the first to detect gravitational waves, infinitesimal quakes that stretch and compress space-time and could add a brand-new dimension to our universal knowledge-allowing us to hear a sun going...
Fire with Fire: New Female Power and How It Will Change the Twenty-First Century
| Author | Naomi Wolf |
| ISBN | 0099329611 |
In her bestselling book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf sought to change the way in which women see themselves in relation to their bodies. Now she focuses on how they see themselves in relation to power.
She argues that the feminist movement has to change if it is to speak to a new generation of women,...
The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter
| Author | Katherine Ellison |
| ISBN | 0465019064 |
It always bugs me when people say things like, "Oh, you're becoming a mom? They say you lose 25% of your brain matter with each child! Ha ha ha!" First of all, I know it's a joke, and it's supposed to be funny, but I don't even relate to that enough to think it's funny. If anything, I have been stretched and challenged...
A Couple's Guide to Communication
| Author | John M. Gottman |
| ISBN | 0878221271 |
Although this book was written to be used primarily by couples, it has become a bestselling text for college counseling courses. The skills and techniques introduced are based on the way distressed and nondistressed couples differ when solving problems. Each chapter includes practice exercises...
In Session: The Bond Between Women and Their Therapists
| Author | Deborah A. Lott |
| ISBN | 0716740257 |
*The power of the therapeutic bond*
In Session illuminates how the heart of therapy lies not in the therapist's theory or dogmatic beliefs, but in the relationship that exists in session between the client and therapist. Seamlessly weaving together the information she collected through...
Cute, Quaint, Hungry And Romantic: The Aesthetics Of Consumerism
| Author | Daniel Harris |
| ISBN | 0306810476 |
Call it an encyclopedia of low-brow aesthetics. In Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic, the writer whom Steven Millhauser called "the most original essayist since George Orwell" examines with devastating wit and in a style distinctly his own the contagious appeal of that which is not art, the uses of...
A Mind of Her Own: The Evolutionary Psychology of Women
| Author | Anne Campbell |
| ISBN | 0198504985 |
Current theories of evolution portray men as active individuals forging their way forward through a mix of testosterone fuelled competition, rivalry, and aggression. But what role is left for women within such evolutionary thinking? The role women get is that of the passive, weak, individual left...
Messages: The Communication Skills Book
| Author | Matthew McKay |
| ISBN | 1572240229 |
Messages is the most complete and accessible guide for building communication skills available. And now it's even better. The current edition has chapters on influencing others, culture and gender, and interviewing. The chapter on listening now includes reciprocal listening for couples. Fair...
