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Loading... 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do; Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Booksby Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Good collection of chapter-length summaries of 50 classics in psychology. About half of the works are either so dated or so bad that the summary is all that's ever needed from them, but it's still good to know the basics of these books. Several of the summarized books are so good that they're absolutely worth reading in full. Others are more context-dependent. The author did a good job of summarizing (based on a few of the books I've already read; assuming he did an equally good job on the others), so this is a good collection. ( ) With 50 Psychology Classics, we are introduced to a distilled version of fifty works in Psychology. They aren’t all classics, so the title might be a bit misleading. The book spans from William James to Walter Mischel. Some of the works are quite recent but have influence in other ways. They might be bestsellers or quoted a great amount. Some of the works are ones that I have read or at least have heard of. This is a pretty good introduction to Psychology in general in that it recommends books and gets you interested in the material. The same guy does this series and I have read the one on Philosophy. I really enjoyed the book and would recommend it pretty highly. I actually bought a copy of it but I don’t remember where I got it from. no reviews | add a review
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In a journey spanning 50 books, hundreds of ideas and over a century, 50 Psychology Classics looks at some of the most intriguing questions relating to what motivates us, what makes us feel and act in certain ways, how our brains work, and how we create a sense of self. No library descriptions found. |
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