This is an introductory book on 'Environmental Psychology'.... which features more than a normal person can imagine ..... it is NOT a book related to common sociological issues on global warming, nuclear waste disposal, environmental strikes and demonstration etc...., This book is related to psychology and features on content related to the environment and the behaviour of people. It is explained in psychological perspectives and is suitable for readers with a basic depth in understanding terminology related to psychology. There are theories on relationship between environmental and behaviour, environmental perception (such as Gestalt psych etc.,) Additionally descriptions on extraneous factors of noise, temperature, barometric pressure and attitude, wind, heat and cold, physical built structures (clusters etc.,), on behaviour.

Furthermore, there are chapters on disasters, Toxic Hazards and pollutions, and most interesting of all, the concepts of personal space and territorial behaviour, high density and crowding .....the effects of life in urban city in contrast to rural outback areas....theories on Architecture, Design and Engineering for Human Behaviour. Additionally topics on 'design in residential and institutional environments', 'work, learning and leisure environments', and the psychology perspective to changing people's behaviour towards saving the environment etc.,,

This book is worth every penny of it.....it is worth keeping it as a resource material !

A terrific read. Useful, specific, funny and very, very helpful. I particularly valued the chapters on the change cycle and the benefits people get in not changing.

Maybe the best book on the subject I've ever read. Much more accessible than theoretical texts currently available which I find cumbersome and difficult to plow through. This was a joy.

I only wish my friends would buy their own copy.

I LOVED this book. Practical, useful, funny, refreshing. I was delighted with the specific suggestions and useful information provided. I could pick it up anywhere, read from anywhere. It's a delight to have a leadership book so accessible.

In particular, the chapters on the change cycle and the benefits we get in NOT changing were especially useful and thought-provoking.

My only problem was everyone who picked up my copy wanted to take it with them.

Lightning in a Bottle is the best management book that I have ever read - and that is saying a lot because after an MBA and years as a manager I have read too many management books! David Baum's book is FUN and FAST READING and PRACTICAL. Best of all Dr. Baum dispenses business advice that has the wisdom of experience. I used his advice - the chapter about facilitating change by getting all of the affected employees and managers in the same room. Over 100 people did a workshop together to find creative plans to implement an internal project. The meeting was dynamic and very successful and the general manager was impressed by the new approach. In summary, I highly recommend this book. I read it during a couple of short plane flights (it is only about 200 pages) and these few hours turned out to be the most useful 'training' time that I gave myself in the last few years.

Out Of Body is an offbeat suspense novel with a metaphysical twist. The protaganist (or possibly the antihero) is Denton, a man who frequently has blackouts in which he leaves his body. As the story begins, Denton (who narrates the tale) has just been released from prison for a crime he believes he never committed. Because of his unusual state of mind, the reader does not completely trust Denton's claim of innocence. After all, if he doesn't always know where he is, he may have done anything. Denton is surrounded by people who are, if not hostile towards him, at least suspicious. He stays with his brother Elliot and his wife Mimi, whose marital difficulties are even further strained by Denton's arrival. Denton gets a job and becomes romantically involved with the bosses' daughter. When it turns out his new love interest has a checkered past, and a violently jealous fiancee, things quickly turn dangerous for the recently parolled Denton. To add to the complexity, one of Denton's cell mates has escaped and is looking for help. Denton seems destined to find trouble, and neither we nor he are surprised when he is suspected of another violent crime. One of the novel's strongest features is the way it captures Denton's frightening states of dissociation. We are swept along, forced to share his condition, as he is propelled out of one scene into another without any memory of the dots connecting. Author Thomas Baum inserts a powerful psychological theme here as well --at an early age, Denton may have witnessed his own father's suicide. Suspense, psychology and the supernatural are combined in an original way to make this a compellingly unique novel.

Having the experience of out-of-body travel, controlled or not, must be a truly awsome experience. Baum keeps the reader caught up in that place where reality ends and a book begins. He allows readers to get confused with Denton, who finds himself in the odd place somewhere near the ceiling or just below the floorboards, hovering about in his cell or peering into his brother's bedroom. The fact that Denton isn't certain of where he is keeps the reader wanting to know more than the character. The next time you drive to work and don't remember the drive, you have entered into Thomas Baum's world of confusion. It's an enticing place to be. Read it, you'll see what I mean.