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Trumix.com listings available of Social Science Books Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. UFO Research Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Dr. C. Scott Littleton about his study and research into and first hand experiences with UFO's. A native Californian, C. Scott Littleton received his B.A., M.A.,and Ph.D from UCLA, and has taught anthropology at Occidental College in Los Angeles for many years. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at UCLA in1957. In 1991 he received The Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award, given annually to a distinguished member of the Occidental College faculty. Heâs also received g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Classical Samurai Martial Arts Part one of a two part interview-  Conversation will be concluded in part twoDr. Kevin Keough, clinical psychologist and host of North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions, interviews Kyoshi Gary Moro of Yachigusa-Ryu Aiki-Bugei Dojo in San Francisco, CA.Gary Moro started his martial arts training with Hiroshi Yachigusa in 1975. His studies began with the art of Aikijutsu, based on the system developed by Yachigusa Sensei's family which had been influenced by Jukishin-Ryu, Shinkage-Ry ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martial Arts and Self Defense Dr. Kevin Keough, clinical psychologist and host of North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions  interviews Mr. Marc "Animal" MacYoung about martial arts, self defense, and warrior training.Marc MacYoung has been called a Renaissance man in the study and management of violence. He has more then 35 years of training in 8 different martial arts systems including wing chun and Tai Chi. Perhaps, more importantly he has 47 years of experience in training in city jungles. Mr. MacYo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jason Sokol, author of  There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 published by Vintage. Jason Sokol grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of basketball. He attended Oberlin College, and double-majored in History and Philosophy. Jason graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1999 with Highest Honors in History. From 1997 to 2000, he worked variously for the Springfield Union-News, the Ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Black Masculinity And the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Riche' Richardson, author of Black Masculinity And the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta published by the University of Georgia Press. Professor Richardson is a Southerner who was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. She joined the English Department faculty at UC Davis in the fall of 1998. Her scholarly essays have appeared in journals such as American Literature, The Mississippi Quarterly, and the Forum for Modern Language ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Tanya Biank, author of Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage published by St. Martin's. Tanya Biank is a Fulbright scholar and graduate of Penn State University. She holds a bachelorâs degree in journalism and was a member of the University Scholarâs program. Tanya comes from a family of combat veterans and active-duty service members. During her fatherâs thirty-year career in the Army, she grew up on military posts ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Barbara Bizantz Raymond, author of The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption published by Carroll & Graf. Barbara Bisantz Raymond is an adjunct professor, adoptive mother, and writer. She has received two awards for feature writing from Women in Communications, and was an author of a child care section that won the National Magazine Award for Public Service. She contributed to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Keith Sawyer author of Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration published by Basic Books. R. Keith Sawyer is one of the country's leading experts on the science of creativity. He studies creativity, everyday conversation, children's play and everyday social life. He is particularly interested in group dynamics and collaboration. He is the author of numerous books including Pretend Play as Improvisation (1997), Creating Conve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the DecadesBefore Roe v. Wade Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Ann Fessler, author of The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade published by Penguin. Ann Fessler is a Professor of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and a specialist in video-installation art. She won a prestigious Radcliffe Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, at Harvard University, to complete her extensive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless Dr. Kevin Keough, interviews Ms. Cora Daniels, M.A., author of Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless published by Doubleday. Cora Daniels is an author and award-winning journalist. Her work has appeared in Fortune, the New York Times, Essence, O: The Oprah Magazine, USA Today, Heart & Soul, FSB: Fortune Small Business, and Savoy. She has been a staff writer at Fortune and an editor at Working Mother magazine and is currently a contributing writer for E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr.  Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War  published by Viking Adult. Joe Bageant writes an online column that has made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives. He has been interviewed on Air America and comments on Americaâs long history of religious fundamentalism in the BBC/Owl documentary The Vision: Americans on America. Until recently he worked as a s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr. Julian Sher, author of Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators  published by Carroll & Graf. Julian Sher is an award-winning writer and investigative journalist, TV producer and author of five books including Angels of Death: Inside the Biker Gangs Crime Empire, which has been translated into four languages and sold in seven foreign countries. He wrote and directed the New York Times ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sue Palmer author of Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It  published by Orion. Sue Palmer is a writer, broadcaster and consultant on the education of young children. She is a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement and other journals, and author of more than two hundred books, TV programs and software for 3 to 12 year-olds including the popular skelet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., co-author of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes by Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., and Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., published by St. Martin's Griffin.Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., is a mom, professor, and community activist. Her acclaimed work on girls social and psychological development has consistently broken new ground and challenged old perceptions.   She is the co-author, with Caro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sam Binkley, author of Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s published by Duke University Press. Sam Binkley is professor of sociology at Emerson College. His research and teaching interests focus on questions of identity formation in the context of contemporary cultures of consumption with a focus on the role of lifestyle movements, from the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 70s to contemporary anti-consumer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The High Price of Materialism Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Tim Kasser, author of The High Price of Materialism published by the MIT Press. After receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Rochester in 1994, Dr. Kasser accepted a position at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he is currently an associate professor of psychology.    He has authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on materialism, values, and goals, among other topics. His b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Katherine Parkin, author of Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America  published by University of Pennsylvania Press. Katherine Parkin is an assistant professor of History  at Monmouth University.  She received her B.A. in History and Sociology/Anthropology from Lake Forest College and her Ph.D. in History from Temple University (2001). The American/Popular Culture Association awarded Food is Lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Caroline Moorehead, author of Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees published by Henry Holt and Co. Caroline Moorehead wrote a column on human rights first for The Times and then for the Independent (1980-91) and made a series of TV programmes on human rights for the BBC (1990-2000). She has written the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1998); and has helped to set up a Legal Advice Centre for refugees i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-up Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Christopher Noxon, author of Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-up published by Crown. Christopher Noxon has worked as a costumed character at Universal Studios, a speechwriter for Michael Milken, and a music supervisor for the television series, Weeds. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Salon, and GQ.  He lives with his wife and three children in L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961 Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. James Baughman, author of Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961 published by the John Hopkins University Press.  James L. Baughman became Director of the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of  Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. An Ohio native, he earned his B.A.at Harvard, and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. While earning his doctorate, Baughma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present published by Doubleday. Harriet A. Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Maia Szalavitz, author of Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids published by Riverhead. Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science and public policy. She is co-author, with Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, of Recovery Options: The Complete Guide: How You and Your Loved Ones Can Understand and Treat Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (John ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, author of Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women published by New York University Press. Sharpley-Whiting is Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French at Vanderbilt University where she also directs the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and serves as Director of the W.T.Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. A graduate of Brown Un ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Kristin Henderson, author of While They're At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront published by by Houghton Mifflin.Kristin Henderson is an author and a frequent contributor to the Washington Post Magazine (read the latest). Her writing has also appeared in Military Spouse Magazine and various literary journals, and she's the recipient of a Bread Loaf nonfiction fellowship. She regularly lectures on the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. David Schmid, author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture published by the University of Chicago Press. David Schmid is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the University at Buffalo's English Department, where he teaches courses in British and American fiction, cultural studies, and popular culture. Born and raised in England, he received his B.A. from Oxford University his M.A. from ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Paul R. Amato, co-author of Alone Together: How Marriage Is Changing written by Paul R. Amato, Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, Stacy J. Rogers published by Harvard University Press.Paul R. Amato is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Demography, Human Development, and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include marital quality, the causes and consequences of divorce, and parent-child relationship ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cyber Rules: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Joanie Farley-Gillispie, Ph.D., co-author of Cyber Rules: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet published by Norton. Joanie-Farley-Gillispie, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco and Marin Counties, where she works for juvenile justice. She is a Certified National Trainer, APA HIV Office of Prevention and Education (HOPE), and has taught law and ethics for mental health providers. Visit he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigration and American Popular Culture Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Rachel Rubin and Professor Jeffrey Melnick, co-authors of Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction published by New York University Press. Rachel Rubin is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature.  Visit her web page. Jeffrey Melnick is associate professor of American Studies at Babson College. He is the auth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Cris Beam, author of Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers published by Harcourt. Cris Beam is a journalist who has written for several national magazines as well as for public radio. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia and the New School. She lives in New York.  Visit her website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Deborah Harper, President of Psychourney, Ms. Mary Roach, author of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife  published by Norton. Journalist and former Salon com. columnist Mary Roach has written for Outside, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine. She writes the humor column "My Planet" in Reader's Digest and is contributing editor for the science magazine Discover. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Ed. Visit her website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews, Ms. Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers published by Norton. photo credit: Phyllis ChristopherJournalist and former Salon com. columnist Mary Roach has written for Outside, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine.  She writes the humor column "My Planet" in Reader's Digest and is contributing editor for the science magazine Discover.  She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Ed.&nb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. John Higgs, author of I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary published by Barricade Books. John Higgs has spent 10 years writing and producing in a wide range of media, making him the only man who can boast of producing both a long running series for BBC Radio 4 and a best selling videogame for the PlayStation 2. He created the innovative historical and geographical quiz show X Marks The Spot for BBC Radio 4. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, author of Waiting' Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power In America published by Henry Holt. Peniel E. Joseph teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. The recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Ford Foundation, his work has appeared in Souls, New Formations, and the Black Scholar, and he is the editor of a forthcoming a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Mark Regnerus, author of Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers published by Oxford University Press. Mark Regnerus is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin (PhD, 2000, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a faculty associate at the university's Population Research Center. He is the author of over 25 published articles and book chapters. Winner of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Six Lessons for Six Sons- Part Two Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Joe Massengale author of Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success published by Three Rivers Press.  This is part two of a two part interview. Boxer, preacher and businessman, George Forman says about our guest, Mr. Joe Massengale, "The lessons Joe Massengale learned back in the piney woods around Marshall, Texas, and gave to his sons to take into the world are some of the same one ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Joe Massengale author of Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success published by Three Rivers Press.  This is part one of a two part interview. Boxer, preacher and businessman, George Forman says about our guest, Mr. Joe Massengale, "The lessons Joe Massengale learned back in the piney woods around Marshall, Texas, and gave to his sons to take into the world are some of the same ones I h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Hella Winston, Ph.D., author of Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels published by Beacon Press. Hella Winston was born and raised in New York City. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Barnard College with a B.A. in Religion, she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to her work on Hasidic Jews â drawing upon what has been hailed as unprecedented ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Complete Book of International Adoption: A Step by Step Guide to Finding Your Child Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Attorney Dawn Davenport, author of The Complete Book Of International Adoption: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Your Child published by Broadway. Dawn Davenport is an adoption expert, writer, attorney, and speaker specializing in international adoption. Her book, The Complete Book of International Adoption: A Step by Step Guide to Finding Your Child (Random House/Broadway, Nov. 2006), and website,  help families through the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Janja Lalich, co-author of Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships with Madeleine Tobias published by Bay Tree Publishing. Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in cults and extremist groups, with a focus on charismatic relationships, political and other social movements, ideology and social control, and issues of gender and sexuality. She has served as a consultant to e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yes You Can!: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Jonathan Black, author of  Yes You Can!: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz  published by Bloomsbury USA.Jonathan Black was managing editor of Playboy for sixteen years and before that, executive editor at GQ. He is contributor to many national magazines as well as the New York Times. As a consultant, Black works with corporate clients through his business, Pulse Communications ("Media Made Smart") ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr. Richard McKenzie, author of The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage published by Dickens Press. Richard McKenzie is the Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society in the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Professor McKenzie has written more than Twenty-five books and monographs. Professor McKenzie grew up at Barium Springs Home for Children (near Charlotte, North Carolina), ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road Through The Twenties, published by Oxford University Press. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a research professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research, and of three forthcoming encyclopedias: The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Adolescence (four volumes); the Encyclopedia of Adolescence (four v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website There Goes the Neighborhood Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. William Julius Wilson co-author of There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America written by William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub and published by Knopf. William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at the John F. Kennedy School of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sarah E. Igo  author of  The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, published by Harvard University Press. Sarah E. Igo is an assistant professor of American intellectual and cultural history at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University (2001). Igo has held fellowships from the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rumor Psychology: Social And Organizational Approaches Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr. Nicholas DiFonzo,co-author of Rumor Psychology Social and OrganizationalApproaches written by Nicholas DiFonzo and Prashant Bordia,and published by the American Psychological Association.Nicholas DiFonzo earned his Ph.D. in Social &Organizational Psychology from Temple University in 1994 where he was awardedthe Marianthi Georgoudi Dissertation Award for philosophical and theoreticalcontributions to the field of Psychology.  H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Love You, Let's Meet: Adventures in Online Dating Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Virginia Vitzthum author of I Love You, Let's Meet: Adventures In Online Dating published by Little Brown.Virginia Vitzthum has written for publications including the Village Voice, Ms., Elle, Washington City Paper and salon.com, where she was the sex columnist. She has also written a play and a screenplay. She lives alone, mostly happily, in Brooklyn, NY. I Love You, Let's Meet: Adventures in Online Dating is her first book. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Alice Kuzniar Ph.D, author of Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship publishedby University of Chicago Press.Alice  Kuzniar is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina in ChapelHill where she has been teaching since 1983 apart from invitations as aguest professor at Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the Universityof Minnesota. She received her B.A. from the Un ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, author of Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travela Reality  published by the Avalon Publishing Group.Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D. is a professor of physics at the University of Connecticut. He received his BS in physics in 1969, MS in 1979 and Ph.D in physicsin 1973, all from the Pennsylvania State University. He has publishedmany papers on black holes and relativistic cosmology in p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D., author of Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled, and More Miserable Then Ever Before published by Free Press.Dr. Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of psychology at San Diego State University. She received a BA and MA from the University of Chicago in 1993 and a Ph.D. form the University of Michigan in  1998. She has published over fifty scientific article ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Professor Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage published by Penguin.Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and is Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families, which she chaired from 2001-2004.  She is the author of six book, including The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nosta ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. David Plotz, author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank  published by Random House.David Plotz is deputy editor of Slate, where he has worked since it was launched in 1996. At Slate, he's been a feature writer, political columnist, media columnist, and gofer, among lots of different jobs. He has also freelanced for many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times Magazine, Harper' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriquezbegan writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as apoet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book writer, and critic.Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs on a national andinternational level, Rodriguez helped create Tia Chucha's Cafe and Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cul ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Janet Golden, author of Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome published by Harvard University Press. Janet Golden, PhD. is a professor of history at Rutgers University where she specializes in the history of medicine, history of childhood, womenâs history and American social history. She is the author or editor of seven books, and author or co-author of numerous articles. Her most recent books are Message I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are Deborah Harper, President of Psychourney, interviews Professor Brooke Kroeger, author of Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are.Brooke Kroeger has worked in every print medium. At Newsday, she served as UN Correspondent and as a deputy metropolitan editor for New York Newsday. This followed an eight-year stint overseas in the Scripps Howard of United Press International with postings in Brussels, London and Tel Aviv. She was Tel Aviv bureau chief for three years before returning to Lond ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Rene Denfeld, author of All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families published by Public Affairs. Rene Denfeld was raised by a single mother of five in a racially mixed family in Portland, Oregon. Her articles on feminism sparked debate and led to her first book contract at the age of twenty-two. That book, The New Victorians, was an international bestseller. She has written for numerous publ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney  interviews Mr. Alex Beam, author of Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital Journalist Alex Beam worked at Newsweek and Business Week before joining the Boston Globe. His award-winning twice weekly column for the Globe has appeared since 1987.  In addition to his journalistic work, Beam is the author of two novels about Russia, Fellow Travelers, (1987) and The Americans Are Coming, (1991), both publ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Tom Shactman, MFA, author of Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish Tom Shachtman is an author, filmaker and educator. He has written or co-authored more then two dozen books, as well as television documentaries, magazine articles, and stage dramas, and has taught at major universities. He has written articles for the New York Times, Newsday, and environmental monthlies, and currently writes a regular column, "The L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products On the World's Poorest Patients Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sonia Shah,author of Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products On the World's Poorest Patients Sonia Shah is an independent journalist and author of  Body Hunters and Crude: The Story of Oil.  Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Orion, The Nation, and elsewhere. She lives in Boston. Visit her website.Share you comments on the book and interview on the Psychjourney Audio Book Club blo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Private Family Matter: A Memoir Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr. Victor Rivers author of  A Private Family Matter:A MemoirIn 1978, the Miami Herald dubbed Victor Rivas (AKA Victor Rivers) "The Longest Long Shot" when he became the first Cuban American to be out for two seasons with the Miami Dolphins. He had defied the odds by surviving a violent upbringing and by playing in the postion of offensive guard- usually reserved football players much larger than he was at the time.&n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Judith Rich Harris, M.A., author  of No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality published by Norton. Judith Rich Harris is an independent investigator. Her previous book, The Nurture Assumption, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.Judith Rich Harris graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis in 1959 and was awarded the Lila Pearlman Prize in psychology. In 1961 she received a master's degree in psychology from Harvard Uni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr.Tom Rath,  author of Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live WithoutTom Rath is co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? -- a book that draws on decades of research to explore the differences between leading an enthusiastic life and a miserable one.Rath has been with the Gallup Organization for 12 years and currently leads Gallup's workplace and leadership consulting worldwide.  He als ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Gene Cheek,  author of The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow SouthGene Cheek describes himself as a blue-collar son of the South.  He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolin on March 2, 1951. He spent the first twelve years of his life living in various parts of Winston-Salem. He presently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Visit his website.Share your comments about the book about the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What It Takes To Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dave Marcus, author of What It Takes Me Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get In Trouble And How Four Of Them Got OutDave Marcus has had an eclectic career that has taken him from dodging mortar fire in Africa to teaching Huckelberry Finn in a classroom in rural Massachusetts. Marcus shared a Pulitzer Prize, spend a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and worked as a high school teacher before publishing a book about American teenager ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Bella DePaulo, PhD, author of Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After Bella DePaulo, PhD, is a social psychologist who did her graduate work at Harvard.  She is currently a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  DePaulo is single and living happily ever after in Summerland, CA.  Visit her website at www.belladepaulo.com Share y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protecting Your Children From Sexual Predators Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dr. Leigh Baker, author of Protecting Your Children From Sexual Predators Leigh M. Baker, PhD., psychologist, consultant, expert witness and author, has specialized in the treatment of traumatized individuals, children and their families for twenty years.  She is an expert in the area of sexual abuse and the evaluation and treatment of very young children, under the age of five.  She has written numerous articles and pub ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr. Pete Earley,author of Crazy: A Father's Search Through  America's Mental Health Madness. Pete Earley, a former reporter for The Washington Post, is the author of seven works of nonfiction. According to the Washingtonian magazine, he is one of ten journalist/authorsin America "who have the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency." Earley is also the author of two novels. Visit his website www.peteearley.com V ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Kevin O'Keefe, author of The Average American: The Extraordinary Search For The Nation's Most Ordinary CitizenKevin O'Keefe has held several high-profile management posts in the professionalsports industry and has served as media and marketing consultant for more than adozen Fortune 500 companies.  A respected magazine reporter, he now runs his own marketingconsulting firm. O'Keefe lives in New York City with  his wife Kathy.&nb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney  interviews Maggie Mahar,  author of  Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So MuchBefore becoming a financial journalist, Maggie Mahar was anEnglish professor at Yale University, teaching 19th and 20th century poetry andprose. In 1982, she began covering financial markets, freelancing forMoney magazine, Institutional Investor, and the New YorkTimes, before joining Barron's as a senior writer in 1986. Shar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website