Mailbox Monday November 30, 2009

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Decoding The Lost Symbol by Simon Cox
I received this book from Anna over at FSB Associates for review.

From the Cover:

Dan Brown's new novel once again features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time in the United States, racing to uncover clues and crack codes involving secrets that are perpetuated to this day. But how much of the novel is true and what is pure fiction? Simon Cox, bestselling author of Cracking the Da Vinci Code and Illuminating Angels & Demons, offers the first definitive guide to all the mysteries featured in The Lost Symbol.

Based on extensive research, this A-to-Z guide lists the real people, organizations, and themes featured in Dan Brown's latest novel, explains their histories and their meanings, reproduces and analyzes the symbols themselves, and provides insider knowledge gleaned from years of exhaustive study. From the monuments of Washington, D.C., to the secrets of Salt Lake City and the hidden enclaves in Langley, Virginia, Cox knows where the facts are hidden about the Freemasons, Albert Pike, the Rosicrucians, and Founding Fathers, and more.

This is the only resource you'll need to understand and enjoy the complex new world of The Lost Symbol.


Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love Relationship Repair in a Flash by Nancy Dreyfus, Psy.D.
I received this book from the publisher for review.

From the Cover:

We've all been there. A conversation with a loved one has turned combative. Angry and accusatory words are flying through the air. Enter Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love, a brilliant interactive relationship tool that can help couples stop arguing and begin healing.

A psychotherapist with more than two decades of experience counseling couples, Nancy Dreyfus hit upon this revolutionary practice during a particularly angry couples therapy session in which a wife's unrelenting criticism of her husband was making him more and more emotionally withdrawn. Suddenly, Dreyfus found herself scribbling on a scrap of paper, "Talk to me like I'm someone you love," and gesturing to the husband that he should hold it up. He did, and within seconds, the familiar power differential between the two shifted, and a gentler, more genuine connection emerged before all their eyes. This book features more than one hundred of Dreyfus's "flashcards for real life"--written statements that hold the power to express what we wish we could say to the person we love but for which we can't find either the right words or the right tone in which to say it. Each statement is accompanied by "field notes" from the author that explain when, why, and how to use the statement as well as real-life stories, from her practice, of couples who found it helped restore healthy communication.

Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love literally puts into couple's hands the power to transform moments of sadness and disconnect into moments of trust, love and intimacy.