Author: Todd E. Feinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: creates, brain, egos, altered
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-05-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195152425
ISBN-13: 9780195152425

In Altered Egos, Dr. Todd Feinberg presents a new theory of the self based on his first-hand experience as both a psychiatrist and neurologist. Feinberg introduces dozens of intriguing cases of patients whose disorders have resulted in what he calls "altered egos": a change in the brain that transforms the boundaries of the self. He describes patients who suffer from "alien hand syndrome" where one hand might attack the patient’s own throat, patients with frontal lobe damage who invent fantastic stories about their lives, paralyzed patients who reject and disown one of their limbs. H

Authors:Dean B McFarlin, Paul D Sweeney,
Publisher: Kogan Page Business Books
Keywords: leaders, survive, narcissistic, truth, untold, egos
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2002-08
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0749437731
ISBN-13: 9780749437732

Everybody these days reveres great leaders, but what of those who are less than inspiring? More importantly what of those leaders whose obsessive egotism and self-absorption fuel the worst excesses of leadership?

Author: L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: egos, dollar, women, tennis, tour, million, vixens, envy, power, games, teenage, venus
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0060957492
ISBN-13: 9780060957490

Sports Illustrated investigative reporter and tennis columnist L Jon Wertheim draws back the curtain on the athletic soap opera of women’s tennis to reveal its primal plotlines driven by ambition, sex, and revenge. However, by far the biggest story in sports today is Venus Williams. Forced to the sidelines for the early months of the 2000 season by injuries to both her wrists and her psyche, she stormed back to win Wimbledon, the US Open and Two Olympic gold medals. By the time Venus signed the biggest endorsement deal ever for a female athlete, her opponents sentiments could be describe