Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748.

His extremely influential book, Towards Understanding Islam ( Risalat Diniyat in Arabic ), placed Islam in a modern context and influenced not only conservative ulema but liberal modernisers such as al-Faruqi, whose " Islamisation of Knowledge " carried forward some of Maududi's key principles.

The rule is named after the 17th-century French mathematician Guillaume de l ' Hôpital, who published the rule in his book Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l ' Intelligence des Lignes Courbes ( literal translation: Analysis of the Infinitely Small for the Understanding of Curved Lines ) ( 1696 ), the first textbook on differential calculus.

Al-Tha ' aalabi says in his book Fiqh Al-Lughah ( Understanding Language ) in chapter 13 titled ' The Degrees of Blackness in Humans ': " If there is a slight blackness in his / her complexion, he / she is asmar ( sumrah ).

The book is titled Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals, and is meant as a kind of handbook to be read alongside the Bible itself.

Tappe published the book Understanding Your Life Through Color in 1982 describing the concept, stating that during the mid 1960s she began noticing that many children were being born with " indigo " auras ( in other publications Tappe has said the color indigo came from the " life colors " of the children which she acquired through her synesthesia ).

Anne-Marie Barry and Chris Yuill, the authors of the book Understanding the Sociology of Health, commented that in episodes in which Grampa appears, the comedy content is often generated by Grampa falling asleep at " inopportune " moments or " embarking " on long rambling stories about his youth.

Frank, in his recent book Toscanini: The NBC Years, rejects this revisionism quite strongly, and cites the author Joseph Horowitz ( author of Understanding Toscanini ) as perhaps the most extreme of these critics.

* Highlighting what he sees as the difficulty in understanding the guru from Eastern tradition in Western society, Dr. Georg Feuerstein, a well-known German-American Indologist, writes in the article Understanding the Guru from his book The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and practice :" The traditional role of the guru, or spiritual teacher, is not widely understood in the West, even by those professing to practice Yoga or some other Eastern tradition entailing discipleship.

Her most recent film project is a movie adaptation of the book The Black Man's Guide to Understanding Black Women, and she was also involved in a movie entitled The Next Hit, which was released in August, 2008.

Lance Gunderson and C. S. Holling, in their book Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Systems of Humans and Nature also simultaneously coined the term, saying:

* The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God, Clark Pinnock editor, et al., 1994, InterVarsity Press ISBN 0-8308-1852-9, Paternoster Press ( UK ), ISBN 0-85364-635-X ( followup to Rice book includes contribution from him )

In the book Understanding the Borderline Mother, author Christine Ann Lawson suggests that Joan Crawford may have had Borderline personality disorder ( BPD ), along with an obsessive compulsion with cleanliness.

In his seminal book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan considered Li ' l Abner's Dogpatch " a paradigm of the human situation.

* David Shenk named his 2007 book concerning the history of chess after this game, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain ( ISBN 0385510101 ), with a move-by-move description of the game appearing intermittently within the narrative.

Others include Between Tears and Laughter ( 啼笑皆非 ) ( 1943 ), The Importance of Understanding ( 1960, a book of translated Chinese literary passages and short pieces ), The Chinese Theory of Art ( 1967 ).

Zimbardo drew from his participation in the Frederick case to write the book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, published by Random House in 2007, which deals with the striking similarities between his own Stanford Prison Experiment and the Abu Ghraib abuses.

Leibniz's book New Essays on Human Understanding published in 1765 contains a point by point critique of Locke's essay.

Lee provided a great deal of valuable support to the Brotherhood of Ruralists in their attempts to establish themselves in the 1970s, and he continued to do so until his death ; his essay Understanding the Ruralists opened the Brotherhood's major 1993 retrospective book.

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art is a 215-page non-fiction comic book, written and drawn by Scott McCloud and originally published in 1993.

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau ( who reviewed the book for the New York Times ), and was called “ one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written ” by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.

* One of Leibniz's interlocutors in his book New Essays on Human Understanding

Andrew Revkin coined the term Anthrocene in his book Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast ( 1992 ), in which he wrote, " we are entering an age that might someday be referred to as, say, the Anthrocene.

Ulric Neisser coined the term " cognitive psychology " in his book Cognitive Psychology, published in 1967 wherein Neisser provides a definition of cognitive psychology characterizing people as dynamic information-processing systems whose mental operations might be described in computational terms.

Their work however met criticism from a number of writers, such as psychologists David Marks and Richard Kammann in their 1980 book The Psychology of the Psychic.

Starting in the 1990s a new wave of books started to appear on critical psychology, the most influential being the edited book Critical Psychology by Dennis Fox and Isaac Prilleltensky.

The psychologist Edward B. Titchener in his book 1928 A Textbook of Psychology, explained déjà vu as caused by a person having a brief glimpse of an object or situation, before the brain has completed " constructing " a full conscious perception of the experience.

* CNX. ORG: The Psychology of Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts ( free online book )

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

Jaynes later expanded on the ideas in his book in a series of commentaries in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in lectures and discussions published in Canadian Psychology, and in Art / World.

Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.

It has been suggested that Friedrich Hayek had earlier proposed a similar idea in his book The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology, published in 1952 ( Herrmann-Pillath, 1992 ).

* In 1983 Robert Anton Wilson published a non-fiction book called Prometheus Rising ( which was followed by Quantum Psychology )

As Hans Eysenck described in his 1956 book Sense and Nonsense in Psychology, Eysenck compiled a list of political statements found in newspapers and political tracts and asked subjects to rate their agreement or disagreement with each.

Wilhelm Reich combined his psychoanalytic and political theories in his book The Mass Psychology of Fascism in 1933.

The notion that spaced repetition could be used for improving learning was first proposed in the book Psychology of Study by Prof. C. A. Mace in 1932.

Gould said that the most positive review of the first edition of The Mismeasure of Man was by the British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology, which reported that " Gould has performed a valuable service in exposing the logical basis of one of the most important debates in the social sciences, and this book should be required reading for students and practitioners alike.

Franz Brentano rejected the concept of the unconscious in his 1874 book Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, although his rejection followed largely from his definitions of consciousness and unconsciousness.

In his book On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, Norman Dixon suggested that the hostility towards convoys in the naval establishment were in part caused by a ( sub-conscious ) perception of convoys as effeminating, due to warships having to care for civilian merchant ships.

* The Oedipus-Complex as An Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery-Jones's 1910 article published in the American Journal of Psychology which he developed into the 1949 book, Hamlet and Oedipus.

Ulric Neisser commented on many of the findings at this meeting in his 1967 book Cognitive Psychology.

Christopher Evans also edited two anthologies of psychological science fiction / horror stories, Mind at Bay and Mind in Chains, a collection of science writings, Cybernetics: Key Papers, a reference book Psychology: A Dictionary of Mind, Brain and Behaviour, and was a contributing editor to the science magazine Omni.

The 1983 book The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, which he co-wrote with Thomas P. Moran and Allen Newell, became a very influential book in the field, partly for introducing the Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules ( GOMS ) framework.

Coon further defines Large Group Awareness Training in his book Introduction to Psychology.

Jacques Hadamard, in his book Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, uses introspection to describe mathematical thought processes.

In his book Integral Psychology, Ken Wilber refers to Baldwin as a forerunner of Wilber's theory of integral psychology.