Reviewers were sharply critical on these grounds of both the author and the book.

According to John Gillespie, a former investment banker and co-author of a book critical of boards,: " Far too much of their time has been for check-the-box and cover-your-behind activities rather than real monitoring of executives and providing strategic advice on behalf of shareholders ".

The first part of the book thus contains an extensive look at the history of psychological theories of learning and a minute re-interpretation of those concepts from the perspective of the paradigm of critical psychology, which focuses on intentional action situated in specific socio-historical / cultural contexts.

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.

Hubbard's original book on Dianetics attracted highly critical reviews from science and medical writers and organizations.

Considerable argument broke out as a result, with significant numbers of servicemen disputing the published version, including Admiral Bacon, who wrote his own book about the battle, criticising the version sponsored by Beatty and highly critical of Beatty's own part in the Battle.

The book was a complete financial and critical failure.

Ward's 1913 article " Eugenics, Euthenics, and Eudemics " and Chesterton's 1917 book Eugenics and Other Evils were harshly critical of the rapidly growing eugenics movement.

More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk ( 1886 ), Philomythus ( 1891 ), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman ( 1892 ), and his article " The Gospels " in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world.

In this book Fichte investigated the connections between divine revelation and Kant's critical philosophy.

Ralph Thompson, a book reviewer for The New York Times, was critical of the length of the novel, and wrote in June 1936:

The item, offered as a news story, reported, " A critical friend, who read Melville's last book, ' Ambiguities ," between two steamboat accidents, told us that it appeared to be composed of the ravings and reveries of a madman.

The book was a critical failure, arousing little interest, although Reynolds reviewed it favourably in The Champion.

This book chapter discusses the ancient sources which may have been used in the film and its critical take on theology.

Their critical theoretical work peaked on the highly influential book The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

* Johnson, George " Evolution Between the Ears ", " New York Times ," April 19, 1992, accessed April 16, 2007 ( a critical review of Gerald Edelman's 1992 book Brilliant Air, Brilliant Fire )

As Nancy Snow stated in her book, Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11, propaganda " begins where critical thinking ends.

The victim of countless detentions, torture, and persecution, Laíno was forced into exile in 1982 following the publication of a critical book about ex-Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was assassinated in Asunción in 1980.

In his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, philosopher Daniel Dennett is especially critical of Gould's presentation of punctuated equilibrium.

David Kaiser of MIT mentioned in his book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, that the possibilities of instantaneous long-range communication derived from Bell's theorem stirred interest among hippies, psychics, and even the CIA, with the counter-culture playing a critical role in its development toward practical use.

Sin City was a critical hit in 2005 as well as a box office success, particularly for a hyperviolent comic book adaptation that did not have name recognition comparable to the X-Men or Spider-Man.

" Daily Telegraph columnist Jasper Rees, likening the changes in explorers ' reputations to climatic variations, suggests that " in the current Antarctic weather report, Scott is enjoying his first spell in the sun for twenty-five years ". The New York Times Book Review was more critical, pointing out Crane's support for Scott's discredited claims regarding the circumstances of the freeing of the Discovery from the pack ice, and concluded " For all the many attractions of his book, David Crane offers no answers that convincingly exonerate Scott from a significant share of responsibility for his own demise.

There is an extensive critical analysis of Le Fanu's supernatural stories ( particularly " Green Tea ", " Schalken the Painter " and " Carmilla ") in Jack Sullivan's book Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story From Le Fanu to Blackwood ( 1978 ).

Raimi achieved great critical and commercial success with the blockbuster Spider-Man ( 2002 ), which was adapted from the comic book series of the same name.

* The authorship of the Fourth gospel & other critical essays, selected from the published papers of the late Ezra Abbot ( 1888 )

A strong collection of essays by Popper, Campbell, Munz, Flew, et al., on Popper's epistemology and critical rationalism.

Contains Popper's intellectual autobiography, a comprehensive range of critical essays, and Popper's responses to them.

* O ' Dwyer's PR Daily, another trade publication, occasionally featuring critical essays and investigative journalism about the industry

After analyzing essays from " the academic Left ", scientists argued that some of these critical writers were ignorant of the original scientific documents they were criticizing and, therefore, were making a series of nonsensical statements about the nature and intent of science.

He broadcast extensively, wrote critical essays and became involved in running international poetry festivals in the hopes of connecting English poetry with the rest of the world.

Wright submitted some of his critical essays and poetry to the group for criticism and read aloud some of his short stories.

These essays caused some controversy, with some commentators arguing that Foucault was insufficiently critical of the new regime.

* Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert ( ISBN 0-226-18200-2 ) – a collection of essays from his 40 years as a film critic, featuring interviews, profiles, essays, his initial reviews upon a film's release, as well as critical exchanges between the film critics Richard Corliss and Andrew Sarris

* The Embodiment of Knowledge ( 1974 )-Philosophical and critical notes and essays.

* 1990, USA, W W Norton & Co Ltd ISBN 0-393-95828-0, Pub date 31 January 1990, Hardback ( Jerome H. Buckley ( Editor ), Norton Critical Edition – contains annotations, introduction, critical essays, bibliography and other material.

In order to create a more favourable critical climate, a group of Joyce's supporters ( including Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, Rebecca West and others ) put together a collection of critical essays on the new work.

These relations became strained, however, after his newspaper Novaya Zhizn ( Новая Жизнь, " New Life ") fell prey to Bolshevik censorship during the ensuing civil war, around which time Gorky published a collection of essays critical of the Bolsheviks called Untimely Thoughts in 1918.

" Neoloberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy " in Edgework: critical essays on knowledge and politics Princeton University Press, 2005, ch 3.

He later published several of her stories in the Sewanee Review, as well as critical essays on her work.

In addition to the editions and critical essays referred to above, see the following entries excerpted from the Royal Historical Society Bibliography:

An important book of critical essays also belongs to this period: Men without Art ( 1934 ).

Baldwin's influence on other writers has been profound: Toni Morrison edited the Library of America two-volume editions of Baldwin's fiction and essays, and a recent collection of critical essays links these two writers.

* William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr. Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry ( collected essays including the influential critical essays “ The Intentional Fallacy ” and “ The Affective Fallacy ” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley ).

In 1994 the Manhattan Institute, a public policy forum, published Alternatives to Afrocentrism, a collection of highly critical essays by, among others, Lefkowitz, Gerald Early, Stanley Crouch, Wilson Moses, and Frank Yurco.

" Camera clubs in the U. S., England, France, Germany, Austria, Japan and other countries regularly lent works to each other's exhibitions, exchanged technical information and published essays and critical commentaries in one another's journals.