The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by KATE SUMMERSCALE
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Category: Psychology
A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Do you recoil in arachnophobic horror at the si ...Show more
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
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Category: Psychology
A Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the Guardian first book award A Radio 4 Book of the Week This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complic ...Show more
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: Psychology
Malcolm Gladwell's provocative new #1 bestseller -- now in paperback. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a pebble and a sling-and ever since, the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdo ...Show more
Change - Learn to Love It, Learn to Lead It by Richard Gerver
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Category: Psychology
'To be successful, you have to be able to adapt to change' - Sir Alex FergusonThe pace of change is greater than ever. We face new challenges every day in our jobs and in our personal lives. Those who can handle change are the most fulfilled. Those who fear change will find it hardest to thrive.As a hea ...Show more
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S Kushner
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Category: Psychology
The #1 bestselling inspirational classic from the internationally known spiritual leader; a source of solace and hope for over 4 million readers.Since its original publication in 1981, When Bad Things Happen to Good People has brought solace and hope to millions. In the preface to this edition, Rabbi Ku ...Show more
How to Fight by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Category: Psychology
Thich Nhat Hanh is the subject of the major documentary Walk With Me narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch'Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man...a scholar of immense intellectual capacity' Martin Luther KingLearn how to bring love and compassion into an angry situation.Many of us don't know how to handle strong em ...Show more
Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel Levitin
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Category: Psychology
A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world where the line between truth and lies is increasingly blurred by euphemistic terms such as 'post-truth', 'counter-knowledge', 'fringe theories' and others. In a world w ...Show more
The Soul of the Marionette - A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
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Category: Psychology
In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every actio ...Show more
Psych 101: A Crash Course in the Science of the Mind by Paul Kleinman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: 101
A hands-on approach to exploring the human mind Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and experiments of psychology into tedious discourse that even Freud would want to repress. Psych 101 cuts out the boring details and statistics, and instead, gives you a lesson in psychology ...Show more
Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense ...Show more
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$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
We all have tastes. For instance, Tom Vanderbilt doesn't particularly care for white cars or fennel - even if he doesn't quite know why. Taste is an incredible fuzzy construct: Everyone has likes and preferences, but what do actually know about them? How do we acquire tastes, and how do they change? Why ...Show more
Bedlam's Boor - True Tales of Madness and Hope by Mark Rubinstein
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Category: Psychology
Why would a Hungarian man run down a Manhattan street ranting "I'm king of the Puerto Ricans"? What made a physically healthy woman persuade surgeons to operate on her more than a dozen times? How could a man in a straitjacket commit suicide while in a strictly supervised, locked psychiatric ward? Th ...Show more