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The Hypnotic Gastric Band
DO YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT? HAVE YOU TRIED DIETS AND FAILED? DO YOU WANT A COMPLETELY NEW APPROACH? A Gastric Band is a radical, surgical operation that reduces the...
Tricky Behaviours: Managing Challenging and Confronting Children While
Kids with Tricky Behaviours don't need to be 'fixed' because they aren't broken. They do, however, need to be shown ways to play to their own strengths and to learn...
Drop the Rock
A practical guide to letting go of the character defects that get in the way of true and joyful recovery. Resentment. Fear. Self-Pity. Intolerance. Anger. As Bill P. explains, these...
Perception
This work is a revision of Sekuler and Blake's text on sensation and perception. The third edition focuses on developments in perceptual research, blending anatomy, physiology and psychophysics to explain...
Still Life with Remorse
From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding Things comes a moving meditation in words and pictures...
The Power of Closure: Why We Want It, How to Get It and When to Walk
"If only I could get some closure..." If you've found yourself saying these words, you're not alone. When you've lost a relationship, a job, or a loved one, closure can...
Promise of Sleep: The Scientific Connection Between Health, Happiness
Modern culture has become a study in sleep deprivation. When we deprive ourselves of sleep, we deprive ourselves of its restorative powers. One of the first casualties is motivation. Loss...
Development Through the Lifespan
Lifespan development with balanced research and applications; a new feature, 'Variations'; and increased emphasis on the Lifespan Perspective - all in Berk's hallmark engaging writing style. Renowned professor and scholar...
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
Prada stores carry a few obscenely expensive items in order to boost sales for everything else (which look like bargains in comparison). People used to download music for free, then...
The Housefly Effect: How Nudge Psychology Steers Your Everyday
An accessible, fun and practical introduction to behavioural science, featuring insightful examples from the laboratory, advertising and marketing, as well as from daily life. THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER How do...
Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say
Noted media pundit and author of Playing the FutureDouglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how...
Five Minds for the Future
We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that?s certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know...
Tell ME a Story
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Schank takes a look at the human side of intelligence: thinking, memory, imagination, imagery, and mythology. A bold attempt at showing how the mind assimilates knowledge and how that knowledge...
The Unbalanced Mind
Does the crooked gene give rise to the crooked thought? Satirical aphorisms apart, the revolution in molecular genetics has indeed given rise to the heady optimism that biology will soon...
Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science
Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how each can enrich...
Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts and Representational
Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward a radical reconception of its explanatory endeavour. At the heart of this reconception lies a shift toward a new and...
The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind
What is it that allows human beings to think the way we do? What enables us to communicate with one another through the use of speech? Is the difference between...
Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free
In this highly anticipated book, the bestselling author of Do Hard Things Steve Magness-"one of the giants of modern thinking about high performance" (Alex Hutchinson)-flips the script on the pursuit...
The Dream Cure: How recalling your dreams can heal your life
Decode your dreams and heal your life. 'The essential book to fix your life from the inside.' Richard Moriarty, North West District Editor - The Sun In Dream Cure Theresa...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
Introducing Freud
Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as 'Id', 'Ego', 'libido', 'neurosis' and 'Oedipus Complex' have become a familiar part of our everyday vocabulary. But...
You're Not Old, You're Vintage: Joyful Quotes for the Young At Heart
Just like a valuable antique, your smooth finish may have become a little lined and your legs may creak from time to time . But don't worry: even if you...
A User's Guide to the Brain
Dr John Ratey explains the brains most important systems, the role they play in determining how we interact with the world and ways in which we can influence their operations...
Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings
This text provides a general survey of and introduction to the range of work in lexical linguistics and corpora - the study of such on-line resources as dictionaries and other...
Circuits of the Mind
In this groundbreaking work, computer scientist Leslie G. Valiant details a promising new computational approach to studying the intricate workings of the human brain.
The You Code: What your habits say about you
The only book to tell you what your habits say about you - and how to read other people - by Judi James, author of The Body Language Bible Did...
Inspired: Understanding Creativity: A Journey Through Art, Science,
The New York Times 's Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter "unpacks the myths and mysteries of the creative process" (Salon). How does creativity work Where does inspiration come from What are...
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity
Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 A Waterstones Book of the...
The Lonely Hunter: how our search for love is broken
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A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. 'So what's...
The Lonely Hunter: how our search for love is broken
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A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possible to live contentedly alone. 'So what's...
Introducing Freud
Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a familiar part of our everyday vocabulary. But...
The Medusa Touch
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Author: Peter Van GreenawayBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1973Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small crease to the back of the DJ. Otherwise fine first editionA writer...
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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Author: Haruki MurakamiBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvill Secker London , 2014Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ with shelf wear. Sticker pack included. The narrative follows Tsukuru Tazaki,...
Sociology In Its Psychological Aspects
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Author: Charles A. Ellwood, Ph.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: D. Appleton and Company, 1912Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn and rubbed brown cloth. Bumping on spine and corners. Light...
Mental Health And Environment
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Author: Lord Taylor And Sidney ChaveBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThe book examines the intricate relationship between an individual's mental well-being and their...
Psychiatry And Its History: Methodological Problems In Research
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Author: George Mora, M.D. And Jeanne L. Brand, Ph.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 1970Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis volume addresses the historical development within...
Neurotic Styles
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Author: David ShapiroBinding: HardbackPublished: Basic Books, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book offers a comprehensive analysis of neurotic styles. It examines the characteristic patterns of thought, feeling,...
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to
In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll...
Influence at Work: Capture attention, connect with others, convince
'Outstanding...This book is superb.' Robert B Cialdini, bestselling author of Influence To be successful at work you also need to be influential at work. And to be influential requires an...
The Mathematical Brain
The concept of numbers and the ability to recognize and process them is innate, part of everyone's intellectual apparatus whether they've had formal education or not. This "number instinct" is...
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major...
The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to
In the modern world, we have become addicted to positivity. We try to eradicate pain through medication and by insulating ourselves from risk and offence, even though we are the...
Influence at Work: Capture attention, connect with others, convince
'Outstanding...This book is superb.' Robert B Cialdini, bestselling author of Influence To be successful at work you also need to be influential at work. And to be influential requires an...
Exhausted: An A-Z for the Weary
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOURChosen by the Financial Times and Stylist as a Book To Read in 2024'Schaffner is insightful, charming and visionary' Susan Elderkin, author of...
Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop
Rewire your brain to avoid the trap of comparison and status-seeking to achieve more contentment and satisfaction from life People care about status despite their best intentions because our brains...
How to Help Your Child Cope With Anything: The must-have guide to
From accredited child psychologist, Dr Alison McClymont, comes a book that bridges the gap between complex psychology and straightforward parenting advice. No parent can guard against everything but parental knowledge...