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The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain
Simon Baron-Cohen shows that, indisputably, on average male and female minds are of a slightly different character. Men tend to be better at analysing systems (better systemisers), while women tend...
The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
How we chooseand loseour mates has always been a source of fascination. This controversial book is the first to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. The Evolution of...
Cooperation: The Basis of Sociability
Michael Argyle believes that one of the most important components - our capacity to cooperate - has been overlooked and that the whole notion of cooperation has not been properly...
The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of
Did you know that anyone-- addicts or non-addicts--can benefit from working the Twelve Steps and find the freedom, joy, and intimacy with God that their hearts long for We all...
Emotions Revealed: Understanding Faces and Feelings
Whatever culture we come from, emotions play a huge role in our lives and in every relationship within them. Whether anger, joy, fear or sorrow, they can be incredibly powerful...
The 12 Levers: The Complete Psychological Toolkit for Improving Your
A vital resource that empowers readers to choose the best self-development strategies. What can you actually do to become happier and live a better life? This is the question posed...
Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life
Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective on how...
An Outline of Psychoanalysis
One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide...
Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the
The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and...
Mattering: The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Connection and
'The perfect antidote to our modern mental health epidemic' PROFESSOR TIM SPECTOR 'Wallace has a deep understanding of what matters most to us - and her book shows us how...
The Computer and the Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science
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Our Inner Ape: The Best and Worst of Human Nature
We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to co-operation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our...
Love Factually: The Science of Who, How and Why We Love
As featured on Sunday Brunch and Woman's Hour 'Laura Mucha has found the proof that love actually is all around.' Richard Curtis Poets, philosophers and artists have been trying to...
For Your Own Good: The Roots of Violence in Child-Rearing
Alice Miller explores the sources of violence within ourselves and the way these are encouraged by orthodox childrearing practices. Challenging the way in which we rationalise punishment and coercion as...
How to Sleep Well: The Science of Sleeping Smarter, Living Better and
It has never been more important to sleep well. Stop sabotaging your own sleep and finally wake up energised and refreshed How to Sleep Well is a guidebook that can...
TELLING LIES 1E NP PA
In this new expanded edition of the author's pathfinding inquiry into the world of liars and lie catching, Paul Ekman, a world-renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communications, brings,...
How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood
Learning begins in the first days of life. Scientists are now discovering how young children develop emotionally and intellectually, and are beginning to realize that from birth babies already know...
Why Can't We Sleep?
A short, accessible analysis of how and why humans sleep - weaving together cultural, social, economic and psychoanalytic influences in pursuit of the truth about insomnia One in four adults...
Sleep: Change the way you sleep with this 90 minute read
Proven solutions for better nights, from the 'sleep guru' to international sports stars. One third of our lives are spent trying to sleep. Most us have disturbed, restless nights and...
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of
In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our...
Love is Never Enough: Overcoming Marital Misunderstandings Through
This book explores the most common problems in marriage: the power of negative thinking; how the initial idealizing of a partner can lead to disillusionment; how important life-changing decisions are...
Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
A brilliant overview of that most vital, most underrated and most elusive of human activities, sleep. Using the approach and skills he deployed to such successful effect on the relationship...
The Power of Love: To Transform Our Lives and Our World
The energies of love exist full-blown within each human being. We have an incredible power, given to us at birth, that we must learn how to handle, and it is...
Cognitive Psychology and Instruction
This text is rooted in a solid base of current cognitive psychology and motivational research and carefully examines how they apply to teaching and learning. It is an appropriate core...
Anxiety And Neurosis
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to be anxious, and when does ordinary human fear cross the threshold into...
Self-Unfoldment: By Disciplines Of Realization
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a world consumed by external noise and distraction, Manly P. Hall's Self-Unfoldment by Disciplines of...
The Servant
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodPower corrupts, but servility corrupts absolutely — a truth at the sinister heart of Robin Maugham's chilling novella, The Servant. Set in post-war London,...
Healing From The War: Trauma & Transformation After Vietnam
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAgainst the haunting backdrop of names etched in black granite — the Vietnam Veterans Memorial — Arthur Egendorf's Healing from the War: Trauma & Transformation...
Frame Analysis
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to make sense of a situation — and who decides what sense is? In...
Cosmic
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous ownerWhat if human consciousness is not a fixed destination but an evolving frontier...
The Art Of Sexual Ecstasy: The Path Of Sacred Sexuality For Western Lovers
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the path to profound intimacy and transcendent pleasure was already mapped out centuries ago, waiting to...
The World Through Blunted Sight: An Inquiry Into The Influence Of Defective Vision On Art And Character
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat if the masterworks of Western art were shaped not by genius alone, but by the very imperfections of the artists' eyes? The World...
Mapping The Mind
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the frontier where neuroscience meets human experience, Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter stands as one of...
Studies In The Psychology Of Sex (Two-Volume Set)
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedFew works in the history of human science have provoked, challenged, and ultimately reshaped Western civilization's understanding...
Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual
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Provides insight into the process by which an infant is separated from oneness with its mother, revealing the impact of this separation on human behavior throughout life.
Why We Travel
Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 Good...
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology
How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the...
Beyond Happy: How to Rethink Happiness and Find Fulfilment
A comprehensive guide to cultivating wellbeing, combining cutting edge science and primordial folk wisdom. 'A brilliant read... a gamechanger' Paul Ross, Talk Sport 'Essential reading... Written with clarity, vivacity and...
Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and
Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose recent US wars and Wall Street bailouts, yet most remain passive and appear resigned to powerlessness. In Get Up, Stand Up, Bruce...
The Psychology of Social Class
The Psychology of Class gives a comprehensive account of psychological and other research into social class using data from Britain, the USA and elsewhere. By addressing differences in social class,...
Bodily Communication
In this second edition of a major student text, Michael Argyle provides new chapters on research methods, social skills, and personality, along with a new concluding chapter. The remaining chapters...
The Social Psychology of Everyday Life
All too often social psychology concerns itself with situations that far divorced from the realities of everyday life. In The Social Psychology of Everyday Life Michael Argyle concentrates on real-life...
Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual
Michael Langone and his colleagues provide practical guidelines for helping former cult members manage the problems they encounter when leaving cults.
The Anatomy of Relationships: And the Rules And Skills Needed to
The book titled The Anatomy of Relationships: And the Rules And Skills Needed to by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour
The first edition of this book outlined what amounted to a breakthrough in the analysis of social behaviour. Since then it has become widely used as an introductory textbook of...