Pop Culture and Psychology

People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents. Prada and other luxury stores stock a few obscenely expensive items...

Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe from you? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different...

A newly discovered classic- a collection of inspirational lectures on embracing life from worldwide bestseller Viktor Frankl. 'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as...

An inspirational exploration of the psychology that enabled Viktor Frankl, bestselling author of Man's Search for Meaning, to survive the Holocaust Viktor Frankl is known to millions as the author...

This eye-catching Vermilion Life Essentials edition will introduce Napoleon Hill's timeless classic to a whole new generation of smart-thinking readers Discover the 13 powerful principles behind every great success story...

Reclaim yourself from childhood trauma-evidence-based strategies for healing complex PTSD Reclaim yourself from childhood trauma-evidence-based strategies for healing complex PTSD Repetitive trauma during childhood can impact your emotional development, creating...

This insightful treatise on the essential components of human nature by the great American philosopher and educator John Dewey, in his own words, "sets forth a belief that an understanding...

A trauma-informed approach to healing body and mind: an evidence-based yoga program for survivors, clinicians, and yoga teachers A trauma-informed approach to healing body and mind: an evidence-based yoga program...

While C.G. Jung is mainly known and remembered for his theories on dreams and the collective consciousness, he also spoke and wrote about modern society's loss of connection with nature....

One of the world's most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines cutting-edge research with unique exercises to help you improve the most powerful, most staggeringly complex machine ever created: your...

Strong as a Mother is a practical and compassionate guide to preparing for a smooth start to motherhood. Everyone knows the secret to having "the Happiest Baby on the Block."...

The theory of "flow" is that it is a means by which we can improve our lives by constantly increasing our experience of happiness. The book examines the challenges of...

Part psychological study, part self-help book, Finding Flow is a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives. The key, according to Csikszentmihalyi, is to challenge ourselves with...

Every day we make predictions based on limited information, in business and at home. Will this company's stock performance continue? Will the job candidate I just interviewed be a good...

A series of interviews exploring the process of creativity with the great artists, composers and writers of our time. The interviewees include: Howard Hodgkin, Antony Caro, Elliot Carter, Eve Arnold,...

A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD. Did you know you can...

'A must read for every counsellor, psychotherapist, life coach and psychiatrist' Philippa Perry Practicing psychiatrist, Veronica O'Keane, has spent many years observing what happens when the memory process is disrupted...

A paradigm-shifting approach to wellness that reveals how the right levels of stress are actually good for you and how stress can help you unlock the body's natural ability to...

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age-when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen-and explores what it could mean for our...

" The Addiction Inoculation is a vital look into best practices parenting. Writing as a teacher, a mother, and, as it happens, a recovering alcoholic, Lahey's stance is so compassionate,...

"Face to face with the schism caused by rational and scientific thought, Carlos Barrios undertakes an authentic and passionate search, bringing us close to the Cosmovision of one of the...

'Top-notch' Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS 'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee 'A well researched study injected...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to be a self? This landmark anthology, edited by philosopher Theodore Mischel,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat drives a scientific genius to overturn centuries of accepted wisdom, and what does the inner life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn late eighteenth-century France, a feral child emerged naked and speechless from the forests of Aveyron, igniting one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew crimes provoke a more visceral public response than the murder of a child, and Murder of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to be intelligent, and can that meaning ever be separated from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be conscious — and can science ever fully explain the inner life of the mind? In Consciousness, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn an era defined by strict moral codes and sweeping social change, Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories by Barbara T. Gates confronts one...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn 1968, the city of Newcastle upon Tyne was shaken to its core when eleven-year-old Mary Bell was convicted of the manslaughter...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the fraught intersection of mental illness and the law, Insanity and Injustice presents a penetrating examination of how legal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat drives the strange, complex, and often contradictory creature we call the human being? In The Human Animal: The Mystery of Man's Behaviour, pioneering...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat drives the human need to connect, to belong, and to love — and how has that need shaped civilisation across the centuries? The...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to grow up in the shadow of a titan — to call...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in modern intellectual history have reshaped our understanding of the human mind as...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the intellectual ferment of nineteenth-century Britain, few movements captured the popular imagination quite so dramatically as phrenology — the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhy do humans cooperate? Why, in a world governed by the ruthless logic of natural selection,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the locked wards and institutional walls of the psychiatric hospital lies a world that sociologist Erving Goffman...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of psychology, philosophy, and political thought stands Erich Fromm — one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat drives a person's deepest political convictions — reason, experience, or something far more intimate and psychological? Private Politics: A...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedWhat compels humanity toward destruction — and can reason alone save us from ourselves? Brigid Brophy's...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: in shrink wrap. Few thinkers have shaped our understanding of mass psychology and social behaviour as profoundly as Gustave Le Bon, the nineteenth-century...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore the couch, before the theories that would rewrite the map of the human mind, there was a young Sigmund Freud — restless, ambitious,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of literature, science, and the human mind stands Sigmund Freud — and Steven Marcus's Freud...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Remainder markNamed for the two-faced Roman god who simultaneously looks to the past and the future, Janus: A Summing Up stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to truly live — not merely to exist, but to become fully,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the greatest threat of growing old is not physical decline, but the quiet surrender...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of philosophy of mind and the behavioural sciences stands one of the most...