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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Bestselling author, smart thinking guru and TED podcast star, Adam Grant returns with a compelling guide to changing your mind THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER If you can change your mind you...
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
#1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon -- a powerful, inspiring and practical guide to finding resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks In 2015 Sheryl Sandberg's husband,...
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Derren explores the history and philosophy of happiness and explains why everything is fine, more or less...! The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight....
The Organized Mind: The Science of Preventing Overload, Increasing Productivity and Restoring Your Focus
Acclaimed neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin tells us how to organize our lives and cope with the demands of the modern age Modern society is in a state of information overload....
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling and provocative exploration of why everything we think we know about power is wrong What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the...
The Seven-Day Love Prescription
Renew and revive your relationship in one week How can you revive and renew your relationship in just seven days? For the past fifty years, Drs. John and Julie Gottman...
You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women
You're Doing it Wrong is an outrageous tour through the centuries of bonkers and bad advice handed down and foisted upon women, told as only Kaz Cooke can - with...
The Seven Ages of Death: 'Every chapter is like a detective story'
Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death. Through 24 intriguing, never-before-told cases,...
If You Should Fail: Why Success Eludes Us and Why It Doesn't Matter
To fail is human. Get used to it . . . Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions. Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If...
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder
From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of awe Social psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to...
The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription
How to achieve a good night's sleep in one week We need sleep to survive. It's as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Without it, our bodies begin to shut...
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
A user's guide to rationality during an epidemic of unreason In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to...
Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins
In his final years, Freud devoted most of his energies to a series of highly ambitious works on the broadest issues of religion and society. Here, he argues that civilized...
The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases
The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere...
The Sirens Call: how attention became the world's most endangered
From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has...
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically
An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mind Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do...
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and...
The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know
A wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by a world expert Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you. Nothing is more...
The Psychology of Love
One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, this project, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, reimagines one the modern era's greatest writers This volume brings...
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and
'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why...
Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety has spent two and a half months in the Sunday Times top five bestseller list, selling over 50,000 copies. We all worry about what others think of us....
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons,...
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self
The third volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure
The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important...
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth's hilarious novel about sex, growing up, psychoanalysis, now reissued in electric new backlist style 'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' Guardian Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander...
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
Is It Ever Just Sex?
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader 'It was just sex...' It's a familiar claim. But it's also an impossibility, as Darian Leader...
The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health
A refreshing antidote to prescriptive ideas about wellness and a profound reframing of how body and brain work together to interpret our experience of the world around us There are...
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
The origins, consequences and limitations of identity politics- an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious...
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will transform your conversations and your relationships forever 'BRILLIANT' Chris Evans, Virgin...
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne...
Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend
A REAL-LIFE SILENT WITNESS FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S FOREMOST FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He's a detective...
Sensitive: The Power of a Thoughtful Mind in an Overwhelming World
A ground-breaking look at the power of sensitivity to transform our relationships, career and life, from world-leading experts Sensitive celebrates the power of a deeper, more tuned in mind and...
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The essential guide to surviving modern life - a crash course in emotional maturity from the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy This is a book about everything you...
Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and
The leading voice on emotions offers a revolutionary approach that enables us to understand and embrace difficult emotions without letting them derail us Every day we speak around 16,000 words...
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...
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness 'It's as if we made entering...
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
The phenomenal bestseller that's starting a sleep revolution, now in paperback Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly...
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it Back in 1930,...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the surprising and profound story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky- the two men whose ideas changed...
The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
'Fascinating, engaging, and practical . . . dispels the myth that our success can be divined by a simple number or average, whether a grade, a score in a standardized...
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell shows why the story of success is far more surprising, and more fascinating, than we could ever imagine Why do some people achieve so much more than others?...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
'Brilliant, mind-altering...Everyone should read this astonishing book' David Runciman, Guardian Contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? The...
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering
The international bestseller on memory and how to master it Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying...
Love
Stendhal's intensely personal and yet universal work on Love In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She,...
Peak: For Fans of Atomic Habits
Reveals that all of us can excel at our chosen activities and offers a guide to unlocking our potential 'Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak.'...
The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be
An extraordinary investigation into human nature, by one of the most eminent international human rights lawyers The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS...