Pop Culture and Psychology

A world-leading Harvard professor reveals how the secrets of 'intelligent failure' can make any team more resilient, successful and happy. Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year...

How to handle the liars in your life, from the million-copy-bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the international phenomenon Surrounded by Idiots. Studies...

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...

The Gentle Art of Persuasion teaches you how to argue effectively! The Gentle Art of Persuasion teaches you how to argue effectively! Much of life is spent in arguing, domestically,...

A timely exploration of the long-term grieving process, from NYT-bestselling author and grief expert Hope Edelman Grief is a path we can all expect to walk one day, when we...

#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,...

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....

An interrogation of why we don't talk to strangers, what happens when we do, and why it affects everything from the rise and fall of nations to personal health and...

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....

We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as important to our success as thinking...

How to design your life for happiness - by thinking less and doing more As a Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, Dolan conducts original research...

The science of self-control, and how everyone can master it Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower - or...

We all cherish at least one dream. Morever, it is a fact that most of us have the time and the ability to fulfil our dreams if we put our...

'A lucid well-organized expose of the theory and the manner of its development.' Times Literary Supplement This remarkable book is a biography of an unusual kind. It is at once...

Death. Sex. Money. Tricky subjects we're taught to avoid in polite conversation. Here, the host of a hit podcast reveals how to talk about difficult things, and why it might...

The first publication of Drama of Being a Child and of this 1997 edition are separated by fifteen years of experience - the author's experience with her own self-therapy and...

Shortlisted 2018 Orwell Prize 'In addition to being hopeful, Fine is also angry. We should all be angry. Testosterone Rex is a debunking rumble that ought to inspire a roar.'...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction "There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential." --Marlon James...

Life and its meaning is a mystery almost impossible to solve, but what can the leading theories teach us about the search for purpose? For most of us, the major...

Ditch the scripts and tricks for a smarter approach Kirk Kinnell is a hostage negotiator and counter-terrorism expert with decades of experience. Jim Houghton has conducted complex M&A deals worth...

An exploration of infamous, controversial figures and how they exert control.Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders-he's interested in their...

A wonderfully bittersweet, funnystrange account of living unwittingly with Asperger's syndrome. It is only after a crack-up, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler gets the diagnosis that allows...

Part memoir, part sociological study, IS MONOGAMY DEAD? highlights the huge disparities in how people define a 'relationship' and what constitutes 'cheating'. Rosie draws on her own experience and interviews...

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the...

The Certainty Myth is a self-help manual for people who are struggling with the uncertainty that arrives in their life. When things are uncertain, it's easy to feel anxious, stressed,...

What if all the things you'd been told would make you happy ... didn't? Jill Stark was living the dream. She had a coveted job, she was dating a sports...

Heal the pain of growing up with emotionally abusive parents, and take the first steps toward the life-and the love-you deserve. Few things in the world have a more profound...

Don't Miss the Apple TV+ Docuseries Streaming Now! "This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a...

We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back...

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...

'Brings excellent news for those who, whatever their reasons for doing so, live alone ... Heartening' Anita Brookner, Spectator 'Storr is an incapable of writing an uninteresting paragraph' Sunday Times'...

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...

A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of...

Participants at leadership conferences often tell Sally, "Please don't spend your time telling us why developing and retaining a diverse workforce is important. We get it. The problem is, we...

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...

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,...

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...

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives-from the #1 New York...

The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. An Economist, Financial Times, and Prospect Book of the Year For much of...

How to understand our human biases to separate fact from fiction, identify misinformation when we see it and make smarter decisions. A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases...

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...

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...

From internationally renowned sociologist Mich le Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How do we measure our self-worth? For many of us, it signifies accomplishment, self-reliance,...

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...

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our...

An expert, empathetic guide to the science, psychology and physiology of breaking, from the acclaimed author of How We Are Vincent Deary is a practitioner health psychologist who helps people...

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...

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...