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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...
My Father's Suitcase: A story of family secrets, abuse, betrayal - and
A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling. A deeply personal and heartbreaking...
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...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie
Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency...
Who Was Mr Nobody?: Debunking Historical Mysteries
Essex, the witch hunting county, is especially rich in traditions, legends, dialect and stories. This book explores the origins and meanings of its traditions to create a sense of the...
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...
Memory in Culture
This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature,...
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...
Conspiracy Theories: Real-life Stories of Paranoia, Secrecy and
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Brace yourself for a hundred of the strangest, most convincing and bizarre conspiracy theories you'll ever read. Handily arranged into themed chapters (from Extraterrestrials to Celebrities, via Technology and Politics),...
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...
The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies & Possibilities
Collects essays by authors who use spiritual, economic, ecological, and scientific approaches to examine the year 2012 when, according to a prediction from an ancient Mayan calendar, the end of...
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...
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...
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the
Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception...
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...
Spoilt Creatures: An Observer Best Debut of 2024 - 'compelling,
An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024 'A simmering debut, heady with the possibilities of language and the righteousness of female rage' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The...
How to Build a Mind: Dreams and Diaries
Imagine a banana. What colour is it? Yellow, of course. Now try to form a picture of one that doesn't exist, that can't exist: a blue banana with red spots....
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...
Artificial Life: An Overview
Artificial life , a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and...
The Philosophy of Artificial Life
The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be...
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...
Say the Right Thing
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A Living Now Book Awards Gold Medalist, Social Activism/Charity A practical, shame-free guide for navigating conversations across our differences at a time of rapid social change. In the current period...
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...
X and WHY: The rules of attraction: why gender still matters
In the last century it was argued that men are from Mars and women are from Venus - but things have moved on a long way since then. In this...
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...
Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence,
Cutting edge scientific research has shown that exposure to the right kind of environment during the first years of life actually affects the physical structure of a child's brain, vastly...