Pop Culture and Psychology

In The Wild Remedy, Emma Mitchell's deeply personal account of her interactions with nature and its healing properties, she recorded, month by month, a year of her nature finds and...

'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever...

Real tools for parenting with patience, and helping your child develop emotional intelligence--an essential character trait for succeeding in our highly social worldIf you're like many parents, you may wonder...

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From renowned integrative family physician Dr Kenneth Bock, a groundbreaking approach to understanding and treating mental health among adolescents and teens.Over the past decade, the number of 12- to 17-year-olds...

For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days...

Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented...

Longlisted for the 2022 CMI Management Book of the Year AwardWho do you bring with you to work?Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow...

'Thoughtful, lucid and blessedly free of therapese . . . Weber's book is a powerful snapshot into the little bombs going off in the lives and homes of those around...

How much do you enjoy your life?Does life feel dull? A bit grey?Do you feel as if your emotions have flatlined?This is anhedonia - a word only a few of...

We all daydream; we've all experienced that moment when we suddenly realise that instead of paying attention in a meeting or reading a book, our mind has wandered. In that...

'Sarma's book may be the most important work on education written this century' - SkepticAs the head of Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to...

'Truly the best and most insightful book about grief I have ever read' Joanna Cannon'Beautiful, heart-breaking and yet overwhelmingly hopeful' Mike GayleGrief is universal, but it's also as unique to...

For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days...

'Truly the best and most insightful book about grief I have ever read' Joanna Cannon'Beautiful, heart-breaking and yet overwhelmingly hopeful' Mike GayleGrief is universal, but it's also as unique to...

Author: Henry Clay SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSensitivity to People is a thoughtful exploration of interpersonal relationships and the importance of empathy in...

Author: Wilhelm Stekel; Emil Gutheil (transl.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Peter Nevill, 1950Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA comprehensive exploration of the psychological themes of compulsion and doubt, this two-volume...

Most of us know about extreme highs or lows. For some people, however, emotional extremes can seriously disrupt our lives, either because they happen too frequently or because the mood...

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...

'A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK' JOHN HUMPHRYS'FASCINATING... SHOCKING' SPECTATORWhat is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome? Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years...

Throughout his life, Kant was concerned with questions about empirical psychology. He aimed to develop an empirical account of human beings, and his lectures and writings on the topic are...

This book offers both a theoretical and empirical discussion of the psychology of ethics and care in a global world. Theoretically, the book seeks to problematize the concept of globalization,...

A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a...

They are familiar scenes: sports fans turning on each other in acts of violence, and mobs of sports fans flooding onto the field or out into the streets. Is there...

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Author: Richard L. GregoryBinding: SoftbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1987, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Oxford Companion to the Mind is a comprehensive reference work that includes...

Author: Diane VaughanBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, USA, 1986Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed analysis of how intimate relationships come to...

Author: Oscar Zentner (editor)Binding: SoftbackPublished: Papers of The Freudian School of Melbourne, 1987Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the significant concepts of transference and countertransference...

Author: Nancy FridayBinding: HardbackPublished: William Morrow and Co, 1985Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'Jealousy', Nancy Friday explores the intricate emotions of jealousy through insightful analysis, delving deep...

Author: Donald Powell WilsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1952, Third ImpressionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsMy Six Convicts is a personal account by psychologist Donald Powell Wilson, detailing...

Author: P. MeseguerBinding: HardbackPublished: Burns and Oates, 1960, First English TranslationCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book focus' on the relationship between dreams, interpretation and...

Author: Ross MitchellBinding: SoftbackPublished: Penguin, 1982, First Edition!Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsPhobias is a detailed exploration of various common phobias, providing insights into their meanings and...

Author: Arthur JanovBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon & Schuster, 1972, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerExplore the depths of human psychology with 'The Primal Revolution Toward...

Author: Dorothy BlochBinding: HardbackPublished: Burnett Books, 1979, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the intersection of fantasy and children's fears, particularly focusing on the anxieties...

Author: Bob HoffmanBinding: SoftbackPublished: Recycling Books, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers insights into breaking free from self-defeating behaviors by developing self-awareness. It explores strategies...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'Dazzling' GUARDIAN'Blistering' THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut...

'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN'[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Luminous ... as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room' WASHINGTON POST A work...

True stories of death and desperation One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion.Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion;...

Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 A Waterstones Book of the Year for...

A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language,...

How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development.Humans' understanding of numbers is intuitive. Infants are able to estimate and calculate...

Author: Frank Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A collection of investigations into strange and mysterious phenomena from around the world * Explores ancient and modern sacred sites, places...

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Author: Eric BerkowitzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 304 pagesPublished: Counterpoint, United States, 2015The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex...

Author: Daniel Russell (Wichita State University, Kansas)Format: Hardback, 163mm x 242mm, 585g, 284 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 2005Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and...