Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Robert Jay Lifton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of 'survivor power' to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID-19 pandemic—and collectively heal. In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath ...Show more
The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life by David Robson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKPeople who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer.Lucky charms really do improve an athlete's performance.Taking a placebo, even when you know it is a placebo, can still improve your health.Welcome to The Expectation Effect.David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-e ...Show more
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist) by Sarah Chaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's HourA Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph ***** 'Riveting' Mail on Sunday ***** 'Captivating' Guardian, Book of the Day 'Com ...Show more
The Human Mind A Brief Tour of Everything We Know by Paul Bloom
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He is an internationally recognised expert on the psychology of language, social reasoning, morality and art. His previous books include Just Babies and How Pleasure Works, and he has written for numerous publications, including the New York Time ...Show more
Five Arguments All Couples (Need To) Have: And Why the Washing-Up Matters by Joanna Harrison
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Category: Psychology
'Marvellous first aid for couples' Susie Orbach 'Good advice on how to navigate those tricky arguments' Mariella Frostrup If you feel like you have the same arguments with your partner over and over again ... you may be right. And you're not alone: Joanna Harrison believes there are five distinct issues ...Show more
Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self by Annabel Abbs
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
THE NIGHT SELF IS . . .- Vulnerable- Curious- Fearful- Enchanted- CourageousIn the winter of 2020, Annabel Abbs experienced a series of bereavements. As she grieved, she kept busy by day, but at night sleep eluded her. And yet her sleeplessness led to a profound and unexpected discovery: her Night Self. ...Show more
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Michael Muthukrishna
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Category: Psychology
A blueprint for a better future.Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael Muthukrishna's ambitious, original and deeply hopeful book, offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society - a theory of everyone.In A Theory of Everyone, Muthukrishna draws on the most re ...Show more
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark
$55.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
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 senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new vi ...Show more
Think Like a Therapist - Six Life-Changing Insights for Leading a Good Life by Stephen Joseph
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Life throws a lot of unexpected and unpleasant things at us. Many people just struggle on, but others find someone to talk to, someone like Stephen Joseph, who, as a therapist, is trained to listen to their concerns. They turn up with problems - failing relationships, stalled careers, conflicts, feeling ...Show more
The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don't) by Philippa Perry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
From the internationally bestselling author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read comes the next book of wisdom and advice for navigating all of your most important relationships. Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connections, whether that's with family, partners, friends, co ...Show more
Mortal Secrets - Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind by Frank Tallis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideas Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they bur ...Show more
The Devil You Knew by Ian Hickie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
The Devil You Knew explores the spectre of depression - what it is, where it comes from and the common myths and misconceptions surrounding it - so we can find our unique path to healing and live fulfilling lives on our own terms. We are living amid a mental health epidemic. Clinical depression has dev ...Show more