Psychology Books
Penguin Putnam Inc The Mood Cure The 4Step Program to Take Charge of
Book SynopsisAre you a part of the bad mood epidemic? Here are the answers you've been looking for! Julia Ross’s plan provides a natural cure for your mood. Drawing on thirty years of experience, she presents breakthrough solutions to overcoming depression, anxiety, irritability, stress, and other negative emotional states that are diminishing the quality of our lives. Her comprehensive program is based on the use of four mood-building amino acids and other surprisingly potent nutrient supplements, plus a diet rich in good-mood foods such as protein, healthy fat, and certain key vegetables. Including an individualized mood-type questionnaire, The Mood Cure has all the tools to help you get started today and feel better tomorrow.
£16.15
J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. Love 2.0
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Tarcher/Putnam,US Pick Me Up A Pep Talk for Now and Later
Book SynopsisA quirky, creative companion that offers a pick-me-up on every page On the heels of his internationally successful first book, 1 Page at a Time, graphic designer and illustrator Adam J. Kurtz delivers another intimate and engaging journal for anyone who loves to explore ideas, record thoughts and feelings, and capture those fleeting but amazing moments of everyday life. Unlike a linear journal, this book can be opened up to any page, encouraging and engaging readers time and time again through continued use. Rather than simply complete tasks and turn pages, users are encouraged to leave their mark, and if they land on the same page days or weeks later, they can review, reflect, and revise their previous response. Feeling lonely? Pensive? Peeved? Questioning? This deceptively simple book offers perspective, hope, and a twist of existential metaphor – and is perfect to pick up again and again.
£14.82
Penguin Putnam Inc While the City Slept A Love Lost to Violence and
Book Synopsis“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment WeeklyFinalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact CrimeFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeA Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly in love—Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years trying to find themselves and who eventually found each other—and a young man on a dangerous psychological descent: Isaiah Kalebu, age twenty-three, the son of a distant, authoritarian father and a mother with a family history of mental illness. All three paths forever altered by a violent crime, all three stories a wake-up call to the system th
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Tarcher/Putnam,US Beautiful Money The 4Week Total Wealth Makeover
Book SynopsisThis revolutionary four-week wealth plan shows you how to stop chasing money and start creating joyful, powerful, and meaningful wealth. Most of us believe that pounding our way through our days is the only way to prosperity and success. We sacrifice time with our loved ones, our weekends, our vacations, and perhaps even our sanity, in exchange for a paycheck. We put ourselves and our health at the bottom of our priority list and give everything to the great pursuit. We want to have it all, but don't find satisfaction in any of our achievements. Instead, we find ourselves sitting in our offices and big houses feeling unhappy, broke, burnt out, and unfulfilled. Beautiful Money offers another option. This book does more than show readers how to make more money, streamline personal finances, and learn how to invest and budget. The Beautiful Money program is based on the simple but powerful premise that in order to achieve true
£13.49
Penguin Putnam Inc This Is Where You Belong
Book SynopsisIn the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you liveThe average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #6, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that threatened to unhinge her. In the lonely aftermath of unpacking, she wondered: Aren’t we supposed to put down roots at some point? How does the place we live become the place we want to stay? This time, she had an epiphany. Rather than hold her breath and hope this new town would be her family’s perfect fit, she would figure out how to fall in love with it—no matter what. How we come to feel at home in our towns and cities is what Warnick sets out to discover in This Is Where You Belong. She dives into the body of research around place attachment—the deep sense of connection that binds some of us to our cities and increases our physical and emotional well-being—then travels to towns across America to see it in action. Inspired by a growing movement of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to create likeable locales. She also speaks with frequent movers and loyal stayers around the country to learn what draws highly mobile Americans to a new city, and what makes us stay. The best ideas she imports to her adopted hometown of Blacksburg for a series of Love Where You Live experiments designed to make her feel more locally connected. Dining with her neighbors. Shopping Small Business Saturday. Marching in the town Christmas parade. Can these efforts make a halfhearted resident happier? Will Blacksburg be the place she finally stays? What Warnick learns will inspire you to embrace your own community—and perhaps discover that the place where you live right now . . . is home.
£16.15
Penguin Putnam Inc How Not to Fall Apart Lessons Learned on the Road
Book Synopsis She’s [Maggy is] really funny . . . If I had a self-destructive young adult in my life . . . this is probably the book I’d get her.” —The New York Times Book Review “How Not to Fall Apart is the book that finally understands mental health, and it'll make you feel infinitely less alone.” —HelloGigglesFeatured in The New York Post, Lenny Letter, BuzzFeed, and more.What no one tells you about living with anxiety and depression—learned the hard way Maggy van Eijk knows the best place to cry in public. She also knows that eating super salty licorice or swimming in icy cold water are things that make you feel alive but, unlike self-harm, aren't bad for you.These are the things to remember when you're sad. Turning 27, Maggy had the worst mental health experience of her life so far. She ended a three-year relationship. Sh
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Price of Silence
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Oxford University Press Inc MMPI Instruments
Book SynopsisMMPI Instruments: Assessing Personality and Psychopathology 6th edition provides a bridge for graduate students and clinicians alike in navigating the changes and updates to the MMPI, including the recently released MMPI-3.Trade ReviewI enjoy Graham's writing style. It is clear and coherent. He finds ways to present a large amount of material in varying ways - i.e., he tells us what each scale elevation means without seeming robotic or droning. It is the de facto resource for the MMPI-2. - Stephen Byrne, Alfred UniversityIt's comprehensive, well researched, scholarly, and well written. It has one of the best discussions of interpretation of Validity scales that I have found, i.e., consideration of configurations of Validity scales, rather than interpretation of them in isolation, nuanced discussion of their meaning, etc. The inclusion of the MMPI-A material sets it apart from the current text I use. I really enjoyed the author's writing style. It is engaging, avoids jargon, invites the reader's interest, and is a pleasure to read. It has a number of strengths compared to my current text, including more comprehensive coverage of several topics such as the MMPI-A, forensic applications, etc. - Marc Diener, Long Island UniversityThis text is by far the most comprehensive book on the market. While other MMPl books are appropriate, the author provides the most practical and comprehensive way to use MMPI in clinical practice. - Jason McGlothlin/Kent State UniversityThe approach of this distinguishes it from others. It covers pretty much everything a student at the doctoral level needs to know in using this clinical tool in their practice and research. - Dong Xie, University of Central Arkansas
£178.43
Pearson Education (US) Majoring in Psych Career Options for Psychology
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1: Should I major in psychology? Chapter 2: How can I be sure? Chapter 3: What careers are available? Chapter 4: How do I explore careers? Chapter 5: How do I enhance my employability? Chapter 6: Will I make any money? Chapter 7: Should I go to graduate school? Chapter 8: How do I prepare for graduate school? Chapter 9: How do I do a job search? Chapter 10: I have my job, now what?
£46.29
Pearson Education (US) Psychology for Living
Book SynopsisKaren Duffy is a Distinguished Service Professoremerita, at the State University of New York College at Geneseo. She received her Ph.D. in social and personality psychology from Michigan State University. Dr. Duffy served as a family mediator for the New York Unified Court System. She has also served on the executive committee and as the chief instructor for the training insti-tute for the New York State Employee Assistance Program (EAP), as well as on the board of di-rectors for a shelter for domestic violence and on an educational committee for a family planning agency. She has consulted to a variety of work settings on stress management, EAPs, and other work issues. She is a member of the American Psychological Society. Dr. Duffy has written sev-eral other books, including Community Mediation: A Handbook for Practitioners and Research-ers and Community Psychology. She also edits several hard-copy and web-based annual editions for another publisher, on topics including psychology Table of Contents In this Section: Brief Table of Contents Full Table of Contents 1. Brief Table of Contents Chapter 1: Self-Direction in a Changing World Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Childhood Chapter 3: Affirmative Aging — Adulthood Chapter 4: Seeking Selfhood Chapter 5: Toward Better Health Chapter 6: Taking Charge Chapter 7: Managing Motives and Emotions Chapter 8: Making and Keeping Friends Chapter 9: Leader or Follower? Chapter 10: At Work and Play Chapter 11: Sexuality Chapter 12: Love and Commitment Chapter 13: Stress Chapter 14: Understanding Mental Disorders Chapter 15: If You Go for Help Chapter 16: Good Grief and Death 2. Full Table of Contents PART 1: Introduction Chapter 1: Self-Direction in a Changing World Social Change The Challenge of Self-Direction Themes of Personal Growth PART 2: Becoming Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Childhood Perspectives on Child Development Key Foundational Elements of Childhood Chapter 3: Affirmative Aging—Adulthood Adult Development Decisions, Decisions, Decisions—Early Adulthood Same Old, Same Old?—Middle Adulthood Aging Gracefully—Late Adulthood Chapter 4: Seeking Selfhood What Is Self-Concept? The Components of the Self Core Characteristics of Self-Concept The Self-Concept and Personal Growth Chapter 5: Toward Better Health Body Image Health and the Mind–Body Relationship Coping with Illness Promoting Wellness Chapter 6: Taking Charge Personal Control Decision Making Decisions and Personal Growth Chapter 7: Managing Motives and Emotions Understanding Motivation Understanding Emotions PART 4: Being Social Chapter 8: Making and Keeping Friends Meeting People Keeping Friends When It's Hard to Make Friends Chapter 9: Groups: Belonging, Following, and Leading Kinds of Groups Creating and Joining Groups What Goes on in Groups? When Groups Go Wrong Group Leadership Chapter 10: At Work and Play At Work At Play PART 5: Being Intimate Chapter 11: Sexuality Sexuality and Shared Partnerships Sexual Responsiveness Sexual Orientation Practical Issues Chapter 12: Love and Commitment Love is a Many Splendored (and Defined) Thing Finding Love Marriage and Other Committed Relationships Adjusting to Intimate Relationships Divorce and Its Consequences PART 6: Facing Challenges Chapter 13: Stress! Oh No!—Understanding Stress Yikes!—Reactions to Stress Phew!—Managing Stress Chapter 14: Understanding Mental Disorders Psychological Disorders Anxiety Disorders Mood Disorders Other Disorders Applying This to Yourself Chapter 15: If You Go for Help Psychotherapy: What is it? Who Uses it? Insight Therapies—The Talking Cure Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies Other Approaches to Treatment How Well Does Therapy Work? Finding Help Chapter 16: Death, Dying, and Grief Death and Dying Life and Death in Perspective Bereavement and Grief
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press How Healthy Are We A National Study of Well
Book SynopsisPresents the key findings from the survey, Midlife in the US (MIDUS) conducted by the MacArthur Foundation, on physical health, quality of life and psychological well-being, and the contexts of midlife. This study measures not only health - the absence of illness - but also reports on the presence of wellness in middle-aged Americans.Trade Review"A decade of innovative research by an all-star scientific team yields this insightful description of strategies we use to navigate challenges over the life course. How Healthy Are We? redefines 'middle age' for scientists and for the rest of our society by debunking the myth of the midlife crisis and revealing the reality of middle age in America today." - Jack W. Rowe, Chairman and CEO, Aetna"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Rethinking Therapeutic Culture
Book SynopsisOffering both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism, this volume offers a more nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture than the one popularized by critics. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help.Trade Review"Engaging and thought-provoking, the seventeen essays included here do a fine job of suggesting that the therapeutic is indeed best understood as a uniquely American culture-one where institutions and individuals come together to shape values and ideals. Rethinking Therapeutic Culture strikes exactly the right tone to raise cogent questions about the meaning and context of therapeutics in the twenty-first century." (Wendy Kline, author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave)
£999.99
University of Chicago Press Color Harmonies Emersion Emergent Village
Book SynopsisIn Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception and presents an original theory of the aesthetic relations among colors. The author pays particular attention to the way colors behave when organized in patterns.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Color Harmonies Paper
Book SynopsisIn Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception and presents an original theory of the aesthetic relations among colors. The author pays particular attention to the way colors behave when organized in patterns.
£999.99
University of Chicago Press Moral Stealth How Correct Behavior Insinuates
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University of Chicago Press Politics the Architecture of Choice Bounded
Book SynopsisThis text draws on work in political science, economics, cognitive science and psychology to offer an innovative theory of how people and organizations adapt to change and why these adaptations do not always work. The author argues that our decision-making capabilities are rational and adaptive.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Law and Happiness
Book SynopsisBrings together some of the best and most influential thinkers in the field of philosophy to explore the question of what happiness is - and what factors can be demonstrated to increase or decrease it. This title offers an account of the way that hedonics can productively be applied to psychology.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Quinlan Connectionism Psychology Paper
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The University of Chicago Press The Science of Deception Psychology and Commerce
Book SynopsisSuitable for scholars and general readers alike, this title brings together the story of deception in American commercial culture with its growing use in the discipline of psychology. It reveals how deception came to be something that psychologists studied and also employed to establish their authority.Trade Review"What if psychology was not just the heir of philosophy or physiology, as so many disciplinary histories have implied, but instead emerged through an engagement with the deceptive practices of the marketplace, from the 'low' humbuggery of carnival shows to the duplicity of corporate managers? Michael Pettit's wide-ranging and entertaining book maps out this alternative cultural history of American psychology in compelling terms." (Ken Alder, author of The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession)"
£999.99
MO - University of Illinois Press The Cattell Controversy Race Science and
Book SynopsisInvestigating one of the most significant controversies in contemporary psychologyTrade Review"A masterful contextualization of the life of a major contributor to psychology whose work spanned a dramatic era of growth in experimental psychology."--Journal of the History of Medicine“A thought provoking and systematically laid out argument. . . . Recommended reading to anyone with an interest in the history of the relationship between scientific methods, Western politics and culture.”--Leonardo On-Line“Clearly and meticulously documents Cattell’s segregationist views. . . . Tucker grapples with issues of the relationship between science and political ideology, and the ethical obligations of scientists to the uses of their work. Highly recommended.”--Choice"In analyzing one of the most important controversies in contemporary psychology, Tucker explores a number of important moral issues and shows himself to be a master of ethics as well as history, making judgments only after a meticulous examination of all sides of the issue. This illuminating work is a major contribution to our understanding of one of the major figures in twentieth century psychology."--Barry Mehler, founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism"With the meticulous research that also characterized his previous work, William H. Tucker has carefully dissected and discredited the claim that the scientific and moral/political projects of psychologist Raymond B. Cattell belonged to separate spheres. Cattell's own words, presented in context by Tucker, show just how important race and eugenics were to Cattell, not just before World War II, but throughout his long career. The lucid, critical account of Cattell's factor analytic work on personality and the detailed context of postwar scientific racism make this an important work for understanding the interplay of science and ideology."--Andrew S. Winston, editor of Defining Difference: Race and Racism in the History of Psychology
£999.99
University of Illinois Press Unruly Spirits
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund FreudTrade Review"M. Brady Brower clearly demonstrates the importance of the French strain of psychical research and shows it to be a crucial and unjustly neglected episode in the story of modern psychology. What he has uncovered should provoke a searching revision of the standard account of the resistance psychoanalysis faced in fin-de-siècle and interwar France."--John Warne Monroe, author of Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France"Apart from offering a wealth of valuable original insights, Unruly Spirits transports findings of French historians of psychology and physical research ... revealing the close links and strong overlaps between late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French psychology and physical research. . . . Fascinating and important."--Social History of Medicine"Essential reading for those interested in the history of either psychology or the border sciences."--Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences"Brower's book analyzes deftly the history of this troubled transition from a 'philosophy of the mind to a science of the mind in modern France.'"--Bulletin of the History of Medicine"Insightful study of the 'science' of the psychic—-physical research (PR)—in modern France."--ISIS
£999.99
MIT Press Ltd How Attention Works Finding Your Way in a World
Book SynopsisHow we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know.We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, filtering out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we think we need to know. Advertisers, web designers, and other “attention architects” try hard to get our attention, promoting products with videos on huge outdoor screens, adding flashing banners to websites, and developing computer programs with blinking icons that tempt us to click. Often they succeed in distracting us from what we are supposed to be doing. In How Attention Works, Stefan Van der Stigchel explains the process of attention and what the implications are for our everyday lives.The visual attention system is efficient, Van der Stigchel writes, because it doesn't waste energy processing every scrap of visual data it receives; it gathers only relevant information. We focus on one snippet of informa
£19.55
MIT Press Ltd Computational Psychiatry A Primer
Book SynopsisThe first introductory textbook in the emerging, fast-developing field of computational psychiatry.Computational psychiatry applies computational modeling and theoretical approaches to psychiatric questions, focusing on building mathematical models of neural or cognitive phenomena relevant to psychiatric diseases. It is a young and rapidly growing field, drawing on concepts from psychiatry, psychology, computer science, neuroscience, electrical and chemical engineering, mathematics, and physics. This book, accessible to nonspecialists, offers the first introductory textbook in computational psychiatry. After more than 100 years of psychological theories, psychopharmacological research, and clinical experience, the challenges of understanding and treating mental illness remain. Computational psychiatry seeks to explain how psychiatric dysfunction may emerge mechanistically, and how it may be classified, predicted, and clinically addressed. It has the potential to bridge
£54.15
MIT Press Ltd Mad by the Millions Mental Disorders in the Age
Book SynopsisThe World Health Organization's post-World War II work on the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders and its vision of a world psyche.In 1946, the World Health Organization undertook a project in social psychiatry that aimed to discover the epidemiology and classification of mental disorders. In Mad by the Millions, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO's ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a world psyche. Wu shows that the WHO's idealized scientific internationalism laid the foundations of today's highly highly metricalized global mental health system.
£33.00
MIT Press Ltd The Distance Cure
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MIT Press Ltd Building the Intentional University
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Hachette Books More Numbers Every Day
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£22.40
Random House USA Inc The Story of Psychology
Book SynopsisSocrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the times in which the subjects lived. Hunt skillfully presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the techniques and validity of centuries of psychological research, and of the methods and effectiveness of major forms of psychotherapy. Fully revised, and incorporating the dramatic developments of the last fifteen years, The Story of Psychology is a graceful and absorbing chronicle of one of the great human inquiries—the search for the true causes of our behavior.
£18.04
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Happier at Home Kiss More Jump More Abandon
Book SynopsisIn the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place. One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing right in her own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself. “Of all the elements of a happy life,” she thought, “my home is the most important.” In a flash, she decided to undertake a new happiness project, and this time, to focus on home.And what did she want from her home? A place that calmed her, and energized her. A place that, by making her feel safe, would free her to take risks. Also, while Rubin wanted to be happier at home, she wanted to appreciate how much happiness was there already. So, starting in September (the new January), Rubin dedicated a school year—September through
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Random House USA Inc In a Different Key The Story of Autism
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Sweeping in scope but with intimate personal stories, this is a deeply moving book about the history, science, and human drama of autism.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker “Remarkable . . . A riveting tale about how a seemingly rare childhood disorder became a salient fixture in our cultural landscape.”—The Wall Street Journal (Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Year) The inspiration for the PBS documentary, In a Different Key In 1938, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, from the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it to the fierc
£19.00
Little, Brown Spark Shrinks
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Back Bay Books What Made Maddy Run
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£18.04
Little, Brown Spark AntiDiet
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Little, Brown Spark Truth
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Little, Brown Spark Surviving Climate Anxiety
£20.55
Harvest Publications Notes from Your Therapist
Book SynopsisDaily inspiration in the form of hand-written notes on emotions, emotional intelligence, and relationships, based on the popular Instagram account @notesfromyourtherapist For anyone in need of a daily dose of affirmation and empathy, therapist and mental health counselor Allyson Dinneen shares this collection of artful and beautifully photographed hand-written insights, based on her popular Instagram. These bite-size words of wisdom cover everything from setting boundaries and navigating relationships to how to take good care of yourself. As she does in her practice, through these notes Dinneen seeks to cultivate emotional well-being, recognize the struggle of being human, and offer a nurturing, compassionate perspective.
£15.30
Harvest Publications Niksen
Book SynopsisThe Dutch people are some of the happiest in the world. Their secret? They are masters of niksen, or the art of doing nothing. Niksen is not a form of meditation, nor is it a state of laziness or boredom. It’s not scrolling through social media, or wondering what you’re going to cook for dinner. Rather, to niks is to make a conscious choice to sit back, let go, and do nothing at all. With this book, learn how to do nothing in the most important areas of your life, such as: AT HOME: Find a comfy nook and sit. No technology or other distractions. AT WORK: Stare at your computer. Take in the view from your office. Close your eyes. IN PUBLIC: Forget waiting for the bus, enjoy some relaxing niksen time. Backed with advice from the world’s leading experts on happiness and productivity, this book examines the underlying science behind niksen and how doing less can often yield so much more. Perfect for a
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psychology for Sustainability
Book SynopsisPsychology for Sustainability applies psychological science to so-called "environmental" problems that manifest when human behavior disrupts and degrades natural systems. Trade ReviewPsychology for Sustainability is a beautifully rendered text packed with the information that every student needs. It offers a broad scope for understanding human psychology in relation to the planet, from history to social movements, and includes actions students can take. It provides an inside guide to the psychology of environmentally relevant behavior, reviewing experimental methods, relevant existing measures and then suggests interventions for behavior change. It’s an inspiring book, providing just enough alarming information to motivate the reader while showing specific steps that readers can take to alter humanity’s relationship with the rest of nature. It is an eye-opening, thought provoking and energizing book. Highly recommended!Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame"This impressive fifth edition provides an introduction to the psychology of how we got to our climate emergency, and to the ecopsychology of how to respond. Informative and well-written. This text is a contribution toward the flourishing of all people, and all life."Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Professor, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsPART 1. WHAT ON EARTH ARE WE DOING? 1. What on Earth Are We Doing? 2. How Did We Get Here? Power, Privilege, and a Paradigm Problem 3. Where Do We Go From Here? Applying an Ecological Worldview PART 2. PSYCHOLOGY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE 4. Psychology Can Help Save the Planet 5. The Power of the (Unsustainable) Situation 6. It’s Not Easy Thinking Green 7. Putting the "I" in Environment 8. To Be (Green), or Not to Be (Green)…It's a Question of Motivation PART 3. WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE PLANET IS GOOD FOR US 9. Making Ourselves Sick: Health Costs of Unsustainable Living 10. Healing the Split Between Planet and Self: We All Need to Walk on the Wild Side PART 4. BEING THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE 11. When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get…Together 12. Getting Psyched for Sustainability
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Mindware
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Random House USA Inc Night Falls Fast Understanding Suicide
Book SynopsisCritical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide—”a powerful book [that] will change people's lives—and, doubtless, save a few (Newsday). The first major book in a quarter century on suicide—and its terrible pull on the young in particular—Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. From the author of the best-selling memoir, An Unquiet Mind—and an internationally acknowledged authority on depression—Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledg
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Random House USA Inc Exuberance The Passion for Life
Book SynopsisA national bestselling author examines one of the mind's most exalted states—one that is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself. “[Jamison is] that rare writer who can offer a kind of unified field theory of science and art.” —The Washington Post Book WorldWith the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough.Exuberance: The Passion for Life introduces us to such notably irrepressible types as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Richard Feynman, as well as Peter Pan, dancing porcupines, and Charles Schulz’s Snoopy. It explores whether exuberance can be inherited, parses its neurochemica
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Random House USA Inc Healing Mind Healthy Woman Using the MindBody
Book SynopsisAn esteemed Harvard Medical School doctor who has developed relaxation methods designed to reduce stress and heal the body now applies those techniques to the seven health issues that most commonly affect women: PMS, infertility, difficult pregnancies, menopause, eating disorders, breast and gynecological cancers, and endometriosis/pelvic pain. Dr. Domar has created an integrated program of mainstream therapies combined with mind-body relaxation techniques that works far better than either approach alone. Whether used to help women conceive, reduce both the physical and psychological symptoms of PMS, cut down on menopausal hot flashes, or improve self-esteem, Dr. Domar's methods are proven effective, and are now available to all women who want to use their minds to heal their bodies.
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WW Norton & Co Question of Lay Analysis
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WW Norton & Co The Freud Reader
Book SynopsisThe first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.
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WW Norton & Co Opening Skinners Box Great Psychological
Book SynopsisThrough ten examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers, Lauren Slater traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns—free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality.Trade Review"I've been riveted by her witty explorations of everything from lying to Prozac." -- David Sedaris - Entertainment Weekly"Worth reading for the provocative questions it asks and for the way it lingers over the fragile, human side of psychology." -- Joy Press - Village Voice"Astonishing stories full of quirky personalities, told with wit and warmth." -- Kirkus Reviews"Slater creates for the reader a sense of intimacy with scientists and their subjects." -- Erik Strand - Psychology Today"It is precisely [Slater's] intimate confessional approach that is able to reveal the poetry latent in the sterile laboratory…A powerful and even inspiring meditation on the strengths and weaknesses hidden in our nature." -- Eric Wargo - Washington Times
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WW Norton & Co Of Fear and Strangers A History of Xenophobia
Book SynopsisWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award A Bloomberg Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A startling work of historical sleuthing and synthesis, Of Fear and Strangers reveals the forgotten histories of xenophobia—and what they mean for us today.Trade Review"Riveting....weaves together a fascinating if powerfully disturbing series of examples of stranger hatred (and exploitation) alongside the internal dissent such encounters have always prompted....Throughout his analysis, Makari brings an impressive range of reading to bear, wearing his learning lightly and interspersing fascinating capsule biographies of transformation figures like Raphael Lemkin, Carl Schmitt and Theodor Adorno with literary commentary on Aldous Huxley, Richard Wright and James Baldwin....All the material is enthralling." -- Thomas Chatterton Williams - New York Times Book Review"By shedding light on the trajectory of xenophobia during its 150-year history, this skillfully written account helps point us towards ways to combat it." -- Rachel Newcomb - Washington Post"[A] compelling story of racial and ethnic animosity." -- Adam Kuper - Wall Street Journal"[An] illuminating, significant historical study... A timely and thorough investigation of a cultural plague." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"With elegance and passionate conviction, George Makari deconstructs one of the ugliest problems of our time…With penetrating insight, he reveals the history of a grave weakness that is one of the wildest threats against coherent democracy and human kindness…Of Fear and Strangers is at once a work of dispassionate reporting and brave moral righteousness" -- Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree"With astonishing range and lucid erudition, George Makari has again given us an intellectual history that illustrates how little we know about the ideas that animate and rule our world…Breathtaking with its learnedness, dazzling as an easy-to-read narrative of complex ideas and knotty concepts…In an epoch where nations often appear cleaved into equally disdainful mobs, Makari makes an airtight case that an enhanced understanding of the concept ‘xenophobia’ can serve as a skeleton key that will help unlock many of the psychic terrors currently haunting our cognitive processes and social worlds." -- Anthony Walton, author of Mississippi: An American Journey"Drawing on philosophy, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines, George Makari's beautiful writing delivers a strikingly original history... A sheer delight to read, this book is a gift for all." -- Zia Haider Rahman, author of In the Light of What We Know
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WW Norton & Co Psychology in Your Life
Book Synopsis
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