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Children's Thinking - International Student Edition - Cognitive Development and Individual Differences

Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, Seventh Edition by David Bjorklund presents current, thorough rese...

Positive Psychology: A Workbook for Personal Growth and Well-Being

The Positive Psychology: A Workbook for Personal Growth and Well-Being is a companion workbook designed to accompany Compton and Hoffman¿...

Principles of Behavioral Neuroscience

How does brain activity give rise to sleep, dreams, learning, memory, and language? Do drugs like cocaine and heroin tap into the same ne...

Designing Robots, Designing Humans

Designing Robots, Designing Humans brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and hum...

Research Methods for Environmental Psychology

Research Methods for Environmental Psychology is the first new book covering research methods in environmental psychology in over 25 year...

The Cognitive Science of Belief - A Multidisciplinary Approach

An integrative exploration of the concept of beliefs and their applications as studied across the cognitive sciences.

Binge-Eating Disorder - Clinical Foundations and Treatment

This innovative scientific reference and clinical tool is virtually two books in one. Part I reviews the literature on binge-eating disor...

The Neuroscience of Intelligence

Why are some people smarter than others? This accessible book explains modern neuroscience techniques and what they reveal about intellig...

Understanding Disorganized Attachment: Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults - Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults

This is the most extreme form of insecure attachment and can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is ...

A Social Psychology of Protest - Individuals in Action

"Over the last few decades, we have witnessed increasing incidents of collective action. Collective action is a matter of demand by citiz...

The Educated Mind - How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding

The ills of education are caused, Kieran Egan argues, by the fact that we have inherited three major educational ideas, each of which is ...

Measuring Behaviour - An Introductory Guide

Explains the concepts and practical methods of behavioural science in clear, concise terms: vital for understanding humans, animals and AIs.

Understanding Gender Dysphoria - Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture

Gender and sexual identity are immensely complicated topics. An expert on human sexuality, Mark Yarhouse offers a Christian perspective o...

A Bright Red Scream - Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

"I highly recommend [A Bright Red Scream], because it's beautifully written and . . . so candid." -Amy Adams, star of HBO's Sharp Objects...

Ways of Attending - How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

Everything we come to know and experience of the world depends on the way we attend to it. For reasons of survival, our brains have evolv...

On Killing - The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversi...

A Theory of Everyone - Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

A blueprint for a better future. Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael Muthukrishna's ambitious, original an...

A Woman's Place: Inside the Fight for a Feminist Future - Inside the Fight for a Feminist Future

A fearless primer on the feminism we need now: tactics for advancing reproductive justice, promoting intersectionality, and pushing back ...

The Recovering - Intoxication and Its Aftermath

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is mor...

Awakenings

Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness duri...

Upside - The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth

Through cutting-edge research and thoughtful personal stories comes a “compassionate, friendly, and empathetic” (Kirkus Reviews) explorat...

The Psychology of Twilight

"Led by husband-and-wife team E. David Klonksy, PhD, and Alexis Black ... [this book looks] at love, family, vampires, werewolves, and ou...

The Sexual Teachings of the Jade Dragon - Taoist Methods for Male Sexual Revitalization

SEXUALITY / TAOISM The Sexual Teachings of the Jade Dragon reveals how Taoist sexual practices can help men achieve "immortality" through...

Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life - The Science of a Meaningful Life

In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired ...

The Psychology of Fashion

The Psychology of Fashion provides a succinct overview of how our thinking and behavior is affected by the fashion industry, examining ho...

4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone

4,000 ways to achieve instant intimacy. With new and updated questions! What, more than anything, makes you angry? Who were your childhoo...

Banish Your Inner Critic - Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work (Gift for artists)

Creativity Evangelist Denise Jacobs helps readers conquer mental blocks and self-defeating behaviors to take back their creative power an...

I Drink, Therefore I Am: My Quest for Identity, Love, and Sobriety

Awakenings

The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.

The Influential Mind - What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others

'Lucid and engaging . . . Sharot's treatment is particularly valuable for its balance between accessibility to the reader and solid groun...

Emotions Revealed - Understanding Faces and Feelings

Exploration of the external signs and facial expressions behind our emotional behaviour. Ekman is a professor of psychology and world ren...

How We Learn - The New Science of Education and the Brain

'Absorbing, mind-enlarging, studded with insights ... This could have significant real-world results' Sunday Times Humanity's greatest fe...

The Mind's Eye

'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' Observer How does ...

The Cyber Effect - A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behaviour Changes Online

Dr Mary Aiken is the world's leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology - a discipline that combines psychology, criminology and teCNolog...

Other Minds - The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

The distinguished philosopher of science and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith proposes a differing narrative of nature achieving self-awar...

What We Want - A Journey Through Twelve of Our Deepest Desires

A fly-on-the-wall journey through universal human wants and desires, and a practical toolkit for living well, from leading psychotherapis...

An Anthropologist on Mars

'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his...

Wayfinding - The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way

[A] fascinating, incisive account of how the human brain evolved to keep us orientated . . . Beautifully written and researched.' - Isabe...

The Knowledge Illusion - The myth of individual thought and the power of collective wisdom

The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire and have stood on the moon, and yet every one of us is fundamentally...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

A million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist.

The Other Side of Happiness - Embracing a More Fearless Approach to Living

Dr. Brock Bastian is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His studies have been...

How Spies Think - Ten Lessons in Intelligence

WINNER OF THE NEAVE BOOK PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021 'One of the best books ever written about ...

The Pattern Seekers - A New Theory of Human Invention

'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven Pinker 'Bold, intriguing, profound' Jay...

The Geography of Thought - How Asians and Westerners Think Differently

The ways in which differing experiences of the world colour perspectives as well as ecologies, social structures, philosophies and other ...

Theory of Consciousness

Consciousness is discussed in scientific terms. Conscious beings can change their own momentum and the momentum of other objects and bein...

The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Dr Kevin Dutton is a researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, and a member of the Oxford Centre for...

The Mind is Flat - The Illusion of Mental Depth and The Improvised Mind

Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. He founded WBS's Behavioural Science group, which is the larg...

The Right Life - Human Individuality and Its Role in Our Development, Health and Happiness

A redefining of human individuality based on self-acceptance and a renewed focus on how self-improvement moves in divergent directions fo...

We Are Our Brains - From the Womb to Alzheimer's

Taking us through every stage in our lives, from the womb to falling in love to old age, Dick Swaab shows that we don't just have brains:...

Against Empathy - The Case for Rational Compassion

Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He is an internationally recognised expert on the psychology of language, socia...

Free Your Mind - The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.

Retreat - Adventures in Search of Silence, Solitude and Renewal

Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past. 'Op...

The Social Instinct - What Nature Can Teach Us About Working Together

'A phenomenally important book' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins Why do we live in families? Why do we help complete strangers? Why do w...

The Rag and Bone Shop - How We Make Memories and Memories Make Us

'A must read' Philippa Perry 'Rich, revelatory and, in the best way, unsettling . . . the mixture of scientific curiosity, bookish though...

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

The classic book on social media and public shaming, now with an extra chapter examining the shaming of Monica Lewinsky.

Noise - A Flaw in Human Judgment

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary explo...

The River of Consciousness

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined his plans for the last book he would oversee, The River of Consciousness. As an eminent...

Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Despite the fascination with psychopaths in film, TV, and novels, psychopathy remains widely misunderstood. Most psychopaths are not murd...

Empower Your Success: Success Strategies to Maximize Performance, Take Positive Action, and Engage Your Enthusiasm for Living a Great Life

Temple Talks about Autism and the Older Child

"Dr. Temple Grandin's pocket guide to older kids and young adults with autism! Dr. Temple Grandin is a doctor of animal science, professo...