The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
$30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Reading Level: very good
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter
$39.99 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems--individually and collectively--using scientists' tricks of the trade. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradic ...Show more
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
$27.99 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER"Brilliant... riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."--Beth Macy, author of DopesickAs heard on Fresh Air This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and wh ...Show more
Supercommunicators: The Power of Conversation and the Hidden Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
How is it that we find it easy to talk to some people and struggle to do so with others? Why does the effectiveness of a message rely so strongly on who the messenger is? And what is the secret of having a successful difficult conversation?Charles Duhigg has the answer to all these questions and many mo ...Show more
Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood) by Thomas Erikson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner get your back up?You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, ...Show more
Ten Trips: The Reality of Psychedelics by Andrew Mitchell; Andy Mitchell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
In Ten Trips neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell takes ten different psychedelic drugs in ten different settings, puncturing the hype while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinating possibilities.Once demonised and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'break ...Show more
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces – communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world. In The Anxious Generation, ...Show more
The Art of Clear Thinking: A Fighter Pilot's Guide to Making Tough Decisions by Hasard Lee
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
Sharpen your instincts in a world full of uncertainty and risk. The training to become a fighter pilot is among the most competitive and difficult in the world with fewer than one-in-a-thousand succeeding. Pushing a cutting-edge jet to its limits at over 1,000 mph means that every split-second decision ...Show more
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
$28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Reading Level: very good
A Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the Guardian first book award A Radio 4 Book of the Week This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complic ...Show more
The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
DK's best-selling guide to the history of psychology - now fully revised and updated How do our minds influence the way we behave? How do our bodies and minds work together? Do we have free will? Exploring and explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories in the field of psychology in a clear and ...Show more
The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-Francois Marmion
$24.99 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain
The Number One International bestseller'We need books like this one' - psychologist Steven PinkerAt last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James and Ryan Holiday.Stupidity is all ...Show more
101 Things I Learned® in Psychology School by Tim Bono; Matthew Frederick (As told to)
$36.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Series: 101 Things I Learned Ser.
Why do we think, feel, and act the way we do?A professor and expert consultant on psychological health ponders these questions and more in this thought-provoking, illustrated guide.Psychology is one of the most popular undergraduate majors. It provides an orienting point for many professional careers, i ...Show more