Category: PSYCHOLOGY
What if everything we think we know about how the world works--our ideas of love, education, spirituality, work, happiness, and love--are based on Brules (bullsh*t rules) that get passed from generation to generation and are long past their expiration date? This book teaches you to think like some of t ...Show more
Category: PSYCHOLOGY
Why does a bad impression last longer than a good one? Why does losing money affect us more than gaining it? What makes phobias so hard to shake? The answer is the negativity bias - or in other words, the power of bad. As John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister show, we are wired to react to bad over good. ...Show more
Category: PSYCHOLOGY
In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of huma misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly set up to upgrade the facilities, and in doing so, revol ...Show more
Category: PSYCHOLOGY
'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness ...Show more
Category: PSYCHOLOGY | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
In The Right-brain Workout, you'll find 70 questions posed by some of Australia's most creative people from the worlds of comedy, art, advertising, music, literature and photography. Questions that will probe, cajole, and challenge you to be more creative, every day. You'll rediscover the creativity tha ...Show more
Category: PSYCHOLOGY
We are living through a crisis of distraction. Plans get sidetracked, friends are ignored, work never seems to get done. Why does it feel like we're distracting our lives away? In Indistractable, behavioural designer Nir Eyal shows what life could look like if you followed through on your intentions. In ...Show more
Category: PSYCHOLOGY
A scientific travel guide to altered states of consciousness - and what we can learn from them.
Category: PSYCHOLOGY
Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might have a cure, one that she herself could perhaps discover by studying the brain. Now, after twenty-five years as a neuroscientist, she shares what she and other scientists have learned about addict ...Show more
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Our concern with the mind and how the hurt mind can be healed has led to a massive growth of interest in psychology and the way our brains work. The Bloomsbury Book of the Mind brings together key writings from all over the world from the earliest recorded accounts to the most up-to-date research in an ...Show more
Category: PSYCHOLOGY
For years Dr Rahul Jandial has transformed the lives of his neurosurgery patients by putting them through 'brain rehab', his specially developed boot camp for restoring brain function. In this eye-opening, informative and accessible guide, he uses his years of expertise to show how healthy people can re ...Show more
Category: PSYCHOLOGY
'Erudite, well-researched, and full of compassion... This book will change the way people understand schizophrenia, and that change is long overdue.' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The Language of Kindness 'A truly important book. ' MAX PORTER, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny 'I have ...Show more
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Using the easily learned D-I-S-C system, Dr. Robert A. Rohm's Positive Personality Profiles helps readers understand themselves and others. Dr. Rohm's new book will clearly describe key differences in basic personality types, give practical insights into how people respond, provide keys for understandin ...Show more
