Psychology

The School of Life’s approach to calm - in a pocket format. In the third of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled its most essential ideas on serenity in order to produce a bitesize manual that is both useful and entertaining...

The international bestseller—a collection of delightfully human stories that reveal the ways compassion and empathy can bring out the best in all of us. “Every day is a Gift. Open it. Do not throw it away.” The relentless pace of the...

Why do boys instinctively bullshit more than girls?How do economic recessions shape a generation's confidence?Can we have too much confidence and, if so, what are the consequences?Imagine we could discover something that could make us richer, healthier,...

The Best Story Wins provides fresh perspectives on the principles of Pixar-style storytelling, adapted by one of the studio’s top creatives to meet the needs of entrepreneurs, marketers, and business-minded storytellers of all stripes. Pixar movies...

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.From author of the million-copy international bestselling The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, psychotherapist Philippa Perry helps you with managing all the other important relationships and connections in your life...

An Economist Best Book of the YearFrom our "greatest living statistical communicator" (Tim Harford) comes an invaluable, data-driven guide for understanding—and learning to embrace—risk and uncertainty in our daily lives.   How dangerous...

Melanie Klein gives a detailed account of the analysis of a ten year old boy, Richard. Klein describes the day to day course of the analysis interpreting Richard's drawing, play, verbal associations and reports of dreams. Also included is the...

Sliver award winner in Business Reference 2020 Axiom Business Book Awards.What makes a great idea? Where do great ideas come from?The highly practical lessons in HOW TO GET TO GREAT IDEAS are based on neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain.“This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought...

Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1844) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Moses Hess and others to sound the death-knell of Left Hegelianism. The work also constitutes an enduring critique of liberalism and socialism from the...

“A surprisingly fascinating scientific consideration of humanity’s most ordinary activity.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post/ In this “wonderful” (John Brandon, Forbes) book, neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us...

Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practical guide in the tradition of Wheat Belly and Grain Brain that conclusively demonstrates the inextricable, biological link between mind and body. We have all...

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it—from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society’s dysfunctional...

From the bestselling author of Building a Second Brain comes a primer on the essential tools you need to organize your digital life. Living a modern life requires juggling a lot of information. But we were never taught how to manage this material...

In the years since it was first published, The Reality Game has become a classic text. For all those training and practising in humanistic and integrative psychotherapy it is an essential guide to good practice, and an excellent introduction to the...

A timely and thought-provoking corrective to the generalized fantasies about relationships that permeate Western culture. Here is a challenge to greater personal responsibility, a call for individual growth as opposed to the search for rescue by others...

Stress may cause highly activated mythic images to erupt from the psyche's deepest levels in the form of turbulent visionary experience. Depending on whether the interactions between the individual and the immediate surroundings lean toward affirmation...

In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic...

From the author of The Science of Getting Rich comes the Science of Being Well. In these pages you will find out how the power of positive thinking can improve your health. This practical guide will help your explore the principles of health and lead you...

Few know how to live a life with minimal attachments like Buddhist monks. Now you can tap into their expertise to free up your own life, whether you're bogged down by mental hang-ups, physical clutter or something else entirely.Feeling overwhelmed? Step...