Presence by Amy Cuddy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Amy Cuddy shows how your body language influences others and even changes the way you see yourself. Social scientists have shown that we make sweeping inferences and judgements based on body language, judgements that can predict meaningful life outcomes like who we hire, who we promote, who we ask out o ...Show more
Wild Mind by Bill Plotkin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Our human psyches possess astonishing resources that wait within us, but we might not even know they exist until we discover how to access them and cultivate their powers, their untapped potentials and depths. Wild Mind identifies these resources which Bill Plotkin calls the four facets of the Self, or ...Show more
Overcoming the Destructive Inner Voice by Robert W. Firestone
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Many people grapple with destructive thought processes or a "critical inner voice" that directs their behavior and, to varying degrees, limits their lives. Using deeply personal and very human stories based on his own clinical practice, noted psychologist Robert W. Firestone illustrates the struggles of ...Show more
Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust by Tiffany Watt-Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Wellcome
Recent research suggests there are only six basic emotions. But if this makes you feel uneasy, suspicious and maybe even a little bereft, The Book of Human Emotions is for you. From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinati ...Show more
Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for it ... Every Time by Maria Konnikova
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
True con artists - the Bernie Madoffs, the Clark Rockefellers, the Lance Armstrongs - are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. They hold a deep, enigmatic fascination for us. But how do they do it? Why are they successful? And what keeps us falling for it, over ...Show more
Happiness Industry - How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. In the recent DSM 5, the charter of all diagnosable mental illnesses for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of ourage, a new rel ...Show more
Without My Mum: A Daughter's Guide to Grief, Loss and Reclaiming Life by Leigh Van Der Horst
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
When Leigh Van Der Horst lost her beloved mother to cancer in 2008, she faced her biggest battle yet. In Without My Mum, she invites us on a journey that is at times heartbreaking, others heartwarming, but ultimately comforting and inspiring. With warmth and candour, Leigh tells of her transformative pa ...Show more
Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep by Michael McGirr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
From bestselling author Michael McGirr comes Snooze, a revised edition of the entertaining and enlightening The Lost Art of Sleep (2009). Michael always had trouble sleeping, but the arrival of twins made him realise he''d never known true exhaustion. While he celebrated these small children who brough ...Show more
A Good Time To Be A Girl by Helena Morrissey
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Five years have passed since women were exhorted to `Lean In'. Over that time, the world has transformed beyond all expectations. But why should anyone `lean in' to a patriarchal system that is out of date? Why not change it entirely for the good of us all? In A Good Time to be a Girl, Helena Morrissey ...Show more
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of ...Show more
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.What really causes depression and anxiety--and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and sta ...Show more
Buddhism for Pet Lovers by David Michie
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
The bonds we share with our pets go beyond words and are often deeper than many of our human relationships. What is the nature of these close connections? And what if our influence on pets, both in life and especially through sickness and death, is far more powerful than we ever conceived? David Michie ...Show more