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Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive

We all fail sometimes. Now, a world-leading Harvard professor reveals how these failures can lead us to happier, more successful lives - provided we know how to learn from them. 'A masterclass' A..

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Should You Choose to Live Forever?: A Debate

In this book, Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer debate whether or not we should choose to live forever. This ancient question is as topical as ever: while billions of people believe they will live ..

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Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all over the world. De Bono's innovative guide divides the process of thinkin..

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Sounds Like Misophonia: How to Stop Small Noises from Causing Extreme Reactions

You might not have heard of misophonia, but if you are often infuriated by the sound of chewing, breathing, snoring, a clock ticking, or any other specific trigger, you may have experienced it. In fac..

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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us

The highly anticipated debut from the award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our deepest sense of who we are There are stories that sa..

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Surf Therapy: The Renegade Science Behind the New Wave of Treatment for Mental Health, Drug Abuse & Trauma

Surf therapy is producing better results than traditional therapies today for certain mental health issues, PTSD and related traumas, and autism, for example. And a dedicated group of therapists ar..

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Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood)

How to handle anyone life throws at you 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 c..

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Sweet Spot, The : Suffering, Pleasure and the Key to a Good Life

Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, The Sweet Spot by pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explains why suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives. ..

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Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds

Our brains have distinct mechanisms for talking about thoughts, about memories, about feelings and about the future. In Praise of Talking will be about the neuroscience of how we talk about ourselves,..

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore..

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The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World

Do psychedelic drugs hold the answer to a better world? Can they heal the cultural, spiritual, and emotional wounds we face? Alexander Beiner, a leading voice in the psychedelic renaissance, beli..

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The Book of Minds: Understanding Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens

Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then do we even begin to think about 'minds' that are not human? Sc..

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The Complete Guide to Memory: The Science of Strengthening Your Mind

A comprehensive, accessible and practical look at how memory works, what can go wrong and what steps we can take to avoid memory loss. In this book, renowned neurologist and bestselling author Dr..

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The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

'Deeply moving.' GUARDIAN 'Brilliant . . . a powerful myth buster.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Unmissable.' OBDERVER 'Shocking and unflinching.' i 'Compulsive reading.' MIRROR Dr Gwen Adshead is one o..

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The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders

In his groundbreaking, perennially popular book that helped change the way we think about our health - now repackaged for a new generation of readers - Dr Sarno offers a guide to the range of psychoso..

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The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters

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The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know

A wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by a world expert Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you. Nothing is more familiar and yet less understood th..

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The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop

'Stop fighting with food and read this book!' -Arianna Huffington, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thrive A proven neuroscience-based programme to heal your relationship with your body a..

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The Intuition Toolkit: The New Science of Knowing What without Knowing Why

Five easy rules for developing intuition, based on trailblazing research by a top Australian neuroscientist. Learn when it's safe to rely on intuition in decision-making and when it's not. Intui..

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The Ketamine Breakthrough: How to Find Freedom from Depression, Lift Anxiety, and Open Up to a New World of Possibilities

New York Times best-selling author Dr. Mike Dow and Ronan Levy, founder of Field Trip, the world's largest provider of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies, offer ways to integrate ketamine into treat..

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer ..

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The Myth of Normal: Illness, health & healing in a toxic culture

A book that changes everything - from the legendary Dr Gabor Mate We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness is on an unstoppa..

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The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life

A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year "Brings the groundbreaking research of the top developmental psychologists of the past quarter-century to a wider audience A masterpiece!"-Dante Cicchetti, ..

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The Power of Fun: Why Fun is the Key to a Happy and Healthy Life

How to make fun an essential part of a balanced, purposeful and healthy life, from the bestselling author of How to Break Up with Your Phone. When did you last feel exhilarated and light-hearted?..

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The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society

An acclaimed psycholinguist reveals how language shapes our brain - and moulds the way we look at the world Why should we learn more than one language? Can it change the way we think? Does it..

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The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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?..

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The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles- why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how t..

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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been..

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The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well

'Do yourself a favour and grab this fantastic guide! Explains practical strategies for getting out of our own heads and finding more connection, presence, and joy' LAURIE SANTOS, Professor of Psycholo..

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The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups

Experts in psychology and strategic leadership reveal how to build teams that really work. 'A remarkable and important book . . . a highly accessible, timely and invaluable guide to anybody work..

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The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups

Experts in psychology and organisational development reveal how to create teams that really work How many people does the ideal team contain? How do groups bond, earn trust and forge shared ident..

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The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening

Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender-are nearly as sig..

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Thinking 101: Lessons on How To Transform Your Thinking and Your Life

In Thinking 101 you can transform your life with clear actionable steps to overcome challenges and biases in your thinking, from renowned Yale psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn. We all make thinking e..

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Thinking in Pictures

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

The "New York Times" Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nudge co-author Richard Thaler, "Thinking Fast and Slo..

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Uncertain: How to Turn Your Biggest Fear into Your Greatest Power

How much do we reply upon certainty? And, how does the way we deal with uncertainty impact our future and our lives? Uncertainty is one of the defining issues of our time. The stability we once h..

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Unwinding Anxiety: Train Your Brain to Heal Your Mind

Break free from anxiety and be free to live a full, happy life with internationally renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr Judson Brewer - based on his simple habit-breaking programme. Break..

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Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion

Spirituality for atheists. 'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul Bloom ___ For th..

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

'Thoughtful, lucid and blessedly free of therapese . . . Weber's book is a powerful snapshot into the little bombs going off in the lives and homes of those around us' SUNDAY TIMES 'Finely ..

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When the Body Says No : The cost of hidden stress

Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Mate's acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical questions about the mind-body link - and the role that stress an..

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Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us

A radical reexamination of memory by pioneering neuroscientist and internationally-renowned memory researcher, Charan Ranganath. We talk about memory as a record of the past, but here's a surprising t..

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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers -Revised Edition

Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick. Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humour and practical advice, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers explains h..

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