Secondhand Popular Psychology Books

In December of 1998, the author lost two nephews, only three weeks apart, as a result of heroin overdoses. Death by Heroin is the story of her family trying to...

Companies of every size devote much time and effort - and sometimes huge budgets - to training. Yet since it remains rare for needs, methods and results to be assessed...

'A clear, rigorous account of cognitive behavioural methods for treating depression.' - British Journal of PsychiatryThe use of behavioural and cognitive techniques for treating depression has yielded exciting results. Cognitive...

What Newton's Principia was to his natural science colleagues, Russ Marion's The Edge of Organization is to today's social scientists. This book clearly elucidates the arrival of the social sciences...

What is the place of language in human cognition? Do we sometimes think in natural language? Or is language for purposes of interpersonal communication only? Although these questions have been...

Have you ever referred to your oldest and closest friend as 'Thingy'? Reached the top of the landing, only to realize that you have no idea why you came upstairs...

WHAT MAKES US HAPPY? BILL BAILEY PLAYS CRAZY GOLF AND HUGS TREES TO FIND OUT.'A warm, funny read, full of personal anecdotes and love letters to things that bring Bill...

In the summer of 1965 the informal parties that Ken Kesey was holding at his house in Palo Alto California were about to evolve into what became known as the...

A TELL IS AN ACTION THAT TELLS YOU WHAT SOMEONE IS THINKING, EVEN IF THAT PERSON DOESN'T KNOW IT THEMSELVES. AND TELLS ARE HIGHLY INFORMATIVE...The way you stand when you're...

A Best Book of 2023 by Inc.Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential "self"-our selves are social...

Sean Covey's wildly popular "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" was one of the first teen success guides ever, and has become a timeless classic read by millions of...

A cracking general knowledge test - The Quiz Addict blogWere your school exercise books adorned with huge ticks, glowing comments and gold stars? Did you win prizes for your awe-inspiring...

'A genius writer' FABULOUS MAGAZINE* Explore your sensuality* Discover your inner power* Reclaim your sexuality with this gentle and mind-opening journal by sexual priestess and activist Lucy-Anne Holmes.When Lucy-Anne Holmes...

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago, are now part of our common understanding of bereavement....

No one understands the difficulties of being a woman better than Vicki Iovine. The author of the hugely successful "Best Friends" series, has guided women through most of the milestones...

In this book, the author follows a psychoanalytic path in order to explain why child abuse is so widespread, and why it is so commonly ignored or overlooked. She argues...

As all good grannies know, the most precious gift they can offer their grandchildren is time...In The Good Granny Guide, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall provides a wonderfully entertaining insight into the joys...

We know, we know, traditions die hard, but more and more of us are getting married these days and we want to forge our own fete. Forget the Bridal Galleria,...

Do you ever feel utterly exhausted? Perhaps you feel like falling asleep on your feet right now? If so, you are not alone! One in four people complains of feeling...

Long before co-creating the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Jack Canfield was already teaching the ancient principles of the Law of Attraction. Canfield has been consciously living in...

Explores the ways in which our best choices, our most wholesome choices, can help us grow inwardly into healthier, actualizing human beings.

A just culture protects people's honest mistakes from being seen as culpable. But what is an honest mistake, or rather, when is a mistake no longer honest? It is too...

This book constitutes an expansion of the highly esteemed Glossary of the American Psychoanalytic Association into a mini-encyclopedia that presents both historical and current meanings of the most widely accepted...

Whether revealed as something to be glimpsed, grasped, sought after or savoured, here a host of Irish people express what happiness means to them, in diverse and often deeply personal...

This important book addresses the prevalence of faculty incivility, camouflaged aggression, and the rise of an academic bully culture in higher education. The authors show how to recognize a bully...

A reporter gives one side of the story and then, to be 'fair', finds an advocate for the opposite side. But what if the truth lies somewhere in the middle?...

Now a Major Motion Picture by legendary director David Cronenberg starring Viggo Mortensen, Kiera Knightley and Michael Fassbender.In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be...

The essential survival guide for college students Getting into college takes plenty of hard work, but knowing what your professors expect of you once you get there can be even...

Going Sane explores a curious and telling contradiction that goes to the heart of the ways in which we think and talk about ourselves and others: the fact that we...

In a world that favors the outgoing, gregarious extrovert, being an introvert can be difficult. But the truth is that introverts have distinct advantages-as long as they know how to...

An inspirational tale that tells the incredible life story of Sergei Ivanov, affectionately known as Socrates, a sage whose wisdom was destined to change the lives of author Dan Millman...

"1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments in History", of which we could remember only 249, is filled with excruciatingly embarrassing and totally true stories of major mental lapses and famous acts of...