Secondhand Popular Psychology Books

Motivation is the hidden urge within us which impels us to behave in certain ways. This urge may be purely instinctive, like the need for food, it may arise from...

Feeling distracted? Scattered? Time is slipping away from you? You're not alone. But it doesn't have to be that way. Using revolutionary time management techniques you will find out how...

Love thy neighbor. Lovingkindness. The love of the universe. From traditional religions to new spirituality, love is the foundation on which all practice rests. We all embrace the idea of...

Feel like life's too busy to find your zen? Think again. Be a calmer, more productive, healthier you, without sacrificing precious hours. Discover the secret wellness hacks you can incorporate...

Sister Stan, as she is affectionately known, was brought up on a farm in Dingle, County Kerry, one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland. It was there that she...

Allen Carr, international bestselling author of "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking", addresses your worries about plane travel in Allen Carr's "Easy Way to Enjoy Flying". Learn to enjoy your...

Let one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offer you a radical, positive approach to living in today's world. With moving anecdotes and practical tools to apply in...

Here Comes the Bride with 101 stories of love, laughter, and family!You will be inspired and entertained by this collection of stories from brides and their friends and families, about...

Millions identified with Melody Beattie in Codependent No More and gained inspiration from her in Beyond Codependency. This book helps you discover how recovery programs work and to help you...

Rip up this book and unleash your hidden potential Most self-help books encourage you to think differently; to think yourself thin, imagine a richer self or to visualize the perfect...

Psychology is a relatively recent and rapidly developing discipline. Perhaps the most significant changes have taken place over the last decade. Graham Richards gives historical perspective to key issues in...

Got your head in the clouds? Turn the sky into a canvas for notes, doodles, and drawings. Full of fluffy white clouds, desert sunsets, lightning storms, and early morning sunbeams,...

Meet the members of The Survivors Club . . .The man who swam for 17 hours after falling off a cruise shipThe grandma who lifted a car to save a...

To look and listen to the extraordinary Katie Piper, it is difficult to comprehend the severe trauma she suffered from a brutal rape and acid attack which left her with...

`This is a very useful collection. It brings a wide range of articles on aspects of learning in different settings - from high tech companies in Cambridge to school classrooms'...

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...

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...

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness...

Spiritual seeking is usually about achieving enlightenment - but there is confusion about the true meaning of enlightenment. Spiritual seekers have come to have the idea that the enlightened or...

Sasha Sagan's parents - the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer, Ann Druyan - taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty,...

A refining of the third edition of "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" to serve the psychiatric field in the interim period before the forth edition of this classification...

'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...

In hospital Dr Sam Parnia faces life and death issues every day. Through his work in critical care, he became very interested by some of his patients' accounts of the...

Sue Stone's life hit rock bottom in the late 1990s, both emotionally and financially. She was desperately unhappy and on the verge of losing everything. Not accepting that this was...

First published in 1985. This book is aimed at readers who wish to learn how to engage in psychotherapy: for beginners, for experienced practitioners, for disciplined research workers, as for...

This introductory text on social research is designed for students undertaking courses in social science and related disciplines. Its main aim is to integrate in one volume quantitative, qualitative and...

This leading child development text, widely acclaimed for its international coverage and its rigorous research-based approach, has been thoroughly revised and updated: * Provides international coverage. * Takes a rigorous...

In this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus...

'This book is like How to Win Friends and Influence People - only better suited for today's world' - ADAM GRANT, author of Give and Take and Originals'People skills can't...

Watch Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne's video on YouTube to hear the story behind the writing of the Third Edition, and to find out about Dave's time spent under the...