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Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning by Benjamin Bergen Publisher Comments Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning—a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--And How You Can Change Them by Richard J Davidson Publisher Comments What is your emotional fingerprint? Why are some people so quick to recover from setbacks? Why are some so attuned to others that they seem psychic? Why are some people always up and others always down? In his thirty-year quest to answer these questions,... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Cupid's Arrow: The Course of Love Through Time by Robert J Sternberg Publisher Comments Love is strange. It can be the source of both profound inspiration and deep misery. Its complexities and dimensions have possessed us since the beginning of time, and no emotion is as linked to human history as love. It defines who we are, what we do... (read more) List Price $87.25 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick by Jeremy Dean Publisher Comments At least one third of our waking hours are lived on autopilot. But habits of the mind do not have to control us—we can steer them. Drawing on the latest research, psychologist Jeremy Dean explains why seemingly easy habits can prove difficult to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul by Claire Dunne Publisher Comments Fifty years after his death, Carl Jung's revolutionary theories still attract and fascinate readers, as shown by the bestselling success of the recently published illuminated volume The Red Book. This critically acclaimed biography does full justice to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Getting It Right When You Have to by Sian Beilock Publisher Comments andlt;iandgt;Why do the smartest students often do poorly on standardized tests?andlt;/iandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;iandgt;Why did you tank that interview or miss that golf swing when you should have had it in the bag?andlt;/iandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich Publisher Comments Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. When can we trust what we believe--that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force by Jeffrey M Schwartz Publisher Comments A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind-and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain. Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind'... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Overcoming Alcohol Abuse Use Problems: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program Therapist Guide by Elizabeth E Epstein Publisher Comments 'Problems with alcohol use are common and often occur with other psychological and social problems as well. Left untreated, alcohol use disorder can have significant impact on a person\'s functioning, health, and relationships. This cognitive-behavioral... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Great Ideas in Psychology: A Cultural and Historical Introduction by Fathali M Moghaddam Publisher Comments This book focuses on the key ideas of the most important modern psychologists. Nineteen classic great ideas in psychology are critically assessed in their cultural and historical context.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Overcoming Alcohol Use Problems: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program Workbook by Elizabeth E Epstein Publisher Comments Alcohol use can have negative effects on your day-to-day functioning, health, and relationships. If drinking is a problem in your life, this program can help you regain control. It has been developed with the benefit of each author's 25+ years of... (read more) List Price $31.75 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman Publisher Comments Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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From Neurons to Notions: Brains, Mind and Meaning by Chris Nunn Synopsis Chris Nunn builds a picture of our minds that is especially suitable for the twenty-first century. This picture is rapidly developing in ways very different from dominant views of even twenty years ago. He outlines the ways our minds behave during sleep;... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Daniel J Siegel Publisher Comments Many fields have explored the nature of mental life from psychology to psychiatry, literature to linguistics. Yet no common framework where each of these important perspectives can be honored and integrated with one another has been created in which a... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Genius in All of Us by David Shenk Publisher Comments With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic giftedness, and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual. DNA does not make us who we are. Forget... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Why Is It Always about You?: The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism by Sandy Hotchkiss Publisher Comments The first popular book on narcissism in more than a decade shows readers how to cope with the controlling, self-absorbed people in their lives, and offers healthy strategies for rebuilding self-esteem.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind (Eminent Lives) by Peter D Kramer Publisher Comments Often referred to as the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud championed the talking cure and charted the human unconscious. But though Freud compared himself to Copernicus and Darwin, his history as a physician is problematic. Historians have... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz Publisher Comments In the spirit of Alvin Toffler s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Emotion, Identity, and Religion: Hope, Reciprocity, and Otherness by Douglas J Davies Publisher Comments Deep emotions pervade our human lives and ongoing moods echo them. Religious traditions often shape these and give devotees a sense of identity in a hopeful and meaningful life despite the conflicts, confusion, pain and grief of existence. Driven by... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Discovery of the Unconscious by Henri Ellenberger Publisher Comments This classic work is a monumental, integrated view of man’s search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind. In an account that is both exhaustive and exciting, the distinguished psychiatrist and author demonstrates the long chain of... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price: $26.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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