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Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments New York Times best-selling author Jonah Lehrer shows us how we can all learn to be more creative. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed one on the street today. These are people who have no empathy, who are manipulative, deceitful, charming, seductive, and delusional. The Psychopath Test is the New York Times... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio Publisher Comments Subtitled, "Emotion, Reason & The Human Brain".... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Being Wrong Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz Publisher Comments To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher. If being wrong is so natural, why are we all so bad at imagining... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (from Vol 8. Collected Works) (Princeton/Bollingen Paperbacks, 297) by Carl Gustav Jung Publisher Comments Extracted from Volume 8. A parapsychological study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrasensory perception, and similar phenomena.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Can Change Your Life by Philip Zimbardo Publisher Comments Now in paperback, this breakthrough book on the new psychological science of time by one of the most influential living psychologists—the New York Times bestselling author of The Lucifer Effect—and his research partner launched on the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Masters of Sex by Thomas Maier Publisher Comments In Masters of Sex, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier offers an unprecedented look at William Masters and Virginia Johnson, their pioneering studies of intimacy, and the sexual revolution they inspired. Masters and Johnson began their secret... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Jung (Brief Insights) by Anthony Stevens Publisher Comments With the unveiling in 2009 of Jung's famous Red Book-considered the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology-this great 20th-century thinker is in the public eye more than ever before. Here, Anthony Stevens lays out the basic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Freud and the Non-European by Edward W Said Publisher Comments Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freuds Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 Why do the smartest students often do poorly on standardized tests? Why did you tank that interview or miss that golf swing when you should have had it in the bag? Why do you mess up when it matters the most—and how can you perform your best... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Vintage) by David Eagleman Publisher Comments If the conscious mind — the part you consider to be you — is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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Meditation for Therapists and Their Clients by C Alexande Simpkins Publisher Comments Meditation is widely accepted today as having many health benefits. An evergrowing body of research reveals that meditation can be a valuable therapeutic tool for particular problems such as stress, depression, and addictions. Neuroscience research has... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R Barry Publisher Comments Neuroscientist Susan Barry was born cross-eyed and stereoblind. She thought there was no chance of improvement, that the brains period for development had passed. She was wrong, and thanks to surgery and therapy, she began to see in three dimensions... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Victoria Follette Publisher Comments If you've experienced trauma-whether as a result of common life events like accidents or abusive personal relationships or extraordinary experiences like war or natural disasters-you may find that the pain and emotional unease you feel don't go away... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy Baumeister Publisher Comments Pioneering research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control. Drawing on cutting-edge research and the wisdom of real... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood by Edward M Hallowell Publisher Comments Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics) by Irvin D Yalom Publisher Comments The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Twenty-two of Malcolm Gladwell's favorite "adventures," all previously published in the New Yorker, come together in this engaging book. Gladwell's contagious curiosity helps us understand how other people feel about the topics of homelessness, ketchup... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt Publisher Comments "Be Positive" is a unique journey of personal empowerment, one that seamlessly blends the author’s first-hand healing experiences with quantum physics, philosophy and spiritual wisdom. In this book, Rich Wood provides indisputable... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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