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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran Publisher Comments In this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases -- from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb syndrome. With a storyteller's eye for compelling case studies and a researcher's flair for new... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.57 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks Publisher Comments With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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Depressed & Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Thomas Marra Publisher Comments As if coping with feelings of depression or anxiety by themselves weren’t difficult enough, clinical research suggests that as many as 60 percent of depression sufferers concurrently experience some kind of anxiety disorder. If you are in this... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.50 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) List Price $16.25 Your price: $7.98 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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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life Acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty... (read more) List Price $15.00 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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Dreams. by C. G. Jung Publisher Comments Extracted from Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16. Includes "The Analysis of Dreams," 'On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and "The Practical... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bollingen Series #20: The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung: Revised R.F.C. Hull Translation by C G Jung Publisher Comments In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures, C. G. Jung laid the groundwork for a psychology of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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 $74.50 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (Jung Seminars) by Carl Jung Publisher Comments "This is Jung on dream analysis in more detail than has yet been published. It reveals Jung as an educator in dialogue with his students in a more casual exchange than a formal lecture but one that shows more depth and spontaneity as a give-and-take... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream by Andrea Rock Publisher Comments Psychologists and philosophers have long grappled with the mysteries of dreaming, and now-thanks largely to recent innovations in brain imaging -neuroscientists are starting to join the conversation. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning journalist... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart. One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Primer of Jungian Psychology by Calvin S Hall Publisher Comments The contributions of Carl Jung to understanding of the human psyche are immense. Starting as Freud's most famous disciple, Jung soon broke away from his mentor to follow his own lines of investigation and discovery. Many of Jung's ideas are now... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments Praise for Jonah Lehrer and How We Decide Jonah Lehrer is a brilliant young writer. His clear and vivid writingincisive and thoughtful, yet sensitive and modestis a special pleasure.”Oliver Sacks Cash or... (read more) List Price $14.95 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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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... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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