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Heal Your Nervous System: The 5–Stage Plan to Reverse Nervous System Dysregulation by Dr. Linnea Passaler 9780760385654
RRP: £19.99£13.75Relieve anxiety, burnout, feelings of overwhelm, and chronic physical symptoms by healing your dysregulated nervous system with this 5-stage roadmap based on the latest science. Dr. Linnea Passaler has helped thousands globally in her digital health... -
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
RRP: £12.99£9.09Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of... -
The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
RRP: £14.99£9.80Throughout history people have sought to cope with a life that is often stressful and hard. We have actually known for some time that developing compassion for oneself and others can help us face up to and win through the hardship and find a sense of... -
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science, and how we understand the world around us'... -
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry by Randolph M. Nesse
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A new approach to mental disorder. Randolph Nesse's insightful book suggests that conditions such as anxiety and depression have a clear evolutionary purpose ... This intriguing book turns some age-old questions about the human condition upside down'... -
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna 9781399810630
RRP: £22.00£14.96'A fabulous book' The Economist'Mind expanding - this book will change your view of the world forever' Matthew Syed'Wonderfully refreshing and thought-provoking' Peter Frankopan'Original, fascinating, and provocative' Andrew McAfeeA blueprint for a... -
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
RRP: £10.99£8.17The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' - Julia Hobsbawm, author of Fully Connected_______________________________We all have... -
How to Be Human: The Manual by Ruby Wax
RRP: £10.99£7.77'With this marvellous book, Ruby Wax has confirmed her position as one of the most readable, inspirational and engaging writers in the field of human mental health, happiness and fulfilment.' Stephen Fry "It took us 4 billion years to evolve to where we... -
Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom by Fred Provenza
RRP: £20.00£13.75"Nourishment will change the way you eat and the way you think."-Mark Schatzker, author of The Dorito Effect "[Provenza is] a wise observer of the land and the animals [and] becomes transformed to learn the meaning of life."-Temple Grandin ... -
The Selective Mutism Workbook for Parents and Professionals: Small Steps, Big Changes by Maggie Johnson
RRP: £28.99£25.09This workbook provides hands-on Activities, Strategies, planning sheets and progress trackers for use with children with selective mutism at home, at school and in the wider community. Written by selective mutism expert Maggie Johnson and parent coach... -
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland 9780316453356
RRP: £15.99£10.93While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place.Drunk elegantly cuts... -
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures by Robin Dunbar 9780241431795
RRP: £10.99£7.77A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it... -
The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating by David Buss
RRP: £15.99£10.93If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever... -
Mirror Thinking: The Unconscious Power of Role Models by Fiona Murden
RRP: £16.99£12.28Parents, friends, teachers, relatives, and even work colleagues - from the people close to us to those we never even meet - other people are constantly shaping who we are. The mirror neuron is a part of the brain that has shaped each and every one of... -
The Hero by Lee Child 9780008361877
RRP: £5.99£4.18THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin... -
Sperm Wars (Revised): Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles by Robin Baker
RRP: £15.99£10.93Sperm Wars turns the conventional thinking about the biology of sex on its head. Evolutionary biologist Robin Baker argues that human sexuality follows certain laws, and all of those laws are governed by one thing: sperm warfare. In the interest of... -
The Evolution of Imagination by Stephen T. Asma
RRP: £26.00£22.10Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the whole... -
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
RRP: £12.99£9.09An intelligently provocative book about Darwin's 'other' theory discusses the curious ways in which sexual attraction has influenced the evolution of the human mind.Many aspects of the human mind remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection can... -
Mindful Compassion by Paul Gilbert
RRP: £12.99£8.60Based on the latest work from Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, bestselling author of The Compassionate Mind, and Buddhist expert Choden. Professor Gilbert has spent the past twenty years developing a new therapy called Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) which... -
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe
RRP: £12.99£8.48"Engrossing ... [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain." --Wall Street Journal "Fascinating--and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share." --Scientific American Parasites can... -
Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology by Andreas Weber
RRP: £14.99£9.80Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of... -
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris 9780393329711
RRP: £21.00£17.77Why do people-even identical twins reared in the same home-differ so much in personality? Armed with an inquiring mind and insights from evolutionary psychology, Judith Rich Harris sets out to solve the mystery of human individuality.About the... -
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World by Professor Joshua Paul Dale 9781788162388
RRP: £18.99£13.61A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' 'Fascinating ... you'll never look at a Hello Kitty or a Pokemon the same way again' Mail on Sunday Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did... -
Bad Men: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment and Assault by David Buss
RRP: £10.99£7.40Sexual conflict permeates ancient religions, from injunctions about thy neighbor's wife to the sexual obligations of marriage. It is etched in written laws that dictate who can and cannot have sex with whom. Its manifestations shape our sexual morality,... -
The Anatomy of Grief: How the Brain, Heart, and Body Can Heal after Loss by Dorothy P. Holinger
RRP: £12.99£11.46An original, authoritative guide to the impact of grief on the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved "Dorothy Holinger's exploration of the contours of grief is wise, moving, thought-provoking, and, best of all, extraordinarily helpful... -
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks 9781841594132
RRP: £16.99£12.68Neurologist Oliver Sacks investigates the complex relationship between the brain and the mind and, almost impossibly, manages to make his subject matter not only accessible to the general reader, but utterly absorbing. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a... -
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
RRP: £10.99£7.77* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, author of... -
Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
RRP: £16.99£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062283252Author Dr Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiFormat PaperbackImprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 345g -
The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political Convictions - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
RRP: £12.99£8.60Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian, Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain,... -
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson 9780141986340
RRP: £10.99£7.77'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date'Creativity is the unique... -
Cognitive Neuroscience by Marie T. Banich 9781108926386
RRP: £59.99£53.89Now in its fifth edition, this accessible and comprehensive text highlights the most important theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. Written by two experienced researchers who excel at teaching, the consistent... -
Thriving with Stone Age Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human Flourishing by Justin L. Barrett
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852932Author Justin L. BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 153mm *... -
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland
RRP: £25.00£16.78While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts... -
Mistakes in Clinical Neuropsychology: Learning from a Case-based Approach by Oliver Turnbull 9781032292663
RRP: £29.99£26.64This innovative book uses a case-based approach to discuss mistakes made in the practice of clinical neuropsychology to form a helpful tool in the training of early career clinicians. By allowing readers space for critical reflection during clinical... -
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A phenomenally important book' Lewis Dartnell, author of OriginsWhy do we live in families?Why do we help complete strangers?Why do we compare ourselves to others?Why do we cooperate?The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also... -
The Sweet Spot: Suffering, Pleasure and the Key to a Good Life by Paul Bloom
RRP: £10.99£7.77What if experiencing a good life involves more than just pleasure?Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explains why suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives.It seems... -
The Cognitive Unconscious: The First Half Century by Arthur S Reber
RRP: £56.00£50.99The term 'Implicit Learning' refers to the way in which knowledge of fairly complex, patterned material can be acquired without any conscious effort to learn it and with little to no awareness of what has been learned. Over the past fifty years, Implict... -
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking by Cecilia Heyes
RRP: £29.95£23.19"This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences... Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the year."-Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionHow did human minds become so... -
Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century (fully updated edition) by Vikas Shah 9781789292459
RRP: £16.99£11.48'Stimulating, intelligent and enjoyable discussions of the most important issues of our day.' STEVEN PINKER 'From entrepreneurs to athletes, and world leaders to entertainers, this is a fascinating collection of interviews with some of the world's most... -
Survival of the Virtuous: How We Became a Moral Animal by Professor Emeritus Dennis L Krebs
RRP: £48.99£44.40Do good guys finish last? Did we evolve to look out for number one? Are we bad by nature? At first glance, the theory of evolution seems to imply that all organisms are evolved to be selfish. In this book, evolutionary psychologist Dennis Krebs...