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The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven Pinker 'Bold, intriguing, profound' Jay Elwes, Spectator Why can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon... -
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind by David M Buss
$96.23Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary psychology is a revolutionary new science, a true synthesis of modern principles of... -
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert 9780007183135
RRP: $12.89$8.57In this fascinating and often hilarious work - winner of the Royal Society of Science Prize 2007 - pre-eminent psychologist Daniel Gilbert shows how - and why - the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy. We all want to be... -
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks by Robin Dunbar
RRP: $15.47$10.23We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colours our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how religious we are. In How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour,... -
OCR Sociology for A Level Book 1 by Sue Brisbane
$53.42Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' confidence to tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by a... -
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Prof. Dacher Keltner 9781802061161
RRP: $14.18$10.02From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of aweSocial psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to... -
Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language by Desmond Morris
RRP: $21.92$15.84Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost... -
Stressilient: How to Beat Stress and Build Resilience by Dr Sam Akbar
RRP: $10.31$6.98'...short, sharp guide to managing your mind.' THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE 'If I could inject it, I would.' REFINERY29 ... -
The School of Life: On Relationships: learning how to love by The School of Life
RRP: $12.89$9.20A book to inspire closeness and connection, helping people not only to find love but to make it last. Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to... -
The Good Enough Parent by The School of Life
RRP: $19.35$14.09Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life's great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. There are many things to understand about how children's minds operate and what they need from those who look... -
The School of Life: Small Pleasures - what makes life truly valuable by The School of Life
RRP: $12.89$9.20Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life. So often we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures, while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which if only we paid more attention could... -
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
RRP: $14.18$10.02An incendiary examination of burnout - what got us here, the pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic changeAre you tired, stressed and trying your best but somehow it's never enough?Does your job seep into your evenings and your home life... -
Why Group Therapy Works and How to Do It: A Guide for Health and Social Care Professionals by Christer Sandahl
RRP: $42.56$37.62This book describes how group treatment offers a unique opportunity for group members to learn and to change as they interact with other group members.The group structure presents a social microcosm of relationships that people who seek psychotherapeutic... -
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity by Sander van der Linden 9780008466756
RRP: $14.18$9.35Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 ... -
The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It by Will Storr 9780008354671
RRP: $14.18$9.35'Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas ... The Status Game might be his best yet' James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times What drives our political and moral beliefs? What... -
RHS Your Wellbeing Garden: How to Make Your Garden Good for You - Science, Design, Practice by Royal Horticultural Society
RRP: $21.92$15.05Your garden could be even better for you.Discover...How certain plants can form a barrier against air and noise pollutionWhich birdsong alleviates anxietyHow plants can help to save energyWhy green is so good for usLearn how connecting with nature can... -
Solitude by Anthony Storr
RRP: $14.18$9.35'Brings excellent news for those who, whatever their reasons for doing so, live alone ... Heartening' Anita Brookner, Spectator 'Storr is an incapable of writing an uninteresting paragraph' Sunday Times'... -
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
RRP: $25.80$17.21Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build... -
How to Raise a Viking: The Secrets of Parenting the World’s Happiest Children by Helen Russell 9780008602727
RRP: $21.92$14.80'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee 'A well researched study injected with humour and humanity' Mail on Sunday ... -
No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work and How They Help Us Succeed by Liz Fosslien
RRP: $21.92$16.36How do you deal with your emotions at work? 'Full of lively illustrations and practical examples to show how you can harness emotions to become more creative, collaborative and productive' Adam Grant, author of Originals________________ ... -
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman
RRP: $16.76$11.73One of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century examines the meaning of the asylum'Psychiatric staff share with policemen the peculiar occupational task of hectoring and moralizing adults'This groundbreaking work of social science... -
Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards
RRP: $21.92$15.84It's not enough to have great ideas. You also need to know how to communicate them.What makes someone charismatic? Why do some people captivate a room, while others have trouble managing a small meeting? What makes some ideas spread, while other good... -
Autistic Masking: Understanding identity management and the role of stigma by Amy Pearson 9781803882116
$42.39Masking is a form of identity management involving consciously or unconsciously suppressing aspects of identity and action. Often seen in socially marginalised groups, it is found to contribute towards poorer outcomes for autistic people and is related... -
Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work by David Rock 9780060835910
RRP: $14.18$9.35Improving human performance involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way people think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven the secret to leading... -
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas 9780141996974
RRP: $14.18$10.02A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES'Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility' The New York... -
Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity by Etienne Wenger 9780521663632
RRP: $51.59$45.42This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is... -
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
RRP: $14.18$10.54The 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... -
Machiavellianism: The Psychology of Manipulation by Tamas Bereczkei
RRP: $56.75$49.59The world abounds with tricksters, swindlers, and impostors. Many of them may well be described with the term Machiavellian. Such individuals disrespect moral principles, deceive their fellow beings, and take advantage of others' frailty and gullibility... -
Duped: Compulsive Liars and How They Can Deceive You by Abby Ellin
RRP: $19.34$6.08'Abby Ellin's writing is everything her fiance pretended to be: witty, vulnerable, brave, smart, and honest' Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the WoodsIn Duped, New York Times journalist Abby Ellin explores the secret lives of compulsive liars,... -
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball 9781526642554
RRP: $25.80$22.73Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic. ... -
The Sane Society by Erich Fromm
RRP: $19.34$17.52Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of... -
Together by Luke Adam Hawker 9780857839442
RRP: $21.92$14.89THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA beautiful book to connect us after such a challenging time.'Dark clouds were looming in the distance. We watched them gather, and we wondered... When will it come? How long will it last?' A monumental storm brings huge and... -
The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-Francois Marmion
RRP: $14.18$9.69The Number One International bestseller'We need books like this one' - psychologist Steven PinkerAt last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio... -
Unlearning Shame: How Rejecting Self-Blame Culture Gives Us Real Power by Devon Price 9781800961937
RRP: $25.80$17.74'With the authentic voice I've grown to expect from Devon [...] This book articulates a feeling that has lurked in the dark corners of so many minds and brings it into the light where it can be faced, embraced, understood, and ultimately, healed. Stop... -
Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision for Society by Mick Cooper
RRP: $19.34$15.65We live in troubled times: climate crisis, war and authoritarian 'populism' are just some of the challenges we are currently facing. Never has there been such a need for a new approach to politics - nor such an opportunity for one. To create a world in... -
Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: $14.18$10.02In Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making psychologist and behavioural expert Gerd Gigerenzer reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision-making. A sportsman can catch a ball without calculating its speed or distance. A group of... -
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
RRP: $3.87$3.21'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. Penguin Modern: fifty new... -
The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age by Claudia Hammond
RRP: $14.18$9.44WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTHShortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular ScienceMuch of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, calm our minds and recharge our bodies. The Art of Rest... -
BFF?: The truth about female friendship by Claire Cohen 9781529176032
RRP: $14.18$10.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorClaire Cohen is an award-winning journalist, named Women's Editor of the Year by the prestigious British Society of Magazine Editors for her agenda-setting... -
The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson
RRP: $14.18$9.69Often funny, sometimes chilling and always thought-provoking, journalist Jon Ronson's Sunday Times bestseller The Men Who Stare at Goats is a story so unbelievable it has to be true.In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within...