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Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781400077427Author Daniel Gilbert -
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert 9780007183135
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68In 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... -
All-in-One Guitar Soloing Course: The Contemporary Guide to Improvisation by Daniel Gilbert
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $30.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495088797Author Daniel GilbertPage Count 252Imprint -
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova 9781838954178
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91*A New York Times bestseller*'Using her expertise as a neuroscientist and her gifts as a storyteller, Lisa Genova explains the nuances of human memory' - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of... -
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence by Dacher Keltner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91A revolutionary rethinking of everything we know about powerIt shapes every interaction we have, whether we're trying to get a two-year-old to eat green vegetables or ask for a promotion at work... -
Present Moment, Wonderful Moment Thich Nhat Hanh 9781846046797
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'Thich Nhat Hanh's work has proven to be the antidote to our modern pain and sorrows' Ocean VuongFeelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. Beloved Zen Master... -
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Proof of a ground-breaking psychological theory: that the fear of death is the hidden motive behind almost everything we do.'A joy ... The Worm at the Core asks how humans can learn to live happily... -
The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well by Bruce Hood 9781398526389
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.61'A fantastic guide to getting out of our own heads and finding more connection, presence, and joy' LAURIE SANTOS, Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast... -
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel Levitin
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In The Organized Mind, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin offers practical solutions to the problems of information overload... -
Happiness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) Harvard Business Review 9781633693210
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.41What is the nature of human happiness, and how do we achieve it in the course of our professional lives? And is it even worth pursuing? This book explores answers to these questions by presenting... -
Music as Medicine by Daniel Levitin 9781529900118
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.46From the bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, a surprising and inspiring exploration of the healing power of music.'As knowledgeable a guide to neuroscience as... -
Mindwandering: How It Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity by Moshe Bar
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'An original, provocative and fascinating new theory by one of the world's leading neuroscientists about why the mind wanders - and when and why it's good for you' Daniel Gilbert Your brain is... -
Music as Medicine Daniel Levitin 9781529900101
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.83From the bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, a surprising and inspiring exploration of the healing power of music.'As knowledgeable a guide to neuroscience as... -
Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By by Timothy Wilson
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Redirect by Timothy D. Wilson, author of Strangers to Ourselves, whose work has been acclaimed by writers such as Malcolm Gladwell, is a groundbreaking book of psychology that shows how changing the... -
The Sweet Spot: Suffering, Pleasure and the Key to a Good Life Paul Bloom 9781529111064
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31What 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... -
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) by Cindy M. Meston
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Why do women have sex? Is it purely for pleasure or the desire to reproduce? In their ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Cindy Meston and evolutionary psychologist David Buss investigate the... -
A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World by Daniel Levitin
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely... -
Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy by Daniel Willingham
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97***A WINNER OF THE 2023 OUTSTANDING WORKS OF LITERATURE (OWL) AWARDS*** In this revolutionary guide to learning, Professor Dan Willingham uses fascinating brain science to help you study more... -
The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by John List
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Based on groundbreaking original research, The Why Axis is a colourful examination of why people do what they do - and how effective incentives can spur people to change their behaviour and achieve... -
Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) by Harvard Business Review
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.41Learn how to deal with difficult colleagues and clients.At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their--and your own--emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do... -
The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body by Daniel Goleman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91DELVE INTO THE SCIENCE BEHIND YOUR PRACTICE WITH THIS ESSENTIAL AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MEDITATION 'This is a book that really can change your life' Arianna Huffington, author of the New York Times... -
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris 9781780666952
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.42Why is it so hard to say "I made a mistake"-and really believe it? When we make mistakes, cling to outdated attitudes, or mistreat other people, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our... -
Hello: The Unexpected Power of Choosing To Connect by Nicholas Epley 9781847926814
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.12Leading psychologist Nicholas Epley helps us understand why our social fears are often mistaken and how small acts of connection can ultimately transform our lives.‘One of those rare books that might... -
How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love by Logan Ury 9780349442150
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A definitive guide for a generation navigating the murky waters of modern love' Esther Perel 'A "must read" for hopeless and hopeful romantics alike' Daniel GilbertA funny and practical guide to... -
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared... -
Happy Ever After: A Radical New Approach to Living Well by Paul Dolan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Smart, engaging and funny. It will make you question everything you think you know about what you want' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenBe ambitious; find everlasting love; look... -
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.97'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.' - The Observer'Subtly radical . . . It presents a revelatory model of... -
The Price of Happiness: Behavioral Economics and Willingness to Pay by Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9781009843652
Booksplease Price: $41.93People often 'miswant.' They buy goods that do not make them happy and refuse to buy goods that would make their lives better. In The Price of Happiness, Cass R. Sunstein focuses on people's... -
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $26.38"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the... -
Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need by Bruce Hood
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Beautifully written and brilliantly argued, Possessed is one of the few things you really need to own' Daniel GilbertHow ownership came to own us - and what we can do about itOur love affair with... -
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives -- How Your Friends' Friends' Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do by Nicholas A. Christakis 9780316036139
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.69Renowned scientists Christakis and Fowler present compelling evidence for our profound influence on one another's tastes, health, wealth, happiness, beliefs, even weight, as they explain how social... -
Happy Money: The New Science of Smarter Spending Elizabeth Dunn 9781780743370
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98After a fairly low threshold, income and material wealth have no measurable effect on happiness. But how we spend our money does. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Elizabeth Dunn and Dr Michael... -
Who Gets What - And Why: Understand the Choices You Have, Improve the Choices You Make by Alvin Roth 9780007520787
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84This book shows how our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have.From dating, school and university applications to the job market, understand the most important... -
Leave Your Lights On!: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Planet by Elizabeth Dunn 9781805463627
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.85'Improve your happiness and wellbeing while also reducing your carbon footprint? Many would argue that this is too good to be true; Dunn and Zhao expertly show us that it is not' Hannah Ritchie,... -
Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and Our Search for Connection and Meaning by Eve Turow-Paul 9781948836975
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $21.08"Hungry is an excellent text about people's methods of adapting to modern life; it encompasses psychology, generational identities, and marketing in its considerations of contemporary society... -
Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation by Ayelet Fishbach
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15'I don't know anyone who knows more than Ayelet Fishbach about the psychology of goals . . . I love this book and know you will too' - Angela Duckworth, author of GritA great deal of ink has been... -
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians.This is the captivating story of... -
Life in Three Dimensions: The New Science of a Good Life Shige Oishi 9781911709527
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Embrace the transformative power of variety and experience for a life of fulfilment.We've been told that a good life is a stable life, a comfortable or purposeful life that follows a well-trodden... -
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler 9780141040011 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.21Coming soon: Nudge: The Final EditionFrom Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Nudge is the book that changed the way we think about decision-making... -
The Bystander Effect: The Psychology of Courage and Inaction by Catherine Sanderson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84'Fantastic ... It explains the misperception of stacked odds and personal powerlessness that stops individuals challenging bad behaviour. Stunning. Humbling. Thought-provoking'Kathryn Mannix, author...