Psychology & Sociology

Psychology & Sociology

Psychology & Sociology

Psychology & Sociology

Sociology, Psychology and Social Sciences, Socrates to Freud.
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DIGITAL DIET: The 4-Step Plan
DANIEL SIEBERG    Book Number: 83018
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A four step plan to break your technology addictions and regain balance in your life. If you are bogged under by Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Gmail, Blackberry, iPad, laptop or X-box, if your heart fl...
AN ODE TO DARKNESS
SIGRI SANDBERG    Book Number: 89964
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Under the dark polar night of northern Norway, journalist Sigri Sandberg meditates on the cultural, historical, psychological and scientific meaning of darkness, all the while testing the limits of...
BE MORE WITCH: How To Find Your Inner Magic
ALISON DAVIES    Book Number: 90225
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Once persecuted, witches have now been adopted by millennials as a symbol of feminine strength. The book offers a dose of magical escapism to channel determination and positive change through myst...
WAKE UP
PIERS MORGAN    Book Number: 90312
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Love him or loath him, the journalist Piers Morgan shouts loud a rallying cry for a united future to consider what really matters in life. It's time to get back some common sense, time to cancel t...
GRASP: The Science Transforming How We Learn
SANJAY SARMA    Book Number: 90407
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Learning is an adventure, but education is a process of selection and the results can be destructive. The criteria used to separate pupils of differing aptitudes are riddled with cultural assumptio...
SURVIVING STROKE: The Story of a Neurologist and His Family
DR H. KENNERLEY & U. KISCHKA    Book Number: 90418
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Udo Kischka was an otherwise healthy 62-year old who ran harder than usual to catch a train home, went to bed feeling normal and was discovered unconscious by his wife the next morning, paralysed a...
BEING CREATIVE
MICHAEL ATAVAR    Book Number: 90565
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Creativity is nothing other than 'you'. The book sets out five major areas - beginning, process, persistence, methodology and ending, each with several examples, some experimental formulas in a se...
FREUD A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOANALYSIS
Sigmund Freud    Book Number: 68849
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Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The 'Freudian slip', the 'Oedipus complex', 'childhood sexuality', 'libido', 'n...
BYSTANDER EFFECT: The Psychology of Courage and Inaction
CATHERINE A. ANDERSON    Book Number: 90832
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By the author of popular titles on happiness, health and longevity, the pioneering psychologist Catherine Anderson turns her keen eye onto why good people so often do nothing in the face of discrim...
ARTFULLY SPOKEN
RYAN MCARTHUR    Book Number: 90851
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Find motivation through the wisdom of Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus, Edward Young and Victor Hugo. Artist and designer Ryan McArthur has put together beautiful images to accompany pensive thoughts incl...
CLASSICAL SCHOOL:
CALLUM WILLIAMS    Book Number: 90856
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This is an education on economics wrapped up in the fascinating history of 20 people who have shaped nations through their philosophy, all written with an engaging but clear tone that draws in both...
MINDFUL MAN: Words From The Earth
CASPAR WALSH    Book Number: 90874
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'How is being a mindful man different to a mindful woman? Surely the road to enlightenment is the same for our entire species regardless of gender? Do we need a separate focus to become Zen men? ...
STORIES OF HOPE: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives
HEATHER MORRIS    Book Number: 90891
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"Stories are what connect us, and remind us that hope is always possible" - the words of Heather Morris, bestselling author and extraordinary storyteller of tales about survival, resilience and hop...
THIS LIFE: Why Mortality Makes Us Free
MARTIN HAGGLUND    Book Number: 90894
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"What I do and what I love can matter to me only because I understand myself as mortal." This meditation comes from the Swedish philosopher Martin Hägglund who questions, if this life is all there ...
WHAT'S YOUR TYPE?: Story of the Myers-Briggs
MERVE EMRE    Book Number: 90899
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Are you an analyst, diplomat, sentinel or explorer? An introvert or an extrovert? You may well have taken a personality test in your life, whether for a job or potential love match. If it was after...
ART OF LOVING: Classics of Personal Development
ERICH FROMM    Book Number: 90994
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First published in 1957 and reprinted many times since, the book has become a classic, inspiring thousands of people. Erich Fromm, the renowned psychoanalyst, sees love as the ultimate need and de...
BEHAVE: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
ROBERT SAPOLSKY    Book Number: 90996
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Oliver Sacks has described Sapolsky as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time.' This superb guide to human nature shows how all the perspective and systems connect and we laugh and marvel ...
SENSEMAKING
CHRISTIAN MADSBJERG    Book Number: 91127
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Sub-titled 'What Makes Human Intelligence Essential in the Age of the Algorithm', the book is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism. Based on his work at companies like...
WE SWIM TO THE SHARK: Overcoming Fear One Fish At A Time
GEORGIE CODD    Book Number: 91130
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Despite her name, this intrepid explorer had a deep fear of fish, so to overcome her phobia she plots to travel to Thailand, learn to dive and swim with the biggest fish in the world, the mighty wh...
ALIGNMENT PROBLEM: How Can Machines Learn Human Values?
BRIAN CHRISTIAN    Book Number: 91137
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Machine learning dominates every aspect of our modern lives as algorithms decide the news we consume, whether we get a mortgage, and which friends wish us happy birthday. But as these systems make...
BEGINNERS: The Curious Power of Lifelong Learning
TOM VANDERBILT    Book Number: 91138
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'A thoughtful and stirring look into the art and science of lifelong learning. Currently, I'm learning Gaelic, dressmaking and how to lay floors. Last year, I was knitting and coding. I'm fifty, an...
OPEN: The Story of Human Progress
JOHAN NORBERG    Book Number: 91166
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The topic is how collaboration and curiosity has shaped mankind. As we recover from the pandemic of 2020, the world needs more open minds, open hearts, open communications, open markets, and Norbe...
50 PSYCHOLOGY CLASSICS
TOM BUTLER-BOWDEN    Book Number: 91183
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New updated edition, the greatest books are distilled in this curious reader's guide to popular psychology. We are invited to embark on a journey through excerpts from 50 books covering hundreds o...
GROWING YOUNG
MARTA ZERASKA    Book Number: 91278
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Sub-titled 'How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100', this research-driven book proves how strong social networks will help us live to a great age. Science journalist Marta ...
SLEEP: 50 Instant Exercises For A Restful Night
DR. ARLENE UNGER    Book Number: 91430
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Sleep is something of a mystery and we feel instinctively that it does our minds and bodies profound good. Generally the brain seems to use the hours of sleep to sort and analyse new knowledge, so...
BACK TO NATURE: How to Love Life and Save It
CHRIS PACKHAM & MEGAN MCCUBBIN    Book Number: 91451
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The pleasantness of our experiences, the extent to which our desires are fulfilled relates to us feeling good, but what is also important for our wellbeing is our ability to function well psycholog...
TRAGEDY, THE GREEKS AND US
SIMON CRITCHLEY    Book Number: 91407
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'The oldest extant piece of theatre that we possess, Aeschylus's The Persians, from 472BCE, depicts the defeated enemy not with triumph but with sympathy, and with an anticipation of the possible h...
VERY NICE REJECTION LETTER
CHRIS PALING    Book Number: 91597
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'Despite the unpromising financial situation, after twenty-odd years trying to make a living on and around Grub Street - several novels published to grudgingly respectful reviews and negligible sal...
RADICAL ACTS OF LOVE: How We Find Hope at the End of Life
JANIE BROWN    Book Number: 91614
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Most people under 60 have never seen a person die, so have become deeply fearful about death; both their own, and the deaths of their beloved others. They have no role models to show them how to c...
ACT OF LIVING
FRANK TALLIS    Book Number: 91768
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Science, technology and Western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on our quality of life. The book is peppered with delightful nuggets on this engaging and expansive tour of our mod...
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