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Yes to Life Inspite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl
$30.00 NZD
Category: Enrichment
Extraordinary uncovered work by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man's Search For Meaning Just months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl delivered a series of talks revealing the foundations of his life-affirming philosophy for which he would become world ...Show more
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year Winner of the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Book of the Year Winner of Blackwell's Debut Book of the Year Winner of iBooks' Boo ...Show more
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
$23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live.From the author of How To Stop Time, coming February 2018 from Viking. "Destined to become a modern classic." --Entertainment Weekly Like nearly one in five peopl ...Show more
Morning - Paperback by Allan Jenkins
$23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
'This is my manifesto for morning. There is an energy in the earlier hours, an awareness I enjoy. In today's world we tend to wake as late as we can, timed to when we have to work. But we don't need to chase the day.' In Morning, Allan Jenkins shows how getting up earlier even once a week or month can f ...Show more
The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness - how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people - clinically sane members of society - went undercover i ...Show more
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
As a therapist, Lori knows a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss, and how change and loss travel together. She know how affirming it feels to blame the outside world for her frustrations, to deny ownership of whatever role she might have in the existential play called My Incredi ...Show more
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream?The answers to these ques ...Show more
Into the Magic Shop: A neurosurgeon's true story of the life-changing magic of mindfulness and compassion by James Doty
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
The award-winning New York Times bestseller that inspired BTS's K-pop song 'Magic Shop'. The day that 12-year-old James Doty walked in to his local magic shop is the day that changed his life. Once the neglected son of an alcoholic father and a mother with chronic depression, he has gone on to become ...Show more
Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
$30.00 NZD
Category: Enrichment | Series: Compassion Focused Therapy
Throughout 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 inner peace. However in modern societies we rarely fo ...Show more
Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality by Hannah Holmes
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
Are you neurotic, eager to please, and honest? Or cheerful, gregarious, and disorganised? Whatever you're like, with the tweak of a couple of genes, scientists can make a mouse just like you. And mice, and the scientists who study them, can tell us a lot about ourselves. As Hannah Holmes shows us by hum ...Show more
What Makes Women Happy? by Fay Weldon
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
A delicious treat of wisdom for better self-awareness and satisfaction. Tackle anxiety, envy, guilt, while giving in to sex, food, friends, family, shopping -- and chocolate. What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying. In this new book, Fay Weldon offers wi ...Show more
Baby in the Mirror: A Child's World from Birth to Three by Charles Fernyhough
$33.00 NZD
Category: Child Care
For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter Athena was an opportunity to re-evaluate much of what he had learned as a researcher in developmental psychology. Drawing on the detailed notes he made during her infancy, Fernyhough uses Athena's story to explain how a child's mind develops before the a ...Show more
