Human Science / Psychology

The Courage to Love: Principles and Practices of Self-Relations Psychotherapy

by Stephen Gilligan

This is a book about how psychotherapy may be used to cultivate the courage and freedom to love.In a time when love seems to be fading and hatred and despair rising, it presents love as a skill and force that...

The Little Book of Neuroscience Haiku

by Eric Chudler

Fun, informative poetry about the brain.Elephant on brain

"You have a lot on your mind"

Neurologist says.

The brain has fascinated philosophers and scientists for centuries. And why not? It is perhaps the most...

Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy: Studies in Comparative Religion

by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

Modern psychology is at an impasse as it searches anxiously for new therapies to address the increasing occurrence of mental illness in contemporary society. In this groundbreaking anthology, leading authors...

Failure to Launch: Guiding Clinicians to Successfully Motivate the Long-Dependent Young Adult

by Michael DeVine & Lawrence V. Tucker

Failure to Launch sets out to identify the underlying reasons for the failure to launch epidemic with adult children. Morever, it also lays out a treatment plan to help launch these children out of their parents'...

Working with Adoptive Parents: Research, Theory, and Therapeutic Interventions

by Virginia M. Brabender & April E. Fallon

Working with Adoptive Parents gathers the current research and best practices on successful interventions in working with adoptive families and translates it into practical applications for therapists to use...

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

by Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton

If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending.

Happy...

Saving Normal

by Allen Frances

From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization...

The Art of Thinking Clearly

by Rolf Dobelli

Have you ever . . .

• Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it?
• Paid too much in an eBay auction?
• Continued to do something you knew was bad for you?
• Sold stocks too late, or too...

Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation

by Andrew J. Elliot

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction between approach and avoidance...

Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination

by Stuart Oskamp

Finding ways to reduce prejudice and discrimination is the central issue in attacking racism in our society. Yet this book is almost unique among scientific volumes in its focus on that goal. This important...

International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology

by Barbara P. Uzzell, Marcel Ponton & Alfredo Ardila

The role of culture is significant when measuring cognitive abilities during neuropsychological assessments. However, cultural diversity is a frequently overlooked moderating variable. The International Handbook...

Teaching, Learning and Psychology

by Jane Yeomans & Christopher Arnold

Presenting a range of psychological theories in a non-technical and readable style, this book shows how psychology can be used to effectively deliver educational objectives and enhance children's learning. Linking...

Knowing Children: Experiments in Conversation and Cognition

by Michael Siegal

It has often been maintained that young children's knowledge is limited to perceptual appearances. In this "preoperational" stage of development, there are profound conceptual limitations in that they have little...

Language Development and Social Interaction in Blind Children

by Miguel Perez-Pereira & Gina Conti-Ramsden

This book provides an up-to-date account of blind children's developing communicative abilities with particular emphasis on social cognition and language acquisition from infancy to early school age. It purports...

Resolving Social Dilemmas: Dynamic, Structural, and Intergroup Aspects

by Margaret Foddy, Michael Smithson & Sherry Schneider

This book presents an accessible and state-of-the-art survey of current research on social dilemmas. A social dilemma arises when actions that are justifiable in terms of individual rationality (e.g. over-harvesting...

Working with Piaget: Essays in Honour of Barbel Inhelder

by Anastasia Tryphon & Jacques Voneche

For fifty years Bärbel Inhelder (1913-1997) was the research companion of Jean Piaget. In this unique volume, published in her honour, leading international researchers examine the various aspects of her work...

The Dyslexic Brain: New Pathways in Neuroscience Discovery

by Glenn D. Rosen

The Dyslexic Brain: New Pathways in Neuroscience Discovery offers a state-of-the art examination of the neural components and functions involved in reading and in the possible sources of breakdown. Suggestions...

Do Justice and Let the Sky Fall: Elizabeth F. Loftus and Her Contributions to Science, Law, and Academic Freedom

by Maryanne Garry & Harlene Hayne

For more than 30 years, renowned psychological scientist Elizabeth F. Loftus has contributed groundbreaking research to the fields of science, law, and academia. This book provides an opportunity for readers...

Memory Distortions and Their Prevention

by Deborah L. Best & Margaret J. Intons-Peterson

This volume explores the well-documented phenomena of memory distortion in a variety of settings, as well as how it can be ameliorated or prevented altogether. The editors have recruited some of the very best...

Studies in Perception and Action IV: Ninth Annual Conference on Perception and Action

by John M. Kennedy & Mark Schmuckler

As busy as teachers and scholars are, rarely do they find the time to sample widely from the table of scientific inquiry. This book offers the opportunity to do just that. The fourth volume in the "Studies in...