The Psychology of Achievement: Success by Dorling Kindersley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
Achieve personal fulfillment in your career, relationship and performance with Success- The Psychology of Achievement. Success- The Psychology of Achievement will unlock your potential and help you raise your game by equipping you with the tools you need to achieve success in every aspect of life. Give ...Show more
Override: My Quest to Discover the Truth About Brain Training and Rewire My Imperfect Mind by Caroline Williams (Lecturer in Political Theory, Queen Mary and Westfield College)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Can you really rewire an adult brain? In theory the answer is 'yes', but there's a problem- no one seems to know exactly how to do it. In Override, Caroline Williams sets off on a mission to find out. Delving into the latest studies on brain plasticity, which indicate that brain games don't actually do ...Show more
The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$39.95 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to the study of human nature The Psychology Book clearly explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in this fascinating field of science. How does the brain remember faces? What makes us choose one decision over another? Where doe ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff (HB) by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Stephen Hawking; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Graham Lawton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why yo ...Show more
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking by Richard E. Nisbett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Learn how to think more effectively, at work and at home. Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives at home and work and school to help us think smarter and more effectively about our behaviour and the world around us. Surprisingly, many of these ideas ...Show more
Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust (With New Material) (HB) by Viktor E Frankl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Hope Circuit by Martin E. P. Seligman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
One of the most important psychologists alive today tells the story of the transformation of modern psychology through the lens of his own career and change of heart. Martin E. P. Seligman is one of the most decorated and popular psychologists of his generation. When he first encountered the discipline ...Show more
The Inkblots by Damion Searls
$39.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Despite decades of controversy, the Rorschach test is still widely used and continues to pervade popular culture. Shouldn't we have written off this rather embarrassing vestige of early twentieth-century pseudoscience long ago, along with hypnosis, orgone boxes, and truth serum? In fact, the Rorschach t ...Show more
Einstein's Greatest Mistake - The Life of a Flawed Genius by David Bodanis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by eve ...Show more
Eureka!: The Birth of Science by Andrew Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Icon Science
Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world at all is one of the true wonders of human thought. E ...Show more
The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us- other people's perfumes, and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners. On a ...Show more
Criminal The Hidden Truth about Why People Do Bad Things by Tom Gash
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
How our views of crime and its causes are wrong -- and how we can begin to understand and tackle it properly. The way we see and understand crime falls into two types of story that, in essence, have been told and retold many times throughout human history -- in fiction, as in fact. Criminality is e ...Show more