The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory by Julia Shaw
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
Think you have a good memory? Think again. Memories are our most cherished possessions. We rely on them every day of our lives. They make us who we are. And yet the truth is they are far from being the accurate record of the past we like to think they are. True, we can all admit to having suffered occas ...Show more
Mind - Journey to the Heart of Being Hum by Daniel J. Siegel
$38.95 AUD
Category: Psychology
Neuroscience studies the brain. A full examination of what we mean by the term "mind" has traditionally been the province of philosophers but here Daniel Siegel explores what neuroscience can teach us about it-how the mind differs from consciousness and how we know who we really are. In Mind, Siegel, Th ...Show more
Cringeworthy: How to Make the Most of Uncomfortable Situations by Melissa Dahl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a presentation? Or accidentally liked an old photo on someone's Instagram or Facebook, thus revealing yourself to be a creepy social med ...Show more
The Selfish Ape - Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction by Nicholas P. Money
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Weaving together stories of science and sociology, The Selfish Ape offers a refreshing response to common fantasies about the ascent of humanity. Rather than imagining modern humans as a species with godlike powers, or Homo deus, Nicholas P. Money recasts us as Homo narcissus--paragons of self-absorptio ...Show more
Not Born Yesterday - The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe by Hugo Mercier
$54.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe--and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion--wh ...Show more
F*ck Happiness by Ariel Gore
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Happiness has become big business. Books, psychologists, consultants and even governments promote scientific findings into the psychology of happiness and how it can apply to the individual and to the broader society. The problem is that almost all of this science is performed by and for straight white ...Show more
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness by Simon Baron-Cohen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
In Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness Simon Baron-Cohen takes fascinating and challenging new look at what exactly makes our behaviour uniquely human. How can we ever explain human cruelty? We have always struggled to understand why some people behave in the most evil ...Show more
Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE
$17.50 AUD
$35.00 (50% off)
Category: Psychology
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman. And yet he confesses that his fear of heights is so great that he'd rather send his wife up a ladder to clean the gutters than do it hims ...Show more
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. hat joy reveals an ...Show more
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age by Daniel Klein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Travels with Epicurus- A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Ageis a humorous, uplifting meditation on finding the pleasures of old age, by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. When philosopher, jokester and septuagenarian Daniel Klein goe ...Show more
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major r ...Show more