Keeper
One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's
Written by Andrea Gillies

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-71912-6 (0-307-71912-X)

Five years ago, Andrea Gillies— writer, wife, and mother of three—seeing that her husband's parents were struggling to cope, invited them to move in. She and her newly extended family relocated to a big Victorian house on a remote, windswept peninsula in the far north of Scotland, leaving behind their friends... Read more >

Destructive Emotions
A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama
Written by Daniel Goleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: March 30, 2004
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38105-4 (0-553-38105-9)

Behavioral scientist and internationally renowned author of Emotional Intelligence and Working With Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman explores how we can learn to control the dangerous potential of negative emotions. Bringing together ancient Buddhist wisdom and recent breakthroughs in fields from neuroscience to child development, the book offers fresh insights into how... Read more >

Healing Emotions
Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health
Written by Daniel Goleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-010-7 (1-59030-010-6)

Can the mind heal the body? The Buddhist tradition says yes—and now many Western scientists are beginning to agree. Healing Emotions is the record of an extraordinary series of encounters between the Dalai Lama and prominent Western psychologists, physicians, and meditation teachers that sheds new light on the mind-body connection. Topics... Read more >

Social Intelligence
The New Science of Human Relationships
Written by Daniel Goleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38449-9 (0-553-38449-X)

Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to... Read more >

Social Intelligence
The New Science of Human Relationships
Written by Daniel Goleman

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-80352-5 (0-553-80352-2)

Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to... Read more >

Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition
My Life with Autism
Written by Temple Grandin

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27565-3 (0-307-27565-5)

The captivating subject of Oliver Sack's Anthropologist on Mars, here is Temple Grandin's personal account of living with autism and how the extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world and ours.

Temple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as a designer of livestock holding equipment. Her unique empathy for animals... Read more >

The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45577-2 (0-307-45577-7)

As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—challenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on his twenty five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, he shows how moral... Read more >

Wisdom
From Philosophy to Neuroscience
Written by Stephen S. Hall

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38968-8 (0-307-38968-5)

We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive. In this fascinating journey from philosophy to science, Stephen S. Hall gives us a penetrating history of wisdom, from its sudden emergence in the fifth century B.C. to its modern manifestations in education, politics, and the workplace. Hall’s bracing exploration of... Read more >

Wisdom
From Philosophy to Neuroscience
Written by Stephen S. Hall

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26910-2 (0-307-26910-8)

A fascinating investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals—and the efforts of modern science to penetrate its mysterious nature.

Everyone aspires to wisdom, and we can recognize people who possess it, but defining it is more problematic. Now—traversing philosophy, theology, and neurobiology—award-winning science writer Stephen S. Hall gives us... Read more >

Why We Make Mistakes
How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Written by Joseph T. Hallinan

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2806-9 (0-7679-2806-7)

Human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the retelling, and most of us are fairly sure we’re way above average. In Why We Make Mistakes, journalist Joseph T. Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error—how we think, see, remember... Read more >

Answers to Distraction

Written by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45639-7 (0-307-45639-0)

After decades of being unfairly diagnosed, children and adults with attention deficit disorder are now recognized as having a common and treatable neurological condition. Drs. Hallowell and Ratey answer the questions most frequently asked at their nationwide workshops and seminars, resulting in an easy-to-read reference that covers every aspect of the... Read more >

Your Child's Growing Mind
Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence
Written by Jane Healy

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: May 25, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1615-8 (0-7679-1615-8)

The classic guide to understanding children’s mental development--now updated.

Hailed by parents and educators, Your Child’s Growing Mind is a window into the fascinating process of brain development and learning. It looks at the roots of emotion, intelligence, and creativity, translating the most current scientific research into practical suggestions for parents and... Read more >

Switch
How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52875-7 (0-385-52875-2)

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Made to Stick, are back with a groundbreaking book that addresses one of the greatest challenges of our personal and professional lives--how to change things when change is hard.

In Switch, Chip and Dan Heath have written a thoroughly engaging narrative about the... Read more >

On Second Thought
Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits
Written by Wray Herbert

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-46164-3 (0-307-46164-5)

Our lives are composed of millions of choices, ranging from trivial to life-changing and momentous. Luckily, our brains have evolved a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to quickly negotiate this endless array of decisions. We don’t want to rationally deliberate every choice we make, and thanks... Read more >

Nim Chimpsky
The Chimp Who Would Be Human
Written by Elizabeth Hess

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38277-8 (0-553-38277-2)

Now in Trade Paperback

Could an adorable chimpanzee raised from infancy by a human family bridge the gap between species—and change the way we think about the boundaries between the animal and human worlds?

Dubbed Project Nim, the experiment was the brainchild of Herbert S. Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia University. His goal... Read more >

The Druid of Harley Street
The Spiritual Psychology of E. Graham Howe
Written by E. Graham Howe
Edited by William Stranger
Introduction by William Stranger

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-774-8 (1-55643-774-9)

In early 20th-century Britain, interest in psychoanalysis was high, leading to the formation of the famous Tavistock Clinic in 1920. E. Graham Howe was one of the clinic’s founders and the first to publish articles on psychotherapy. At the same time, he was attacked by the “scientific” psychiatry and psychoanalysis communities... Read more >

Touching the Rock
An Experience of Blindness
Written by John Hull

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73547-2 (0-679-73547-X)

Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its thorough navigation of the world of blindness—a world... Read more >

The Passionate Mind Revisited
Expanding Personal and Social Awareness
Written by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-807-3 (1-55643-807-9)

The Passionate Mind Revisited takes readers on a liberating inner journey into the workings of their mind that can transform the way people look at themselves and the world. This expanded inquiry reflects the authors’ own and the world’s evolution since The Passionate Mind came out was published in 1974. The... Read more >

Type Talk
The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work
Written by Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: September 1, 1989
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-440-50704-8 (0-440-50704-9)

The authors show how to use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), derived from the work of C.G. Jung, to determine personality types. They explain the four pairs of preferences fundamental to every personality type--extraversion/introversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling and judging/perceiving--and demonstrate how to use this information to analyze and evaluate personalities. Read more >

The Worry Cure
Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You
Written by Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9766-1 (1-4000-9766-5)

For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Robert L. Leahy has successfully helped thousands of people defeat the worry that is holding them back. THE WORRY CURE is a comprehensive approach to help us identify, challenge, and overcome all types of worry, using the most recent research and his more than two... Read more >

Saving Sammy
A Mother's Fight to Cure Her Son's OCD
Written by Beth Alison Maloney

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-46184-1 (0-307-46184-X)

The summer before entering sixth grade, Sammy, a bright and charming boy who lived on the coast of Maine, suddenly began to exhibit disturbing behavior. He walked and ate with his eyes shut, refused to bathe, burst into fits of rage, slithered against walls, and used his limbs instead of his... Read more >

Let Me Hear Your Voice
A Family's Triumph over Autism
Written by Catherine Maurice

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: July 19, 1994
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-90664-4 (0-449-90664-7)

Let Me Hear Your Voice is a mother's illuminating account of how one family triumphed over autism. It is an absolutely unforgettable book, as beautifully written as it is informative.

"A vivid and uplifting story . . . Offers new strength to parents who refuse to give up on their autistic children."... Read more >

Energy Psychology
Self-Healing Practices for Bodymind Health
Written by Michael Mayer, Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-724-3 (1-55643-724-2)

Energy Psychology presents a comprehensive approach to healing that combines leading-edge Western bodymind psychological methods with a broad system of ancient, sacred traditions. Incorporating Dr. Mayer's integral approach called Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy, Energy Psychology draws on Chinese medicine approaches, including Qigong and acupressure self-touch; kabalistic processes; methods drawn from ancient traditions... Read more >

101 Theory Drive
The Discovery of Memory
Written by Terry McDermott

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38833-9 (0-307-38833-6)

A riveting narrative account of a brilliant, rebel scientist and his notorious lab as they unlock the mystery of memory.

For decades Gary Lynch sought to uncover what physically happens in the brain when we form a memory. Luckily award-winning journalist Terry McDermott was with Lynch in his lab as his staff... Read more >

The Power of Movies
How Screen and Mind Interact
Written by Colin McGinn

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7720-5 (1-4000-7720-6)

How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us to experience the thoughts and feelings of a movie’s characters? These and related questions are at the heart of The Power... Read more >