Stumbling on Happiness

Written by Daniel Gilbert

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7742-7 (1-4000-7742-7)

Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2007

• Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?

• Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight?

• Why do dining... Read more >

Asylums
Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
Written by Erving Goffman

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 18, 1961
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-00016-1 (0-385-00016-2)

Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"-closed worlds such as prisons, army camps, and nursing homes-where inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. Special attention is given to mental hospitals, drawing on years of field work by the author and focusing on the... Read more >

Interaction Ritual

Written by Erving Goffman

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 12, 1982
Price: $10.40
ISBN: 978-0-394-70631-3 (0-394-70631-5)

Goffman's collection of essays on face-to-face behavior is an examination of people in risky occupations and situations: gamblers, criminals, coal miners, stock speculators; Goffman astounds us with the unexpected richness and complexity of brief encounters between people. These exreme cases are of interest because of the light they shed on the... Read more >

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Written by Erving Goffman

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 20, 1959
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-09402-3 (0-385-09402-7)

"One of the most trenchant contributions to social psychology in this generation" —American Journal of Sociology

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor... Read more >

Working with Emotional Intelligence

Written by Daniel Goleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37858-0 (0-553-37858-9)

“We are being judged by a new yardstick: not just how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.”—Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, draws on his in-depth research and unparalleled access to business leaders around the world... Read more >

G. R. S. Mead and the Gnostic Quest

Edited by Clare Goodrick-Clarke
Introduction by Clare Goodrick-Clarke

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: August 10, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-572-0 (1-55643-572-X)

George Robert Stowe Mead (1863-1933) was a major translator, editor, and commentator on Gnostic and hermetic literature and thus a pivotal figure linking the late 19th-century esoteric revival to 20th-century art, literature, and psychology. As a young convert to the new movement of theosophy, he served as private secretary to its... Read more >

The Relationship Cure
A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships
Written by John Gottman, Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: June 25, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-609-80953-2 (0-609-80953-9)

A groundbreaking, practical program for transforming troubled relationships into positive ones

“This is the best book on relationships I have ever read. . . . John Gottman has decoded the subtle secrets that can either enrich or destroy the quality of our ties with others.” Daniel B. Wile, Ph.D., author of After... Read more >

Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage
America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
Written by John Gottman, Ph.D., Julie Schwartz Gottman and Joan DeClaire

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5019-2 (1-4000-5019-7)

In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percent accuracy—whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing... 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 >

Hurry Down Sunshine
A Father's Story of Love and Madness
Written by Michael Greenberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47354-7 (0-307-47354-6)

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Hurry Down Sunshine is an extraordinary family story and a memoir of exceptional power. In it, Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack-up on the... Read more >

Living When a Loved One Has Died
Revised Edition
Written by Earl A. Grollman

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 1995
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-2719-6 (0-8070-2719-7)

When someone you love dies, Earl Grollman writes, “there is no way to predict how you will feel. The reactions of grief are not like recipes, with given ingredients, and certain results. . . . Grief is universal. At the same time it is extremely personal. Heal in your own way.”

If... Read more >

Talking about Death
A Dialogue between Parent and Child
Written by Earl A. Grollman

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-2361-7 (0-8070-2361-2)

Why do people die? How do you explain the loss of a loved one to a child? This book is a compassionate guide for adults and children to read together, featuring a read-along story and answers to questions children ask about death.

Talking about Death is a classic guide for parents helping... Read more >

Children Who See Too Much
Lessons from the Child Witness to Violence Project
Written by Betsy Mcalister Groves

Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 20, 2003
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-3139-1 (0-8070-3139-9)

For the last ten years Betsy Groves has been working with children traumatized by witnessing violence. In this book she shows how children understand, respond to, and are affected by violence, especially domestic violence. Groves makes the powerful case that traumatic events carried out by family members carry the most severe... Read more >

The Invisible Presence
How a Man's Relationship with His Mother Affects All His Relationships with Women
Written by Michael Gurian

Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-807-3 (1-59030-807-7)

“Enlivened by examples and easy to read, this book makes a contribution to the literature on male personal development.”–Library Journal

“A caring and compassionate journey. Michael Gurian teaches us to separate the threads of our mothers’ influence in our lives–the parts we love, as well as the parts we hate–and to... 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 >

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

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-37790-6 (0-307-37790-3)

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.

His... 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 >

The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy
Written by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-44233-8 (0-345-44233-4)

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has researched and studied for years what exactly makes children feel good about themselves and the world they live in. Now, in this new book, Dr. Hallowell shares his findings and also proposes a new approach to interacting with, as... Read more >

Delivered from Distraction
Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
Written by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-44231-4 (0-345-44231-8)

In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has sold more than a million copies. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the news is great. Drug therapies... Read more >

Driven to Distraction (Revised)
Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Written by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74315-2 (0-307-74315-2)

Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers.

Through vivid stories and case histories of patients—both adults and... Read more >

Worry

Written by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 14, 1998
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-42458-7 (0-345-42458-1)

Here is the first book to explore every facet of the most common and debilitating emotional state: worry. While a healthy level of worry can help us perform efficiently at work, anticipate dangers, and learn from past errors, in its extreme forms worry can become "toxic"--poisoning our pleasures, sabotaging our achievements... Read more >

Living with Our Genes
The Groundbreaking Book About the Science of Personality, Behavior, and Genetic Destiny
Written by Dean H. Hamer and Peter Copeland

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 16, 1999
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48584-5 (0-385-48584-0)

Nowhere is the nature-nurture controversy being more arduously tested than in the labs of world-rennowned molecular scientist Dean Hamer, whose cutting-edge research has indisputably linked specific genes to behaviorial traits, such as anxiety, thrill-seeking, and homosexuality.

The culmination of that research is the provacative book, Living with Our Genes.  In it, Dr. Hamer... Read more >

Decisive
How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95639-2 (0-307-95639-3)

Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. When it comes to making choices, it seems, our brains are flawed instruments. The real question is: How can we... Read more >