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

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
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 >

A Tribe Apart
A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
Written by Patricia Hersch

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 3, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43594-1 (0-345-43594-X)

Author Patricia Hersch journeyed deep inside the hearts, minds, and lives of eight “average” teenagers from the suburban community of Reston, Virginia. Hersch spent three years immersed in the teenage subculture to show us how American youth have fashioned a culture of their own, a culture of unequaled freedom and baffling... Read more >

For Mothers of Difficult Daughters
How to Enrich and Repair the Relationship in Adulthood
Written by Charney Herst

Format: Trade Paperback, 324 pages
Publisher: Villard
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75318-3 (0-375-75318-4)

The first mother-daughter book for mothers, featuring a new Afterword and a Reading Group Discussion Guide

¸         Do you long for a better relationship with your daughter?
¸         Do you occasionally feel as though you have failed as a mother?
¸         Do you blame yourself because your relationship with your daughter... Read more >

The Force of Character
And the Lasting Life
Written by James Hillman

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42405-1 (0-345-42405-0)

From the bestselling author of The Soul’s Code comes a revolutionary vision of aging. Hillman recasts life’s later years as a time with an important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character. Drawing on his grounding in Jungian psychology, Hillman explains here the archetypes and myths that govern the self’s... 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 Story of Psychology

Written by Morton Hunt

Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27807-4 (0-307-27807-7)

Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt... Read more >

Abused Boys
The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse
Written by Mic Hunter

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 25, 1991
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-90629-3 (0-449-90629-9)

After defining exactly what sexual abuse is, Hunter examines the physical and emotional impact of abuse on its victims and the factors affecting adult recovery. Abused Boys includes the stories of adult men and their loved ones, who describe the experience of childhood abuse, the after-effects that last well into adulthood... Read more >

Mom Still Likes You Best
Overcoming the Past and Reconnecting With Your Siblings
Written by Jane Isay

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2864-9 (0-7679-2864-4)

A must-read for anyone blessed with or burdened by a sibling, Mom Still Likes You Best explores the sometimes heartbreaking but always meaningful ties between brothers and sisters.

There’s a myth that good sibling relations do not include conflict, annoyance, resentment, or mixed feelings. Jane Isay argues that this is a destructive... Read more >

Exuberance
The Passion for Life
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70148-1 (0-375-70148-6)

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With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking... Read more >

An Unquiet Mind
A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76330-7 (0-679-76330-9)

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison--clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an international authority of manic-depressive illness--offers a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Dr. Jamison suffered her first attack of... Read more >

In the Palaces of Memory
How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads
Written by George Johnson

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 3, 1992
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73759-9 (0-679-73759-6)

“In the Palaces of Memory is a sosphisticated, comprehenseive and fascinating analysis of the science of memory. Johnson has achieved a rare blend of scientific and literary sophistication. Faithful to its complexities and controversies, the book is a fully dimensional portrait, a hologram, of the field.” —Richar Mark, Friedhoff, USA Today

“As... Read more >

Man and His Symbols

Written by Carl Gustav Jung

Format: Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: August 15, 1968
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-440-35183-2 (0-440-35183-9)

Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this first and only work is still widely used as a point of entry to Jung's ideas. The world-famous Swiss psychologist explains to the layperson his enormously influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Approaching the Unconscious (Carl G. Jung) • 2. Ancient... Read more >

The Age of Insight
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Written by Eric Kandel

Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6871-5 (1-4000-6871-1)

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to... Read more >

Awakening Somatic Intelligence
The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness
Written by Risa F. Kaparo, Ph.D.
Foreword by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and James Oschman, Ph.D

Format: Trade Paperback, 408 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-417-2 (1-58394-417-6)

Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness offers a guide to Somatic Learning, an innovative body-oriented approach that incorporates mindfulness, visualization, breathing exercises, postures, and stretches. Developed by author, psychotherapist, and award-winning songwriter and poet Risa Kaparo, PhD, Somatic Learning is based on leading-edge research demonstrating the power... Read more >

The Forgiving Self
The Road from Resentment to Connection
Written by Robert Karen, Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48874-7 (0-385-48874-2)

Why do we harden our hearts, even against those we want to love? Why do we find it so hard to admit being wrong? Why are the worst grudges the ones we hold against ourselves? Using movies, people in the news, and sessions from his practice, psychologist and award- winning author... Read more >

Under Deadman's Skin
Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play
Written by Jane Katch

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 18, 2002
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-3129-2 (0-8070-3129-1)

The five-and six-year-olds in my class have invented a new game they call suicide. I have never seen a game I hate so much in which all the children involved are so happy.

So begins Under Deadman’s Skin, a deceptively simple-and compellingly readable-teachers’ tale. Jane Katch, in the tradition of Vivian Paley... Read more >

Fire in the Belly
On Being a Man
Written by Sam Keen

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: March 1, 1992
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-35137-8 (0-553-35137-0)

Fire in the Belly is the seminal study of masculinity that, since its publication in 1991, has become a classic of the Men’s Movement. Keen begins by exploring WOMAN: the “larger-than-life,” “shadowy” psychological construct that influences men’s lives, distinct from real flesh-and-blood women. Proposing that men cannot find themselves without first... Read more >

Savage Spawn
Reflections on Violent Children
Written by Jonathan Kellerman

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 18, 1999
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42939-1 (0-345-42939-7)

In this powerful and disturbing book, a bestselling author and noted child psychologist shines a penetrating light on antisocial youth - kids who kill without remorse - asserting that "psychopathic tendencies begin very early in life, as young as three, and they endure." He examines the origins of psychopathy and the... Read more >

Beyond the Influence
Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism
Written by Katherine Ketcham, William F. Asbury, Mel Schulstad and Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38014-9 (0-553-38014-1)

Although alcoholism has been recognized by scientists as a disease rather than a character flaw, proper treatment for this condition is still unavailable to millions. Beyond the Influence offers solutions. This invaluable sourcebook, compiled by top experts in the field of alcohol dependency, clarifies the neurological nature of the disease and... Read more >

Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Written by Tracy Kidder

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7301-3 (0-8129-7301-1)

ALA Notable Book
A New York Times Notable book

This paperback edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

Selected for Common Reading:

Colleges & Universities
Adirondack Comm. Coll., Auburn Univ., Augustana Coll., Austin Coll., Barton Coll., Bernard M. Baruch Coll., CUNY, Berry Coll., Boise State Univ., Boston Coll., Bowdoin Coll., Brandeis Univ., Butler Univ., Bunker Hill... Read more >

The Emotional Energy Factor
The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue
Written by Mira Kirshenbaum

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-440-50925-7 (0-440-50925-4)

Drawing on nearly three decades of professional experience as a psychotherapist and researcher, Mira Kirshenbaum has developed a bold new program to help raise one's inner energy quotient and keep it high for life. The results are astounding: an aliveness of mind, happiness of heart, and a spirit filled with hope--the... Read more >

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him
The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
Written by Sheldon Kopp

Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-27832-3 (0-553-27832-0)

Using the myths of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, and the Wife of Bath, and drawing from the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, and Jung, noted psychotherapist Sheldon B. Kopp explores how one’s individual identity builds on the legends and rituals of one’s culture, compounded with the epic of one’s own personal history. Includes... Read more >

The Shame of the Nation
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5245-5 (1-4000-5245-9)

"The Shame of the Nation is a national wake-up call... It should be required reading."--Marian Wright Edelman, CEO and Founder, Children's Defense Fund

Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in... Read more >

Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
Written by Jon Krakauer

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: July 15, 2003
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-50951-0 (0-385-50951-0)

**ALA Notable Book, 2003

Krakauer’s previous books have given insight into lives conducted at the outer limits. In Under the Banner of Heaven, he shifts his focus from the extremes of physical adventure to the extremes of religious fundamentalism within American culture.

At the core of Under the Banner of Heaven is a... Read more >

It's Always Personal
Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace
Written by Anne Kreamer

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7993-0 (0-8129-7993-1)

With women now the majority of the workforce and the lines between office and personal life blurring as never before, the dynamics of work have shifted profoundly. Written by journalist and former corporate executive Anne Kreamer, It's Always Personal combines the latest information on the intricacies of the human brain, candid... Read more >