- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: December 29, 2009
- Price: $35.00
A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.
Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 27, 2008
- Price: $29.95
BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK
In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's surprising--and... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: March 28, 2006
- Price: $22.95
Look at what's happened to the usual how-are-you exchange. It used to go like this: "How are you?" "Fine." Now it often goes like this: "How are you?" "Busy." Or "Too busy." Or simply "Crazy."
Without intending for it to happen or knowing how, when, or why it got started, many people... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: January 4, 2005
- Price: $22.95
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 »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: March 9, 2010
- Price: $30.00
With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual.
DNA does not make us who we are. “Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence,” he writes. “In recent... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 18, 2010
- Price: $32.00
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- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: September 25, 2007
- Price: $29.95
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: March 23, 2010
- Price: $35.00
From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.
Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 16, 2007
- Price: $29.95
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: January 30, 2007
- Price: $29.95
In his extraordinary new audiobook, Terrence Real, distinguished therapist and bestselling author, presents a long overdue message that women need to hear: You aren’t crazy–you’re right!
Women have changed in the last twenty-five years–they have become powerful, independent, self-confident, and happy. Yet many men remain irresponsible and emotionally detached. They... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: January 27, 2009
- Price: $34.95
World renowned researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson gives you the lab-tested tools necessary to create a healthier, more
vibrant, and flourishing life through a process she calls "the upward spiral." You’ll discover:
•What positivity is, and why it needs to be heartfelt to be effective
• The ten sometimes surprising forms of positivity
• Why... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 2, 2006
- Price: $29.95
A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it.
Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 16, 2006
- Price: $28.00
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— 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 »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: June 10, 2008
- Price: $34.95
It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility that a tear in the fabric of life could open up without warning, upending a house, a skyscraper, or a civilization.
Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of... Read more »