Stumbling on Happiness

Written by Daniel Gilbert

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $15.95

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 >

Musicophilia

Written by Oliver Sacks

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95

Revised and Expanded

With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.”... Read more >

Nothing Was the Same

Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $25.00

From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer... Read more >

Conquering Fear

Written by Harold S. Kushner

Format: eBook, 182 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $23.95

From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.

An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises: fear of unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty; fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster... Read more >

The Burn Journals

Written by Brent Runyon

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $13.95

BRENT RUNYON WAS 14 years old when he set himself on fire.

This is a true story.

In The Burn Journals, Runyon describes that devastating suicide attempt and his recovery over the following year. He takes us into the Burn Unit in a children’s hospital and through painful burn care and skin-grafting... 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: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $14.00

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 >

Between Two Worlds
The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce
Written by Elizabeth Marquardt

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $13.95

A compelling new study reveals the true effects of divorce

An astonishing one quarter of adults between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five have grown up in divorced families. Now, as this generation comes of age, Between Two Worlds will speak to them like no other book.

Elizabeth Marquardt (together with sociologist Norval... Read more >

Being Generous
The Art of Right Living
Written by Lucinda Vardey and John Dalla Costa

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2009
Price: $

This extraordinary little book has the power to heal and foster relationships, console and empower individuals, create community and help save the world by providing a spiritual ecology for our daily lives.

Think that’s a bold claim? It is, but it’s also true. We can all be generous with our money when... Read more >

101 Theory Drive
A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory
Written by Terry McDermott

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $24.95

An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience–the physical makeup of memory–and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug.

It’s not fiction: Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist–malnourished, contentious, inspiring, explosive, remarkably ambitious... Read more >

Look Me in the Eye
My Life with Asperger's
Written by John Elder Robison

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $14.95

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 >