Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
Written by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 31, 1999
Price: $15.00
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...
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Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $24.95
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas “stick.”...
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Stumbling on Happiness
Written by Daniel Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $14.95
• 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 companions insist on ordering different meals instead of getting...
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The Wise Heart
A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
Written by Jack Kornfield
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $28.00
You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In
The Wise Heart, one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offers the most accessible and illuminating guide to Buddhism’s transformational psychology ever published in...
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An Unquiet Mind
A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $13.95
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid...
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The Female Brain
Written by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $14.95
Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages.
Now...
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The Definitive Book of Body Language
Written by Barbara Pease and Allan Pease
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2006
Price: $23.00
Available for the first time in the United States, this international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give you confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter–from making a great first impression and acing a job interview to finding the right partner.
It is a scientific fact that people’s gestures give...
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $26.00
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...
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Look Me in the Eye
My Life with Asperger's
Written by John Elder Robison
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $25.95
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...
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