Radical Acceptance
Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Written by Tara Brach
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $16.00
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this...
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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: $15.95
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR
In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.
Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine...
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Confessions of a Sociopath
A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Written by M.E. Thomas
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $12.99
As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, we are your neighbors, co-workers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb...
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $15.99
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of
The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them...
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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: $26.00
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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The Sociopath Next Door
Written by Martha Stout, Ph.D.
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $12.99
Who is the devil
you know?
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?
In the pages of
The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was...
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The Highly Sensitive Person
Written by Elaine Aron
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 2, 1997
Price: $15.00
Are you a highly sensitive person?
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive...
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Quiet
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Written by Susan Cain
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $26.00
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we...
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The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $11.99
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...
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Mindsight
The New Science of Personal Transformation
Written by Daniel J. Siegel
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $16.00
Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of
Emotional IntelligenceThis groundbreaking book, from one of the global innovators in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. From anxiety to depression and...
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