Incognito
The Secret Lives of the Brain
Written by David Eagleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $15.95
If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate its surprising mysteries. Why can your foot move halfway to the...
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $30.00
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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Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $26.00
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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Subliminal
How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Written by Leonard Mlodinow
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
Over the past two decades of neurological research, it has become increasingly clear that the way we experience the world--our perception, behavior, memory, and social judgment--is largely driven by the mind's subliminal processes and not by the conscious ones, as we have long believed. As in the bestselling The Drunkard’s Walk...
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The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—challenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on his twenty five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, he shows how moral...
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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 Talent Code
Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Written by Daniel Coyle
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $25.00
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.
Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play...
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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Written by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $27.00
I know my own mind.
I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity...
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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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