The Female Brain

Written by Louann Brizendine, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $15.00

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.

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The Little Book of Talent
52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
Written by Daniel Coyle

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $18.00

The Little Book of Talent is a manual for building a faster brain and a better you. It is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from... Read more >

The Wisdom of the Enneagram
The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types
Written by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 15, 1999
Price: $21.00

The first definitive guide to using the wisdom of the enneagram for spiritual and psychological growth

The ancient symbol of the Enneagram has become one of today's most popular systems for self-understanding, based on nine distinct personality types. Now, two of the world's foremost Enneagram authorities introduce a powerful new way to... Read more >

Delivered from Distraction
Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
Written by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $16.00

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 >

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

Written by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $13.99

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... Read more >

Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $13.99

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Chip Heath and Dan Heath's Switch.

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... Read more >

An Unquiet Mind
A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $11.99

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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The Happiness Trap
How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
Written by Russ Harris
Foreword by Steven Hayes

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $15.95

Are you, like milllions of Americans, caught in the happiness trap? Russ Harris explains that the way most of us go about trying to find happiness ends up making us miserable, driving the epidemics of stress, anxiety, and depression. This empowering book presents  the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and... Read more >

Girl, Interrupted

Written by Susanna Kaysen

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 19, 1994
Price: $14.95

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital.  She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell... Read more >

Hallucinations

Written by Oliver Sacks

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $26.95

Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines...

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