The Sweet Spot: Suffering, Pleasure and the Key to a Good Life by Paul Bloom
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
A provocative and counter-intuitive look at human behaviour from world-leading psychologist and author of the influential Against EmpathyWhy do we seek out painful experiences? From horror movies and roller-coaster rides to marathon running, from S&M to religious violence and - most painful of all - ...Show more
Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick by Wendy Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
This program is read by the author.A landmark audiobook about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive change.We spend a shocking 43 percent of our day doing things without thinking about them. That means that almost half of our actions aren't conscious choices but the ...Show more
30 Days 30 Ways To Overcome Depression by Bev Aisbett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
From bestselling author Bev Aisbett comes a proven, practical and simple workbook to help people manage their depression, with a month's worth of daily strategies and exercises for work and for home. When you're suffering from depression, sometimes it's as much as you can do to get out of bed, let ...Show more
The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World by Lynda Gratton; Andrew Scott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A practical guide to how we can flourish as longevity and technology change our world, from the internationally bestselling authors of The 100-Year Life Smart new technologies. Longer, healthier lives. Human progress has risen to great heights, but at the same time it has prompted anxiety about where w ...Show more
Win Fast by Siimon Reynolds
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Australian
Win Fast is both the success book for our times, and for those who have no time. We are all crazily busy. Yet many of us know that we still need to take the time to learn how to get better. Better at productivity. Better at achievement. Better at running our minds and bodies in the optimum way to enhanc ...Show more
The Guilty Feminist: From our noble goals to our worst hypocrisies by Deborah Frances-White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap, but I also wanted to look good sitting down naked. A funny, joyful, frank and inspiring book about embracing both feminism and our imperfectio ...Show more
Not That Kind of Girl - A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned by Lena Dunham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Lena Dunham, acclaimed writer-director-star of HBO and Sky Atlantic's 'Girls' and the award-winning movie 'Tiny Furniture', displays her unique powers of observation, wisdom and humour in this exceptional collection of essays. "If I could take what I've learned and make one menial job easier for you, or ...Show more
The Motivation Hoax: A Smart Person's Guide to Inspirational Nonsense by James Adonis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Everywhere you look there's a motivational quote to greet you. Pursue your passion Nothing is impossible Happiness is a journey, not a destination But what if there is actually scant evidence to back up these shimmering proclamations? What if positive thinking does not, in fact, lead to positive ...Show more
Into the Abyss - A Neuropsychiatrist's Notes on Troubled Minds by Anthony David
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, three specialists might offer you three completely different treatments.As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Professor Anthony David brings together many fields of study, from so ...Show more
Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death by Richard Holloway
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us? Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths. ...Show more
A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied, and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more p ...Show more