Psychology / Cognitive Psychology

Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

von Alexandra Horowitz

The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think, now in paperback.

The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily...

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

von David Brooks

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing...

Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being

von Martin Seligman

“This book will help you flourish.”

With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic...

Overcoming Relationship Problems

von Michael Crowe

Internationally respected marital therapist Dr Michael Crowe has used his tried-and-tested clinical techniques to develop this new self-help guide dealing with common difficulties in close relationships. From...

Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done

von Art Markman

When you understand how the mind works, you can think smarter—and act smarter.

Based on the precepts of cognitive science and drawing on a half century of interdisciplinary studies, Smart Thinking is the first...

Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior

von Donald Calne

It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human...

Stages of Higher Knowledge

von Rudolph Steiner

Originally published in 1930, this is the authorized new translation from the original German formerly translated by the title "Gates of Knowledge". Beginning with the stages of material cognition, then moving...

Albert Ellis: Evolution of a Revolution: Selections from the Writings of Albert Ellis, Ph.D.

von James McMahon

Albert Ellis was an icon of 20th century psychology and a founder of the cognitive behavioral movement. In this book, a collection of 22 chapters, the editors trace the evolution of Ellis' philosophy and methodology...

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

von Brian Christian

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which...

The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and

von Richard Nisbett

Everyone knows that while different cultures may think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. Everyone knows that whatever the skin color, nationality, or religion,...

Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality

von Dean Radin

IS EVERYTHING CONNECTED?

Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information...

Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To

von Sian Beilock

Why do the smartest students often do poorly on standardized tests?

Why did you tank that interview or miss that golf swing when you should have had it in the bag?

Why do you mess up when it matters the most—and...

The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World

von Charles Yang

A child's very first word is a miraculous sound, the opening note in a lifelong symphony. Most parents never forget the moment. But that first word is soon followed by a second and a third, and by the age of...

Epiphanies: Where Science and Miracles Meet

von Ann Jauregui & Huston Smith

In a quiet moment of therapy, a breakthrough comes -- the miracle of the new.

To experience an epiphany is to have sudden insight into the essential meaning of something, unleashed sometimes in exquisitely...

The Triangle Conspiracy

von David Kent

Faith Kelly has what it takes to extort what she needs from the country's Most Wanted. But when her new case takes its toll in intimate ways, it becomes the most dangerous one of her career.

It's case officer...

Come to Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-Body Connection

von Carolyn Bryant Block, Stanley Block & Joko Beck

In this newly revised edition of the award-winning Come to Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-Body Connection, Dr. Stanley Block offers his Ten-Day Plan to optimize your life -- a breakthrough program that has...

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

von Martin Seligman

Over a decade ago, Martin Seligman charted a new approach to living with "flexible optimism." Now, in his most stimulating and persuasive book to date, the bestselling author of Learned Optimism introduces the...

Why Empathy Matters

von J. D. Trout

A road map to empathic and efficient decisions and policies, constructed from new insights in the science of human judgment

Faced with another's suffering, human beings feel sympathy and may even be moved...

The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context

von Timothy Ferris

His style as playful as ever, Timothy Ferris explores inner as well as outer space in these essays on the human mind, the search for extraterrestrial (and thus nonhuman) intelligence, and their intersection....

Cognitive Vulnerability and Stress in Children and Adolescents

von Randy P Auerbach & Benjamin L. Hankin

Presenting cutting-edge research conducted with children, adolescents, and their caregivers, this e-book examines cognitive factors in the development of psychopathology. Investigators at the forefront of the...