Zero Negativity: The Power of Positive Thinking by Ant Middleton
$28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
PRE-ORDER NOW There are times when life feels like it has you cornered: financial difficulties, relationship issues, work problems, all of the above. Every one of us, at one time or another, will have to face up to the challenges that come our way. And there are two ways of meeting them: negatively, whe ...Show more
Subtract - The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz
$48.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
Blending evidence across science and design, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers a revolution in problem-solving: proving why we overlook subtraction, and how we can access its true potential We pile on to-dos" but don't consider "stop-doings." We create incentives for good behavior, but don' ...Show more
Love Is the Strongest Medicine by Steven Eisenberg
$32.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
A blueprint for overcoming challenges and celebrating each day with hope, acceptance and self-compassion from an inspirational and musical oncologist on the front lines of cancer treatment. 'Steven Eisenberg is a doctor who understands that health is just as much spiritual as physical. This book puts m ...Show more
Why First-borns Rule the World and Later-borns Want to Change It: Revised and updated by Michael Grose
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
There are many factors affecting a child's personality and the adult they become, but the least understood is birth order. Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar parenting styles yet have fundamentally different perso ...Show more
Heavy Light - A Journey Through Mania, Madness and Healing by Horatio Clare
$40.00 NZD
Category: Wellbeing & Inspiration
A 'Book to look out for in 2021' in the ObserverHeavy Light is the story of a breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing.After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of ...Show more
We All Know How this Ends by Anna Lyons; Louise Winter
$35.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
Life. Death. Whatever. is a new approach to death and dying, showing how exploring our mortality really can change our lives.End-of-life doula Anna Lyons and funeral director Louise Winter have joined forces to share a collection of the heartbreaking, surprising and uplifting stories of the ordinary and ...Show more
Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life Is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals by Ginny Smith
$33.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
From adrenaline to dopamine, most of us are familiar with the chemicals that control us. They are the hormones and neurotransmitters that our brains run on, and Overloaded looks at the role they play in every aspect of our lives, from what we remember, how we make decisions and who we love to basic surv ...Show more
Everything is Obvious: Why Common Sense is Nonsense by Duncan J. Watts
$30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
Sociologist Duncan Watts explains in this provocative book that the explanations that we give for the outcomes that we observe in life - explanations that seem obvious once we know the answer - are less useful than they seem. Watts shows how commonsense reasoning and history conspire to mislead us into ...Show more
Dark Side of the Brain: Adapting to Adversity [reprint] by Lance Burdett
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
‘Anxiety, depression and suicide affect all families. They’re in my family, they’re in my friends’ families, they’re probably in your family. And, right now, you are thinking about someone you know who is going through or has gone through one of those three things.’ Lance Burdett started writing this bo ...Show more
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires - The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford
$44.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'My New Year's Eve Toast- to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle may they never give me peace' PATRICIA HIGHSMITH (New Year's Eve, 1947) Made famous by the great success of her psychologic ...Show more
Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together by Ian Leslie
$33.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
Bringing valuable lessons from the cutting edge of communication science, Conflicted does for our verbal communication what Thinking Fast and Slow did for our inner decision-making. 'Invaluable. The world will be a better place if everyone reads this book, and because it's so entertaining they probably ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
$29.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea ...Show more