Brainquery: Answers to the Most (And Least) Pressing Questions About Your Mind by Art Markman; Bob Duke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Why do we love kitten videos so much? Does time speed up as we get older? Should we play brain games? Can we make ourselves happy? Art Markman and Bob Duke, hosts of the popular Austin-based KUT radio show and podcast Two Guys on Your Head, are here to answer all your questions about how the brain works ...Show more
The Changing Mind - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
What if the best was yet to come? Recent studies show that our happiness levels peak at age 82, and that our decision-making skills improve as we age. As more of us live past the age of 80, in this ground-breaking book, Dr Daniel Levitin uses cutting-edge research from neuroscience and psychology to dem ...Show more
Just One More Question: Stories from a Life in Neurology by Niall Tubridy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
An eye-opening, gripping and moving account of dealing with some of medicine's most complicated challenges. As a trainee doctor, fascinated by the ways the brain and nervous system signal problems with the body's wiring, Niall Tubridy fell in love with neurology. This was high stakes detective work whe ...Show more
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language by Albert Costa; John W. Schwieter (Translator)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
The definitive book on bilingualism and its impact on the brain from a leading expert. What exactly does it mean for two languages to coexist in the same brain? How do babies exposed to different languages differentiate between them? And how does cognitive decline affect the two languages? Bilingua ...Show more
Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong .. by Bobby Duffy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Why We'Re Wrong about Nearly Everything
Do you eat too much sugar? Is violence in the world increasing or decreasing? What proportion of your country are Muslim? What does it cost to raise a child? How much do we need to save for retirement? How much tax do the rich pay? When we estimate the answers to these fundamental questions that directl ...Show more
Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really Is - and What It Isn't by Lucy Foulkes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Losing Our Minds provides an accessible distillation and empowering guide to the latest science of mental illness, overturning the notion that we are experiencing an 'epidemic' of mental illness, especially among young people. Much progress has been made in recent years to promote awareness and openness ...Show more
Bedside Book of Psychology by W. Pickren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Bedside Bks.
A fascinating exploration into the 125 most important milestones in psychology, all in one handy book perfect for keeping on your bedside table or carrying wherever you go. Now is the perfect time to expand your knowledge and learn something new or delve deeper into a topic you've always been intere ...Show more
How to Have a Beautiful Mind - (Vermilion Life Essentials) by Edward De Bono
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
People spend a fortune on their bodies, their faces, their hair, their clothes. Cosmetics, plastic surgery, diets, gym membership - everyone's trying to be more attractive. But there's an easier way to become a beautiful person. It doesn't have to be physical. No matter how you look, if you have a mind ...Show more
The Drugs That Changed Our Minds: The history of psychiatry in ten treatments by Lauren Slater
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. With the rise of psychopharmacology, an ever-increasing number of people throughout the globe are taking a psychotropic drug, yet nearly seventy years after doctors first began pr ...Show more
In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
In this timely and essential audiobook that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks. We are all worried about wasting t ...Show more
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's by Joseph Jebelli
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases--Alzheimer's--from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE ...Show more
1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think by Robert Arp
$39.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
An elegant addition to the successful "1001" series--a comprehensive, chronological guide to the most important thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3,000 years. 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest mind ...Show more