The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Basic Books $16.95
In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world’s philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger-can enrich and even transform our lives.
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness by Hill and Wang $15.00
Alva Noë is one of a new breed—part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: do away with the two-hundred-year-old...
Man's Search for Himself by W. W. Norton & Company $16.95
"Analyzes life as we are living it, and the analysis is truthful and profound."--New York TimesLoneliness, boredom, emptiness: These are the complaints that Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the ...
The Myth of Self-esteem: How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever by Prometheus Books $21.98
What exactly is self-esteem? Most people, as well as many psychologists and educators, believe we need it, that it's good for our emotional well-being, and that it makes us more successful. World-renowned psychologist Albert Ellis says no, it's all a myth. According to Ellis, self-esteem is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to humans. Self-esteem results in each of us praising...
History Of Psychology: Ideas And Context- (Value Pack w/MySearchLab) (4th Edition) by Prentice Hall $117.33
MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research...
Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community by Oxford University Press, USA $29.95
Relational Being first builds on the broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Speaking to scholars and social practitioners, the work sets out to develop and illustrate a far more radical and potentially exciting landscape of relational thought and practice. It carves out a space of...
Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research (S U N Y Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) by State Univ of New York Pr $60.50
Summarizes Grof's experiences and observations from more than forty years of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness.
The Twelve Universal Laws of Success by Lifeskills Inst Inc $12.95
The Twelve Universal Laws of Success is a well organized treatment of the basic principles of personal success. The author has organized the broad spectrum of self-help approaches into twelve universal laws. These laws are presented showing their biblical foundations, often with metaphysical interpretations. Some of these laws are: the Law of Thought - "For as (they) thinketh in (their) ...
Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain by The MIT Press $87.50
Honorable Mention in the category of Psychology in the 1986 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Five chapters in the book's first part, "Some Elementary Neuroscience," sketch the history of the science of nervous systems and provide a general introduction to neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropsychology. In...
Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis by Routledge $90.00
This is the first book of its kind to offer a sustained critique of contemporary psychoanalytic thought favoring relational, postmodern, and intersubjective perspectives, which largely define American psychoanalysis today. Conundrums turns an eye toward the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary theory; its theoretical relation to traditional psychoanalytic thought; clinical implications...