Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
$19.99 Add to cartIn these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it.” We assume that the quick-thinking “hare brain” will beat out the
- Author: Claxton, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 08 1999
- ISBN10: 0060955414
- Language: English
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Some Days I Make Mistakes: How to Stay Calm and Cool When Your Day Is Not So Great
$17.99 Add to cartWe all make mistakes; it’s just what we do when we’re learning and growing at home or in school. Mistakes can be big, or they can be small, but no matter the size, we can learn from them all. Join Kel… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Kellie Doyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1683735609
- Language: English
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Richard Feynman’s Mental Models: How to Think, Learn, and Problem-Solve Like a Nobel Prize-Winning Polymath
$17.99 Add to cartHow a kid with a broken radio became one of the world’s finest minds.
Richard Feynman started by fixing broken radios, and ended up being most known for helping invent the atomic bomb. He is the epitom
- Author: Hollins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 164743467X
- Language: English
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Boost Your Brain
$18.99 Add to cartBased on cutting-edge science, Boost Your Brain is internationally recognized neurologist Majid Fotuhi’s complete program for increasing brain size and enhancing brain function, including memory, crea
- Author: Fotuhi, Majid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062199293
- Language: English
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The Manipulated Mind: Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrination
$15.99 Add to cartEver since American prisoners of war in Korea suddenly switched sides to the communist cause, the concept of brainwashing has continued to fascinate and confuse. Is it really possible to force any thi
- Author: Winn, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: February 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1883536227
- Language: English
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How To Do Things You Hate: Self-Discipline to Suffer Less, Embrace the Suck, and Achieve Anything
$17.99 Add to cartDoing things you hate is a skill. And it’s a skill that is always in high demand.
Look, you can teach hard skills. You can teach a monkey to do lots of things that humans can do. But you can’t force th
- Author: Hollins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 164743517X
- Language: English
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Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence
$18.99 Add to cart“Prisoners of Hate offers a profound analysis of a most pressing human challenge: the causes–and prevention–of hatred. Of the many important books Aaron Beck has written, this may be his greatest gi
- Author: Beck, Aaron T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0060932007
- Language: English
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A Theory of Human Motivation
$5.99 Add to cartThis is the article in which Maslow first presented his hierarchy of needs. It was first printed in his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation”. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his
- Author: Maslow, Abraham H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: March 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1684113172
- Language: English
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Smart: Use Your Eyes to Boost Your Brain (Adapted from the New York Times Bestseller Visual Intelligence)
$10.99 Read moreI Spy and Where’s Waldo? get a revolutionary twist in this “fun, eye-opening” (Booklist) interactive book that teaches young readers how to fully engage their brains to think critically and creatively… [more below]
- Author: Herman, Amy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1665901225
- Language: English
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The Self-Discipline Manual: How to Achieve Every Goal You Set Using Willpower, Self-Control, and Mental Toughness
$18.99 Add to cartUse willpower to achieve the life that you want.
Most people can’t accomplish what they want. They let themselves underachieve, and don’t have the energy to do better. But you are different. You will l
- Author: Hollins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1647434246
- Language: English
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The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at E… [more below]
- Author: Westen, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2008
- ISBN10: 1586485733
- Language: English
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Sleep: The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps, and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind
$18.99 Add to cartProven solutions for a better night’s sleep, from the “sleep guru” to elite athletes–rest for success in work, sports, and life
One-third of our lives — that’s 3,000 hours a year–is spent trying t- Author: Littlehales, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 0738234621
- Language: English
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The Enigma of Reason
$22.00 Add to cart“Brilliant…Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times
“Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly- Author: Mercier, Hugo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 067423782X
- Language: English
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
$37.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.
Did you know you can- Author: Ratey, John J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0316113506
- Language: English
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Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge
$15.95 Add to cartContinuing the journey begun in his acclaimed book The Cosmic Serpent, the noted anthropologist ventures firsthand into both traditional cultures and the most up-todate discoveries of contemporary sci… [more below]
- Author: Narby, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1585424617
- Language: English
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
$19.00 Add to cartA journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today–guided by the owner himself.
Bestselling author Daniel Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) is virtually unique among people who have severe autis- Author: Tammet, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 16 2007
- ISBN10: 1416549013
- Language: English
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Learn Like Einstein (2nd Ed.): How to Train Your Brain, Develop Expertise, Learn More in Less Time, and Become a Human Sponge
$18.99 Add to cartWish you could learn and memorize more in less time? Stay focused, quit being frustrated, and absorb info like a human sponge?
If you’re looking to (1) accelerate your learning abilities, (2) improve y
- Author: Hollins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1647434637
- Language: English
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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
$23.99 Add to cartWhy is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wea… [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393340007
- Language: English
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Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
$24.99 Add to cartWho are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for group differences in test scores? From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding genet
- Author: Nisbett, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393337693
- Language: English
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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
$26.95 Add to cartAre art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give
- Author: Kandel, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0231179634
- Language: English
