This new, groundbreaking book is written for women of all ages (including teens), stages and backgrounds who put everything and everybody before themselves and end up feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, depleted, and deprived. Not your run-...
Psychology
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Author:Shaevitz, Marjorie Hansen, Shaevitz, Morton H.Summary: - Author:Gladding, Samuel T.Summary:
This latest edition of The Creative Arts in Counseling is a powerful, evidence-based examination of how creative expression can be used in counseling with clients of various ages and backgrounds. It explores the clinical application of...
- Author:Jay, MegSummary:
Meg Jay weaves the latest science of the 20-something years with behind-closed-doors stories from 20-somethings themselves. The result is a book that provides the tools necessary to make the most of your 20s, and shows us how work,...
- Author:Becker, ErnestSummary:
Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize and the culmination of a life's work, this is Ernest Becker's answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the...
- Author:Maxwell, John C.Summary:
What can make the difference in your life today? How can two people with the same skills and abilities, in the same situation, end up with two totally different outcomes? Leadership expert John C. Maxwell says the difference maker is...
- Author:Rosen, Larry D.Summary:
In The Distracted Mind leading psychologist Larry Rosen, and pioneering neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, explain why our minds have become addicted to email, text messages, virtual worlds and social media such as Facebook and Twitter....
- Author:Simler, KevinSummary:
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-...
- Author:Fowler, MarianSummary:
In this widely acclaimed study, Marian Fowler explores how the experience of wilderness and frontier create a psychic tension between the gentility of old-world "embroidery" and the rugged masculinity of "tent"-dwelling in the...
- Author:Croitoru, TalSummary:
EMDR is the fastest and most efficient evidence-based therapy available today. It has resulted in 80-90 percent recovery from PTSD in five to twelve hours and was found to be much faster than cognitive behavior therapy. EMDR is the...
- Author:Paul, Annie MurphySummary:
Use your head. That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backwards. What we need to do, says acclaimed science writer Annie...
- Author:Jones, ChrisSummary:
In a world increasingly ruled by numbers and algorithms, award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes a compelling case for a more personal approach to analytical thinking?. The Eye Test is a necessary course correction, a call for a more...
- Author:Watkins, MichaelSummary:
If you've just begun a new career in management, or if you'd like a new, refreshing approach to your job, Watkins gives practical advice for anyone looking to climb the business ladder. Through Watkins' four-fold study of the problems...
- Author:Bulitt, Julie, Bulitt, DavidSummary:
Married for more than thirty years, David, a divorce lawyer, and Julie, a family therapist, have both been witness to families struggling with life's most difficult challenges. At the same time, they have weathered their own challenges...
- Author:Simonton, Dean KeithSummary:
What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.
What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership in Mensa. Suffering... - Author:Doherty, SusanSummary:
A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see: the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned. Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book...
- Author:Waldinger, RobertSummary:
A New York Times bestseller. What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their "captivating" (The Wall Street Journal) book, the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific...
- Author:Cahalan, SusannahSummary:
In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan's...
- Author:James, John W.Summary:
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on your capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own stories, as well as from others, the authors illustrate what grief is and how it is possible to recover and regain...
- Author:Rubin, GretchenSummary:
On the outside, Gretchen Rubin had it all--a good marriage, healthy children and a successful career--but something was missing. Determined to end that nagging feeling, she set out on a year-long quest to learn how to better enjoy the...
- Author:Wright, CraigSummary:
"An unusually engaging book on the forces that fuel originality across fields." -Adam Grant Looking at the 14 key traits of genius, from curiosity to creative maladjustment to obsession, Professor Craig Wright, creator of Yale...
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