Heartbreak by The School The School of Life
27.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement | Series: The\School of Life Love Ser.
Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through certain i ...Show more
Stop Reading the News - A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life by Rolf Dobelli
29.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology: | Reading Level: near fine
News is to the mind as sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a room full of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practices what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop ...Show more
Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why Play Really Matters by Michael Rosen; Francesca Barrie (Editor); Charlotte Trounce (Illustrator); Kirty Topiwala (Editor)
32.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology: | Series: Wellcome Collection | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
Today, we don't get nearly enough play in our lives. At school, kids are drilled on exams, while at home we're all glued to our phones and screens. Former children's laureate and bestselling author, Michael Rosen, is here to show us how to put this right - and why it matters so much for creativity, resi ...Show more
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
24.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
Empathy holds us together. That we are hardwired to be altruistic is the result of thousands of years of evolutionary biology which has kept society from slipping into anarchy. But we are not alone: primates, elephants, even rodents are empathetic creatures too.Social behaviours such as the herding inst ...Show more
What's Your Type? - The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
24.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'History that reads like biography that reads like a novel - a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type' New York Timesn'Brilliant and savage' Philip Hensher. An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her ...Show more
Whiteshift - Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
Across the West, anti-immigration populists are tearing a path through the usual politics of left and right. Immigration is remaking Europe and North America- over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the majority ...Show more
Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood) by Thomas Erikson
29.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner get your back up?You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, ...Show more
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Wellbeing by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level, now published in more than twenty languages, has been one of the most influential non-fiction books published in the last decade, showing conclusively how less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across a whole range of social measures - ...Show more
The Art of Gathering : How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
We spend our lives gathering - first in classrooms and then in meetings, weddings, conferences and away days. Yet so many of us spend this time in underwhelming moments that fail to engage us, inspire us, or connect us. We've all sat in meetings where people talk past each other or go through the motion ...Show more
The Happiness Plan by Elise Bialylew
21.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement | Reading Level: near fine
What if you could train your brain to experience greater happiness, focus, and emotional balance in daily life? What if it took just ten minutes a day? In THE HAPPINESS PLAN, Dr Elise Bialylew offers a roadmap to a happier life. Drawing on her background in medicine, psychiatry and mindfulness meditati ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
34.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology: | Reading Level: very good
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admire ...Show more
The Art of Logic - How to Make Sense in a World That Doesn't by Eugenia Cheng
24.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology: | Reading Level: near fine
For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society Science Book Prize nominee Eugenia Cheng shows how anyone can think like a mathematician - and see, argue and think better.Learn how to simplify complex decisions ...Show more