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The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life
Richard Wiseman · Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Victorian philosopher William James had a theory about emotion and behavior: It isn’t that our feelings guide our actions (feel happy and you will laugh). On the contrary, it is our actions that guide our emotions (laugh and you will feel happy). This led James to a remarkable conclusion:... |
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The Dialogues of Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Gorgias, Menexenus
Plato. · Yale Univ Pr
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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This initial volume in a series of new translations of Plato's works includes a general introduction and interpretive comments for the dialogues translated: the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Gorgias, and Menexenus. "Allen's work is very impressive. The translations are readable,... |
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Charles Murray · Crown Forum
Pages: 407
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and classIn Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever... |
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Frederick C Crews · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin -- but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary... |
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
Tali Sharot · Pantheon
Format: Print book
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From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives. Â Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often... |
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Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
Debra Gwartney · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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An intensely emotional and redemptive memoir about a mother's mission to rescue her runaway daughters After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her family.... |
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