Widen the Window
Elizabeth A. Stanley
Discover how to heal from stress and trauma by understanding the connection between your mind and body. Elizabeth Stanley shares her personal journey and provides practical tools to enhance resilience and well-being, drawing on scientific research and mindfulness-based techniques.
Wired for Story
Lisa Cron
Wired for Story reveals how writers can take advantage of the brain’s hardwired responses to story to captivate their readers’ minds through each plot element. It explores how the brain processes stories and what elements are crucial for engaging readers, offering practical advice for crafting compelling narratives.
You Are Now Less Dumb
David McRaney
A fascinating exploration of the quirks and flaws in human thinking, revealing how we delude ourselves, fall for cognitive biases, and make irrational decisions. This book offers insights into understanding your own mind and becoming less dumb.
You'll Be My Mirror
Jamil Zaki
An exploration of the self, not as an innate entity, but as a social construct shaped by relationships and interactions. It delves into the tension between our desire for autonomy and the constraints necessary for a coherent self, examining how this tension influences our understanding of identity, freedom, and the world around us.
Your Brain on Porn
Gary Wilson
Explore the science behind internet pornography's effects on the brain and behavior. This book delves into the potential for addiction, sexual dysfunction, and altered perceptions, offering insights and strategies for recovery and a balanced approach to the digital age.
Humankind
Rutger Bregman
A radical idea that most people, deep down, are pretty decent. An idea that's long been known to make rulers nervous. An idea denied by religions and ideologies, ignored by the news media and erased from the annals of world history. At the same time, it's an idea that's legitimised by virtually every branch of science.
Man and his Symbols
Carl G. Jung
The only work in which Carl G. Jung, the world-famous Swiss psychologist, explains to the general reader his greatest contribution to our knowledge of the human mind: the theory of the importance of symbolism—particularly as revealed in dreams. Jung emphasizes that man can achieve wholeness only through a knowledge and acceptance of the unconscious—a knowledge acquired through dreams and their symbols.
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman
Discover the hidden flaw in human judgment that leads to errors in all walks of life. From medicine to criminal justice, insurance to finance, 'Noise' exposes the shocking extent of unwanted variability in professional judgments and offers practical solutions for reducing noise and improving decision-making in organizations and beyond.