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Author: Oliver Sacks (Clinical Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College, New York, USA)
Published by: Macmillan General Books
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This collection of essays are mainly casebook studies. To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.

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An Unquiet Mind : A memoir of moods and madness order quantity
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Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Published by: Macmillan General Books
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The author is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive illness, she has also experienced it first-hand.
An Unquiet Mind is a memoir of enormous candour, courage, wit and wisdom, which examine manic depression from the perspective of her unique experience.
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Errornomics : Why we make mistakes and what we can do to avoid them order quantity
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Author: Joseph T Hallinan
Published by: Ebury Press
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How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75 per cent of bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed Burt Reynolds to punch a guy with no legs? Human beings can be stubbornly irrational and wilfully blind ...but at least we're predictably wrong. From minor lapses (why we're so likely to forget passwords) to life-threatening blunders (why anaesthetists used to maim their patients), Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Joseph T. Hallinan explains the everyday mistakes that shape our lives, and what we can do to prevent them happening.

First published 2009 as Why We Make Mistakes.
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Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls order quantity
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Author: Melinda Tankard Reist (Editor)
Published by: Spinifex Press
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From advertising and merchandising, to Bratz and Voodoo Dolls, to the images of Bill Henson, "Getting Real" puts the spotlight on the sexualisation and objectification of girls and women in the media, popular culture and society. Girls are portrayed as sexual at younger ages, pressured to conform to a 'thin, hot, sexy' norm. Clothing, music, magazines, toys and games send girls the message that they are merely the sum of their body parts. The effects of prematurely sexualising girls are borne out in their bodies and minds, with a rise in self-destructive behaviours such as eating disorders and self-harm, along with anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. "Getting Real" brings together writers, advocates and academics including some of the most vocal critics of the widespread pornification of culture. They call corporations, the media and the sex industry to account for creating this toxic environment. Lively and engaging, this ... more
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Author: Edward De Bono
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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People spend vast amounts of money, time and energy to achieve and maintain beauty, and yet despite its undisputed importance few of us devote similar efforts to be interesting. It is often thought that intelligence, beauty and confidence make you more interesting. This is not true. Being interesting is actually a state of mind. In "How to be More Interesting", lateral-thinking guru Edward de Bono reveals how playing with ideas, making connections, speculating and using the imagination are at the heart of being an interesting person. With seventy exercises that will help you bring humour, insight and surprise to everyday situations, this book will ensure that people not only find you fascinating company but also won't be able to forget you.
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I am Right-You are Wrong order quantity
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Author: Edward De Bono
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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Most of our everyday decision-making tends to be confrontational. Whether in large meetings, one-to-one or even in our own heads, opposite view points are pitted against each other. Ultimately, there must be a winner and a loser. In "I Am Right, You Are Wrong", lateral-thinking guru Edward de Bono challenges this 'rock logic' of rigid categories and point-scoring arguments which is both destructive and exhausting. By favouring 'water logic' over 'rock logic' Dr De Bono overturns conventional wisdom, and will help you to become a better thinker and decision maker.
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Interpreting Dreams order quantity
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Author: Sigmund Freud
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and compromise between conscious and unconscious impulses. Through his insights about dreams, Freud was able to revise his methods of treatment for neurotic patients and develop, largely through this remarkable work, his revolutionary theories of the Oedipus Complex and of the profound importance of infantile life and sexuality for the development of adults.
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Intimacy and Desire: Awaken the Passion in your Marriage order quantity
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Author: Dr David Schnarch
Published by: Scribe Publications
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In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Schnarch, one of the foremost experts on sexuality and relationships, explains why normal healthy couples in long-term relationships have sexual desire problems, regardless of how much they love each other or how well they communicate. In-depth examples of couples he has counselled reveal his unique understanding of common-but-difficult sexual desire problems that affect couples of all ages. Combining compassion and clinical wisdom, Dr. Schnarch explains how to use his revolutionary Four Points of Balance approach to resolve low desire, mismatched desire, sexual boredom, and the emotional gridlock that accompanies these problems. Intimacy and Desire provides a roadmap for how couples can transform common sexual desire problems into self-exploration and personal development that leads to psychological and spiritual growth, stronger relationships, and more powerful and meaningful desire for each ... more
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Author: Edward De Bono
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. Through a series of special techniques, in groups or working alone, Edward de Bono shows us how to look at problems from a variety of angles and in so doing offer up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. After reading this book you will become a much more productive and formidable thinker.
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Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain (revised & expanded edition 2008) order quantity
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Author: Oliver Sacks
Published by: Picador
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'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us.' - "Daily Telegraph". Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we understand our own minds. In "Musicophilia", he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people - those struck by affliction, unusual talent and even, in one case, by lightning - to show not only that music occupies more areas of the brain than language does, but also that it can calm and organize, torment and heal.Always wise and compellingly readable, these stories alter our conception of who we are and how we function, and show us an essential part of what it is to be human. 'Fascinating. Music, as Sacks explains, "can pierce the heart directly". And this is the truth that he so brilliantly ... more
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Obsession: A history order quantity
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Author: Lennard J. Davis
Published by: University of Chicago Press
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We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favourite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of single-minded musicians, we cheer on driven athletes. To be obsessive is to be American; to be obsessive is to be modern. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category - both a pathology and a goal. Behind this paradox lies a fascinating history, which Lennard J. Davis tells in Obsession. Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, Davis traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem. From obsessive aspects of professional specialization to obsessive compulsive disorder and ... more
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Author: John Ralston Saul
Published by: PGNAUS
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John Ralston Saul explains how our different qualities give us the intelligence, self-confidence and practical ability to think and act as responsible individuals. He argues, however, that when certain human qualities are worshipped in isolation they become weaknesses, even forces of destruction or self-destruction. In short, they become ideologies.
How can we use our qualities as positive forces in our own lives - and the life of our society? How can we use them so that each builds upon the other to reinforce us as humans?

Saul's answer is Balance.

On Equilibrium is an intelligent, persuasive and controversial exploration of the essential qualities of humanity and how they can be used to achieve equilibrium for the self and to foster an ethical society. It is at once an attack on our weakness for ideologies and a manual for humanist action. It is the logical, compelling and humane successor to Saul's bestselling trilogy ... more
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Outliers : The story of success order quantity
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Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths; and, why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat's Theorem is not a genius. Like "Blink", this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
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Proust and the Squid : The story and science of the reading brain order quantity
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Author: Maryanne Wolf (illus Catherine Stoodley)
Published by: Icon Books Ltd
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"Proust and the Squid" was in "Publishers Weekly's"'Best Books of 2007' - described as 'a pathbreaking look at the reading brain'.How the brain learned to read is a startling reminder of the amazing achievements of humankind.'We were never born to read', says Maryanne Wolf. 'No specific genes ever dictated reading's development. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we changed the very organisation of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species.'In "Proust and the Squid", Maryanne Wolf explores our brains' near-miraculous ability to arrange and rearrange themselves in response to external circumstances. Wolf, a world expert on the reading brain, brings both a personal passion and a deft style to this incredible story.A pop science masterpiece on a subject that anyone who loves reading will be sure to find ... more
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Secrets of the Grown-Up Brain : The surprising talents of the middle-aged mind order quantity
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Author: Barbara Strauch
Published by: Black Inc (trading as Schwartz Publishing)
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A leading science writer examines how the brain reaches its peak in middle age, and how to keep it there. For many years, scientists thought that the human brain simply decayed over time, leading to memory slips, fuzzy logic, negative thinking and even depression. But new research from neuroscientists and psychologists suggests that, in fact, the brain reorganises itself as we age, allowing us to recognise patterns faster and make better judgments, and even helping us to adopt a more optimistic outlook. Scientists call these traits 'cognitive expertise', and they reach their highest levels in middle age. Barbara Strauch explores the latest findings that demonstrate, through the use of technology such as brain scans, that the middle-aged brain is more flexible and more capable than previously thought. By describing the ways a healthy brain functions over time, Strauch also explains how its optimal processes can be maintained. Part ... more
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Author: Edward De Bono
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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From confusing manuals to uninterpretable jargon and bureaucratic red-tape, modern life can be highly complicated and frustrating. For many of us, it is almost impossible to make sense of. In "Simplicity", lateral-thinking guru Edward de Bono shows us how to bring clarity into our increasingly complicated lives. Through his ten rules of simplicity, he encourages us to be creative and break down the complex into manageable and recognisable parts. By making the complicated simple, you will free up time, reduce stress and make better decisions.
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Six Thinking Hats (revised edition) order quantity
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Author: Edward de Bono
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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The internationally bestselling guide to better thinking used by tens of thousands of people - fully revised and updated.

The need for the Six Hats is based on an understanding of how the brain chemicals change with the mode of thinking. Using this method one major corporation reduced the time taken for multinational project discussions from thirty days to just two days.
Argument is inefficient, ineffective and extremely slow. Argument was never designed to be constructive. The parallel thinking of the six hats is rapidly replacing argument around the world. For two-thousand-four-hundred years we have been content with argument which was never designed to be constructive. Discovering 'what is' may not be the same as designing 'what can be'.
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Taming the Black Dog : A guide to overcoming depression order quantity
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Author: Bev Aisbett
Published by: HarperCollins Australia
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Don’t want to get out of bed in the morning? Feeling as though the light at the end of the tunnel is fading? You may be suffering from depression, a condition Winston Churchill referred to as the Black Dog.

Taming the Black Dog is a simple guide to managing depression, which an estimated 1 in 5 people will suffer in one form or another at some time in their lives. This small illustrated tip book contains factual information as well as treatment options.

Modelled on Bev Aisbett’s successful Living with It, Taming the Black Dog has a unique blend of wit and information and is an invaluable guide for both chronic sufferers of depression as well as anyone with a fit of ‘the blues’.

First published 2000.
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Taming the Black Dog: How to Beat Depression - A Practical Manual for Sufferers, Their Relatives and Colleagues order quantity
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Author: Patrick Ellverton
Published by: Footprints Press
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This self help manual is for those for whom depression arises from the impact of exceptional circumstances such as childbirth and menopause, commercial and professional failure, accident, grief, divorce or debt as well as for those more permanent owners of the Black Dog.
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Teach Your Child How To Think order quantity
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Author: Edward De Bono
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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The greatest gift we can give our children is the ability to think for themselves. Edward de Bono, the lateral-thinking pioneer, shows in a simple and practical way how any parent can develop the thinking skills of their children. This is not about winning arguments, learning facts or articulation, but about constructive thinking, making the right choices and decisions, planning and creativity. This book gives invaluable techniques for coping with the many problems and opportunities that lie in wait for your child. It might just be the best start you can give them in life.
 
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