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  • Death, Grief, and Mourning

    by John S. Stephenson ...
    How do Americans cope with death? Do our feelings about dying influence the way we live? How are our ideas of death different from those of our ancestors?These questions and others are addressed in this innovative new book -- a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to the processes, practices, and experiences concerning death and dying in the United States. Drawing on sociology and psychology ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Just Babies

    The Origins of Good and Evil

    by Paul Bloom ...
    A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone.From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In ... Read more

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  • Stigma

    Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

    by Erving Goffman ...
    From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person’s feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society calls “normal.”Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How We Know What Isn't So

    by Thomas Gilovich ...
    Series series A Psychological Study on Logic
    Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life.When can we trust what we believe—that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"—and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century.The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, "The Culture of Narcissism Revisited." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Triumphs of Experience

    The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

    by George E. Vaillant ...
    At a time when people are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers welcome news for old age: our lives evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling. Among the surprising findings: people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Story of Psychology

    by Morton Hunt ...
    Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the ... Read more

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  • The Nurture Assumption

    Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

    by Judith Rich Harris ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHow much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they do, aside from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up -- is nothing more than a cultural myth. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Hurried Child (25th anniversary edition)

    by David Elkind ...
    "David Elkind [is] one of psychology's leading lights."--Washington PostWith the first edition of The Hurried Child, David Elkind emerged as the voice of parenting reason, calling our attention to the crippling effects of hurrying our children through life. He showed that by blurring the boundaries of what is age appropriate, by expecting--or imposing--too much too soon, we force our kids to grow ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Myth of Closure

    Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change

    by Pauline Boss ...
    How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?Pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss, losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our everyday lives.With a loss of trust in the world as a safe place, a loss of certainty ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Narrative Medicine : Honoring the Stories of Illness

    Honoring the Stories of Illness

    by Rita Charon ...
    Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine primary care medicine narratology and the study of doctor-patient relationships narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize absorb ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Cult of Personality Testing

    How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

    by Annie Murphy Paul ...
    Award-winning psychology writer Annie Paul delivers a scathing exposé on the history and effects of personality tests.Millions of people worldwide take personality tests each year to direct their education, to decide on a career, to determine if they'll be hired, to join the armed forces, and to settle legal disputes. Yet, according to award-winning psychology writer Annie Murphy Paul, the sheer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD