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Psychology

Sciences of the Soul The Early Modern Origins of Psychology

Fernando Vidal

ISBN: PB: 9780226710365, ISBN: HB: 9780226855868, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 tables, 3 halftones, 14 line illus.

"The Sciences of the Soul" is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an instit...

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Psychology

General

Minds Make Societies How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

Boyer Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780300248548, ISBN: HB: 9780300223453, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

"There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature". Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent in...

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Psychology

Chemically Imbalanced Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

Davis Joseph E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226686684, ISBN: HB: 9780226686547, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Everyday suffering – those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone's lives – is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a drastic change in the way we approach it...

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Psychology

Emotionally Disturbed A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children

Blythe Doroshow Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226621432, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 line drawings

Before the 1940s, children in the United States with severe emotional difficulties would have had few options for care. The first option was usually a child guidance clinic within the community, but they might also have been placed in a state mental...

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Psychology

Redefining Success in America A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development

Kaufman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226550152, ISBN: HB: 9780226550015, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 32 tables

Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream – and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered...

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Neurology

Psychology

Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

McGilchrist Iain

ISBN: PB: 9780300245929, Yale University Press, February 2019
616 pp., 21x14 cm, 15 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rational' side, the superior partner to the right. But is this...

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Well-Grounded The Neurobiology of Rational Decisions

Lambert Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300207309, Yale University Press, September 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Contingency calculations – the ability to predict the outcomes of decisions and actions – are critical for survival and success. Our amazing brains continually process past and current experiences to enable us to make the most adaptive choices. But w...

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Psychology

Empathy A History

Lanzoni Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300222685, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

"Empathy: A History" tells the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of "empathy" in 1908 and tracks its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite empathy's ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translatio...

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Psychology

Health & Wellbeing

Mastering Memory Techniques to Turn Your Brain from a Sieve to a Sponge

Santos Chester

ISBN: PB: 9781454920809, GMC Group, Sterling, June 2018
160 pp., 21x13.6 cm, 2 illus.

Names. Addresses. Where you left your keys. What would you like to remember? Mastering Memory can help! Chester Santos, the 2008 US National Memory Champion and one of the foremost experts in the field, lays out his techniques for total recall, inclu...

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Psychology

Geriatrics

My Parent's Keeper The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving

Gastfriend Jody

ISBN: PB: 9780300221350, Yale University Press, May 2018
352 pp., 21x14 cm

When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role. Uses the latest research and draws on...

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