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PSYCHIATRY &
PSYCHOLOGY COURSES
2015
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APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
MEQUILIBRIUM
Stress isnt killing us: but our response to it is. In a deceptively simple yet
extremely effective plan, this powerhouse trio shows us how to solve the
problem of resetting the ways we respond to our daily pressures.
Andrew Weil, MD, author of Healthy Aging and Spontaneous Happiness
Harmony HC 978-0-8041-3849-9 256pp. $26.00 Exam Copy: $13.00
e-Book: 978-0-8041-3850-5
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COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
HOW WE LEARN: The Surprising Truth About When,
Where, and Why It Happens
by Benedict Carey
How We Learn makes for a welcome rejoinder to the faddish notion that
learning is all about the hours put in. Learners, [Benedict] Carey reminds us,
are not automatons. The New York Times Book Review
Random House TR 978-0-8129-8429-3 272pp. $16.00 Exam Copy: $3.00
e-Book: 978-0-8129-9389-9
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AN OPEN-HEARTED LIFE
n The Eureka Factor, the authors explain how insights arise and what
scientific research says about stimulating more of them. They discuss
how various conditions affect the likelihood of having an insight, what
the relationship is between insight and intuition, and how the brains
right hemisphere contributes to creative thought. This book goes beyond
scientific principles to offer productive techniques for realizing your
creative potentialat home and at work.
e-Book: 978-0-679-64529-0
Looks like a self-help book, but its actually an insightful and lucid
introduction to some of the most fruitful ideas in ancient Chinese philosophy.
Julian Baggini, The Guardian
Broadway Books TR 978-0-7704-3763-3 304pp. $15.00 Exam Copy: $3.00
e-Book: 978-0-7704-3762-6
PATHOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
HE WANTED THE MOON
r. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s.
Just as he started studying manic depression, he began to experience
it himself. By the time his experiments were published, he had been
institutionalized and lost his medical license. Mimi Baird, his daughter,
reconstructed his life decades later using an extraordinary manuscript he
worked on throughout his institutionalization, confinement, and escape.
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
THE ROAD TO CHARACTER
by David Brooks
n his most eye-opening and deeply personal book yet, David Brooks,
New York Times bestselling author of The Social Animal, tells the story
of ten great lives that illustrate how character is developed and how
we can all strive to build rich inner lives, marked by humility and moral
depth. In a society that emphasizes success and external achievement,
The Road to Character is a book about inner worth.
e-Book: 978-0-679-64503-0
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This book is an essential read for parents, teachers, coaches, and others
who are instrumental in determining a childs mind-set, and in turn, his
or her future success. . . . Library Journal
This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.
Robert J. Sternberg, IBM Professor of Psychology and
Education, Yale University, and author of Successful Intelligence
Ballantine Books TR 978-0-345-47232-8 288pp. $16.00 Exam Copy: $3.00
e-Book: 978-1-588-36523-1
DATACLYSM
ataclysm is a look at what our online lives reveal about who we really
areand how this deluge of data will transform the science of human
behavior. Christian Rudder, the founder of OKCupid, shows that, in the era
of social media, a powerful new approach to explaining our flaws is
e-Book: 978-0-385-34738-9
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
GUILT, SHAME, AND ANXIETY
Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions
by Peter R. Breggin, MD
ith the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, this
pioneering psychiatrist and critic of psychiatric diagnoses and
drugs examines the causes and effects of psychological and emotional
suffering from the perspective of biological evolution, child development,
and mature adult decision-making. Drawing on evolution, neuroscience,
and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Breggin analyzes what he calls
our negative legacy emotionsthe painful emotional heritage that
encumbers all human beings.
e-Book: 978-1-61614-721-1
e-Book: 978-0-8041-4124-6
Its not easy to dream bigand its not easy to turn that dream into reality. The brilliant Chris
Guillebeau provides the essential blueprint for those of us for whom the happiness of pursuitsuch as
Chriss successful quest to visit every country in the worldis a key part of the pursuit of happiness.
Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before
Harmony HC 978-0-385-34884-3 304pp. $25.00 Exam Copy: $12.50
e-Book: 978-0-385-34885-0
Refreshingly practical . . . Lean In may be able to tell women how to get what
they want, but Thrive may help them to figure out what that is. Businessweek
Harmony HC 978-0-8041-4084-3 352pp. $26.00 Exam Copy: $13.00
e-Book: 978-0-8041-4085-0
With bold and original insights, Gretchen Rubin reveals the hidden truths
about how to change our habitsfrom resisting junk food and hitting the gym to
ending procrastination and saving money. Better Than Before is a gem, and the first habit
you should form is reading a chapter every night.Adam Grant, Wharton professor
and
e-Book: 978-0-385-34862-1
FORTHCOMING TITLES
THE THEFT OF MEMORY
Forthcoming
June 2015
e-Book: 978-0-8041-4098-0
evin Breel burst into the publics awareness at 19 when his TED
talk became a worldwide phenomenon. A comedian and mental
health activist, Breel is the National Spokesperson for the Bell LETS
TALK Campaign and has been a guest speaker at more than 100
college campuses. Through his personal stories and battles, Boy
Meets Depression will give students and parents a message of hope,
light, and inspiration.
Forthcoming
September 2015
e-Book: 978-0-553-41838-5
2015