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  • The Stoic Guide to a Happy Life
    Lessons on living a good life from the leading philosopher of modern stoicism. 'Bursting with practical wisdom and engaging stories ... a Stoicism 2.0 for twenty-first century happiness' - Skye Cleary 'A bold, contemporary updating of Stoicism for the present day' - John Sellars, author of Lessons in Stoicism Learn how to survive life's hardships and enjoy its pleasures with...
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  • The Silent Guides
    The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological aspects of the developing mind, unconscious thinking, behaviours, habit formation, and related topics in an easy-to-understand way. It offers practical ideas and thoughts for the reader to reflect on using 10 helpful habits as examples. This book has two themes: To help adults consider and understand where some of their unhealthy or...
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  • The Signs
    A guide to contemporary astrology. How to use the stars to navigate life, work and relationships. Nobody's future is written in the stars, but we can use the stars to help write our future. For thousands of years, people have looked to the night sky for the answers to life's problems. Today's practice is a far cry from newspaper horoscopes...
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  • The Self-Care Solution
    ABC’s chief medical correspondent helps you ring in the New Year right with a resolution that’s actually doable: a year-long plan to improve your emotional and physical health—from giving up alcohol to doing a digital detox, but each for only one month. Dr. Jennifer Ashton is at the top of her field as an ob-gyn and news correspondent. But even...
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  • The Pursuit of Happiness
    A very funny debunking of our obsession with achieving happiness, which will appeal to readers of Bill Bryson, Louis Theroux, and Pamela Duckerman. 'Essential reading. So funny, so relevant, so fascinating ... I loved it' - Marian Keyes 'A whip-sharp British Bill Bryson' - Sunday Times 'Ruth Whippman is my new favourite cultural critic, and her book was such a...
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  • The Power of No
    Drawing on their own stories as well as feedback from their readers and students, James Altucher and Claudia Azula Altucher clearly show that you have the right to say no to anything that is hurting you. How many times have you heard yourself saying yes to the wrong things—overwhelming requests, bad relationships, time-consuming obligations? How often have you wished you...
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  • The Power of Language
    An acclaimed psycholinguist reveals how language shapes our brain - and moulds the way we look at the world. Why should we learn more than one language? Can it change the way we think? Does it have the power to transform how we see the world? You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting...
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  • The God Desire
    From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book’ ALAIN DE BOTTON ‘Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare … another one-sitting wonder’ STEPHEN FRY David Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was...
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  • The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard
    We've often been told that anything worthwhile can only be achieved through sustained effort, hard work or 10,000 hours of practice. But what if the opposite were true? The French have known it for centuries. We can see it in their laissez faire parenting, their chic style and their haute cuisine - the French barely seem to be trying, yet...
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  • The Fourfold Remedy
    Epicureanism offers the perfect cure for our anxious age. What can it teach us about the art of happiness? What do we really need in order to live a happy life? Over two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: pleasure. All we really want is pleasure. Today, we tend to associate the word 'Epicurean'...
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  • The Courage of Hopelessness
    The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's ideological, political, and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible. In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek,...
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  • The Breakthrough Experience
    This book is about breaking through the barriers that keep us from experiencing our true nature as light. It presents inspiring science and philosophy in a way that is completely accessible to anyone, to reveal and explore the universal laws and principles that underlie our very existence. The Breakthrough Experience is an extremely real and practical manual for understanding why...
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  • Death
    Yogi, mystic, and bestselling author Sadhguru provides a deeper understanding of death so that we can live more fulfilling lives. Death is an inevitable part of our lives, yet most societies have struggled to come to terms with it. Today, we continue to grapple with enduring questions: What is Death? Why do we fear it? What happens after death? Is...
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  • The Autist's Guide to the Galaxy
    A playful guide to understanding the ways of 'normal people', The Autist's Guide to the Galaxy flips our usual scripts about neurodiversity. Following on from her internationally successful memoir, The Autists, Clara Törnvall has written a fun, comprehensive, and accessible explanation of neurotypical, or 'normal', behaviour. Full of facts, tips, and tests, and developed with input from other autists, this...
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  • The Attachment Theory Workbook
    Build stronger relationships with strategies grounded in attachment theory. Attachment theory explores the different ways we develop connections with others. If you're searching for a way to create stronger, healthier, and more authentic relationships with the people you love, The Attachment Theory Workbook can help. It's your guide to understanding your own attachment style and exploring actionable exercises to improve...
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  • The Art of People
    The Art of People: How to Win Friends and Influence People for today's world — based on a hit article for Inc.com. What does it take to win success and influence? In a world where we are constantly connected, it's those with the best people skills who win the day. Those who build the right relationships. Those who truly understand...
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  • The Art of Logic
    For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society Science Book Prize nominee Eugenia Cheng shows how anyone can think like a mathematician and see, argue, and think better. Learn how to simplify complex decisions without over-simplifying them. Discover the power of analogies and...
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  • The Anatomy of Melancholy
    A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression, as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional...
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  • The Addiction Inoculation
    The Addiction Inoculation is a vital look into best practices parenting. Writing as a teacher, a mother, and, as it happens, a recovering alcoholic, Lahey's stance is so compassionate and her advice so smart, any and all parents will benefit from her hard-won wisdom. —Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls & Sex and Boys & Sex In this supportive, life-saving resource,...
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  • Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses
    Create yoga class themes with yoga philosophy, inspirational quotes, and simple concepts that inspire and motivate students. Experienced yoga instructors Sage Rountree and Alexandra DeSiato give yoga teachers the tools to find their voice and tap into innate wisdom. The authors offer ready-made, detailed themes to use in classes and provide flexible templates for building a toolkit of themes for...
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  • Tap to Tidy
    Marie Kondo for everyone! The down-to-earth, practical guide for Stacey Solomon's 3.9 million fans and anyone who loves to tidy, craft and create. For fans of Mrs Hinch Hinch Yourself Happy. The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller 'If you're reading this, then we have something in common .... Whether it's a love of getting crafty, meticulously organising or making fun-shaped...
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  • Strong Women Lift Each Other Up
    Many women have false beliefs about who we are and what we must do to succeed. If you pit yourself against other women because of this, you’re holding yourself back. It’s time for a change. Women are ready to stop the vicious cycle of criticizing, judging, gossiping, and comparing themselves. We want to feel good in our own skin and...
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  • Stop Thinking, Start Living
    Revolutionary in its simplicity and accessible to all, this bestselling book offers commonsense methods that allow you to let go of depression and tap into natural joy. In this indispensable handbook, Richard Carlson demonstrates how we can change everything in our lives—earn more money, meet new friends, get a new job—yet still feel dissatisfied. Happiness, he says, is not 'out...
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  • Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible
    We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks. In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes us. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some...
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  • Star Wars Be More Yoda
    A humorous take on mindfulness self-help books from the world's most famous Jedi - Master Yoda. Pursue a more mindful life with words of wisdom from Star Wars mentors Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke Skywalker. A balanced mind. Inner calm. A positive influence on the world. A Jedi must embody all of these qualities in order to master the Force....
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  • Spell It Out
    Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press, and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelt it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. Seventy-five per cent of English spelling is regular, but twenty-five per...
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  • Self-Care for People with ADHD
    Destress, find your community, and practice self-love with these 100+ exercises to reinforce ADHD as a strength. When you have ADHD, it can be hard to stay on top of your wellness. Self-Care for People with ADHD is here to help! This book can help you engage in some neurodiverse self-care—without pretending to be neurotypical. You’ll find more than 100...
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  • Schadenfreude
    'A delightful book, full of jokes and confessions' - Guardian In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions along the way, she reveals how everyone—babies, nuns, your most trusted friends—are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an...
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  • Reality+
    From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worlds. In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. But is virtual reality just escapism? In a highly...
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  • Rapport
    A breakout pop psychology book from the world experts on interrogation techniques. Laurence Alison is one of my academic heroes. He does what every writer longs to do. He makes the difficult clear - without losing his rigour. - Malcolm Gladwell They are quietly revolutionising the study and practice of interrogation... Their findings are changing the way law enforcement and...
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  • Psy-Q
    Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis—absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests, quizzes, jokes, puns and visual illusions, Ben Ambridge guides us through this wealth of research, showing us how we can better understand ourselves. Debunking...
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  • Object-Oriented Ontology
    A new introduction to one of the most influential philosophical movements in contemporary intellectual life. What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea...
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  • NLP
    NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) has helped millions to overcome their fears, increase their confidence, and achieve greater success in their personal and professional lives and relationships. Now, from the company that created NLP: The New Technology of Achievement—one of the bestselling NLP books of all time—comes NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming. This user-friendly guide, written by three seasoned NLP...
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  • Njuta
    Do you aspire to live a more peaceful, intentional life of mindfulness, positivity, and gratitude? Njuta (pronounced “nyutah”), which means “enjoy” or “delight in,” is the Swedish art of savoring the moment. Focused on finding happiness in even the smallest things, njuta can be applied to every area of life: Daily rituals Creating a comfortable home Nature and friluftsliv (open-air...
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  • Nietzsche
    In this vivid biography, Stefan Zweig eschews traditional academic discussion and focuses on Nietzsche's habits, passions, and obsessions. Concentrating on the man rather than the work, on the tragedy of his existence and his apartness from the world in which he moved in enforced isolation, Zweig draws the reader inexorably into Nietzsche's tragic life. Nietzsche is illustrated with numerous photographs...
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  • National Populism
    A crucial new guide to one of the most important phenomena of our time—the rise of populism in the West. A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time—the rise of national populism. Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards...
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  • Move The Body, Heal The Mind
    A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat mental health conditions such as anxiety, dementia, ADHD, and depression, and offers a plan for improving focus, creativity, and sleep. Move The Body, Heal The Mind by Jennifer Heisz shares paradigm-shifting research on how exercise affects the brain, finding that intervals of intense workouts, or even leisurely...
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  • Mothers
    From one of the most important contemporary thinkers we have, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's Matilda to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into something so...
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  • Memory Craft
    Our brain is a muscle. Like our bodies, it needs exercise. In the last few hundred years, we have stopped training our memories and we have lost the ability to memorise large amounts of information. Memory Craft introduces the best memory techniques humans have ever devised, from ancient times and the Middle Ages to methods used by today's memory athletes....
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  • May Contain Lies
    How to understand our human biases to separate fact from fiction, identify misinformation when we see it, and make smarter decisions. A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases affect the way we receive and interpret information. Our lives are minefields of misinformation. Statistics, stories, and studies lie to us on a daily basis. Not only this, but as...
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  • Making Space, Clutter Free
    Conquer clutter and discover emotional cleansing with the liberating guide that will encourage readers to take their power back! Unlike the rigid, sometimes formulaic methods of her de-cluttering competition, Los Angeles clutter guru Tracy McCubbin's unique approach allows readers to conquer things like living in the past, feeling invisible, and general feelings of shame and unworthiness. Her empowering advice, tips,...
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  • Light on Pranayama
    The definitive guide to yogic breathing from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world’s most respected yoga teacher. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar’s unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to the practice, as well as a mindset of ‘yoga for all’, which has made it into a worldwide phenomenon. His...
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  • Life Is Hard
    An eloquent, moving, witty and above all useful demonstration of philosophy's power to help us weather the storms of being human — Oliver Burkeman A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022 I adore this book . . . Setiya is a deeply astute and generous guide . . . a clear and consoling modern voice, for which...
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  • Life After Suicide
    From the chief medical correspondent of ABC News, an eloquent, heartbreaking, yet hopeful memoir of surviving the suicide of a loved one, examining this dangerous epidemic and offering first-hand knowledge and advice to help family and friends find peace. Jennifer Ashton, M.D., has witnessed firsthand the impact of a loved one’s suicide. When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their...
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  • Lessons from an American Stoic
    A lifelong Emerson lover, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that is in harmony with our souls. In this wise, illuminating book, award-winning author Mark Matousek reveals how Emerson’s timeless wisdom can help us with the problems we’re facing today. America’s...
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  • You Already Know
    A research-backed framework to help you accomplish your most ambitious goals by honing and harnessing your most powerful yet underutilised resource—intuition. What sets the most successful people apart? While hard work is certainly a factor, Professor Laura Huang's extensive research—spanning entrepreneurs, investors, Olympic athletes, and Pulitzer Prize winners—reveals that their greatest asset is something less tangible: intuition. That instinctive 'gut...
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  • Viktor E. Frankl and the Search for Meaning
    Inspired by the enduring wisdom of best-selling author, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, a guided journaling companion on finding meaning in an unpredictable world The perfect gift for soul searchers-A treasure trove of journaling prompts, quotes, and writing exercises on purpose, relationships, happiness, and more Inspired by the enduring wisdom of best-selling author, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl,...
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  • The View from Ninety
    One of the major thinkers of our times reflects on how to live richer, more contented lives, drawing on wisdom built up over a lifetime. Over a span of seven decades, Charles Handy was, variously, a businessman, a writer, a philanthropist and a philosopher. Not even a stroke as he approached the age of 90 dimmed his intellectual curiosity or...
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  • The Performer
    A compelling exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker. The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words. Richard Sennett is particularly attuned to the ways in which the rituals of ordinary life...
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  • In the Land of the Cyclops
    A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine. In the Land of the Cyclops marks Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English. These brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his groundbreaking fiction. In this collection, Knausgaard discusses...
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  • Insomnia
    An intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially. With her new memoir Insomnia, Marina Benjamin has produced an unsettling account of an unsettling condition that treats our inability to sleep not as a disorder, but as an existential experience that can electrify our understanding of ourselves, and of creativity and love. Insomnia...
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  • Don't Sweat The Small Stuff At Work
    Millions of people have enjoyed Richard Carlson's national bestsellers, which show how not to let the small things in life get the best of you. Now, in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at Work, Carlson reveals how to interact more peaceably and joyfully with colleagues, clients, and bosses. Spending forty hours or more a week in an office, along with...
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  • The End of Enlightenment
    A landmark study of one of the most controversial periods in history, from an eminent historian. The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights, and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment...
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  • The Earned Life
    A powerful framework for living a fulfilled life from the world's no.1 executive coach Our lives reside on a continuum that roams between 'fulfilment' on the one end and 'regret' at the other. Where would you place yourself right now? And where do you think you should be? In his powerful new framework, the world's number one executive coach, Marshall...
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  • The Animal and the Thinker
    Pioneering, prize-winning neuroscientist who has led research programmes at Oxford and Cambridge, with a dazzling new story of human behaviour and how we find meaning, for fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and Steven Pinker. Why are we so often in conflict—arguing with ourselves and with others, uncertain over who we are and what we need from our lives? In...
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  • Survival is a Promise
    An exhilarating, lyrical 'cosmic biography' of the iconic poet, essayist, and activist Audre Lorde. A Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024. Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audre's fierce love, which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split...
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  • I'm a Joke and So Are You
    Joyfully entertaining. Full of warmth, wisdom and affectionate delight in the wonder and absurdity of being human. - Observer Funny, honest and heart-warming. - Matt Haig What better way to understand ourselves than through the eyes of comedians - those who professionally examine our quirks on stage? In this touching and witty book, award-winning presenter and comic Robin Ince uses...
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  • If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy
    The Life-Affirming Korean Bestseller As an old Korean saying goes... 'You learn to use gums in place of teeth.' Rhee Kun Hoo was in his seventies and retired from a prestigious career in psychiatry when he took up writing. In his youth, Professor Rhee lived an extraordinary life, filled with action and purpose. He served time in prison for opposing...
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  • Dear Body
    The inspiring story of how one woman overcame her struggle with obesity by healing childhood trauma and confronting her innermost demons. Raised in a turbulent home, Brittany Williams learned to use food as a coping mechanism to manage her feelings at a young age. When she was 14, a family member’s comment “no man will want you with a pudgy...
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  • Scarcely English
    Scarcely English is an A-Z of terrible English by the Telegraph's former master grammarian. The English language has evolved throughout its history, usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules, in...
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  • Robin Hood Maths
    Big companies are using maths to take from the poor and give to the rich. Maths professor Noah Giansiracusa shows how you can beat the system using simple hacks anyone can learn. In today's data-driven world, maths is a weapon wielded by banks, insurance companies, tech firms, and government agencies. These organisations use sophisticated algorithms to calculate odds, make predictions,...
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  • Optimal
    More than twenty-five years on from the huge bestseller Emotional Intelligence, this book reframes the concept's importance for a new era, explaining how to create high-performing individuals, teams, and organisations. Emotional intelligence is now embedded in our public discourse—an idea so pervasive and important in our work, culture, politics, and society that leaders such as Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan...
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  • On the Edge
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk and the players raising the stake. In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or...
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  • How to Deal With Idiots
    Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use an escalator. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge? Here, philosopher Maxime Rovere turns his attention to the murkiest of intellectual corners. With warmth, wit and wisdom, he...
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  • How to Be You
    An inspiring guide to authentic living according to the philosophy of the groundbreaking philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, by leading US philosophy professor Skye Cleary. Skye Cleary blends Simone de Beauvoir's wisdom with her own in this lively guide to becoming a poet of your life – Nigel Warburton It isn't easy to be authentic. Skye Cleary's How to Be You...
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  • How to Be You
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Philosophy & Psychology

Welcome to our Philosophy & Psychology section, where profound questions meet insightful answers. If you’re curious about the nature of existence, the workings of the mind, or the foundations of human behavior, this collection offers a wide range of books to deepen your understanding.

Discover classic works from great philosophers, contemporary explorations of ethics, logic, and metaphysics, and engaging texts that bridge philosophy with modern psychology. Whether you’re interested in the philosophical underpinnings of human thought or the psychological theories that explain why we think, feel, and act the way we do, there’s something here for every inquiring mind.

From thought-provoking essays and groundbreaking studies to accessible introductions and comprehensive guides, our Philosophy & Psychology books invite you to explore new ideas and perspectives. Dive in and start your journey of self-discovery and reflection today.