Applied category: 4609 books
Unconscious Marketing
25 Cognitive Biases That Compel Your Customers To Buy (Without Them Knowing)
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
How Do People Really Make Decisions? We all like to believe that logic, facts, and common sense play a role in our decision-making processes. But that’s rarely the case. More often than not, we use unconscious mental shortcuts to help us evaluate the choices that are laid out before...
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the universal features of the human mind, and why are they designed the way they are? If our minds are built by selfish genes, why are we so cooperative?...
The Collected Schizophrenias
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right...
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded)
The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In this completely revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen includes effective "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life.
To quell anxiety and panic:
Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner...
A Mind For Numbers
How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you...
by Yue Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
This book introduces Python programming language and fundamental concepts in algorithms and computing. Its target audience includes students and engineers with little or no background in programming, who need to master a practical programming language and learn the basic thinking in computer science/programming....
Mastermind
How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature's greatest detective. "Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game.
No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock...
Cómo construir la autodisciplina
Resiste tentaciones y alcanza tus metas a largo plazo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Cómo desarrollar la autodisciplina, resistir tentaciones y alcanzar tus metas a largo plazo
Si deseas realizar cambios positivos en tu vida y alcanzar tus metas a largo plazo, no existe una mejor forma de hacerlo que aprendiendo a ser más autodisciplinado.
La ciencia ha descubierto...
Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality
A New Clinical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
This book explores a reparative psychotherapy based on an understanding of the development of gender identity, offering to help the non-gay homosexual, that is, one who is unhappy with his sexual orientation.
A Jason Aronson Book
12 Rules for Life
An Antidote to Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge...
Healing Homosexuality
Case Stories of Reparative Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
In 1973, when all the arguments were presented to the American Psychiatric Association both for and against the idea of homosexuality as pathology, it was the personal disclosures of gay men that had the most influence. Listening to their stories of frustration in treatment–and their newfound happiness...
Moonwalking with Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory
An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental...
Blue Mind
The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being.
Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In BLUE MIND, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these...
by John R. Nofsinger
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
While traditional finance focuses on the tools used to optimize return and minimize risk, this book explains how psychology can affect our decisions more than financial theory. Covering the ways investors actually behave, this is the first book of its kind to delve into the ways biases influence investment...