Personality category: 1900 books
How To Improve Your Mind
20 Keys to Unlock the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Become the master of your world
Presents 20 key concepts, or keys, to aid critical thinking
Authored by one of the world's most eminent psychologists - and founder of the Flynn Effect
Looks at topics such as Race and IQ, "good" science and the current world economic crisis
Written in a clear and lucid style, illustrated with many examples
Late Bloomers
The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
A groundbreaking exploration of how finding one's way later in life can be an advantage to long-term achievement and happiness.
“What Yogi Berra observed about a baseball game—it ain't over till it's over—is true about life, and [Late Bloomers] is the ultimate proof of this. . . . It’s...
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
**“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**
The author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller...
by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney...
Out of Character
Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Have you ever wondered why a trumpeter of family values would suddenly turn around and cheat on his wife? Why jealousy would send an otherwise level-headed person into a violent rage? What could drive a person to blow a family fortune at the blackjack tables?
Or have you ever pondered what...
by Laurence Gonzales
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
"Unique among survival books…stunning…enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading." —Denver Post
Laurence Gonzales’s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the deepest wildernesses, just as it has improved readers’ everyday lives. Its mix of adventure...
You Can't Lie to Me
The Revolutionary Program to Supercharge Your Inner Lie Detector and Get to the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Janine Driver was trained as a lie detection expert for the ATF, FBI, and the CIA and is a New York Times bestselling author (You Say More Than You Think). Now she makes a powerful and incontrovertible declaration: You Can’t Lie to Me. Driver—who is known in professional circles as “the Lyin’...
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)
Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Researcher, thought leader, and New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown offers a liberating study on the importance of our imperfections—both to our relationships and to our own sense of self
The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting. There is a constant barrage of social...
The Psychopath Whisperer
The Science of Those Without Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A compelling journey into the science and behavior of psychopaths, written by the leading scientist in the field of criminal psychopathy.
We know of psychopaths from chilling headlines and stories in the news and movies—from Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, to Hannibal Lecter and Dexter Morgan....
Confessions of a Sociopath
A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Confessions of a Sociopath is both the memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap -- right from the source -- for dealing with the sociopath in your life.
As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite...
by Christopher Handy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Always wanted to change your way of life? Here is a complete guide on how to become a better person! Everything you need to know about self development is included in this manual. Try to avoid constantly trialing over being energized. Develop your interests, beliefs, morals, standards, principles,...
Into the Magic Shop
A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart
Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a...
Inside the Criminal Mind
Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book--and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges.
Flow
The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
THE BESTSELLING CLASSIC ON 'FLOW' – THE KEY TO UNLOCKING MEANING, CREATIVITY, PEAK PERFORMANCE, AND TRUE HAPPINESS
Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a...