Psychology / Self Help

Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm.

In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle. In between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein: a patient and lover to Jung, a colleague and confidante to Freud, and one of the greatest minds in modern psychiatry. This mesmerizing book reconstructs the fatal triangle of Freud, Jung and Spielrein. It encompasses clinical methods and politics, hys... read more

An inspiring and entertaining true story of a sceptic's journey into the world of meditation and alternative health. 'Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still, they said, and breathe.' Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health. Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve,... read more

In My Heroes the 'world's greatest living explorer' (Gunniess Book of Records), writes about the people who have inspired him - from explorers to policemen, families to freedom fighters. Wherever in the world Ranulph gives one of his lectures or motivational speeches, someone always asks: 'Who inspired you to do all the crazy things you've done?' For the first time he explores this idea by revealing his own personal heroes and what lessons their actions may have taught him in his own often hazardous profession. This book describes ... read more

The Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today - and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy. Just as William Whyte's 1956 classic The Organization Man showed how the organizational ethos of that age permeated every aspect of life, Florida describes a society in w... read more

Since its initial publication, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold a total of 15 million copies. The book continues to sell briskly today, but Carnegie never anticipated the ways in which the digital age would provide new tools and challenges for winning friends and influencing people. The advent of social networking sites, the dominance of email, and the ways in which the Internet has supplanted face-to-face interactions have made Carnegie's precepts all the more immediate and vital. Brent Cole, working in tandem with... read more

The priceless wisdom and insight found in the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (more than 10 million sold!) is distilled in this palm-size Running Press Miniature Edition. It's full of advice on taking control of your life, teamwork, self-renewal, mutual benefit, proactivity and other paths to private and public victory.

How happy would you be if you had all the money in the world? The universal lament about money is that there is never enough. We spend endless hours obsessing over our budgets and investments, trying to figure out ways to stretch every dollar. We try to follow the advice of money gurus and financial planners, then kick ourselves whenever we spend too much or save too little. For all of the stress and effort we put into every choice, why are most of us unhappy about our finances? According to Laura Vanderkam, the key is to change y... read more

What would happen if a top expert with more than thirty years of leadership experience was willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life!
John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and occasional mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result i... read more

Public speaking, communication and presenting with power can all be terrifying prospects, however experienced you become, and cultivating a charismatic persona in our working lives is a priceless skill. This book is a humorous and incisive piece of observation by Dave Gillespie and Mark Warren which demonstrates the right and wrong level of status to adopt for our business lives. Whilst remaining fun, The C Word shows the reader how to tap into their own personal charisma and communicate with maximum impact. It studies a range of... read more

When the Harvard Business Review asked Robert Sutton for suggestions for its annual list of Breakthrough Ideas, he told them that the best business practice he knew of was 'the no asshole rule'. Sutton's piece became one of the most popular articles ever to appear in the HBR. Spurred on by the fear and despair that people expressed, the tricks they used to survive with dignity in asshole-infested places, the revenge stories that made him laugh out loud and the other small wins that they celebrated against mean-spirited peopl... read more

In any conflict, the First Alternative is my way, and the Second Alternative is your way. The fight always boils down to a question of whose way is better. This book presents a new and practical, but incredibly effective and eye-opening, way to reach resolution through using the 'Third Alternative'. The Third Alternative moves beyond your way or my way to a higher and better way - one that allows both parties to emerge from debate or even heated conflict in a far better place than either had envisioned. With The Third Alternative,... read more

Martin Lindstrom has been on the frontlines of the branding wars for over twenty years. Here, he turns the spotlight on his own industry, drawing on all he has witnessed behind closed doors, exposing for the first time the full extent of the psychological tricks and traps that companies devise to win our hard-earned dollars. Lindstrom reveals intentionally target children at an alarmingly young age - starting when they are still in the womb!
shocking results of an fMRI study which uncovered what heterosexual men really think ... read more

Too busy for endless calorie counting, sessions with personal trainers and specialised diets that require hours of preparation? So stop punishing yourself for not being perfect all the time and learn the real secret to weight loss success, near enough really can be good enough.

A runaway bestseller that tells it like it is and empowers women to take control of their relationships. Whether he's doling out wisdom on why women should enforce a '90-Day Probation Period' before they give their men sexual 'benefits', or explaining to women why men would rather fix it than talk about it, Harvey's advice is always spot-on and often very funny. But behind the humour is Harvey's sincere desire to help women understand men. Released in the run up to the film based on the book, Think Like a Man (June 2012).

More and more people are turning to natural therapies for depression, particularly given the sometimes-limited positive effects and frequent side effects from conventional antidepressant medications. Some natural therapies are surprisingly effective and are supported by strong evidence. For example, an Australasian study found Omega-3 fish oil to be more effective than a common antidepressant medication for people with severe depression. But not all natural therapies are effective or even safe. This book gives an overview of depres... read more

The Mindful Way through Depression draws on the collective wisdom of four internationally renowned mindfulness experts, including bestselling author Jon Kabat-Zinn, to provide effective relief from the most prevalent psychological disorder. This authoritative, easy-to-use self-help program is based on methods clinically proven to reduce the recurrence of depression. Revealing the hidden psychological mechanisms that cause chronic unhappiness, the authors gently guide readers through a series of exercises designed to break th... read more

The Good Night Sleep Kit integrates a careful selection of individually tailored content and products to ensure that your will achieve the richness that comes with a full night of restful sleep. The essential tool kit for those of you who are battling insomnia, yearning for more restful sleep or who simply wish to maximize your energy during waking hours. The kit provides dynamic content, practical tips and helpful tools to help you draw greater energy and rest from your body during its most prolonged restful period. The kit in... read more

The national bestseller, now in paperback!
 
The breakthrough program for reversing and preventing aging, written by a leading medical specialist and media expert, is now available at a popular price.
This could be as close to a fountain of youth as mankind will ever come, the truly scientific answer to how to reverse or prevent the debilitating effects of aging, including memory loss, weight gain, sexual dysfunction and Alzheimer's. Dr. Eric Braverman, a leading figure in the practice of brain-body health c... read more

Gopnik, a leading psychologist and philosopher as well as a mother, explains the groundbreaking new psychological, neuroscientific and philosophical developments in our understanding of very young children, transforming our understanding of how babies see the world.