Riverhead Trade, March 2006. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller An exciting--and encouraging--exploration of creativity from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities..... More
Penguin Books, May 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. More
W W Norton & Co Ltd, April 1964. Paper Back. More
Bloomsbury Academic, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Schizoanalytic Cartographies represents Félix Guattari's most important later work and the most systematic and detailed account of his theoretical position and his therapeutic ideas. Guattari sets out to provide a complete account of the conditions of 'enunciation' - autonomous speech and self-expression - for..... More
Routledge, November 2010. Trade Paperback. First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. More
All Points Books, June 2019. Hardcover. Do you thrust unsolicited partisan articles upon your spouse? Are you convinced that you can change your coworker's mind, if you could only argue forcefully enough? Have you gone from befriending to "defriending" the people once closest to you? Don't give up hope; Dr..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Press, December 2019. Hardcover. "The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."--Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when..... More
Columbia University Press, February 2012. Paper Back. Disaster responders treat more than just the immediate emotional and psychological trauma of victims: they empower individuals and families to heal themselves long into a disaster's aftermath. This requires helping survivors to rebuild their ability to meet their emotional and psychological needs, not..... More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1976. Hardcover. Jacket has heavy shelf wear, chipping and staining. Text has heavy underlining and a few margin notes. More
Hogarth Press, January 1976. Hardcover. Presentation copy INSCRIBED BY LAURENS VAN DER POST on the title page. Frayed spot on top edge. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2019. Hardcover. The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost..... More
The School of Life, April 2020. Hardcover. Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make..... More
Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd, January 1983. Paper Back. More
SAGE Publications Ltd, October 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Convergent Books, April 2020. Hardcover. "Holding brain science in one hand and rich emotional presence in the other, this book feels timely and necessary."--Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author of Present Over Perfect Why is there such a gap between what you want to do and what you actually..... More
The MIT Press, August 2016. Paper Back. The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes--with or without "brain training." Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains..... More
The MIT Press, August 2016. Paper Back. The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes--with or without "brain training." Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains..... More
Vintage, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a...... More
Knopf, April 2015. Hardcover. When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles..... More
Vintage, March 2020. Paper Back. From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is..... More
Ecco, January 2018. Paper Back. New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't..... More
Penguin Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller. A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own..... More
Harvard University Press, October 1980. Hardcover. Are images an important means of recalling information from memory and solving problems? Or are images just display lights on the mind's computer? In Image and Mind, Stephen Kosslyn makes an impressive case for the view that images are critically involved in the life..... More
