Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley

Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want

How good are you at knowing the minds of others? How well can you guess what others think of you, know who really likes you, or tell when someone is lying? How well do you really understand the minds of those closest to you, from your spouse to your kids to your best friends? Do you really know what your coworkers, employees, competitors, or clients want?

Kiss and Run: The Single, Picky, and Indecisive Girl's Guide to Overcoming Fear of Commitment by Elina Furman

Kiss and Run: The Single, Picky, and Indecisive Girl's Guide to Overcoming Fear of Commitment

You May Be Commitment-Phobic If:
You have a mile-long list of requirements for your ideal mate
You go from one short-lived relationship to the next
You have a habit of dating "unavailable" men

Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential by John Neffinger, Matthew Kohut

Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential

How People Judge You—And How To Come Out Looking Good You will never look at people the same way again—including yourself—after this lively look at how we make character judgments. Drawing on cutting-edge social science research as well as their own work with Fortune 500 executives, members of Congress, and Nobel Prize winners, authors Matt Kohut and John Neffinger demystify the process we use to size each other up.

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct by Thomas S. Szasz

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

The most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness.

Mood: The Key to Understanding Ourselves and Others by Patrick M Burke

Mood: The Key to Understanding Ourselves and Others

A reader-friendly yet in-depth overview of the latest research on mood as the way we are tuned to the world.
This book examines the central role that mood plays in determining our outlook on life and our ability to cope with its challenges. The central theme is that mood determines how we are tuned to the world. Tuning emerges over the course of our earliest development as environmental and genetic influences form the neural circuits and set how they function across the lifespan in daily life and under conditions of stress.

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder by Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

There is much literature about children with Attention Deficit Disorder. This work focuses on the experience of adults with the disorder, combining practical information and moral support. It explains the diagnostic process and distinguishes ADD symptions from normal lapses in memory, lack of concentrations, and impulse behaviour,

Body Language 101: The Ultimate Guide to Knowing When People Are Lying, How They Are Feeling, What They Are Thinking, and More by David Lambert

Body Language 101: The Ultimate Guide to Knowing When People Are Lying, How They Are Feeling, What They Are Thinking, and More

This amazing, revealing handbook contains all anyone will ever need to know about reading body language. With it, you can become a veritable human lie detector, spotting exactly when people are telling the truth, when they are lying, and even how they are feeling.

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?
Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how–and the myriad reasons why–we are all susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.”

Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by Gary Greenberg

Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease
Am I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine cabinets—doctors now write 120 million prescriptions annually, at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars.

At the same time, depression rates have skyrocketed; twenty percent of Americans are now expected to suffer from it during their lives.

Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher

Madness: A Bipolar Life

A searing, unflinching and deeply moving account of Marya Hornbacher's personal experience of living with bipolar disorder. From the age of six, Marya Hornbacher knew that something was terribly wrong with her, manifesting itself in anorexia and bulimia which she documented in her bestselling memoir 'Wasted'. But it was only eighteen years later that she learned the true underlying reason for her distress: bipolar disorder. In this new, equally raw and frank account,