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Thinking, Fast and Slowby Daniel Kahneman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 12.99Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title One of The Economist ’s 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Steet Journal 's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011 Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields—including economics, medicine, and politics—but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast... more...
Abnormal Psychologyby Alan Carr
Psychology Press 2001; US$ 32.50Presents a clear and in-depth account of Abnormal Psychology. It focuses on both clincial descriptions, using illustrative case studies at the beginning of each section, and on the implications of major perspectives. more...
Unconsciousby Alasdair MacIntyre
Routledge 2004; US$ 28.95A new edition of a classic philosophical inquiry into psychoanalysis and the Freudian notion of the unconscious, by one of the foremost contemporary philosophers in the world, with a substantial new preface by the author. more...
Measuring the Mindby Denny Borsboom
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00Is it possible to measure psychological attributes like intelligence, personality and attitudes and if so, how does that work? What does the term 'measurement' mean in a psychological context? This fascinating and timely book discusses these questions and investigates the possible answers that can be given in response. more...
Thinking and Decidingby Jonathan Baron
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 38.00Impressively broad, expanded edition of an established, highly recommended textbook. more...
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Editionby Dan Ariely
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99How do we think about money? What caused bankers to lose sight of the economy? What caused individuals to take on mortgages that were not within their means? What irrational forces guided our decisions? And how can we recover from an economic crisis? In this revised and expanded edition of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Predictably Irrational , Duke University's behavioral economist Dan Ariely explores the hidden forces that shape our decisions, including some of the causes responsible for the current economic crisis. Bringing a much-needed dose of sophisticated psychological study to the realm of public policy, Ariely offers his own insights into the irrationalities of everyday life, the decisions that... more...
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativityby James C. Kaufman; Robert J. Sternberg
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 54.00The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators. more...
Memoryby Alison Winter
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 18.00Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you’re remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gone? Are they hidden somewhere in your brain, or are they gone forever? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in Memory: Fragments of a Modern History , the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century. Tracing the cultural and scientific history of our understanding of memory, Winter explores early metaphors that likened memory to a filing cabinet; later, she shows,... more...
Cognitive Psychology of Proper Namesby Tim Valentine; Tim Brennen; Serge Bredart
Routledge 1995; US$ 39.95Using an information processing approach, the authors consider evidence from speech production, face recognition and word recognition to develop a new functional model of the production and recognition of people's names. more...
Unconsciousby Antony Easthope
Routledge 1999; US$ 22.95The topic of 'the unconscious' has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the existence of the unconscious in a variety of ways. more...