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'A fascinating, funny, disconcerting and lucid book.' Helen Dunmore Perhaps your brain seems to stumble when faced with the 13 times table, or ... More

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Written by the author of "Emotional Intelligence", this is an analysis of the ways in which people deceive themselves. Daniel Goleman draws on ... More

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Why is a forgery worth so much less than an original work of art?What's so funny about someone slipping on a banana peel? Why, as Freud once asked, ... More

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Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, Matthew Hutson takes us on this fascinating tour of magical thinking in everyday life. So ... More

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A penetrating analysis of the dark corners of human deception, enlivened by intriguing case histories and experiments.

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Time rules our lives, but how much do we really understand it? In "Time Warped", we meet the people willing to go to extreme lengths to find out. ... More

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Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they make mistakes? Why the endless ... More

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Describing the mind as a "society" that arises out of ever-smaller, mindless agents, each chapter corresponds to a single puzzle piece and a unified ... More

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In "Consciousness Explained", Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the human brain. Daniel C ... More

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Author, psychiatrist and scholar, painter, world traveler, and above all visionary dreamer, Carl Jung was one of the great figures of the twentieth ... More

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Are you in need of a pick me up? Then you need to change your life, you need to solve your own problems, but how? The author has gathered together a ... More

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Why does time seem to speed up as we get older? Why does it seem to drag when we're bored or in pain, or to go slowly when we're in unfamiliar ... More

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A penetrating analysis of the dark corners of human deception, enlivened by intriguing case histories and experiments.

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'The Big Questions' series is designed to let renowned experts confront the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of ... More

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Freud suggested that artistic inspiration derived from sexual frustration and a need to escape reality by inventing phantasy. Others maintain that ... More

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In his first book "The Ape That Spoke", the author described the evolution of the human mind. In this book he applies his theories to the more ... More

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Tony Humphreys is one of Ireland's best known psychologists. In this selection of his articles from The Irish Times and the Irish Examiner , he ... More

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Aiming to help the reader understand how the brain and human memory bank works, this book introduces a matrix memory system known as SEMMM3 which is ... More

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