Popular Psychology Books
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice.
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate... (more)
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
Deepening global crises surround us. We are beset by climate change, fracking, tar sands extraction, GMOs, and mass extinctions of species, to say nothing of nuclear weapons proliferation and... (more)
The Positive Power of Negative Emotions: How harnessing your darker feelings can help you see a brighter dawn
The pursuit of happiness is universal. Most of us would like to experience more joy and elation, but when we feel like we are falling short of this ideal, we can often feel downcast. We may even see... (more)
Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and... (more)
On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life
The rich inner world of a human being is far more complex than either/or. You can love and hate, want to go and want to stay, feel both joy and sadness. Psychologist William Miller--one of the... (more)
The Healing Power of Pleasure: Seven Medicines for Rediscovering the Innate Joy of Being
A step-by-step journey into sensuality to rediscover the delight that lies just below the surface of everyday experience.
• Shares seven easily accessible spiritual “medicines”--slowing down,... (more)
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
A "courageous, compassionate, and rigorous every-person's guide" (Christina Bethell, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) that shows the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences... (more)
The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia, an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday... (more)
Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have... (more)
The Redstone Book of the Eye
As we look at the world the eye seeks meaning, searches for the familiar. 'I see!' we say when the penny drops, when things make sense. Then we smile - for the mind enjoys the eye surprised. But... (more)
The Book of Emotions
The Book of Emotions will entertain, inform, surprise and, above all, it will involve you. Playful, provocative and a visual delight, it will enhance your emotional intelligence, fine-tune your... (more)
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety
Science, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on our quality of life. Compared to previous generations, we have unprecedented access to information, increased... (more)
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety
'Tallis writes with clarity and wit' Sebastian Faulks.
Science, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on our quality of life. Compared to previous... (more)
Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization
A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others-and how and why we do it.
"I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to... (more)
Thin Places
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the space of a year Kerri’s family were forced out of two homes and when... (more)
Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining Our World and Ourselves
Climate crisis disrupts the beliefs, values and behaviors of contemporary societies, sparking potential for radical changes in culture and consciousness. Drawing upon her experience as a Jungian... (more)
The Profession and Practice of Horticultural Therapy
The Profession and Practice of Horticultural Therapy is a comprehensive guide to the theories that horticultural therapists use as a foundation for their practice and provides wide-ranging... (more)
Earth Spirit: Confronting the Crisis - Essays and Meditations on Eco-Spirituality
If the human species has an evolutionary purpose that purpose is delight. Aren't we constituted to experience and express conscious delight in the immensity and intimacy of creation, the diversity,... (more)
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
A witty, insightful, and groundbreaking take on one of the most urgent questions of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change?
Most of us... (more)
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future
When uncertainty is all around us, and the facts are not clear, how can we make good decisions?
We do not know what the future will hold, particularly in the midst of a crisis, but we must... (more)
Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime
Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of... (more)
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the... (more)
Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if... (more)
Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop: As Portrayed on SMALL AXE, A Collection of Five Films
'I was amazed and intrigued by the way Leroy had stood his ground and progressed within the Metropolitan Police against so many obstacles: hostility, outright racism and being repeatedly overlooked... (more)
The World Looks Like This From Here: Thoughts on African Psychology
What does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African - with full consciousness... (more)