Psychology

Dec272018 by Free eBookNo Comments

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? by Alan Alda

Autobiography, Biography, Language, Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? by Alan Alda eBook Download Alan Alda, the award-winning actor and bestselling author, tells us the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor. Alan Alda has been on a decades-long journey to discover new ways to help people communicate and relate to one another more effectively. If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? is the warm, witty, and informative chronicle of how Alda found inspiration in everything from cutting-edge science to classic acting methods. His search began when he was host of PBS's Scientific American Frontiers, where he interviewed thousands o

Dec182018 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn

Health, Horror, Nonfiction, Psychology

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn eBook Download Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy... their doctors. "It was the dog who found me." Such is the stark confession launching the harrowing scene that begins The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls as Emilie Autumn, a young musician on the verge of a bright career, attempts suicide by overdosing on the antipsychotics prescribed to treat her bipolar disorder. Upon being discovered, Emilie is revived and immediately incarcerated in a maximum-security psych ward, despite her protestations that she is not crazy, and can provide valid reasons for her actions if someone would only listen. Treated as a criminal, heavily medicated, and st...

Aug92018 by Free eBookNo Comments

This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin

Autobiography, Biography, Health, Nonfiction, Psychology

This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression eBook Download A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release! This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman’s perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and of basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a

Aug52018 by Free eBookNo Comments

What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan

Adult, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology, Sports and Games

What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan eBook Download *Instant New York Times Bestseller* The #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness bestseller From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting

Aug52018 by Free eBookNo Comments

Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright

Nonfiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Spirituality

Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright eBook Download From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain. But if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out thousands of years ago what scientists are only discovering now. Buddhism holds that human suffering is a result of not seeing the world clearly—and proposes that seeing th

Jul302018 by adminNo Comments

Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

Health, Nonfiction, Psychology, Self Help

Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig eBook Download The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious? After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. And he began to look for the link between what he felt and the world around him. Notes on a Nervous Planet is a personal and vital look at how to feel happy, human a

Jul282018 by Free eBookNo Comments

Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent

Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Psychology, Suspense, Thriller

Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent eBook Download I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her. Oliver Ryan, handsome, charismatic, and successful, has long been married to his devoted wife, Alice. Together they write and illustrate award-winning children’s books; their life together one of enviable privilege and ease—until, one evening after a delightful dinner, Oliver delivers a blow to Alice that renders her unconscious, and subsequently beats her into a coma. In the aftermath of such an unthinkable event, as Alice hovers between life and death, the couple’s friends, neighbours, and acquaintances try to understand what could have driven Oliver to commit such a horrific act. As his story unfolds, layers are peeled away to reveal a life of shame, envy, deception, and mas

Jul272018 by adminNo Comments

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

Health, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan eBook Download Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into th...

Jul92018 by adminNo Comments

Endure by Alex Hutchinson

Health, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science, Sports and Games

Endure by Alex Hutchinson eBook Download "Reveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits." --Adam Grant - "This book is AMAZING!" --Malcolm Gladwell Limits are an illusion: a revolutionary book that reveals the secrets of reaching the hidden extra potential within us all Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every field--from a 100-meter sprint to a 100-mile ultramarathon, from summiting Everest to acing final exams or completing any difficult project. But what if we all can go farther, push harder, and achieve more than we think we're capable of? Blending cutting-edge science and gripping storytelling in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell--who contributes the book's foreword--award-winn...

Jul92018 by adminNo Comments

Cringeworthy by Melissa Dahl

Nonfiction, Psychology, Self Help

Cringeworthy by Melissa Dahl eBook Download New York magazine's "Science of Us" editor explains the compelling psychology of awkwardness, and asks: what if the moments that make us feel most awkward are actually valuable? Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a presentation? Or accidentally liked an old photo on someone's Instagram or Facebook, thus revealing yourself to be a creepy social media stalker? Melissa Dahl, editor of New York magazine's "Science of Us" website, has. After a lifetime of cringing, she became intrigued by awkwardness: a universal but underappreciated emotion. In this witty and compassionate book, Dahl explores the oddest, crin

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