Made To Stick by Heath Chip
$62.99 NZD
Category: Personal Development
Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas struggle to make their ideas "stick ...Show more
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human - Softcover by V. S. Ramachandran
$34.24 NZD
Category: Neuroscience
In this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases--from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb syndrome. With a storyteller's eye for compelling case studies and a researcher's flair for new approaches to age-old questions, Ramachandran tackles ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$10.00 NZD
Category: Neuroscience | Reading Level: good-very good
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century""(The New York Times)" recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" tells the stories of ...Show more
Emotional Brain: the Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life by Joseph E LeDoux
$49.95 NZD
Category: Neuroscience
What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Josep ...Show more
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B Cialdini
$29.99 NZD
Category: Communication | Series: Collins Business Essentials Ser.
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes" -and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a ...Show more
Crucial Conversations Tools For Talking When Stakes Are High 2/E (Paperback) by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
$35.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
More than 1.5 million copies sold! Crucial Conversations has dominated the New York Times bestseller list for 10 years . . . and counting! The long-awaited second edition of Crucial Conversations is exactly what's needed to help professionals keep up with today's faster-paced, higher-stakes business en ...Show more
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Neuroscience
Charting the intellectual history of the emerging biology of mind, Eric R. Kandel illuminates how behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology have converged into a powerful new science of mind. This science now provides nuanced insights into normal mental functioning ...Show more
How To Make People Like You by Nicholas Boothman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Communication
Make instant, meaningful connections. For interviewing, selling, managing, pitching an idea, applying to college--or looking for a soulmate--the secret of success is based on connecting with other people. And you can do it in 90 seconds or less through Nicholas Boothman's program of establishing fa ...Show more
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by CIALDINI, ROBERT, PH D
$0.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
The acclaimed New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from Robert Cialdini--"the foremost expert on effective persuasion" (Harvard Business Review)--explains how it's not necessarily the message itself that changes minds, but the key moment before you deliver that message. What separate ...Show more
You are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You are by Robert Ailes
$36.99 NZD
Category: Personal Development
Roger Ailes, the media advisor to U.S. presidents, America's top executives, and celebrities tells readers how to: hold an audience in the palm of their hands; break through fear and other performance blocks; and get what they want by being who they are.
The Brain That Changes Itself (US ed.) by Norman Doidge
$32.99 NZD
Category: Neuroscience
What is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman Doidge's inspiring guide to the new brain science explains all of this and more An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable, and proving that it is, in fa ...Show more
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David M Eagleman
$34.66 NZD
Category: Neuroscience
If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate its surprising mysteries. Why can your foot move hal ...Show more
