In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction
10 best books like In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction (David Perrett): One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu, The Green Shore, Flight From Berlin, Only with the Heart, The Names of Things, Genes, Chromosomes, and Disease, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century, Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort Through the Noise Around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies, The Addicted Brain: Why We Abuse Drugs, Alcohol, and Nicotine, Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us about Who We Are
The Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems by heart as a result of playing the popular card game version of the anthology. Collecting one poem each from one hundred poets living from the 7th century...
| Author | Natalie Bakopoulos |
| ISBN | 1451633920 |
Set in Athens and Paris, Natalie Bakopoulos’s masterful debut paints a finely etched portrait of one family, whose heartbreaking stories of love and resistance play out against the backdrop of the late 1960s Greek military dictatorship.
IN HER MASTERFUL DEBUT NOVEL, The Green Shore,...
| Author | D.B. John |
| ISBN | 0062091565 |
A cynical English reporter and a beautiful, headstrong, American Olympic hopeful are caught in a lethal game of international espionage during the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Flight from Berlin, a riveting debut thriller from breakout novelist David John. Combining the suspense and atmosphere of Alan...
| Author | Alexandria Constantinova Szeman |
| ISBN | 1559705957 |
After a childhood spent in foster homes and a lifetime of longing, Claudia has finally found a family: a devoted husband, Sam, and a loving and supportive mother, Eleanor. But soon Eleanor develops Alzheimer's -- complete with violent eruptions, speechlessness, incontinence, and suicide attempts...
| Author | John Colman Wood |
| ISBN | 1618220055 |
The anthropologist's wife, an artist, didn't want to follow her husband to the remote desert of northeast Africa to live with camel-herding nomads. But wanting to be with him, she endured the trip, only to fall desperately ill years later with a disease that leaves her husband with more questions than...
Genes, Chromosomes, and Disease
| Author | Nicholas Wright Gillham |
| ISBN | 0137075448 |
This very readable overview of the rise and transformations of medical genetics and of the eugenic impulses that have been inspired by the emerging understanding of the genetic basis of many diseases and disabilities is based on a popular nonmajors course, "Social Implications of Genetics," that...
Evolution: A View from the 21st Century
| Author | James A. Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0132780933 |
James A. Shapiro's Evolution: A View from the 21st Century proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological evolution. Shapiro demonstrates why traditional views of evolution are inadequate to explain the latest evidence, and presents a compelling alternative. His information-...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort Through the Noise Around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies
| Author | Sherry Seethaler |
| ISBN | 0137155220 |
What's healthy? What's unhealthy? What's safe? What's dangerous? Watch the news, and it's easy to be overwhelmed by snippets of badly presented science: information that's incomplete, confusing, contradictory, out-of-context, wrong, or flat-out dishonest.
In this book, Dr. Sherry...
The Addicted Brain: Why We Abuse Drugs, Alcohol, and Nicotine
| Author | Michael Kuhar |
| ISBN | 0132542501 |
Addiction destroys lives. In "The Addicted Brain, "leading neuroscientist Michael Kuhar, Ph.D., explains how and why this happens and presents advances in drug addiction treatment and prevention. Using breathtaking brain imagery and other research, Kuhar shows the powerful, long-term brain...
Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us about Who We Are
| Author | Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0137155166 |
Neuroscientists once believed your brain was essentially "locked down" by adulthood. No new cells. No major changes. If you grew up depressed, angry, sad, aggressive, or nasty, you'd be that way for life. And, as you grew older, there'd be nowhere to go but down, as disease, age, or injury wiped out precious,...
Astronomy For Amateurs (Illustrated Edition)
Nicolas Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was usually credited as Camille Flammarion. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and several works about...
| Author | Eugene Pascal |
| ISBN | 0446392944 |
Dnf p. 127. The idea of a book about Jung written in an accessible way for the lay public is a good one. This guy's writing style is easily readable, & is not a problem. The actual problem is the author. He is the wrong person to do this work, as he can not stop making wrong & inappropriate assertions....
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
| Author | Andy Clark |
| ISBN | 0262531569 |
The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Whereas the mental has been treated as a realm...
| Author | Tony Williams |
| ISBN | 1402245661 |
This book needs maps!!!! Why do so many people who write historical accounts fail to include maps in their books? My reason for reading the book is that we will be moving to the Jamestown area shortly and I wanted to learn more about the colony. I feel that I learned more about some of the men who became Jamestown's...
| Author | Liz Pulliam Weston |
| ISBN | 0132254581 |
""A great credit score can help you finish rich! Liz Pulliam Weston gives solid, easy-to-understand advice about how to improve your credit fast. Read this book and prosper."" -David Bach, bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire and The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner ""Excellent book!...
| Author | Edward D. Hess |
| ISBN | 0137126670 |
"Hess and Goetz present a roadmap for how to avoid the things that can cause you to stumble and how to build a business the right way." -JEFF ZEIGLER, CEO, TechTurn.com, Austin, TX "When I started my graphic design business, I knew I had enough talent to impress and keep my clients, but I struggled with the...
Sunday Times Book of the Year
This is a book about what it feels like to be exceptional - and what it takes to get there. Why can some people achieve greatness when others can't, no matter how hard they try? What are the secrets of long life and happiness? Just how much potential does our species have?In...
| Author | Glen O. Gabbard |
| ISBN | 1585621854 |
This new edition of the classic psychodynamic psychiatry text, Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, continues its tradition as the most readable, scholarly, and practical introduction to psychodynamic theory and practice available. Kept within arm's reach of all mental health professionals,...
| Author | Lone Frank |
| ISBN | 1851686495 |
The age of the brain is upon us. The realisation that the fundamental building blocks of our world consist of brains rather than nations, electrons, or even DNA is ushering in a ‘neurocentric’ revolution, challenging how we think about everything from morality to the stock market, and how we view...
| Author | Christina Hoff Sommers |
| ISBN | 0312304447 |
Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals. Today---with...
| Author | John Bowlby |
| ISBN | 0415354811 |
Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well-known...
| Author | Isaac Adamson |
| ISBN | 1593764324 |
A serial killer with a penchant for severed hands. A watch that runs backward and forward – at the same time. An Eastern European gangster known only as Rumplestiltskin. The Nazi invasion of Prague, Soviet-era Czech secret police, 16th century alchemy and black magic – mild-mannered American...
There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests don't measure anything "real", and only reflect how good you are at doing IQ tests; that they ignore important...
| Author | Robert A. Johnson |
| ISBN | 1585425869 |
The esteemed Jungian psychologist counsels on how to cope with feelings of failure or regret in the latter half of life and how to open to a more meaningful existence, even if outer circumstances cannot be changed.
In Living Your Unlived Life, the renowned therapist Robert A. Johnson, writing...
