The Status Seekers

6 best books like The Status Seekers (Vance Packard): The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, Bergdorf Blondes, Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, Secondhand Souls

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Author

John le Carré

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carre brings to light the shadowy dealings of international...

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Author	Simon Winchester
ISBN	0060839783

The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857,...

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Author

Norman Doidge

An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives...

Bergdorf Blondes

Author	Plum Sykes
ISBN	1401359604

Plum Sykes beguiling debut welcomes readers to the glamorous world of Park Avenue Princesses, the girls who careen through Manhattan in search of the perfect Fake Bake (tan acquired from Portofino Tanning Salon), a ride on a PJ (private jet) with the ATM (rich boyfriend), and the ever-elusive fiance....

Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine

Author	Candace B. Pert
ISBN	0684846349

Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system?
In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert provides startling and decisive answers...

Secondhand Souls

Author	Christopher Moore
ISBN	0061779784

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can't be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.

Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but...