Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté
$30.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based - and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition. Gabor Maté is a revered physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry and psychology - and himself has ADD. With wisdom gained ...Show more
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
$42.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body | Reading Level: near fine
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who sta ...Show more
A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
$42.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life: A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and compani ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$30.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body | Reading Level: good-very good
What does it mean to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century? And how should we go about doing it? These are the most important questions to ask ourselves and the ones we most often avoid dealing with. This insightful, witty and generous book reveals one simple answer to the question of a good ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
$40.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more
Of Boys and Men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it by Richard V. Reeves
$28.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
Boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail at all three key school subjects: maths, reading and science In the US, the wages of most men are lower today than they were in 1979, while women’s wages have risen across the board In the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45 Boys are f ...Show more
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull
$32.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
In this acclaimed work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled history. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been described and treated ...Show more
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
$40.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
This is the ultimate manual for longevity.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people- heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifes ...Show more
The Power of Fun: Why fun is the key to a happy and healthy life by Catherine Price
$30.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
'An antidote to all the darkness' New York TimesWhen did you last feel exhilarated and lighthearted? When were you last engaged, focused and completely present? When is the last time you felt fully alive? In other words, when did you last have fun? In our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles, we often th ...Show more
Emotional: The New Thinking about Feelings by Leonard Mlodinow
$30.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as important to our success as thinkingYou make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat for breakfast to how to influence people, and not one of them could ...Show more
Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times by Brigid Delaney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
Tranquillity can be hard to find. The last few years have had most of us struggle with things outside of our control - lockdowns, illness, separation from loved ones, financial hardships. It's easy in times like these to feel overwhelmed, and when the world has turned itself upside down it's hard to fin ...Show more
Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit
$26.00 NZD
Category: Mind & Body
Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past. 'A vivid personal quest...rich and almost eerily timely' William Fiennes From mindfulness and meditation to yoga breaks and spiritual bootcamps, stepping back from daily ...Show more