The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing by Bruce Perry & Maia Szalavitz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence. Here he tells their stories of trauma and transformation.
The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness : A Memoir of an Adolescence by Graham Caveney
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'By turns honest, angry, funny, thoughtful, acerbic and desperately sad' Guardian Graham Caveney was born in 1964 in Accrington: a town in the north of England, formerly known for its cotton mills, now mainly for its football team. Armed with his generic Northern accent and a record collection including ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard, Clint Howard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben-these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the '60s and '70s. Join award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and audience-favorite actor Clint Howard as they frankly and fondly share their unusual family story of navigating and surviving life as sibling chil ...Show more
The Brain - The Story of You by David Eagleman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience | Reading Level: good-very good
'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics and ...Show more
The Brain 10 Things You Should Know by Sophie Scott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours and more.Written by Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, Sophie Scott, and composed of ten mind-blowing yet accessible essays, The Brain guides you through the astounding complexities of the organ ...Show more
The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks by Mike Dow
$22.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Is stress preventing you from enjoying your daily life? Do you find that you're becoming more distracted or forgetful? Are "the blues" sapping your spirits? Or do you simply feel not quite like yourself? If you want to reclaim your focus, memory, and joy, you're not alone. There are millions of people ...Show more
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience | Series: The\Neuroplasticity Chronicles Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 'BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK' This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing - Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
Based on astonishing case studies, this is a brilliant and beautifully written follow-up to Dr Doidge’s record-breaking bestseller The Brain That Changes Itself. In his first book, Norman Doidge described the most important development in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discove ...Show more
The Brain: A User's Manual: A Simple Guide to the World's Most Complex Machine by Marco Magrini
$24.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A simple guide to the world's most complex machine.
The Brain: A User's Manual: A simple guide to the world's most complex machine by Marco Magrini
$22.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
"Congratulations on the purchase of this exclusive product, tailor-made just for you. It will provide you with years of continuous service."The brain is one of nature's most miraculous but misunderstood creations. In this fascinating user-friendly guide, you will discover all you need to know about what ...Show more