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Daniel Hill
This book argues that mental life is organized by and around affect. It proposes a clinical model for understanding how affect influences states of consciousness and self. It illustrates how…
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Serife Tekin
Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with…
Filippo Sabetti
Drawing on case studies in Italian history, Struggles for Self-Rule asks, do the centralizing tendencies of modern politics sap the self-organizing powers of individuals and communities, and what, if anything…
Aimee Pokwatka
‘Fraught and deeply moving…the work of a genuinely exciting new talent.’ - Booker Prize winner, George Saunders.
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Krzysztof Pelc
A bold, incisive and original work that draws on three centuries of intellectual thought, Beyond Self-Interest is a book to upend how we relate to capitalism.
A revised edition of the book by the founder of the self-esteem movement which radically altered mainstream contemporary psychology with a new concept of human self-understanding. Nathaniel Branden reaffirms the…
Heather Younger
Learn to take control of your own professional destiny and lead yourself through challenging situations
In The Art of Self-Leadership: Discover the Power Within You and Learn to Lead Yourself…
Konstantinos Tselios
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Pascal Bonafoux
A volume dedicated to Pablo Picasso’s self-portraits from his earliest works to his final years, a number of which are published here for the first time.
Puty Puar
Being a woman in this modern society is getting more challenging each day. There are a lot of expectations from our closest ones and even pressures from strangers on the…
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Lauri-Ann Ainsworth
Find success and create organisational change by focusing on your own happiness and wellbeing
Written by Lauri-Ann Ainsworth, CEO of the Richard Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship Caribbean, the region's foremost…
Pooja Lakshmin
Powerful practices to heal yourself and our broken culture
'A bracingly honest, galvanising and necessarily provocative look at "self-care" through a political and feminist lens' Pandora Sykes
'This isn't just…
Peter Carey
Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother.
Bunny Michael
Hello, Higher Self is a self-care manifesto that calls on you to radically shift your perspective from the Learned Hierarchical Beliefs (LHBs) - judging yourself against the world around you…
Reinhard Kowalski
Originally published in 1993, Discovering Your Self is a remarkable and original personal account of psychotherapy and psychosynthesis. Through it, Reinhard Kowalski, a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, charts his…
Russell A. Jones
Originally published in 1977, this title integrates a wide variety of research and theory dealing with inter- and intrapersonal expectancies, from which the author develops a new theoretical model. The…
Fred Dervin
Based on the author's 25 years of experience in researching and teaching interculturality, Intercultural Self-Defence: A Resource Book for Students, Teachers and Researchers is a compelling exploration of the subtle…
Lakeysha Hallmon
This book isn't just for one kind of entrepreneur--it's for every kind. Whether you're thriving with purpose or struggling to grow your business and battle self-doubt, No One is Self-Made…
Huw Richards, Sam Cooper
Year-round growing plan to yield six portions of veg per person per day plus batching and preserving recipes
Eat homegrown food all year round and save money on your weekly…
Dr Yoon Hong Gyun
The 1.1 million copy Korean bestseller from Dr Yoon Hong Gyun that teaches you how to become the very best and most desirable version of yourself
The Self-Esteem Class teaches…
Megan Sherer
In this guide to self-awareness and compassion for single women struggling with unhealthy dating and relationship patterns, expert coach and therapist Megan Sherer shares potent reflection prompts, somatic exercises, and…
Show Nemoto
A self love guide for the new generation influenced by the Japanese philosophy of self love-told in Show Nemoto's inspiring and down to earth style. This loving guide empowers your…
Suzy Reading
A 7-step guide to winter: how to not only survive the winter months but to thrive in them - from one of the UK's leading self-care experts.
Jeanette Bronee
This is a generous and profound book, a book worth sharing. It will stick with you for years to come." -Seth Godin, Author, The Practice
"Jeanette gives us the much-needed…
Rachel Lyon
The provocative first novel from Rachel Lyon (author of Fruit of the Dead) following a photographer in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, soon to be made into…
Justin T. Jordan, David R. Mayans
An ideal resource for current and comprehensive board prep, Neurology Self-Assessment, Second Edition, thoroughly covers the core and subspecialty topics you'll encounter on your exam. This companion volume to Bradley…
Sumathi Reddy
With 100 rules in an illustrated, giftable package, illustrated by vivid line art, this book gives readers a thorough but accessible self-care guide to help them find mindfulness in all…
Arbinger Institute
With almost 3 million copies sold worldwide, this new edition of a leadership classic brings a refreshing perspective on healing our professional and personal relationships.
Updated throughout with 25% new…
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Anastasia Charisiou
Reset and restore
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa
Learn to love yourself by rewiring your brain with this accessible guide from the bestselling author of Be Bold and host of Do You F*cking Mind? podcast.
Zanni Louise
Self belief is trusting yourself to learn new things and giving yourself space to make mistakes. Believing in yourself gives you the confidence to express yourself and stand up things…
Ruby Matley
Many women find first-time parenting both rewarding and challenging, joyful and exhausting. In this warm, wise and practical guide, author and podcaster Ruby Matley shares expert words of advice, simple…
Roberta Kwan
We share with Shakespeare, it seems, the assumption that to be human is to be an interpreter of oneself, others and the world seeking but not always arriving at understanding…
This book is a vital addition to the ongoing conversation surrounding the self in modernist literature and culture by shining a spotlight on strategies of self-optimization.
The second edition of this handbook explores the social, cognitive, motivational, interpersonal, clinical, and applied aspects of personal uncertainty. It showcases both the diversity and the unity that defines contemporary…
Yim Ming Connie Kwong
This book offers a new lens to conceptualise volunteer tourism through the 'moral self'. It moves beyond the absolute dichotomy between altruism and self-interest to the broader discussion around ways…
James Hall
Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer, and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, focusing on artists including Duerer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh, and Kahlo.
The School of Life
A visual journey to inspire and guide you through the inward exploration of the self.
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Daniel Louis Wyche
This book explores the ways several twentieth-century thinkers-Pierre Hadot, Georges Friedmann, Michel Foucault, Martin Luther King Jr., and Audre Lorde-can help us relate the ethical transformation of the self and…
Donna Maria Thomas, Sarah Durston
A courageous and exciting reconsideration of self, experience and reality and its implications for doing social research differently
Faatima Harley
Self Care Love Notes is a beautiful coloring book with artwork featuring African American women taking time out for themselves. It is designed to help women relieve stress and find…
There is a tendency, in contemporary epistemology, to treat 'perceptual knowledge' and 'self-knowledge' as labels for different and largely unconnected sets of philosophical problems. The project of this volume is…
Erving Goffman
Presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance. This title shows us how people use such ‘fixed props’ as houses, clothes, and…
This book is the first to provide a general theory of self-destruction in complex systems. The volume suggests a unified theory of systemic self-destruction applicable to natural, social and cultural…
Presenting innovative ways to infuse self-compassion into psychotherapy, this book brings together foremost experts. Clinicians from any orientation are guided to cultivate self-compassion themselves and incorporate it into interventions with…
