Psychology

A practical and inspiring guide to adjusting to life after your children leave home.

Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.

Introduces us to the stories of the brain science and the discipline of 'neuroplasticity'. This title allows you to meet the stroke victim who unable to feed or dress himself learned to move and talk again, and the maverick scientists over turning centuries of assumptions about the brain and it's capacity for renewal.

Mind Magic explores manifestation through the lens of neuroscience and offers inspiration and practical advice to readers on achieving their goals.

Cork-based primary teachers Claire Droney and Annelies Verbiest have written The Everyday Autism Handbook for Schools. The book is aimed at primary and special school staff, as well as trainee teachers in training colleges. Containing over 60 easy-to-read guides, it focuses on being easy-to-read, and jargon-free, with lots of simple theory and explanation, practical strategies and practical illustrative case-studies. Hopefully the kind of book that teachers would genuinely want to sit down with and dip in and out of over a cup of coffee. The definitive resource for busy teachers working with children with autism in mainstream and special schools. This easy-to-read guide sets out practical strategies, lesson plans, checklists and advice to tackle the common hurdles within a classroom environment and ensure that busy teachers can equip students to achieve their full potential.

Takes you to the edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. This book brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation. It shows, by harnessing this science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.

In the international bestseller The Power of Habit, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explained why we do what we do. In this book, he explains how we can get better at the things we do. It is an exploration of the science of productivity.

Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, or at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them possible - and just how complicated the business of making and keeping friends actually is.

Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call. Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaster.

The gripping story of an extraordinary life spent inside major disasters - from Hillsborough and 9/11 to Grenfell and Covid - from the UK's leading expert on disaster recovery.