Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected? You need some Quirkology in your life. While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems, Richard Wiseman has been busy uncovering the secret ingredients of charisma, exploring how our personalities are shaped by when we are born and examining why people usually miss the obvious signs of their partner's infidelity. Using scientific methods to investigate offbeat topics that interest the general public as well as the scientific community, "Quirkology" brings a new understanding to the backwaters of the human mind and takes us to places where mainstream scientists fear to tread.It is comparable to "Freakonomics", but British, far more populist, and a lot funnier. Findings include: How does your surname influence your life? What does the way you walk reveal about your personality? Why should women have men write their personal ads? What is the funniest joke in the world?

One of the most popular fitness books of all time. Theoriginal edition has sold over 3? million copies worldwide and isin 23 languages. Stretching has been updated in this revised 30thedition, with: 10 new stretching routines for office workers andcomputer operators tips on office ergonomics and preventingrepetitive stress injuries new 2-color design "...teaches the rightway to stretch with over 1,000 clear drawings and more than 200stretches...includes stretching routines for 36 sports andactivities."

Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the mind

作者与身患绝症的母亲关于书、关于书背后的生命的对话 Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatmentswhen Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversationthey have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the samebooks so they can have something to talk about in the hospitalwaiting room. Their choices range from classic (Howards End) topopular (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), from fantastic (TheHobbit) to spiritual (Jon Kabat-Zinn), with many in between. Wehear their passion for reading and their love for each other intheir intimate and searching discussions. A profoundly moving testament to the power of love between achild and parent, and the power of reading in our lives. Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatmentswhen Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversationthey have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the samebooks so they can have something to talk about in the hospitalwaiting room. Their choi

Bestselling psychologist Richard Wiseman unravels the science behind our beliefs in telepathy, clairvoyants, mediums, ghosts, and more...

这本书已经由德语翻译成20多种语言，是2012年德国畅销的非小说类图书。本书意在指导人们在面对抉择时，该如何清楚地做出正确合理的决定。TheArt of ThinkingClearly没有大段的专业心理学理论，但包含了很多来自于日常生活的案例，使得这本书更适合普通读者阅读。而且Hodder版本价格很好，适合销售。 THE SECRETS OF PERFECT DECISION-MAKING Have you ever... Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn'tworth it? Overpayed in an Ebay auction? Continued doing something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late, or too early? Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on externalcircumstances? Backed the wrong horse? These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we allmake in our day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are andhow to spot them, we can avoid them and make better choices -whether dealing with a personal prob

The widely acclaimed "father of cognitive psychotherapy" adds anew introduction to the gold-standard book on anxiety disorders andphobias At the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renownedpsychiatrist Aaron T Beck turned to information processing in orderto understand the sources, consequences and cures of anxietydisorders and phobias. In the first half of this classic text, Beckelaborates on the clinical picture of anxiety disorders and phobiasand presents an explanatory model to account for the richcomplexity of these phenomena. Cognitive psychologist Gary Emerythen details the therapeutic principles, strategies and tacticsdeveloped on the basis of the cognitive model of anxiety disordersand phobias. This fifteenth anniversary edition of the foundationalwork on cognitive therapy features a new introduction by Beck, inwhich he offers an up-to-date appraisal of the current state ofcognitive therapy and its application to the treatment of phobiasand anxiety.