Sex, Murder and the Meaning of Life
This book will take you on a different kind of ride to what it means to be fully human. Psychologist Douglas Kenrick makes the case for how evolutionary psychology and cognitive science fuse to tell us what makes humans tick, but does so by coming in through our dark,...
How We Decide
Want to know how you really make decisions? Check out Johah Lehrer’s stimulating take on this. Traditionally, reason and emotion are pitted against one another when we ponder how we make decisions. But Lehrer paints a much more complicated picture. In How We...
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
As someone who has studied psychology for years, I love good psychology books that challenge the myths. That’s what this book does. I agree with Scott Lilienfeld and his co-authors that psychology is a powerful tool that can bring us valuable insight—but...
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America
In this book, historian Ruth Rosen gives us a comprehensive survey of recent struggles for women’s rights that…
