How to Be Human
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Louis Cozolino: The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain
Louis Cozolino: The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom
Matthew Crawford: The World beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction
Susan David: Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
Joe Dispenza: Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind
Robin Dunbar: How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
Robin Dunbar: The Human Story
Mark Epstein: Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
Charles Fernyhough: The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves
Piero Ferrucci: The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life
Luc Ferry: A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
Elaine Fox: Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: The New Science of Optimism and Pessimism
Barbara L. Fredrickson: Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar: Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind
Eugene T. Gendlin: Focusing: How to Gain Direct Access to Your Body’s Knowledge
Sue Gerhardt: Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain
Paul Gilbert: The Compassionate Mind (Compassion Focused Therapy)
Paul Gilbert and Choden: Mindful Compassion
Linda Graham: Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-being
Rohan Gunatillake: This is Happening: Redesigning Mindfulness for Our Very Modern Lives
Rick Hanson: Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom
Rick Hanson: Hardwiring Happiness: How to Reshape Your Brain and Your Life
Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sam Harris: Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality without Religion
Bruce Hood: The Self Illusion: Why There is No ‘You’ Inside Your Head
Fred Hoyle: The Intelligent Universe: A New View of Creation and Evolution
Laura A. Jana: The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills Today That Will Shape Your Child’s Tomorrow
Steven Johnson: Mind Wide Open: Why You are What You Think
Sue Johnson: Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
Jon Kabat-Zinn: Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation
Jack Kornfield: A Path with Heart
Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon: A General Theory of Love
Beau Lotto: Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
Dr Shanida Nataraja: The Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and Proof of the Power of Meditation
Kristin Neff: Self-compassion
Wes Nisker: You Are Not Your Fault and Other Revelations: The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker
Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor: On Kindness
Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh: The Path: A New Way to Think about Everything
Marshall B. Rosenberg: Living Non-violent Communication: Practical Tools to Connect and Communicate Skillfully in Every Situation
Tamara Russell: Mindfulness in Motion: Healthier Life through Body-centred Meditation
Sharon Salzberg: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell: Parenting from the Inside Out
Daniel J. Siegel and Dr Tina Payne Bryson: The Whole-brain Child: 12 Proven Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
Tania Singer and Matthias Bolz (eds.): Compassion: Bridging Practice and Science
Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky: How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
Shawn T. Smith: The User’s Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It
L. S. Vygotsky: Thought and Language
Peter C. Whybrow: American Mania: When More is Not Enough
Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
D. W. Winnicott: The Child, the Family and the Outside World
Anthony Wolf: I’d Listen to My Parents if They’d Just Shut Up: What to Say and Not Say When Parenting Teens
Lewis Wolpert: Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression
And a special mention to Andrew Dellis, postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics at the University of Cape Town.
And to all the many many other experts I milked for information for this book who shall remain nameless, mainly because I forgot their names, but thank you anyway.
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ISBN: 978-0-241-29474-1