NONFICTION
Released: March 21, 2013
"While the eye-catching title may suggest a hot new shade of lipstick, the contents are solid, down-to-earth insights into why we think, feel and act the way we do."
A brisk survey of how human emotions, thoughts and behaviors are shaped by such seemingly small factors as colors as well as such major ones as culture and weather.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 19, 2013
"Will be intriguing for readers interested in the borderlands where memoir, fiction and science overlap but is likely to frustrate readers unfamiliar with the byways of British life."
Fernyhough (
A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind, 2010, etc.) takes a multidisciplinary approach to explaining memory.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 15, 2013
"An intriguing mixture of challenging ideas and Utopian solutions to the broader issues regarding social welfare currently under debate."
Former
BusinessWeek assistant managing editor Nussbaum (Innovation and Design/Parson School of Design;
Good Intentions: How Big Business and the Medical Establishment Are Corrupting the Fight Against Aids, 1990, etc.) makes the case that the future of American capitalism lies in unleashing creativity.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 12, 2013
"A sexy heads up for young women who may not grasp how culture and media continually manipulate women into thinking that what they have and how they look are never quite good enough."
A fun and enlightening guide detailing the multifaceted ways women can integrate an inclusive mode of feminism into their lives without compromising their ideals and giving up their lip gloss.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"The author's suggestion of the $600 billion savings to be had by eliminating public education suggests a libertarian political agenda, but it should make his proposals attractive, if not entirely convincing."
Psychology Today blogger Gray (Psychology/Boston Coll.) argues the need for radical reforms in our educational system.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"Will not convince the cynical or pessimistic among us, but for those who already engage in hopeful thinking, Lopez offers positive reinforcement."
A leading authority on the psychology of hope shares the secret of how to achieve a happier and more successful future.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2013
"Enlivened by literary anecdotes, but less appealing as social history."
Shorter (Psychiatry and History of Medicine/Toronto Univ.; co-author:
Endocrine Psychiatry, 2010, etc.) charges that current diagnoses of mood disorders are fatally flawed and becoming "close to unintelligible."
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"Illuminating and entertaining, with some surprising insights from current research in neuroscience and endocrinology."
Bronson and Merryman (
Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children, 2010, etc.) combine forces again to debunk truisms of positive psychology.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A convincing case against media hype and a premature rush to judgment."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"A horrifying cautionary tale that reveals the vast dimensions of our vulnerability in the cyber age."
The story of a 30-something college student who employed an array of digital weapons to attack her writing professor, who loved her writing but rejected her amorous advances.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 11, 2013
"A valuable guide for individuals seeking help and for their families, as well as for policymakers."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2013
"A learned, highbrow approach to matters mystical and extrasensory."
