Rebecca Gladding

Jeffrey Schwartz

Outlines a four-step method for breaking destructive thoughts and overcoming negative habits, sharing insights into how overactive brain circuits are at the core of compulsive behaviors and social anxieties.

The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life

You Are Not Your Brain

The 20th anniversary edition of the definitive classic on defeating obsessive-compulsive behavior, with all-new material from the author. An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over. Traditionally, OCD has been treated with Prozac or similar drugs. The problem with medication, aside from its cost, is that 30 percent of people treated don't respond to it, and when the pills stop, the symptoms invariably return. In Brain Lock, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D., presents a simple four-step method for overcoming OCD that is so effective, it's now used in academic treatment centers throughout the world. Proven by brain-imaging tests to actually alter the brain's chemistry, this method doesn't rely on psychopharmaceuticals. Instead, patients use cognitive self-therapy and behavior modification to develop new patterns of response to their obsessions. In essence, they use the mind to fix the brain. Using the real-life stories of actual patients, Brain Lock explains this revolutionary method and provides readers with the inspiration and tools to free themselves from their psychic prisons and regain control of their lives.

free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior : a four-step self-treatment method to change your brain chemistry

Brain lock

Ron Schreiber

"Contending with the Dark is as sure a first book as I've seen this decade. Modern, quick, idiomatic, exact, it should delight connoisseurs. But that's the least of it. It offers wisdom, a person, a love story, life against death. All that the ages keep asking of the poets, anciently." --George Starbuck "[Ron Schreiber's] poems are carried through by a prosody as subtle and varied as the life itself, responding in its hesitancies and halts, in its doubts, in its sudden grasp, in its space and sweep to the thought beneath." --David Eberly, Boston Gay Review "Schreiber Celebrates in the midst of his pain. I sense a fine almost animal energy, a magnetism... His loving and caring are frank, never sentimental, complete." --Robert Peters, Small Press Review

Contending with the Dark

Art Kleiner

Josie Thomson

Leadership is the habit of making good choices. Even in difficult and uncertain circumstances, the most effective leaders focus their attention and overcome entrenched patterns of behavior to push an organization to new heights of success. This capability is no fluke: the latest research on the brain shows that we can pinpoint the mental activity associated with it—and cultivate it for our benefit. In this book, Art Kleiner, a strategy expert; Jeffrey Schwartz, a research psychiatrist; and Josie Thomson, an executive coach, give a transformative explanation of how cutting-edge neuroscience can help business leaders set a course toward better management. Mapping the functions of a manager onto established patterns of mental activity, they identify crucial brain circuits and their parallels in organizational culture. Strategic leaders, they show, play the role of wise advocates: able to go beyond day-to-day transactional behavior to a longer-term, broader perspective that articulates their organization’s deeper purpose. True leaders can play this influencer role in an organization because they have cultivated similar self-reflective habits in their own minds. Providing a powerful guide to decision strategies and their consequences, The Wise Advocate helps managers find their own inner voice and then make that voice ring out loud and clear, with a four-step program for practice and catalytic implications for management strategy, executive education, and business results.

The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership

The Wise Advocate

Jimmy Page

Chuck Boyd

A showcase of rock 'n' roll photographer Chuck Boyd brings together newly discovered photos of his from the 1960s and 1970s, featuring such legends as Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Janis Joplin, the Mamas and the Papas, Tom Petty, the Grateful Dead, Simon and Garfunkel and the Beach Boys.

The Rock and Roll Photography of Chuck Boyd

Forever Young

Ian Tattersall

Head of the Anthropology Department Ian Tattersall

Challenging prevailing notions of the evolution of humans, this fascinating study of a controversial topic posits that the human evolutionary tree actually contained many branches, and that some of these groups may have exterminated others. 10,000 first printing.

Jeffrey Schwartz

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