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A Very Human Ending: How Suicide Haunts Our Species by Jesse Bering
Category: Culture
'This book touches on some deep questions relevant to us all... A fascinating, thoughtful, unflinching meditation on one of the most intriguing and curious aspects of the human condition.' - Dr Frank Tallis Why do people want to kill themselves? Despite the prevalence of suicide in the developed world, ...Show more
A Very Human Ending - How Suicide Haunts Our Species by Jesse Bering
Category: Emotional Health
'This book touches on some deep questions relevant to us all... A fascinating, thoughtful, unflinching meditation on one of the most intriguing and curious aspects of the human condition.' - Dr Frank TallisWhy do people want to kill themselves? Despite the prevalence of suicide in the developed world, i ...Show more
Perv by Jesse Bering
Category: Culture
In this eye-opening book, psychologist Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another. He introduces us to the young woman who falls madly in love with the Eiffel Tower, a young man addicted to seductive sneezes, and a pair of deeply affectionate identical twins, among other ...Show more
Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering (Queen's University, Belfast)
Category: Culture
"As a sex writer, Jesse Bering is fearless--and peerless." --Dan Savage "You are a sexual deviant. A pervert, through and through." We may not want to admit it, but as the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering reveals in "Perv," there is a spectrum of perversion along which we all sit. W ...Show more
Suicidal - Why We Kill Ourselves by Jesse Bering
Category: Self-Help
For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a successful psychologist and writer, with books to his name and bylines in major magazines. But none of that mattered. The impulse to take his own life remained. At times it felt all but inescapable. Bering su ...Show more
The Belief Instinct - The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life by Jesse Bering
Category: Self-Help
Lively and brilliantly argued, The Belief Instinct explains the psychology behind belief. Drawing on surprising new studies as well as on literature, philosophy, and even pop culture, The Belief Instinct will reward readers with an enlightened understanding of belief as well as the tools to break free o ...Show more
The God Instinct : The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life by Jesse Bering
Category: Mind, Body and Spirit
The psychology of souls, destiny and the meaning of life. An entertaining and thought-provoking book that argues a belief in higher forces, though ridiculous to some, is hardwired into our genetic makeup and has carried with it massive evolutionary benefi ts. In today’s world, these psychological illusi ...Show more
The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life by Jesse Bering
Category: Mind Body Spirit
The evolutionary psychology behind belief in God - The God Instinct explores how people's everyday thoughts, behaviours and emotions betray an innate tendency to reason as though God were deeply invested in their public lives and secret affairs. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, Jesse Ber ...Show more
Why is the Penis Shaped Like That? by Jesse Bering
Category: Science
Jesse Bering - author, psychologist, academic - has what you might call an enquiring mind. He takes the kind of questions about sex and sexuality which many of us have idly wondered about and he applies his knowledge of experimental psychology and rigorous scientific analysis to them until he finds an a ...Show more
Why is the Penis Shaped Like That? by Jesse Bering
Category: Sexuality
Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does 'free will' really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway? Research psychologist and award-winning columnist Jesse Bering takes readers on a bold ...Show more
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