Forward into Fall: Psychology
Edited by Dick Donahue Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Liz Hartman, Lauren Joyce, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen, Oona Short, Skip Skwarek, Julie Stevenson and Michelle Wildge -- Publishers Weekly, 8/6/2007
American Psychological Association
Listening to Battered Women: A Survivor-Centered Approach to Advocacy, Mental Health, and Justice (Oct., $59.95), edited by Lisa A. Goodman and Deborah Epstein, explores and critiques society's responses to domestic violence.
Cambridge Univ. Press
What Is Intelligence? (Sept., $22) by James R. Flynn presents a paradigm for understanding intelligence that challenges existing theories.
Sarah Crichton Books/FSG
The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior—and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage (Feb., $26) by Martha Stout explains how people can live free of fear only by understanding the way paranoia works. Ad/promo.
HCI Books
Awe (Oct., $19.95) by Paul Pearsall studies the effects of this newly recognized emotion in physiological, psychological, sociological, political and spiritual terms. 50,000 first printing.
Knopf
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Oct., $26) by Oliver Sacks uses the experiences of patients, musicians and others to delve into the powers of music to affect people in diverse ways. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 6-city author tour.
Perigee
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire (Sept., $23.95) by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa looks at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.
Random House
What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage: Life Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers (Jan., $16.95) by Amy Sutherland expands into book form a 2006 New York Times article about applying the principles of exotic animal training to other areas of living.
Tarcher
Living Your Unlived Life: Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the Second Half of Your Life (Oct., $22.95) by Robert A. Johnson and Jerry Ruhl counsels on how to cope with feelings of failure and open up to a more meaningful existence. Author tour.
Univ. of Chicago Press
The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations (Oct., $22.50) by Stephen E. Braude narrates the author's most memorable encounters with the paranormal in everyday life.
