18 Best nonfiction books like The Empathy Effect by Helen Riess

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The Empathy Effect

By: Helen Riess

3.80

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Diff…

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1. This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

By: Annie Grace

4.25

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change … read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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2. Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

By: Philip Houston , None , Susan Carnicero , None , Michael Floyd

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three former CIA officers - among the world’s foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavio… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Людська поведінка не завжди логічна."

-Philip Houston, Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

"There's only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic."

-Philip Houston, Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

"Не можна приписувати поведінці значущість, якщо не знаєте її причин."

-Philip Houston, Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

"Люди вірять у неправду не тому, що мусять, а тому, що хочуть. Малколм Маггерідж"

-Philip Houston, Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

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3. We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

By: Robert A. Johnson

4.20

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Provides an illuminating explanation of the origins and meaning of romantic love and shows how a pr… read more

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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Özverinin kanunu şudur: Eğer bir erkek yanlış düzeyde sahip olduğu şeyden vazgeçerse, bu ona doğru düzeyde iade edilir."

-Robert A. Johnson, We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

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4. Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender

By: David R. Hawkins

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The present work describes a simple and effective means by which to let go of the obstacles to Enli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
"The crucial point is: by changing ourselves, we change the world. As we become more loving on the inside, healing occurs on the outside. Much like the rising of the sea level lifts all ships, so the …"

-David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender

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5. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

By: Kevin Dutton

3.75

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back."

-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

"What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?"

-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

"The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, is…"

-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

"Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact o…"

-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

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6. The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity

By: Melanie Greenberg

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"For people suffering from stress, this book is a godsend." --Kristin Neff, PhD, author of Self-Com… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Greenberg's The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity book and Helen Riess's The Empathy Effect

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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7. The Art of Seduction

By: Robert Greene , Робърт Грийн

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium," s… read more

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  • relationships
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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8. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

By: Douglas Gillette , Robert L. Moore

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally di… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help

9. Clay's Ark (Patternmaster, #3)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world b… read more

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10. Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

By: Charles Wheelan

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, … read more

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11. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

By: Simon Sinek

3.50

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Why do you do what you do? Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential,… read more

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12. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents book and Helen Riess's The Empathy Effect

  • relationships
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

13. Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

By: Roman Krznaric

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Discover the Six Habits of Highly Empathic People A popular speaker and co-founder of The School of… read more

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14. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

By: Sue Johnson

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Heralded by the New York Timesand Timeas the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emot… read more

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15. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

By: Kristin Neff

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more sel… read more

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16. Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free

By: Susan Peirce Thompson

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

Bright Line Eating has helped thousands of people from over 75 countries lose all their excess weig… read more

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17. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

By: Michael A. Singer

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can y… read more

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18. Self-Esteem: A proven program of cognitive techniques for assessing, improving and maintaining your self-esteem

By: Matthew McKay , Patrick Fanning

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Self-esteem is essential for our survival. Without some measure of self-worth, life can be enormous… read more

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19. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

By: Annie Duke

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more

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  • self help
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends by Marisa G. Franco

20. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

Similar categories in Marisa G. Franco's Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends book and Helen Riess's The Empathy Effect

  • relationships
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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21. Katedra

By: Jacek Dukaj

2.97

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

7 minut i 37 stron do Hollywood Katedra nominowana do Oscara TOMEK BAGIŃSKI - twórca Katedry, fil… read more

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22. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

By: Gad Saad

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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23. Everybody Fights: So Why Not Get Better at It?

By: Kim Holderness

4.33

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller Learn how to fight better and end arguments feel… read more

Similar categories in Kim Holderness's Everybody Fights: So Why Not Get Better at It? book and Helen Riess's The Empathy Effect

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda

24. If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating

By: Alan Alda

3.86

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

From iconic actor and bestselling author Alan Alda, an indispensable guide to communicating better—… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"The trouble with a lecture is that it answers questions that haven't been asked."

-Alan Alda, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating

"You're going to learn if something's bad. It's not like you're going to say, 'Well, that lion was really unpleasant. I think maybe I'll come back here and see if I like it the next time."

-Alan Alda, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating

"I came to the conclusion that, even in life, unless I’m responding with my whole self—unless, in fact, I’m willing to be changed by you—I’m probably not really listening. But if I do listen—openly, n…"

-Alan Alda, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating

"I would come in armed with only curiosity, and my own natural ignorance. I was learning the value of bringing my ignorance to the surface... Ignorance was my ally, as long as it was backed up by curi…"

-Alan Alda, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating

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25. The Empathy Effect

By: Helen Riess

3.80

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Diff… read more

Similar categories in Helen Riess's The Empathy Effect book and Helen Riess's The Empathy Effect

  • relationships
  • self help
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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26. Stone Maidens (Stone Maidens #1)

By: Lloyd Devereux Richards

3.76

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

As the chief forensic anthropologist for the FBI’s Chicago field office, Christine Prusik has worke… read more

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27. The Only Living Girl on Earth

By: Charles Yu

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Univ… read more

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28. Side Life

By: Steve Toutonghi

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dazzling, paranoid literary sci-fi for fans of Blake Crouch and Philip K. Dick Vin, a down-on-hi… read more

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"The machines of the mind are more difficult to recognize than machines of iron and steam."

-Steve Toutonghi, Side Life

"With the world as with people, you know only the tiny percentage you pay close attention to."

-Steve Toutonghi, Side Life

"But think about this, maybe even though there are infinite versions of you, maybe every single one of them is an asshole."

-Steve Toutonghi, Side Life

"He had fashioned himself into a complex and intricate piece of living machinery, closely engineered for a now obsolete purpose."

-Steve Toutonghi, Side Life

Cover of Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference by Stephen Trzeciak

29. Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference

By: Stephen Trzeciak

4.02

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A 34-year-old man fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit is on an artificial respirator f… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • leadership
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30. A Manual for Being Human

By: Sophie Mort

4.09

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘There is a damn good reason why people are struggling. We are not raised to understand ourselves. … read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Jesteś teraz dorosły. To bardzo ważne, by pamiętać, że niezależnie od tego, co przytrafiło nam się w dzieciństwie, to my decydujemy, jak będzie wyglądała nasza przyszłość. Mimo że zdarzenia z tamtego…"

-Sophie Mort, A Manual for Being Human

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31. Manage My Emotions: What I Wish I'd Learned in School about Anger, Fear and Love

By: Kenneth J. Martz

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Enrich Your Life! Internationally Renowned Now from the comfort of your home. As Seen on CBS, NB… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth J. Martz's Manage My Emotions: What I Wish I'd Learned in School about Anger, Fear and Love book and Helen Riess's The Empathy Effect

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science

17 Top self help books like The Empathy Effect by Helen Riess

Transform Your Habits

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Annie Grace

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

Philip Houston , None , Susan Carnicero , None , Michael Floyd

3.90

Transform Your Habits

We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

Robert A. Johnson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender

David R. Hawkins

4.09

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16 best-selling audiobook books like Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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