Penguin Books Australia

Develop the mindset, spirit, and discipline you need to achieve real wealth on your own terms!

We all relish a good scandal — the larger the figure (governor, judge) and more shocking the particulars (nappies, cigars) — the better. But why do people feel compelled to act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage, and why do we so enjoy watching them, hurling our condemnations while savouring every lurid detail?

The advice you need to conquer the obsessive love cycle.

When does healthy love become an obsession? How can you protect yourself from falling prey to obsessive love? What are the warning signs of a controlling relationship? The answers to these questions aren't always easy to see, especially if you're in the middle of an obsessive relationship.

A reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom.

It's in our nature to want to succeed. It's also human nature to want to do right. But we've lost how to balance the two. How do we get it back?

Every aspect of your life can be improved with positive psychology. Positive psychology helps us build resilience, optimism, emotional intelligence, meaning, self-esteem, wisdom, motivation and much more! It wakes us up to the power of feeling good, thinking positively and acting generously. With positive psychology we can be healthier, live longer and feel more fulfilled – there is nothing...

Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has ever been produced.