Climate Psychology

With so many immediate and intensifying crises unfolding around us, how can therapists adapt to promote healing and growth? “As these intriguing essays make clear, some of the finest minds in the world are thinking through the problems and arriving at powerful answers." —Bill McKibben...

Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from living in a society that blames individuals for systemic problems, with this invaluable resource from the social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism. Systemic Shame is the...

Risk is not danger. It is the counting. Every society is a bet. Its granaries wager on the harvest, its walls on the enemy, its debts on a future that has not yet voted on the matter. Most of those bets are counted wrong. The errors are not random. They are patterned. In Risk, Joel Thomas examines how human beings and the institutions they build estimate the likelihood of disaster, and why they get it wrong with such remarkable consistency. The cause is not stupidity or bad luck. It is structure. Minds were built to flee predators, not to compare a one-in-a-million risk with a one-in-a-...

The author of the bestselling Boldand The Rise of Superman explores altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving, in this groundbreaking book in the vein of Daniel Pink’s Drive and Charles Duhigg’s Smarter Faster Better. Why...

“A provocative and page-turning work of true crime.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A provocative, eerily lyrical study of the heyday of American serial killers . . . A true-crime story written with compassion, fury, and scientific sense.” —Kirkus (starred review) Named a Most...

What explains our attitudes towards the environment? Why do so many climate change initiatives fail? How can we do more to prevent humans damaging the environment?The Psychology of Climate Change explores the evidence for our changing environment, and suggests that there are significant...

A provocative exploration of how humans are wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term survival—an evolutionary “glitch” that explains everything from toxic workplaces to climate change “Essential reading . . . a lively, ultimately hopeful examination of how...

**Shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize** The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s future. “Urgent [and]...

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is...

One of our most brilliant, acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction with a mind-expanding, slyly humorous personal exploration of the scientific imagination. In Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World, Rivka Galchen offers a profound and playful exploration of the lives...

The brain is always evolving. The 21st Century Brain will describe those influences on brain and behavior that are unique to this century, as well as available preventive measures to mitigate some of these factors. This book is a quintessential study on how our brains are uniquely changing in the twenty-first century, as well as a guide to the personal and collective measures that can be taken to eliminate these factors or reduce their impact.

Are you feeling lost in the cacophony of today's polarized world, where every headline deepens the divide and dims the light of hope? What if you could not just navigate, but actively transform this landscape of discord and fear? "The Change Code" is your compass through the storm. Monica Bourgeau brings to life the profound insights of Spiral Dynamics, offering a lucid guide to help you: Foresee Change: Harness the predictive power of emerging cultural patterns. Transform Lives: Wield groundbreaking tools to bring about radical improvements in your life and the lives of others. Discover ...

The Psychology of History History, as we know it today, is the collection of events and dates on which they occurred. Although Historian Arnold J. Toynbee states, “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” However, the philosophy of history sorts out the principles that guide us that each event is interconnected to another in the civilization’s life cycle. We observe the circular motion of history from the birth of society, its rise, and its downfall. After the death of great civilizations, we have a lot to speculate and discover psychologically from the histories that survived ...

Bloomsbury presents Don't Even Think About It by George Marshall, read by John Lee. An Esquire Essential Book on Climate Change From the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific...

A stirring case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight”...

Every diver knows the feeling. Almost no one has named it. Somewhere past ten metres, the noise of being a self goes quiet and the world arrives whole. Mindful Diving is the book that finally names that moment, explains it, and teaches it — the founding text of the Mindful Diving Institute and its open global Standard. Written by the founder of the World Happiness Foundation, this is three books in one: A manual. The complete method across sixteen practices and sixteen memorable figures: the readiness scan, ARRIVE, the buddy agreement, breath as information, the micro-correction loop, the...

From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St. Aubyn’s...

Inspired by a podcast conversation between Stewart Hoyt and Heather Sanderson, this short book takes you on a journey from Ecstatic and Authentic Movement to envisioning new ecosystems, even in places that seem “unnatural,” like the concrete jungle of New York City. Stewart shares how the powerful connections we make with our bodies, our communities, and our own backyard create new ways of living interdependently. By offering concrete options that make practical and economic sense, Stewart highlights the huge potential of cities to be more productive and healthier than they have been in...

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson's mission to bring together the fight against climate change and the global struggle for human rights has taken her all over the world. It also brought her to a heartening revelation: that that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. 

Darwin Comes to Town draws on eye-popping examples of adaptation to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife co-exist in a unique harmony. *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico are...