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.
