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Psychology & Human Behavior

A focused shelf of free JJ University books connected to Psychology & Human Behavior.

A Totally Normal Day

A surreal, comedic journey through American mall culture that turns an ordinary shopping day into an existential adventure through consumerism's sacred spaces.

A Totally Normal Story

A personal journey through heartbreak and existential crisis in Miami, where AI chatbots, reality-breaking theories, and rock-bottom moments collide into something unexpectedly real.

AGENCY

A declaration arguing that what society calls laziness and lack of discipline is actually resistance to systems of control and domination.

Alta Pest Control

A firsthand account of being recruited into a door-to-door pest control sales operation that operated like a cult, complete with scripted pitches, manipulation tactics, and the promise of the American Dream.

Andrew Jackson

The seventh president of the United States stares out from history with a look that says, I dared you to forget me.

Bluster the Bloon and the Pebble That Stayed

A children's story about Bluster the Bloon learning to manage his loud behavior and find acceptance through friendship with a quiet classmate called Pebble.

BUREAUCRACY

A blistering examination of how bureaucratic systems in government, corporations, healthcare, schools, and policing have evolved into self-perpetuating nightmares of red tape that prioritize process over people.

CANCER

A critical examination of cancer as both a medical disease and a psychological trauma, exposing the cancer industrial complex and challenging how we understand, fear, and profit from this diagnosis.

Chakras

Your body is a bioelectric miracle: nerves firing, signals surging, systems syncing like a symphony under your skin.

COLOR

How humanity learned to see, name, and manipulate color—from ancient dyes that ruled empires to the psychology of why blue became the world's favorite.

Commissioned

An exposé of the door-to-door sales industry's exploitation machine, revealing how it chews up young workers and harasses homeowners for profit.

Dreamwalker

A biography exploring Carl Jung's revolutionary ideas about the unconscious mind, archetypes, dreams, and the shadow self that transformed modern psychology.

Everything I Touch Turns to Tacos

A kid named Max gains the bizarre power to turn everything he touches into tacos—including his mom—and must figure out how to undo the curse.

Everything Is Fine, Actually

A biography of Alan Watts that explores how the popular philosopher made Eastern wisdom, Zen paradoxes, and the illusion of the self accessible to Western counterculture.

Everything’s a Sign

A provocative dive into Sigmund Freud's life and revolutionary—if controversial—theories that forever changed how we understand the human mind.

Four Years in the Jungle

A brutally honest memoir of surviving four years of high school as an awkward freshman navigating the social jungle of lockers, dodgeball, and dioramas.

Heaven’s Codebreaker

The brilliant, paranoid life of Isaac Newton—from discovering gravity to his secret alchemy and spectacular mental breakdown.

Heroes and Villains

A philosophical examination of why societies fear heroes who act outside institutional control, exploring power, trauma, and the blurred line between saviors and threats.

I Didn't Write This

A meta-psychological horror that blurs the line between reader and text, exploring the unsettling feeling that something about your reality is wrong.

Idk What Happened

A skeptical tour through history's most baffling unsolved mysteries, from vanished aviators to coded corpses and reality-bending memory glitches.

If I Were Evil

No, I’d start the kind that eats twenty-year-olds alive and burps out “entrepreneurs.” The kind where “family” means you take the blame, and “culture” means I make the money.

IMAGINATION

A sweeping exploration of how human imagination created everything from money and time to kingdoms and memory itself—none of it real, all of it powerful.

Imperium Romanum

And to the ones who still believe fire can be reborn from ash.

In Crust We Trust

To every delivery driver, burnt crust, and cardboard box that whispered, “It’s going to be okay.” This book is for you.

Insert Coin

The Game Was the Reward THE GAME WAS THE REWARD BEFORE THE SEASON passes.

Intelligence

A critical history of how IQ tests were invented, weaponized through eugenics, and used to sort people—and why emotional intelligence finally challenged the tyranny of a single score.

KANYE

The rise, reign, and self-destruction of Kanye West, from Chicago genius to antisemitic provocateur who burned his empire to the ground.

King, Uncut

by JJ Dedication For those who were taught a dream but never told the cost.

Knock, Knock

A critical examination of Jehovah's Witnesses—their failed doomsday prophecies, social control tactics, and the human cost of shunning dissenters.

Liberated Legends

Prologue – The Curtain Rises PROLOGUE – THE CURTAIN RISES YOU DON’T STUMBLE into a Freddie Mercury.

Life Inside the Asylum

A firsthand account of psychiatric institutionalization that exposes the arbitrary rules, power dynamics, and dehumanizing systems inside mental health facilities.

Looped

(Here’s a hint: it already is.) Prologue PROLOGUE LET’S GET SOMETHING straight — this isn’t a movie review.

LOVE

A provocative history of how love transformed from a wild, unpredictable force into a regulated social institution with scripts, schedules, and checkboxes.

Love, Remembered

A deeply personal memoir of a relationship told through pivotal moments—from first date to first fight to road trip detours—exploring how love shapes and breaks us.

MKUltra

The CIA's infamous Cold War program of mind control experiments using drugs, torture, and psychological manipulation on unwitting subjects.

Mushroom Man

The wild life and psychedelic philosophy of Terence McKenna, from Amazonian experiments to his apocalyptic Timewave theory and final battle with brain cancer.

Nicotine

Prologue: The Buzz PROLOGUE: THE BUZZ YOU NEVER FORGET the first hit.

Nietzsche

A dramatic biographical portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche's descent from brilliant young professor to cosmic madman who collapsed embracing a beaten horse in Turin.

No Capes, Just Feelings

The House That Emotion Built THE HOUSE THAT EMOTION BUILT BEFORE WE HAD words for anxiety or self-worth, we had Pixar.

Off the Books

This isn’t some offshore thriller or seedy backroom cash drop.

OOPS, ALL ATOMS

A critical examination of materialist philosophy's claims that consciousness, free will, love, and morality are mere illusions created by atoms.

Operation Fortitude

An exploration of courage, resilience, and the mental strength required to endure life's greatest challenges.

Pip the Pebble and the Mountain of Change

A tiny pebble named Pip embarks on an adventurous journey up a mountain, discovering courage and strength despite feeling small.

POKER

How poker evolved from shadowy riverboats and Wild West saloons into a mathematically sophisticated game crowned by the World Series of Poker.

Previously On

An exploration of how American soap operas became an infinite loop of melodrama that sedated generations of viewers with familiar comfort.

Psychology 101

A vivid journey through psychology's evolution from Freud's couch to humanistic rebellion, told through the minds that built the field.

Quantum Fields

And for the ones who never gave up asking what this world is really made of.

Reincarnation

Reincarnation reimagined as a video game where souls level up, glitch through déjà vu, and navigate the mechanics of eternal respawn.

Saturday Morning Forever

A philosophical exploration of how Cartoon Network shows shaped millennial consciousness through chaos, imagination, and accidental profundity.

Science Simplified

Every single thing you can see, touch, smell, or hear is made possible because of energy.

Skulls & Shopping Carts

A tribute to the Jackass crew that explores how a band of daredevils turned pain into entertainment, friendship into tragedy, and stupidity into cultural phenomenon.

Sleep Like You Mean It

A no-BS guide to why modern life destroys your sleep and how circadian rhythms, caffeine addiction, and artificial light are keeping you perpetually exhausted.

Sociology 101

A foundational exploration of how societies function, how humans interact in groups, and the invisible forces that shape our collective behavior.

The AI Takeover Already Happened

A stark exposé of how social media algorithms and tech platforms have already conquered your attention, hijacked your decision-making, and turned everyday apps into behavioral control systems.

The Cult Playbook

A systematic breakdown of what all major cults—from Jonestown to NXIVM—have in common, exposing the universal playbook of manipulation used by charismatic leaders.

The Dopamine Goblin

How dopamine-driven design in social media, dating apps, and porn hijacks our brains to keep us endlessly swiping, scrolling, and clicking.

The Drug Book

A poetic field guide exploring psychoactive substances through personal narrative, cultural context, and the altered states they produce.

THE FANTASY MACHINE

How internet pornography rewired a generation's sexuality and replaced real human connection with algorithmic stimulation.

The House

An exploration of the casino industry's business model, the psychology of gambling, and the social impact of gaming culture.

The Human Condition

A neuroscience-grounded exploration of why human existence feels so difficult, stripping away romanticism to reveal the biological machinery behind love, pain, memory, and identity.

The Kid with the Kaleidoscope Brain

And for Cammi, who reminded me why stories like this matter.

The Nicotine Trap

A raw, personal guide to understanding and escaping nicotine addiction by exposing the psychological traps that keep users hooked.

The Sweet Lie

An exposé on diet soda's hidden impacts and the addictive grip of zero-calorie sweeteners on modern consumers.

The Warren’s Ghost Files

A critical examination of Ed and Lorraine Warren's most famous paranormal investigations, from Annabelle to Amityville, separating fact from Hollywood fiction.

The Witch Trials

In ancient villages, across Europe and beyond, magic wasn’t about broomsticks or bubbling cauldrons.

They Don’t Want You to Know

A skeptical takedown of popular conspiracy theories and pseudohistorical myths, from Tartaria and hollow Earth to biblical misconceptions and flood legends.

This Will Make a Blue-Collar Worker Cry

An exposé of how 24/7 convenience stores trap blue-collar workers in cycles of caffeine, nicotine, sugar, and alcohol addiction fueled by poverty and exhaustion.

TikTok

How TikTok's algorithm turned endless scrolling into a cultural and political force that reshaped how billions of people spend their time.

Too Much, Too Soon

A raw memoir about falling in love too fast, losing it too soon, and wrestling with the alternate timelines that haunt what could have been.

TRUST FALL THEORY

A philosophical exploration of trust as an invisible architecture—from the people who catch you to the faith required when no one's watching.

Tyrants

A psychological exploration of how childhood wounds and trauma transform individuals into history's most destructive tyrants.

Unbound

The ones who stared at the ceiling wondering what else was out there and what was in here.

Unsinkable

A time traveler's romance where past lives and stolen moments in a library blur the lines between destiny and choice.

Van Gogh

A year to the day before, his parents had lost a stillborn child they also named Vincent.

Vibe Check

It started with some funky little dude probably humming into a log.

What Are the Odds?

Dedication Chapter One - The Coin Isn’t Fair Chapter Two - The Dice Are Loaded Chapter Three - Weather, Death, and Why Forecasts Sound Like Guesses Chapter Four - What Are the Odds You’re Alive?

What Dianetics Actually Says

A critical examination of Dianetics' claims about the reactive mind, engrams, auditing, and the promise of becoming 'Clear'—the supposed evolution into an emotionally bulletproof demigod.

What the Watchtower Actually Says

IT STARTED IN 1879 with a man named Charles Taze Russell and a magazine called the Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.

What Would Stoney Do?

A Scooby-Doo-style mystery adventure where childhood nostalgia collides with AI uploads, ancestral codes, and cosmic masks across supernatural dimensions.

You're What?

A comprehensive guide to pregnancy, covering the biological processes and emotional journey of expecting a child.

You're What?

The Survival Guide to Pregnancy, Babies, and What the Hell Happens Now by James Johnson Dedication To anyone who's ever stared at two pink lines and thought, "Oh, sh*t." You're not alone.