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Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: The very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive lying.           

Kate Sharp loves the perks of her location scout profession. When she fills in for a researcher at a Regency-themed English house party, she’s looking forward to indulging in the posh atmosphere of tea on the lawn and elegant candlelight dinners, but when the guest next-door is murdered in a locked room, Kate becomes the prime suspect.

The term killjoy has been used to dismiss feminism by claiming that it causes misery. But by naming ourselves feminist killjoys, we recover a feminist history, turning it into a source of strength as well as an inspiration. Drawing on her own stories and those of others, especially Black and brown feminists and queer thinkers, Sara Ahmed combines depth of thought with honesty and intimacy. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook unpicks the lies our culture tells us and provides a form of solidarity and companionship that can be returned to over a lifetime.

Aidyn Kelley is talented, ambitious, and ready for a more serious assignment than the fluff pieces she’s been getting as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. In her eagerness, she pushes too hard, earning herself the menial task of writing an obituary for an unremarkable woman who’s just entered hospice care.

Paternità è una storia globale e culturale dell'essere padri: un racconto che attraversa i millenni e le nazioni per mostrarci come nel nostro passato l'amore per i figli sia stato costantemente legato alla fondazione di un'autorità; e come, a partire dal modo in cui ridefiniremo questo rapporto, dipenderà il futuro delle nostre società. Mettere al mondo un figlio non ha significato sempre essere «padre», almeno nel senso che attribuiamo noi, ai giorni nostri e in Occidente, a questo concetto.

In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content," but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive.

La narradora de esta novela estudia para consolidar su futuro profesional. Ha conseguido un puesto de interina en una oficina administrativa, y afrontar una oposición parece ser el paso lógico en su carrera. Sin embargo, otro tipo de oposición, la interna, basada en su observación del día a día funcionarial, hace que no lo tenga nada claro. El edificio donde ha sido destinada, tan gigantesco como hermético, es un lugar de jerarquías incomprensibles, que la expulsa al mismo tiempo que la absorbe.

Ali Hazelwood meets Dungeons & Dragons in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy academia romcom where rival grad student wizards are forced to work together without killing—or falling for—each other. Will they conjure love, or evoke chaos? Two rival wizards are about to find out. Sebastian Walsh...

She’s guarding a borrowed heart. He’s locked his heart away. But the connection igniting between them might become the one thing they can’t live without. Years after a life-saving heart transplant, Liv Karlsson lives in the fragile space between gratitude and fear—thankful for every...

One of the brightest stars of Hollywood’s golden age was Lily Adams, the beloved picture of all-American innocence. Why she suddenly vanished from the spotlight was a mystery even to those closest to her. Upon Lily’s death seventy years later, her granddaughter, Carolyn Prior, struggles to understand a woman she loved but never really knew. Then, sifting through the memorabilia of a once-glamorous career, Carolyn comes across a letter from her grandmother.

In this audio listening experience, Sara Dylan will be leading you gently into a quiet healing meditation using 963 Hertz frequency. 963 Hz frequency, the God frequency, is the frequency of divine connection, and meditating with 963 Hz can help in establishing a deeper connection with the divine.

In this audio listening experience, Sara Dylan will be leading you gently into a quiet healing meditation using Solfeggio Frequency 639 Hz: Solfeggio Frequency 639 Hz music is known to help balance emotions and elevate the mood. It also promotes communication, love, understanding, and brings harmony into interpersonal relationships. It is perfect when you need a significant boost of love and positivity or are dealing with conflicts in relationships.

Seventeen-year-old Mina is always focused on what comes next: exams, school dances, opportunities for a picnic by the lake. Filling up the future keeps her from lingering over how little she knows about her history or where she comes from. Anytime she asks her father questions about Egypt—or about her mother's mysterious death—he struggles to open up. When Mina receives an invitation from an aunt she’s never met to visit the Haikal mansion, her mother’s childhood home in El Agamy, Mina accepts.

En campingtur bliver en meget speciel oplevelse, når Isadora er med – hun mister noget værdifuldt og får en ægte havfrue til at hjælpe med at finde det! Men der er en på havets bund, der helst ikke vil give slip på Isadora og Lyserøde Kanin igen … Isadora Moon - Halvt vampyr: Isadoras mor er fe, og hendes far er vampyr, så Isadora elsker nattemørke, flagermus og sit sorte balletskørt, men hun elsker også solskin, sin tryllestav og Lyserøde Kanin.

Soy un voyeur. Eso quiere decir que me gusta mirar, y en mi oficio eso es una bendición. Soy uno de los propietarios del Club Juegos Prohibidos, y me siento cómodo manteniéndome al margen. Es lo que se me da bien: trabajo mejor solo. Pero un día me topo con una aplicación para ver a mujeres a través de una cámara, y me encuentro contemplando a la única persona a la que no debería mirar: mi hermanastra.

La bestial y desgarradora historia de una mujer sin techo. Un texto lúcido, contundente y revelador que incita a la reflexión y a la lucha por los derechos humanos más básicos. Esta es una historia real. La de una mujer sin hogar, discapacitada y enferma que trata de solicitar la renta mínima a la que tiene derecho según los optimistas mensajes de la administración y los medios. Pero el laberinto burocrático que debe recorrer para ello, los escollos y trabas con que tropieza y la crueldad de un sistema que exige más a quien menos tiene desembocan en la desesperación.

A soli diciassette anni, Ross Quest è tra i ladri più abili, in particolare nei piani di fuga. Fino a quando il piano che ha ideato per scappare dalla sua famiglia di ladri leggendari non prende una svolta inaspettata, lasciando la vita di sua madre in pericolo. In un tentativo disperato, Ross partecipa al Gioco dei Ladri, una serie di rischiose rapine internazionali in cui tutto è ammesso, perfino uccidere la concorrenza, e dove il primo premio è un desiderio per qualsiasi cosa al mondo, un desiderio che potrebbe salvare sua madre.

Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what actually happens. Following a long lineage of Black feminist and feminist of color critiques of the university, Ahmed delivers a timely consideration of how institutional change becomes possible and why it is necessary.

When it comes to health, there is one criminally overlooked element: sleep. Good sleep helps you shed fat for good, stave off disease, stay productive, and improve virtually every function of your mind and body. That's what Shawn Stevenson learned when a degenerative bone disease crushed his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Like many of us, he gave up on his health and his body...until he decided there must be a better way.

Ritrova l'equilibrio energetico e sconfiggi la stanchezza quotidiana grazie alla millenaria medicina tradizionale cinese. Se lo stress moderno ti travolge, questa guida rassicurante offre un rifugio calmo e concreto per riconnetterti con i ritmi naturali del tuo corpo. Non servono nozioni...