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Working in secret for years to solve the puzzle in the writings of the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, Ivan Volkov, after the loss of his son and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA, risking his life to help stop the Doomsday clock.
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In Masters of Sex, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier offers an unprecedented look at William Masters and Virginia Johnson, their pioneering studies of intimacy, and the sexual revolution they inspired. Masters and Johnson began their secret studies in a small Midwest laboratory, and soon became the nation's top experts on sex. Over the course of more than forty years, they analyzed and explained the secrets of orgasm, emotional fulfillment,...
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El suicidio es considerado uno de los mayores problemas de salud pública de la sociedad moderna, tanto de atención social y sanitaria como educativa, que requiere de una mirada integral y de estrategias de actuación esenciales para su prevención, detección precoz, intervención y posvención.
Este libro, lejos de ser un manual sobre la muerte, es un conjunto de reflexiones y aportaciones desde la experiencia y una mirada a la vida con rigor,...
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Witness True Resilience in These Incredible Survival Stories
"Michael Tougias converts the wisdom of survivors into advice we can all use..." -Amanda Ripley, bestselling author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes-and Why
#1 New Release in Disaster Relief
Extreme Survival will have you on the edge-of-your-seat with truly amazing survival stories.
New York Times bestselling author Michael Tougias has earned critical acclaim...
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Manila Espionage is the incredible true account of Claire "High Pockets" Phillips, an American entertainer living in Manila in 1941 who becomes an angel of the underground after her US Army officer husband dies in a Japanese POW prison. Using her popular Tsubuki Club as the resistance's headquarters, High Pockets and her staff charm information from Japanese officers downing spiked drinks and relay the intelligence via guerilla fighters to General...
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I am a veteran of the Falklands conflict of 1982 who served in the army for a period of twelve years from 1980-1992. three of which were served with the Special Air Service. This book is about my personal battle with PTSD, depression and perfectionism (My Black Dog). It chronicles how my illness developed over number of years, my nightmares, my enlightening stay in in mental institution, how it ruined my family life, almost destroyed me and how PTSD...
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One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011
Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story-an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.
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Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell-of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city's streets-and thus its heart-better than its cabdrivers. And from...
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A Cold War biography based on Friedrich Nietzsche's fable of self-realisation - his story of the self.
A TRANSCENDENT CAREER
It is the journey to enlightenment of a thinking man's spirit. He wants passionately to end the Cold War, in which arsenals of ICBMs threaten and civilians are shot escaping border barbed wire.
Self is a self-determined man whose spirit parallels a fable by philosopher Nietzsche in his book Thus Spake Zarathustra, about...
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These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the person, the human, and the body are-or, alternatively, where they stop. These are the kinds of questions Hélène Mialet explores in this fascinating volume, as she focuses on a man who is permanently attached...
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Embark on a transformative journey through the intricacies of the human mind with "Mind Unveiled: A Journey through the Depths of Psychology." In this illuminating exploration, the author guides readers through the fascinating realms of cognitive processes, emotional landscapes, and the intricate tapestry of human behavior.From foundational principles to cutting-edge research, each page of this captivating book unveils the complexities of psychology,...
14) I'm Not Dead…Yet
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In "I'm Not Dead...Yet: How I Turned My Misfortunes Into Strengths," Industrial-Organizational Psychologist Dr. Joshua J. Caraballo takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the depths of his personal struggles and triumphant resilience. With poignant honesty and raw vulnerability, Joshua shares his battles with mental health, addiction, self-hate, surviving cancer, and coming to terms with his queer identity.
This memoir is an open invitation...
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A New York Times "Books for Summer Reading" selection
Winner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for History
By the time he died in 1993 at the age of 73, Irving Howe was one of the twentieth century's most important public thinkers. Deeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular Jewishness, ardently devoted to fiction and poetry, in love with baseball, music, and ballet, Howe wrote with such eloquence and lived with such conviction...
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Swimming to the Horizon is a look at the bottom rungs of the community mental health system, where clinicians with little experience or training often work with patients holding together lives burdened by drug addiction, severe psychosis, poverty, and generations of trauma.
Zak Mucha took over an assertive community treatment team created to provide twenty-four seven clinical services for a client population we typically only see on the local news...
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The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street
At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive...
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"Beautifully written... a wild ride through the curves of love and loss, into a clearing of spiritual light…"Steve Chandler, Bestselling Author Leaning into Curves is a tale of forbidden love, shattering loss and mystical encounters that guided Linda to awaken spiritually and claim the power of the Divine Feminine. Love is a way of being; a way of listening to an intuitive intelligence that guides us from within life itself-mysterious, mystical,...
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Description:« Comprendre et faire face aux troubles psychologiques » est un guide perspicace et complet qui explore le domaine aux multiples facettes des défis en matière de santé mentale. Plongeant dans les complexités des troubles psychologiques, ce livre offre des informations précieuses, des stratégies pratiques et des perspectives stimulantes pour les personnes qui naviguent dans leur parcours de santé mentale.En mettant l'accent sur...
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"In Burning Sky, three generations of a family confront the life-and-death challenge of global warming. The first, a cantankerous climatologist, raises the alarm. The second, a brilliant scientist with a lust for power that spawns a dictatorship constructs "the Cocoon," a stratospheric shield to deflect sunlight. When it cuts the Earth off from the blue sky and majestic stars and plunges our planet into an eternal miasmic fog, it is up to the third...
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