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A coming-of-age memoir that follows a large, working-class Irish family as it plunges into chaos in the wake of a terminal diagnosis—and the author's own hidden struggle to endure when her sister's disease becomes the dark star around which they all revolve.

" Je n'étais pas fait pour réussir. Né d'une mère immigrée d'origine bulgare et d'un père inconnu, j'ai grandi sans histoires dans le quartier de Beaugrenelle à Paris. Jusqu'au jour où ma mère se fait escroquer, tombe dans la dépression, l'alcoolisme, et perd tout ce qu'elle a. Y compris moi, son seul et unique fils. Pris en charge par l'Aide sociale à l'enfance, ballotté de familles d'accueil en foyers, mon monde bascule.

Britain is defined by the dynamic, mysterious and fragile coastline that surrounds it. In this moving and beautiful account, Roger Morgan-Grenville tells the story of his marathon journey around that coast, explains some of the key challenges and opportunities he found and celebrates the people who are trying to protect and enhance it.

From workers being fired by algorithms, to online forums dedicated to revenge porn and encouraging suicide, to censorship of marginalised voices and the turbulent impacts of AI, Logging Off reveals that our digital world is currently fuelling crises that only empathy, agency and humanity can resolve. This book is a call for a radical reclamation of our digital world, for a more humane future that empowers us all.

Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things: a Space expert at NASA, an adviser to the World Health Organisation, a successful Big Pharma executive. But Michael Briggs had a secret. A scandal broke out in 1986 when research he conducted was revealed to be compromised. Patients were also claiming that a pregnancy test he pioneered had caused devastating birth defects. Soon after his fall from grace, Briggs was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country.

The country certainly boasts an outsized reputation around the world for fast food and faster living – everything is louder, brighter, bigger, if not always better – yet for all the cartoonish depictions of its culture on the big and small screen, Felicity was convinced that in reality, most Americans are just like the rest of us… despite a troubling national tendency to eat doughnuts for breakfast. Her mission; to take a closer look at the iconic American dishes that have conquered the world...

Louise Hay inspirou milhões em todo o mundo e sempre conduziu você para se lembrar sobre a verdade de quem é: poderoso, amoroso e amado. Em homenagem à vida de Louise, você agora tem em mãos esta compilação de seus ensinamentos mais inspiradores de suas maiores obras. Nossa esperança é que as 365 frases permitam que você carregue a sabedoria de Louise todos os dias, e o inspire a confiar no processo da Vida.

This is a tour de force of a personal account that is both intense and electrifying in its detailed narrative of Peter Halo combating wuhan virus in early 2021, all but isolated and alone. From repeated hospital visits to reinfection and critically ill, Peter found comfort in faith, visions of loved ones and spiritual guidance. The narrative details 70 days in coma like never before with a sense of deep spirituality and resilience that will excite anyone’s imagination who has ever fought for survival and lived to to tell it!

"Dreamland—A Quest for Balance" is the inspiring story of Scott, a boy with asthma and allergies who discovers his passion for art at a young age. Despite his health challenges, Scott's mother, Pattie, encourages and supports his artistic journey through painting classes and private lessons. As Scott explores different mediums and techniques, he not only develops his artistic skills but also learns valuable lessons about balance and perseverance.

“Stolen: A Life Interrupted” tells the heart-wrenching story of Lori, a mother whose life turns upside down in an instant. On October 8, 2012, what began as a normal autumn day quickly spirals into chaos when her son, Jared, suffers a life-threatening stroke at just fifteen years old. As Lori rushes to the hospital, she struggles with disbelief and fear, clinging to hope as doctors fight to save her son. Through the emotional journey of hospital stays, surgeries, and the struggle for answers, Lori reflects on the moments that defined their lives together.

What began as a utopian environment, where mice had sumptuous accommodations, had all the food and water they could want, and were free from disease and predators, turned into a mouse hell. Science writer and animal behaviorist Lee Alan Dugatkin introduces listeners to the work of rodent researcher John Bumpass Calhoun. Dugatkin shows how an ecologist-turned-psychologist-turned-futurist became a science rock star embedded in the culture of the 1960s and 1970s.

In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived in the small Norwegian town of Øystese to startling news: Johannes, the farmer who hired her for the summer, had just been hospitalized after a stroke. Could she please watch over his place for a month or so, until he got back on his feet? Twenty years old and with no farming experience, Liese was dropped off the next day at a centuries-old mountain farm at the end of a dirt road high above the magnificent Hardanger Fjord—with 115 sheep, two cows, one calf, a draft horse, and a Norwegian herding dog to care for.

For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private notebooks with her confusion, humor, and anger about the strange world of American street medicine. As her career progressed, she found herself taking notes on scraps of paper, backs of gloves, and margins of EKG printouts. She read about the history that brought ambulances into their current role as the caretakers of society’s forgotten, and spoke to her colleagues about their own experiences and perspectives. Those reflections are collected here, in a series of raw, powerful essays about the state of American medicine.

From his discoveries as a science-based psychiatrist to the confirmed reality of his own unique spiritual experiences, David R. Hawkins has gifted us with a treasure trove of insights into the human psyche and consciousness itself, that are as mind-blowing as they are soul-nourishing. He handed us a road map to Truth with his visionary Map of Consciousness®, an extremely useful guide in gaining profound insights into the nature or our existence and purpose on earth.

From the real-life Meredith Grey, comes an inspiring collection of essays based on Dr. Erin Nance’s popular TikTok account @littlemissdiagnosed, detailing Dr. Nance’s journey as a young female orthopedic surgeon navigating challenging cases and ethical dilemmas in the high-stakes, cutthroat world of medicine.

A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America, Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes listeners from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than the presidency or Congress—aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution’s Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

In 1960, six years before Marty Ross-Dolen was born, her maternal grandparents were killed in an airline disaster involving the collision of two commercial jets over New York City. They were traveling from Columbus, Ohio, to seek placement for their family’s iconic magazine, Highlights for Children, on the newsstands. Their daughter—Marty’s mother—was fourteen years old at the time. This genre-bending memoir tells Marty’s story of being raised by a mother in protracted mourning.

Julien Offray de la Mettrie (1709 - 1751) war zwar Arzt, jedoch auch philosophisch außerordentlich interessiert. Er war ein Anhänger des hedonistischen Materialismus, beeinflusst unter anderem von Descartes und Locke. Sein berühmtestes Werk ist die Kampfschrift "Der Mensch eine Maschine" ("L'homme machine"), in der er die Willensfreiheit des Menschen als eine bloße Illusion erklärt. Dieses Werk schlug seinerzeit hohe Wellen, wurde in Frankreich verbrannt - und ist noch heute faszinierende Literatur!

Six weeks before her eighth birthday in May of 2024, my granddaughter Paige Schilling was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Paige underwent a 14-hour brain surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The tumor was successfully removed and Paige began a lengthy period of rehabilitation. During this time, Paige received so many gifts from friends and family that her father considered renting a storage unit. Instead of giving her another stuffed toy, I decided to write letters to Paige. The letters describe real events from my own life beginning from a time before television existed.

In diesem Buch wird die Wirkung des Begründers der Tiefenpsychologie auf die Kultur unseres Zeitalters zum ersten Mal umfassend sichtbar gemacht. Während die meisten bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten zuerst in ihrem Fachgebiet Anerkennung und Einfluss gewinnen, haben Jungs schöpferische Konzeptionen, da sie den Menschen als Ganzes angehen, auf den verschiedensten Wissensgebieten befruchtend gewirkt, so in der Theologie, in der Anthropologie und Ethnologie, in der Parapsychologie und sogar in der Atomphysik.