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In the Shadow of Fame, by the daughter of world-renowned psychoanalyst and theorist Erik Erikson, is the intimate story of her struggle to come to terms with her father's fame and to develop a sense of self in a family, and world, in which being famous is the very definition of being a worthwhile human being. And, while her story is unique in its personal details, it is also a description of the struggle faced by all of us in a modern world.

Gripping, unforgettable and deeply affecting, The Skeleton Cupboard recounts the patient stories that most influenced Professor Tanya Byron, covering years of training that forced her to confront the harsh realities of the lives of her patients and the demons of her own family's history. Among others, we meet Ray, a violent sociopath desperate to be treated with tenderness and compassion; Mollie, a talented teenager intent on starving herself.

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my...

America's own The Professor and the Madman: the story of Noah Webster, author of the first dictionary of American English-and a forgotten leader during a turning point in our nation's history. Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but although there is much more...

Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot like the way back — back to strong local economies, back to resilient, tight-knit communities, back to the land and work that is real. As we chart our course through these uncertain times, we are hungry for inspiration.

A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis. Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes...

On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not...

The acclaimed Columbia University sociologist and author of Gang Leader for a Day returns to the streets to connect the dots of New York’s divergent economic worlds and crack the code of the city’s underground economy. Based on Venkatesh’s interviews with prostitutes and socialites...

“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless...

From one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, comes an intimate and astonishingly frank examination of her own rape at 15, the life of her rapist, and how both shaped her life and work. Jessica Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts on...

«Una autobiografía perturbadora e inolvidable [...] Esta desgarradora historia narra la lucha a la que se enfrentan muchas familias que son separadas en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México». —Publisher's Weekly «La inquietante y elocuente historia de una guatemalteca en...

A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung’s complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement. Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict...

A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction. As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time...

Der weltbekannte Psychotherapeut und Bestsellerautor Irvin D. Yalom war 93, als er sich nach dem Verlust seiner langjährigen Ehefrau Marilyn Yalom, mitten in der Pandemie, mit einem zunehmenden Gedächtnisverlust konfrontiert sah. Die inneren wie äußeren Beschränkungen zwangen ihn dazu, die Form seiner Sitzungen mit seinen Klienten grundlegend zu überdenken und einen radikalen Ansatz zu wählen: Würden einstündige, einmalige Sitzungen ebenfalls einschneidende Veränderungen herbeiführen können und eine ebenso tragfähige Arzt-Patienten-Beziehung ermöglichen?

Nikola Tesla: The Brilliant Inventor Who Dreamed of a Wireless World invites listeners on a powerful journey through the life and mind of one of history’s most electrifying geniuses. More than a catalogue of inventions, this book captures the soul of a man who saw the world not only as it was, but as it could be—lit by unseen energy, connected across great distances, and liberated from the wires that once defined modern life. Born during a lightning storm in 1856, Tesla's life was symbolic from the very beginning.

Desde 1986, Aparecida Vilaça investiga o modo de vida do grupo e, aos poucos, construiu com Paletó uma relação de pai e filha. Paletó morreu aos 85 anos, depois de ter vivido por décadas na floresta em meio aos Wari'.

Skinny ist wieder in – und mit ihm der Wahnsinn. Die Rückkehr des Magerwahns ist überall: auf Social Media, in der Mode, in den Köpfen. Was früher "Size Zero" hieß, ist heute ein gefährlicher Mix aus Filtern, Fitnesszwang und Selbstoptimierung. Ich kenne diesen Druck. Ich habe ihn jahrelang gespürt – und ihm geglaubt. Ich habe diesen Schönheitswahn gelebt. Und überlebt. Ja, ich habe beide Welten erlebt: Ich bin durch dick und dünn gegangen – und war nie glücklicher als an dem Tag, an dem ich zu mir selbst wurde. In diesem Hörbuch erzähle ich offen, wie ich mich aus dieser Zeit befreit habe.

Psycholoog en bestsellerauteur Thijs Launspach probeert met zijn partner jaren kinderen te krijgen en belandt er zelfs voor in een vruchtbaarheidstraject. Terwijl zijn relatie aan een zijden draadje hangt, probeert hij te dealen met alle verdriet en frustratie. Een eerlijk boek vol wrange humor, dat troost biedt aan koppels die lijden aan verminderde vruchtbaarheid, en dan vooral de 'manvormige aanhangsels' onder hen.

As a therapist, author, and former radio talk show host and hospital director, C.K. has nearly forty years of sobriety from mind and mood-altering substances. Miraculously, he survived years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse which led to alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling, sexual addiction, nicotine, and other debilitating addictions to escape his pain.

Долгие годы на индивидуальное захоронение могло рассчитывать только привилегированное меньшинство, в то время как простые люди довольствовались общими могилами. Увлекательно сочетая в своем повествовании историю и социологию, Бертран Мари рассказывает о различных погребальных обычаях и практиках, об индустрии траура и отношении людей к смерти. Бертран Мари прослеживает длительную историю захоронений от «темного» Средневековья до наших дней, от кладбищ, затерянных вдали от деревень, до городских некрополей.