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An authentic, revealing and deeply human story of addiction - a phenomenon that remains puzzling and misunderstood despite affecting many lives - from an addiction psychiatrist who struggles to understand himself and his own family... Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, there is...

Calm the mind and find peace with these simple mindfulness meditations. Mindfulness is an evidence-based method for reducing stress, enhancing resilience, and maintaining mental well-being. Even short meditations can turn a bad day around, ground us in the present moment, and help us approach...

The Shobogenzo, written in the XIII century by the Japanese monk Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), is one of the most relevant texts of Buddhism. Contextualized in the tradition of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism, this monumental work of ninety and five chapters edited by...

Repeating anniversaries and birthdays, dates of determining events for a given family, occurring over several generations... and illnesses that reveal what a mother or grandparent has experienced: family history usually repeats itself. Memories that do not belong to us become present and active in...

In this essay, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and establish absolute, uncontestable truths and another, competing tendency...

London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of...

Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is...

By automating your trading strategy you can achieve economic freedom and work thirty minutes a day. In The Thirty Minute Daily Trader, Laurens will guide you through all the steps to create your own automated trading strategy tested and based on historical data from...

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II—and how America allowed them to get away with it.In 1946, Günther Quandt—patriarch of Germany’s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that...

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept...

Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love―and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was...

Florent-Claude Labrouste is forty-six years old, he hates his name and he takes Captorix, an antidepressant that releases serotonin and that has three adverse effects: nausea, disappearance of libido and impotence. His journey starts in Almería – where he meets two girls at a...

No one behind, no one forward. The way that the ancients opened has been closed. And the other, wide and easy, of all, does not go anywhere. I'm alone and I make my way.... This edition of Octavio Paz's poems brings together all the...

Timandra is one of the most fascinating female figures of Greek antiquity. A woman of exceptional beauty, she knew how to congregate in her house the best minds of her time, from Socrates to Euripides. But she, above all, she transcended for, as the...

Knowledge has never been so important and at the same time so suspicious. In the era of triumphant rationality, institutionalized science, technological advances and intelligent systems, a strange constellation appears: while science enjoys enormous recognition, many people distrust it, from mere distrust to extreme...

Why a handbook? Because it aspires to be easy to handle and easy to understand and its intention is fundamentally practical. Why portable? Because it is a tribute to walkers. Portable philosophy is an effort to liberate thought from the seclusion to which it...

Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional Western conventions to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining...

This is not another precept-filled guide on how to establish the plot, develop the characters, create empathy... No rules are given here, nor shortcuts promised to write well. Vanni Santoni is very honest with the reader, or rather the aspiring writer, to whom this...

A girl discovers that, behind the woman who looks at her sternly from the dark family portrait, lives a red-haired girl, who runs free through the Cantabrian mountains, along with her Danish dog. She decides to draw to find out who that girl and...

Each therapy is unique and unrepeatable and also a huge challenge: for the couple, in pursuit of their growth; and for the therapist, in his role of helping her solve her problems and accompanying her on that journey through life. Simple but profound reading,...