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When it comes to sex, common wisdom holds that men roam while women crave closeness and commitment. But in this provocative, headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's arousal and desire inside out. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioral scientists, sexologists, psychologists, and everyday women, he forces us to reconsider long-held notions about female sexuality.

In the early 1960s, JFK declared that science would take us to the moon. He also declared that science would make the “remote reaches of the mind accessible” and cure psychiatric illness with breakthrough medications. We were walking on the moon within the decade. But today, psychiatric cures continue to elude us—as does the mind itself. Why is it that we still don’t understand how the mind works? What is the difference between the mind and the brain? And given all that we still don’t know, how can we make insightful, transformative choices about our psychiatric conditions?

Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing in Southeastern Virginia: His family lived in a trailer park and later a bullet-riddled house across the street from drug dealers. His father was absent; his mother was volatile and abusive. At the age of 12, Ryan was sent to Virginia's juvenile facility of last resort. He was placed in solitary confinement. He was uncontrollable, uncontainable, with little hope for the future. In 2011, at the age of 24, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera, beating out 1,200 other talented singers.

Atemlose Spannung: Die Jagd durch Europa geht weiter!. Viktor Orlov, der ehemals reichste Mann Russlands, ist dem Tod schon unzählige Male von der Schippe gesprungen. Vor einigen Jahren hat er sich ins Exil nach London zurückgezogen, wo er nun seinen Kampf gegen die Kleptokraten, die die Kontrolle über den Kreml an sich gerissen haben, weiterführt. Doch eines Abends wird er tot in seiner Wohnung aufgefunden - vor ihm sein Telefonhörer, ein halb leeres Glas Rotwein und ein Stapel Dokumente, kontaminiert mit einem tödlichen Nervengift.