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"Where did the name Radha come from?When did Christianity first come to India?What is the connection between sanskar and dharma? After the enormous success of the first two seasons of EPIC Channel’s Devlok with Devdutt Pattanaik, India’s favourite mythologist is back with a third instalment...

Memoiric essays on who we were and how we have changed What happens when who you are is different to who you imagined you'd be? When her son was three, Brooke Boland was diagnosed with depression. She went back to find where it all started – the panic attacks, the dissociation – in the early...

Create a mindset for happiness for each day and with every task! The Get To Principle guides the reader to an experiential understanding of the nature of life--how "the way you look at life is how you treat life, and the way you treat life is what life becomes." Instead of living in the past...

A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare...

The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time. Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world: why it matters how it impacts us how we must react By expanding his focus to include other...

The Roots of Violence: Why Humans Are Not by Nature Violent (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 10, 2018) is an analytical and policy study that presents abundant evidence that human beings are not by nature violent and that violence therefore is a conditioned response. The scientific disciplines examined are anthropology, biology, neurology, pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

Jedes Jahr findet im Caesars Palace in Las Vegas die Verleihung der Adult Video News Awards statt, der Oscars der Pornoindustrie. Im Auftrag der Zeitschrift Premiere besucht David Foster Wallace 1998 die Preisverleihung sowie die zugehörige Pornomesse und lässt sich dort von Branchenjournalisten mit so schönen Namen wie Dick Filth die subtilen Hierarchien, erbittertsten Branchenfehden und wildesten Gerüchte dieser ziemlich flamboyanten Parallelkultur näherbringen.

On the outside, Kathleen’s life looks perfect. She is married to a dashing young doctor. They have adorable twin daughters. She even has a budding legal career; her husband is putting her through law school. There is only one problem. Kathleen is addicted to drugs and alcohol. She thinks she is hiding her problem, but it explodes her life, and something has to change—and this change begins when her sister takes her to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous.

MacArthur Fellowship–winning poet Brad Leithauser returns with his first new collection in more than a decade, a collection that recalls the delicacy and intimacy of his early, award-winning volumes, and embraces the wisdom of age. As snappy as a dinner jacket’s red silk lining, as appealing...

Es una obra de 1905 de Sigmund Freud que avanza su teoría de la sexualidad, en particular, su relación con la infancia. Junto con La interpretación de los sueños, estos ensayos son una de las contribuciones más trascendentales y originales de Freud al conocimiento humano.

Metti insieme uno dei volti più noti del telegiornalismo italiano, un filosofo francese di successo e il simbolo del tennis internazionale. Il risultato? L'audiolibro "I silenzi di Federer" di André Scala edito da Volume Audiobooks. Un saggio raffinato e illuminante su Roger Federer scritto da un filosofo e scrittore francese, acuto nell'analisi e nella sua capacità di valorizzare del campione svizzero persino la comunicazione non verbale e quella intra-personale.

At long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American “friends.”

“A balm for tongues bitten and comments swallowed . . . A bitingly humorous compendium of the absurd subtle racism of the...

Ashok Rajamani, award-winning author of the hit memoir The Day My Brain Exploded, returns with Imagine Carnivalesque, his explosive first book of bold and insightful literary criticism. Uncover the unconscious in South Asian literature through two psychoanalytical essays that deconstruct gender codes and sexuality within Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy, and the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata.