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Use your head. That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backwards. What we need to do, says acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul, is think outside the brain. A host of “extra-neural” resources—the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of those around us— can help us focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively.

"Motherly Love" sees a lucky man seduce his friend's mother, after years of pining for her, and in "Sleazy Seduction" a man gets lucky on a trip to a lap-dancing club. "Bossing Me Around" sees a woman get it on with her female boss, while "Scots Mist" is a nostalgic tale of a woman finally finding her fantasy man close to her childhood home. Finally, in "The Business Trip", a woman gets exactly what she wants from a man she's intent on seducing.

From a hunchbacked dwarf to a paranoid poet-assassin, a history of Victorian England as seen through the numerous assassination attempts on Queen Victoria while she ruled the British empire. During Queen Victoria’s 64 years on the British throne, no fewer than eight attempts were made on her life. Murphy follows each would-be assassin and the repercussions of their actions, illuminating daily life in Victorian England, the development of the monarchy under Queen Victoria, and the evolution of the attacks in light of changing social issues and technology.

The Knights of the Flaming Star are an elite space mercenary company, one of the best in the business, no matter which star system you’re in. But when an old friend turned arch-nemesis lays a careful trap for them, their leader Hawk falls right into it.

My name is Paul Murphy and over the last two decades, one thing has constantly intrigued me, how do we get consistent flow of targeted traffic to generate incredible profits and at the same time set up process and systems that remove all the stresses and headaches that come with online marketing.. Together we will discover the unknown strategies that exist right now on how to set up powerful marketing systems that allow us to turn our businesses around fast and give us the power to not live life on someone else’s terms, that we never signed up for in the first place but have the lives we ...

Advance your Spanish through popular stories: This show will submerge you in different stories in Spanish so that you're better able to become fully bilingual and fluent in one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. If you've mastered all the beginner-level podcasts and apps, or even if you just want to further your understanding by listening to a REAL Spanish speaker talk, this show is for you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Beating the Debt Game podcast. The stakes are high. The table is rigged to help the house win. And without an expert guide, the average Canadian will fall into the debt traps designed to makes the banks rich and keep Canadians poor. In this podcast, Paul Murphy reveals how the debt game works—and how the average Canadian can tip the scales back in their favour.From building a rock-solid household budget to navigating consumer proposals to negotiating with credit card companies, you’ll learn the essential information you need to improve your financial well-being. For a free ...

You’ll love this collection of heroic adventure stories. In "A Willingness to Act", Dyne Shaizar learns what makes a hero: not physical ability or a lack of fear, but a willingness to act, to do the right thing no matter the cost. He then helps the warrior Haddon defeat a beast. Also included are two other hero stories: "Stray Magic" and "Save a Kingdom."

On April 26, 1871, a police constable walking one of London's remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling on a muddy road - gashes were cloven into her skull, her left cheek was slashed open and smashed in, her right eye was destroyed, and above it a chunk of the temporal bone had been bashed out. The policeman gaped in horror as the woman held out her hand before collapsing into the mud, muttering, "Let me die", and slipping into a coma. Five days later she died, her identity still unknown.

The seven stories that represent Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine's July and August 2003 issues exhibit an unusual diversity of almost familiar worlds.

The podcast where stand up comedians - Irishman Paul Marsh, Englishwoman Elinor Murphy and Scotsman Ben Verth - walk into a bar and chat and joke about all things life in Ireland. New episode out every Monday!