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We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain.

From the creator of Valuetainment, the number-one YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals.

Few of us realise that our language in the workplace inhibits creative problem-solving and escalates uncertainty and stress. In both high-pressure situations and everyday scenarios, in each meeting and email, we have the opportunity to empower our colleagues by using the right words. In Leadership Is Language, Former US Navy captain David Marquet expands on his best-selling leadership book Turn the Ship Around! and shows managers and leaders the next step in their development: how to enable their team through communication.

In Strange Bedfellows, David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton look at how biology actually promotes monogamy in some species and how these lessons apply to human beings. An accessible work of science that is relevant to our intimate daily life, Strange Bedfellows will reassure some people, surprise others, and engage everyone.

The publication of Power vs. Force by Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., reveals to the general public secret information heretofore only shared by the author with certain Nobelists and world leaders. Analyzing the basic nature of human thought and consciousness itself, the author makes available to everyone the key to penetrating the last barrier to the advancement of civilization and science and resolving the most crucial of all human dilemmas.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”. It went viral. After a million online views in 17 different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.

You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses. But your enemies are a whole other matter. They’re the haters and the doubters who said you’d never make it, the ones who stomped on your dreams. When you think about your enemies, you get emotional. You feel like you won’t let anything—or anyone—stop you.

Author of the New York Times best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections. Taken together, these four strands reveal a deeply integrated, rational, and optimistic worldview. It describes a unified fabric of reality that is objective and comprehensible, in which human action and thought are central.

David Servan-Schreiber nous convie à la découverte d'une nouvelle médecine sans médicaments ni psychanalyse. Une approche thérapeutique révolutionnaire et accessible à tous pour trouver l'harmonie et l'équilibre intérieur en nous mettant à l'écoute de nos émotions. Il nous présente sept méthodes originales pour devenir pleinement nous-mêmes et vivre mieux, tout simplement.

¡Más de 5 millones de copias vendidas! PARA DAVID GOGGINS, LA INFANCIA FUE UNA PESADILLA. La pobreza, los prejuicios y los malos tratos físicos colorearon sus días y atormentaron sus noches. Pero gracias a su autodisciplina, su fortaleza mental y trabajo duro, Goggins pasó de ser un joven con sobrepeso, deprimido y sin futuro, a convertirse en un icono de las Fuerzas Armadas estadounidenses y en uno de los mejores atletas de resistencia del mundo.

Jerome David Salinger é uma das figuras mais intrigantes da história recente da literatura mundial. Autor do cultuado romance O apanhador no campo de centeio, ele é reverenciado por milhões de pessoas e influenciou incontáveis escritores e cineastas. No entanto, sua fama como artista é comparável ao mistério que cerca sua vida particular, mantida longe dos olhos do público durante quase cinco décadas, desde o lançamento de seu último conto, em 1965.

At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2–the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges.

It's been a little over two months Shawn lost his family to a vampire. After tracking down and killing the monster he returned home hoping for a shot at a normal life. A rider in the night brings dire news. His uncle Calvin and his entire family have vanished. Shawn takes off to find out what happened. At the house he finds a strange altar in the barn and a pile of corpses. None of which belong to Calvin or his family. After a brief investigation he learns Calvin learns his uncle had a new worker on his farm. Shawn soon learns that the stranger is part of a cult of necromancers.

This volume presents in new English translations the scattered fragments and testimonies regarding Hermes Thrice Great that complete Brian Copenhaver's translation of the Hermetica (Cambridge, 1992).

Influence Without Authority is the classic guide to getting what you need from people you don't control. This book introduces the Exchange Model, in which you get what you need by offering something of value in return. The key lies in knowing what the other person values—that's their "currency," and it's your immediate tool for coaxing their cooperation. This book shows you how to implement the Exchange Model at the personal, team, and organizational level to raise the bar for performance and leadership.

Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer - James Joyce. Araby - Ivan Turgenev. First Love.

Young people in this age group are poised to learn, grow, and accomplish incredible things – if only we can tap into the basic neurobiological systems that drive their motivation and behaviour. 10 to 25 offers long-term strategies to help nurture well-adjusted, independent, accomplished young adults, and is necessary reading for all parents, educators and mentors.

La quinta entrega de la saga superventas en la que se basa la serie de TV The Expanse. Se han abierto miles de mundos y se ha desatado la mayor fiebre por ocupar el territorio de la historia de la humanidad. A medida que los colonos se marchan en oleadas sucesivas, las estructuras de poder del viejo Sistema Solar comienzan a ceder. Las naves desaparecen sin dejar rastro. De manera clandestina, han empezado a formarse ejércitos privados. Alguien ha robado la única muestra de la protomolécula.

Life is uncertain. We are all the result of an unforeseen and unforeseeable sequence of small occurrences. But what underlies this fragile chain of events? Is it random or just complex? And what role does luck play in our lives? David Spiegelhalter has spent his career crunching data in order to help understand uncertainty and assess the chances of what might happen. In The Art of Uncertainty, he gives listeners a window onto how we can all do this better.

O clássico de Henry David Thoreau, publicado em 1854: um manifesto a favor da natureza e da liberdade. Edição especial, com ilustrações de Deco Farkas, prefácio de Joyce Carol Oates e nota biográfica escrita por Virginia Woolf. Inclui o ensaio "Sobre o dever da desobediência civil". Em conflito com as mudanças trazidas pela Revolução Industrial – na sociedade, na cultura e na relação do homem com o trabalho e a natureza – e inspirado pela filosofia oriental do confucionismo, Thoreau abandona a cidade e retira-se para a floresta.