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In the modern information age, our brain’s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages and highlights of magical...

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria. Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Part of me knew what the hungry ghosts wanted all along, what they still want. It is not vengeance. No, they want something else, but we refuse to listen. They want us to face up to our broken obligations.' Every spring during the Qingming Festival, people return to...

Two-Spirit Indigiqueer psychotherapist and cultural theorist Dr. Roger Kuhn illuminates the ways our bodies offer portals to our own liberation. Experience somacultural liberation: A revolutionary ideology to explore how our bodies offer portals to personal and collective freedom. What role does...

Em meio aos excessos da sociedade contemporânea, o índice de pessoas que sofrem com ansiedade já bate os 10% da população. Mas, ao contrário do que se imagina, a ansiedade é uma manifestação natural do organismo. O problema começa quando ela ultrapassa o limite da preocupação momentânea e passa a causar sofrimento à pessoa, atrapalhando o seu dia a dia. Este audiolivro vai apresentar as informações necessárias para você compreender o transtorno, suas possíveis causas e consequências, bem como tratamentos convencionais e alternativos para enfrentá-lo da melhor maneira possível.