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Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored.

Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature - to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why.

Perfectionism is on the rise and it has dire consequences for how we think and feel about ourselves and others, how we think, live, and work. Perfectionism has been seen to cause over-thinking, over-working, burnout, sleeplessness, and mental health problems like depression and anxiety. Lynne Cazaly uncovers how to think, work and achieve in clever ways adapted from the productive and creative worlds of software development...and improvisation.

La biografía de un apasionado de la literatura. El inmortal autor de -Madame Bovary- o -Salambó-, está considerado como uno de los mejores novelistas occidentales y es conocido por su escrupulosa devoción a su arte y su estilo, cuyo mejor ejemplo fue su interminable búsqueda de le mot juste (-la palabra exacta-).