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Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful guide to restoring body-mind health, with holistic tools to heal our bodies through nervous system work, blood sugar regulation and nutrient-dense foods. In this accessible guide, packed with simple day-to-day solutions, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition...

Learn how to successfully emerge from complex crisis conditions with this practical, comprehensive guide. "A book I wish I’d had in difficult times.” —General Stanley McChrystal, US Army (Ret) & Co-Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group When the system breaks, what do you do? You're in the...

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was 84 and she was 36. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina.

«La doctrina queer tiene críticos bien documentados: lean Nadie nace en un cuerpo equivocado.» Fernando Savater (El País) «Por fin aparece en los escaparates el grito de que el emperador va desnudo.» Silvia Carrasco (El País) Un fantasma recorre los países más desarrollados: el...

Inmunízate contra la desinformación Si somos tan inteligentes, ¿por qué caemos en tantas estupideces y atrocidades? ¿Por qué nos dejamos manipular por falsas creencias, teorías conspirativas y prejuicios? José Antonio Marina nos alerta de un peligro invisible pero real: los virus...

Aprende técnicas para controlar tu respiración y superar tus límites Un descenso a las profundidades del ser humano Tomamos aire unas doce veces por minuto, alrededor de setecientas respiraciones por hora y más de diecisiete mil cada día de nuestra vida. La respiración es la base del...

Family Constellations begins with the premise: it did not start with me. Many of us become "entangled" with the unhappiness of those who came before us, unconsciously adopting destructive familial patterns of anxiety, depression, failure, and even illness and addiction in an attempt to "redo"...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Walk Through Walls written and read by Marina Abramovic. This memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art...

Existentialism offers enduring lessons and insight on how to understand ourselves and improve our lives. Your existence is not the result of a pre-determined set of events, it’s the direct result of your thinking and your actions, and therefore, according to Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick...

Grab the first three books in the bestselling, scorching-hot Real Men Shift series in one boxed set! Real Men Howl: Mason Blackwood's inner wolf will go crazy without her. Lucy thinks he's already crazy. Werewolves aren't real. Right? Real Men Snarl: Ally doesn't want to have anything to do with werewolves. Kade Blackwood is a werewolf who wants to do everything to Ally. Real Men Growl: Gavin Blackwood expected gratitude, but what he got was a gorgeous she-wolf who defied him at every turn.

When Sanna Marin became Prime Minister of Finland at just thirty-four years old, she captivated the world’s attention with her progressive ideas and her boldness amidst major crises. In her powerful personal memoir Hope in Action, she shares the extraordinary journey of her trailblazing career...

Fat and friendless, carer to her mother by day and a secret binge eater by night, 28-year-old Alison hates her life. She feels powerless to help herself until one day she encounters the person she would like to be and determines to transform herself. Admiration soon turns to obsession, and as Alison loses weight she discovers she’s capable of things she never imagined. Will she get the life she desires or the life she deserves?

Lexi Jardine may be a thief, but she's not stupid. When a crooked fireshaper wants her to steal a ring from the boss of his order, she knows it's a one-way ticket to sleeping with the fishes. Her answer is to drop off the face of the earth. Safely hidden in a quiet seaside town, she just needs to keep her head down and pretend to be a regular human. Since her only magical ability is the power to control animals, that should be easy, right?

Progress is a constant state of learning and unlearning.

Exclusive interview with Marina Lewycka, author of A History of Tractors in Ukranian. Marina Lewycka talks dark comedy, entertainment, the elderly and a bedroom tax. How can a hapless character, born on the same day as George Clooney, navigate himself through life? About the book: North London in the 21st century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother rather than lose the council flat.

In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went on to spend several years alone in the jungle, her only family a troop of capuchin monkeys. Using instinct to guide her, she copied everything they did and soon learned to fend for herself. At around 10 years old, a completely feral Marina was returned to civilisation by hunters, who sold her as a slave to a brothel. Beaten daily and groomed to be a prostitute, she escaped - to live the perilous existence of a Colombian city street kid.

The hated house of her childhood has been sold, and Alison now has a smart new apartment and a new, exciting career. Everything, in fact, that she’s ever dreamed of. Mother is but a sad and miserable memory. Life is good, life is slim. But then it all starts to go horribly wrong...again, and Alison has to ask herself - is it her? She’s trying her very best to be a good person, but it’s harder than she thought it would be and, if she’s honest, which she’s mostly not; it’s a bit boring. Is she more like Mother than she’d care to admit?

Women make over 80% of healthcare decisions in the U.S., yet only 4% of all medical research and development is focused on women's health issues. From periods and childbirth to menopause, female pain has been normalized, as society shrugs and says "Welcome to being a woman," instead of coming up with better solutions. But it doesn't have to be this way. In The Vagina Business, award-winning journalist Marina Gerner, Ph.D. takes an eye-opening look at the innovators challenging the status quo to deliver the healthcare solutions women need.

Es sind sechs Monate vergangen, seitdem die Königin der Vampire sich in Schweigen gehüllt hat, und das Schicksal der Welt befindet sich seither auf Messers Schneide. Schließe dich den furchtlosen Dunraven Schwestern bei ihrer Mission an, die Vampirapokalypse in einem sonnenfinsteren und endlos-eisigen Winter zu überleben.