This is a love story, although not in the conventional sense of romantic love. This book explores the transformative power of suffering in a revealing narrative informed by spiritual practice. This book explores what it takes to keep your heart open in hell even if it is of your own making. The author relates her struggle in living life with a broken heart not as someone special, but rather as one of the billions of women who strive to live on through...

¿Cómo se enseña a los niños a manejar la rabia, los celos, la vergüenza, el miedo y la tristeza? ¿Y a desarrollar la empatía o a hacer caso cuando es necesario? Este libro es una herramienta, sencilla y eficaz, para lograrlo, para que los nicños aprendan, con nuestra ayuda, a gestionar cada emoción. La metodología que se sigue en cada uno de los 10 capítulos es la siguiente: primero se facilita una descripción teórica simple de cada...

In the prequel to his current role as the most beloved educator in professional skin care, Peter T. Pugliese, MD shares his own true stories of his early family medical practice in historic (and often hysterical) Bernville, Pennsylvania, from 1958 to 1978. At age 88, this vibrant storyteller shares an intimate and fascinating look back at his own pathway of obstacles and miracles that led him from Catholic school to the seminary where he planned a...

This is the first full-length biography of Richard Titmuss, a pioneer of social policy research and an influential figure in Britain's post-war welfare debates. Drawing on his own papers, publications, and interviews with those who knew him, the book discusses Titmuss's ideas, particularly those around the principles of altruism and social solidarity, as well as his role in policy and academic networks at home and overseas. It is an enlightening portrait...

Esta edición revisitada de "Querida María. Cuando el psicoanálisis no es un sueño" se formó, en palabras de su autora Carmen González Táboas, "al modo de un tapiz artesanal cuyas formas o escenas se traman pasando la aguja una y otra vez sobre una urdimbre de hilos tensos de lado a lado. Me había sucedido descubrir que lo ya vivido podía ofrecer las guías firmes por donde pasar los hilos, también ciertos hitos de mi larga experiencia de...

Florida psychologist Chloe Marin and Luke Cane, a British ex-cop-turned-P.I. investigating the disappearance of a young swimsuit model on behalf of her father, have trouble trusting each other, even though they are attracted to one another and have the same hunch that a killer is using a modeling agency to stalk his prey. When Chloe arrives late for an appointment at the modeling agency, she discovers a gruesome mass murder eerily similar to one she...

"The world will know her name. The average person spends 33 years of their life asleep. But, in this mysterious shadow world, how can we ever know who we really become? In 2019, Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future ahead of her. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Her deep sleep is known by neurologists as 'resignation syndrome', a rare functional...

When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we...

"Psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware is surprised to get the call when well-known TV actress Zelda Chase turns up half-naked, half-mad in the LA's rural Westside. He has little connection to the starlet, save a psychiatric evaluation he performed on her adopted daughter several years ago, a child who has since vanished without a trace and whom Zelda refuses to talk about. When the actress turns up dead a few weeks later without a scratch on her, Delaware...

How do you confront a threat that is hiding in plain sight? FBI agent Craig Frasier and psychologist Kieran Finnegan hunt an escaped serial killer in the latest explosive thriller in the New York Confidential series. It was one of Kieran's most chilling cases: her assessment of a murderer known as the Fireman. There was no doubt that the man needed to be locked away. Now Craig is called to a gruesome crime scene that matches the killer's methods,...