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Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has spent most of his adult life working in the mental health system. He also suffers from anxiety, as do three out of four Australians at some point in their lives, so he knows first-hand the challenges, successes and failures facing consumers, patients and professionals. What he has discovered is that while Australia’s physical health system is world-renowned, its mental health system falls miserably short.

15 ANNI DI INDAGINI RIVOLUZIONARIE. IL LIBRO DEFINITIVO SUI TEMI DELLA VITA E DELLA MORTE. IL BILANCIO DI UN GIORNALISTA D’INCHIESTA, MA ANCHE DI UN UOMO E DI UN PADRE, DESIDEROSO DI TRASMETTERE A SUA FIGLIA IL PROFONDO SENSO DI PACE GENERATO DAL SUO VIAGGIO ALLE FRONTIERE DELLA VITA. Che cosa succede quando moriamo? Cosa accade alla nostra coscienza? Sopravvive alla morte cerebrale? Queste domande si sono imposte impetuosamente a Stéphane Allix nel momento della morte del fratello.

Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the different opportunities his best friend received. The gap widened as Reid's classes enabled him to pursue an elite college degree across the country studying educational opportunity and teaching. Then, Reid became a teacher at an under-resourced South Carolina high school where efforts to serve the incredible students were stymied by internal segregation and administrative ambivalence. After Reid assigned students a project to create a positive change, they pushed him to figure out how he, too, could make a bigger difference.

En vida de JeanPaul Sartre, su filosofía fue bien conocida por estudiantes, intelectuales y revolucionarios, e incluso entre el gran público de todo el mundo. Esta popularidad, sin precedentes para un filósofo, fue debida en parte a sus propias ideas políticas revolucionarias, pero sobre todo se debió a su papel como portavoz del existencialismo en el momento justo en que este conjunto de ideas llenaba el vacío espiritual heredado de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y sus despojos.

At age thirty-eight, Jonathan Gluck, a new father with a promising journalism career, was shocked to learn he had multiple myeloma, a rare, incurable blood cancer. He was told he had eighteen months to live. That was more than twenty years ago. Gluck isn’t just something of a medical miracle. He’s also part of a growing population. Thanks to revolutionary medical advances, many cancers and other serious illnesses are no longer death sentences but chronic diseases many people live with for years.

Olia Hercules was born and brought up in Ukraine and has spent the past decade traveling around its vast terrain, collecting countless recipes, traditions and stories. She has made it her mission to preserve and document the many unique ways of life she has experienced in her place of origin–both across the country and within her own family–in the pages of her award-winning cookbooks, making her understanding of the land completely unique.

Nuclear power has been and continues to be a mystery to many people. This book tells the story of the journey of an average individual who for over 40 years, because of unintentional turns of events, became an active member of the industry and learned to understand and support this challenging but rewarding technology. With global warming and growing demands for energy world-wide, nuclear power plants in conjunction with renewable energy sources is the most promising way to support our future generations.

Thirty years after my family was told that I would not survive, following an accident; I felt it was time to record the story of my life. This includes a life-changing event that I do not remember, which caused upset to my family and friends, the community of Elphin, and further afield. Much to the astonishment of the medical staff, I did not die and have lived a fulfilling life since, traveling to every continent in the world, getting married, and becoming a father.

In 2016, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and decided to live life to the full. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she thought her dreams had come true, but never could have imagined she would be plunged into another nightmare: a four-year campaign of violence and coercive control at his hands.

Dans "Souvenirs de la cour d'assises", André Gide nous invite à un voyage introspectif unique. En tant que juré, il devient un observateur privilégié de l'âme humaine, confronté aux méandres de la psyché et aux limites de la justice. Avec une lucidité et une sensibilité à fleur de peau, Gide nous entraîne dans les coulisses des procès, nous faisant partager ses doutes, ses interrogations et ses émotions. Il décortique les motivations des accusés, les nuances de leurs actes et les mécanismes psychologiques qui les sous-tendent.

En los siglos anteriores a él, la filosofía había sido peligrosa para los filósofos, pero con Friedrich Nietzsche resulta peligrosa para todo el mundo. Nietzsche enloqueció y su locura presagió la demencia colectiva que había de tener consecuencias horrendas en Europa durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. La suya es una filosofía de aforismos y de penetrante visión psicológica, no un sistema, pero es brillante, persuasiva e incisiva como ninguna otra antes o después de él.

James Deary, a NYC healthcare organization cofounder and behavioral scientist, never wanted to be a psychic medium. This ability more or less “happened” to him. His first near-death experience occurred when he was two years old. At age eight, he saw his first apparition. Soon thereafter, psychic experiences became commonplace. Looking back, he was always a clairvoyant who could see Spirit, but the sensing, knowing, and hearing Spirit developed over many years.

Author Eiren Caffall is the inheritor of a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease and the mother of a child who may inherit that legacy. A literary memoir on loss, chronic illness, and generational healing, Caffall’s The Mourner’s Bestiary is also a meditation on grief and survival told through the stories of animals in two collapsing marine ecosystems—the Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Sound—and the lives of a family facing a life-threatening illness on their shores.

Un viaje apasionante a través de la vida y el pensamiento de uno de los filósofos más destacados de su tiempo: Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Es la vida lo que tiene valor, no el haber vivido." Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson fue en su tiempo y será por siempre una fuente de inspiración infinita. Adalid de la autoconfianza y de la adopción de un sentido de felicidad moral, es ejemplo inigualable de fraternidad y humanismo.

La historia definitiva de cómo una revolucionaria herramienta de información se convirtió en el mayor desastre empresarial del sigloKurt Wagner se adentra en la fascinante historia de la empresa que revolucionó los medios de comunicación a escala global. Un extraordinario reportaje que parte desde sus orígenes hasta la brutal batalla legal y financiera que protagonizó Elon Musk por hacerse con la compañía.

Ever wondered what it takes to rise from near-death to extraordinary success? This book is for anyone looking for inspiration, resilience, and powerful business insights. Uncover the dual journey of Antonio Iozzo, who battled addiction while rising as a visionary leader, providing you with the strength to overcome your own challenges. Get inside the mind of a CEO managing a multibillion-rand empire while facing a crippling addiction, so you can apply these lessons to your personal and professional life.

This fascinating biography follows the life of one of the most extraordinary psychologists of modern times, Carl Jung, and the incredible impact he made on our understanding of the human mind. Author Lily Yuan takes us on a journey through Jung's life, beginning with the formative years of his childhood through his tumultuous relationship with fellow psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud to his travels across the world in his later years.

After 24 years in healthcare, one fateful evening transformed Mandi from practitioner to patient. A motor vehicle accident left her with a significant traumatic brain injury that has taken her much longer than expected to recover from. Follow along as she shares her journey back from her worst day through the first year.

Locke gastó gran parte de su tiempo escribiendo largas cartas floridas a mujeres libres, pero nunca llegó a casarse y terminó viviendo en platónico ménage à trois con un miembro del Parlamento por Essex y su esposa. Locke ha sido el único gran filósofo en llegar a ministro, a pesar de que su filosofía era revolucionaria y sirvió de inspiración tanto a la Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos como a la Revolución francesa.

En Hume en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern expone de manera clara y concisa la vida e ideas del gran pensador de la Ilustración escocesa. El libro incluye una selección de citas de sus escritos y cronologías que sitúan a Hume en su época y en una sinopsis más amplia de la filosofía.