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Thoughts for the Times of War and Death Audiobook

"In this insightful essay Sigmund Freud delves into the psychological roots of war, the nature of human aggression, and the profound impact of death on society. Written during the tumultuous years of World War I, Freud explores how conflict shapes the psyche and why humanity is drawn to violence despite the consequences."

Sigmund Freud (Author), Ben Allen (Narrator)

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[German] - Die Kraft in dir: Eine Erzählung über innere Stärke und den Mut zur Veränderung

"Über die unbändige Stärke, die in jedem von uns schlummert »Soll ich es wirklich wagen?« Alex führt ein ganz normales Leben: Mutter, Partnerin, Angestellte – ein Rad im Getriebe des Alltags, das zuverlässig funktioniert. Doch hinter der Fassade aus Routinen lodert der Funke eines fast vergessenen Traums: die Eröffnung eines eigenen Buchcafés. Als unerwartet sechs außergewöhnliche Menschen in das Leben von Alex treten, beginnt sich ihre Vision in ein greifbares Ziel zu verwandeln. Doch bevor sie ihren Traum verwirklichen kann, muss sie sich mit einer Reihe unbequemer Wahrheiten über ihr bisheriges Leben auseinandersetzen und mutige Schritte wagen, vor denen sie bisher zurückgeschreckt ist. Ein Liebesbrief an das Leben und an die Kraft in jedem von uns, den Weg der eigenen Träume zu gehen."

Vanessa Göcking (Author), Vanessa Göcking (Narrator)

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Affairs: True Stories of Love, Lies, Hope and Desire

"'The book of 2025.' Mail on Sunday Working late? Midnight calls? Suspicious texts? One in five of us will have an affair in our lifetimes - but the reasons behind them might not be what you think. Psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld shares the secrets, lies and motivations behind real affairs, through the lens of five very different true stories. We meet the man who left his wife in the delivery suite to visit his young mistress and the psychologist who put attraction to a patient above career ethics. We hear from the surgeon who risked everything for someone he'd only ever spoken to online and the previously straight woman who cheated on her husband with a female colleague - and changed all of their lives. In Affairs, this deeply-concealed but exceptionally common aspect of human behaviour is brought out into the light and explored without judgement or shame. True personal stories, ground-breaking research and expert psychological analysis come together to change everything you have ever thought about infidelity. 'Hugely thoughtful and stimulating. . . Can't fail to leave us with new insights on our lives.' - Alain de Botton 'I found it brutal, heartbreaking and, in a strange way (after its tales had settled in me) inspiring.' - You Magazine"

Juliet Rosenfeld (Author), Helen Keeley (Narrator)

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How to Be Awake (So You Can Sleep Through the Night)

"A great night’s sleep starts long before your head hits the pillow When it comes to getting the sleep we need, we tend to focus on perfecting a bedtime routine in the hour before bed but, in doing so, we’re missing the biggest factor that dictates our sleep quality: how we spend our days. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, sought-after sleep psychotherapist Heather Darwall-Smith explores how our ‘always-on’ lives are wreaking havoc when the time comes to rest. In doing so, she reshapes our understanding of sleep, and the struggles that surround it, to offer powerful insights for meaningful change. With practical exercises and expert guidance, you’ll learn: - What the stress of daily life is doing to your nervous system - Simple ways to reset, rest and recover during the day that will transform your sleep - The impact that environment, technology, nutrition, hormones and exercise have on you and your sleep - How to solve your sleep issues by looking at your whole life This book will transform your relationship with sleep and help you create the conditions for a restful night, so you can wake up to a brighter, more energised tomorrow."

Heather Darwall-Smith (Author), Zara Ramm (Narrator)

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Birds, Sex and Beauty: The extraordinary implications of Charles Darwin’s strangest idea

"In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection theory. 'FASCINATING' The Times ‘Matt Ridley is one of our finest science writers … A treat for bird lovers and evolutionary biologists alike’ Richard Dawkins Animals rarely treat sex as a simple or mutually beneficial transaction. Choosing a mate is often a transcendent event to be approached with reverence, suspicion, angst and quite a bit of violence. For Matt Ridley, nowhere is this more acute than in birds. From a freezing hide on the Pennine moors at dawn, Ridley closely studies the rare Black Grouse. He is there for the lek – an elaborate courtship ritual of squabbling and strutting males. They dance and sing for hours each day to attract a mate over several months. With most males leaving exhausted and unsuccessful, Ridley looks at how females make their choice to cast fresh light on how such rituals have evolved and why. His pursuit follows five generations of biologists from Darwin and Wallace to the present day, uncovering how they have grappled with the implications of sexual selection as an eccentric, gonzo form of evolution. While most Victorian scientists found it impossible to believe female birds could select mates, Darwin was obsessed with the idea of sexual as well as natural selection. Drawing on his own lifelong passion, Ridley eavesdrops on the elaborate displays of bird species around the world, from the complex art installations made by Bowerbirds in Australia to the bubbling calls of Curlews in the UK’s declining moorlands. In a wonderful blend of nature writing and elegant exploration of recent evolutionary theory, Birds, Sex and Beauty shows not only how mate choice has shaped the natural world, including humans, but how the song and plumage of birds can be thrillingly, breathtakingly beautiful. ‘Clear and entertaining … Ridley explains all this history with lucidity and wit’New Statesman ‘Most of this fascinating and accessible book is about birds … Ridley, very clearly, loves birds — and the enthusiasm is infectious’The Times ‘This is a fascinating story told with wit, scholarship and the passion of a true conversationist. Lord Ridley writes in the best tradition of great British naturalists’ Country Life ‘Birds, Sex & Beauty is a good read. It is a compelling history of sexual selection, rather than a synthesis that moves the field forwards’Nature"

Matt Ridley (Author), Matt Ridley (Narrator)

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Healing the Modern Brain: Nine Tenets to Build Mental Fitness and Revitalize Your Mind

"In this essential guide, the groundbreaking author of Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety and The Happiness Diet explores the ten tenets vital to cultivating Mental Fitness and provides direct, actionable techniques to improve brain function and emotional health. The human brain—the complex organ responsible for our thoughts, feelings, and actions—has long been misunderstood. Dr. Drew Ramsey argues that to heal our brains, we must start considering conditions like depression, anxiety, ADHD and addiction—and the patients living with them—more holistically. Healing the Modern Brain offers a new approach to revitalizing and protecting mental health and achieving Mental Fitness. Simply defined, Mental Fitness is the knowledge, patterns, habits, and skills that culminate in a more mentally healthy life: an approach to living that takes into consideration the unrealistic demands of modern living, time, choice, genetics, lifestyle, diet, habits, chemistry, movement, rest, and mindset. It is a process that will put your brain in a perpetual state of self-repair and evolution, and ensure it has the support it needs to overcome daily stress, decision-fatigue, and uncertainty. Clear and straightforward, Healing the Modern Brain provides the knowledge and tools needed to nurture Mental Fitness—bringing together the latest scientific research with results from Dr. Ramsey’s clinical practice to show us how we can put ourselves on the road to healing anxiety and depression, and better care for our miraculous, modern brains."

Drew Ramsey (Author), Drew Ramsey (Narrator)

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1001 Days: How Our First Years Shape Our Lifelong Health

"Brought to you by Penguin. We think of babyhood and old age as polar opposites on the spectrum of life. Yet they are profoundly linked. Our early experiences set us up for a lifetime of good mental and physical health, or for future health challenges. The First 1,001 Days will explore these vital and often overlooked factors. Delving into the latest research in the fields of medicine, neuroscience and psychobiology, acclaimed psychotherapist and author Sue Gerhardt explains how many of the most common illnesses affecting our society today – from type 2 diabetes to cardiovascular disease, depression and dementia – have their roots in pre- and post-natal childhood development. She challenges the political and cultural issues that hinder us from acting on what science is telling us – for example, that ill health is often seen as a result of wrong ‘lifestyle’ choices – and will change the way we approach illness, prevention, screening and cure within our healthcare and wider social systems. There is no simple cause and effect that explains an individual’s health outcomes. But in learning about the ways your childhood continues to shape your health today, you can feel empowered to seek the help you need. © Sue Gerhardt 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Sue Gerhardt (Author), Christine Hewitt (Narrator)

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Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity

"Brought to you by Penguin. More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole – their family context, their culture, their personal resilience – and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress. © Dr Sami Timimi 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Dr Sami Timimi (Author), Philip Ishak Arditti (Narrator)

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Conflict Resilience: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or Giving In

"AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Conflict management expert Robert C. Bordone and leading behavioral neurologist Joel Salinas, M.D., join forces to introduce conflict resilience: the radical science of standing strong in the face of conflict and breaking the bad habits that sabotage our politics, workplaces, and most important relationships. Conflict is getting the better of us. From our homes and community centers to C-Suites and Congress, disagreements are happening everywhere, with increasing frequency, and are being treated like winner-takes-all debates rather than as opportunities for conversation and positive change. This puts a tremendous and untenable strain on our most important relationships and institutions. Unable or unwilling to handle conflict with skill, we ignore it or avoid it for as long as possible; when we are forced to face it, everyday disagreements and temporary flare-ups rapidly escalate to a fever pitch. Neither approach addresses underlying issues, promotes stronger relationships, or yields satisfying results. But there is a solution: a combined skill- and mindset that Bordone calls conflict resilience: the ability to not only sit with and grow from disagreement, but to find new ways to communicate with authority and confidence without others feeling left unheard. In this powerful, hopeful book, Bordone, an internationally-recognized negotiator, former professor, and Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School, and Joel Salinas, M.D., a cutting-edge scientist from Harvard Medical School, combine the inner mechanics of conflict—literally what’s going on in our bodies and our brains during moments of distress—to produce a groundbreaking guide for how to navigate it, including: How to get out of your own way as a communicator Understanding the importance of timing How to embrace disagreement as an advantage Learning how to anticipate and manage defensiveness And more! Conflict Resilience provides scientifically proven tools to help you drive agreement when possible, and empower you, when agreement is impossible, to strengthen your ability to speak in conflict and withstand the stress of doing so. In these polarized times, when consensus, agreement, and problem-solving often feel elusive or even downright pointless, conflict resilience becomes the key to move forward. This book serves as a guidebook to bring people together, and an invitation to radically transform how we interact with our friends and families, our coworkers, our students, and our neighbors."

Joel Salinas, Robert Bordone (Author), Chris Brinkley (Narrator)

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Anyone Can Play Music: Unlock Your Musical Potential with the Laws of Brainjo

"A neuroscience-based approach to learning how to play music at any age You can learn to play music, no matter what you've been told about your musical talent or aptitude. Each and every one of us has been gifted with a fully customizable brain, one we can mold to learn anything, at any age. With the right instruction and methods, learning to play music can be an endless source of joy and fulfillment. And learning to play music isn't just fun, it's also the ideal brain fitness activity. Dr. Turknett, a neurologist, self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of Brainjo and the Brainjo Method of instruction, which has been used successfully by thousands of people, distills the principles of learning to play music down into a set of universal 'laws' that can be applied to any instrument. His innovative and proven approach synthesizes the latest in neuroscience and skill-building theory, emphasizing practicing smarter, not harder, recognizing that there is no failure, only feedback, and leveraging the immense power of subconscious learning. Success or failure in learning to play music, just like anything else, is driven by how we learn. More specifically, it is driven by how well we engage our brain's remarkable ability to change itself. Anyone Can Play Music is about the fundamental principles of learning, an owner's manual for molding a musical mind. The benefits of learning an instrument extend beyond the immense pleasure that it brings. Recent research indicates that stimulating neuroplasticity, or the brain's ability to change itself, leads to brain growth, reverses brain aging and even restores youthful brain function. The more areas of the brain that are stimulated, the greater the benefit. And when it comes to a whole brain workout, nothing beats playing music. While much of Dr. Turknett's detailed instructions are music-specific, the strategies underpinning this book apply not only to learning to play music, but to any kind of skill building. Our plastic brains are capable of so much more than we realize, as long as we can learn how to learn."

Josh Turknett (Author), Josh Turknett (Narrator)

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Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies

"Sexual fantasies. Everyone has them, but no one knows what they mean. People are curious about and often confused by the things that arouse them, yet they are often too ashamed to reveal their most private fantasies to their partners or even their therapists. In this fascinating and provocative book, Dr. Michael J. Bader offers a groundbreaking new theory of sexual desire, one that will liberate men and women and enable them to better understand their sexual preferences. Drawing on his twenty-five years as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Bader demonstrates that rather than being programmed by biology or society, sexual fantasies and preferences are really psychological antidotes to unconscious dangers. Dr. Bader sensitively tells the stories of his patients and explains the meaning of their sexual fantasies. In terms refreshingly free of jargon, he reveals how his profound new theory can be used to decipher a wide variety of sexual fantasies and behavior. And yet, Dr. Bader's exciting new theory transcends the realm of individual psychology. Listeners will come away with a new understanding of such issues as sexual chemistry and boredom, cybersex, pornography, and the differences in how men and women get excited. Contains mature themes."

Dr. Michael J. Bader (Author), Eric Altheide (Narrator)

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A Journey into the Human Mind

"Embark on a profound exploration with 'A Journey into the Human Mind' an illuminating audiobook that delves into the intricate workings of our most enigmatic organ, this book offers readers a compelling blend of scientific insight and captivating storytelling. From the dawn of human cognition to the latest advances in brain research, this audiobook navigates the vast landscape of the human mind with clarity and expertise. Each chapter unveils the mysteries of how we think, feel, and perceive the world, bridging the gap between complex neuroscience and everyday experiences. In 'A Journey into the Human Mind,' readers will discover: The evolutionary origins of the brain and the development of human consciousness. The intricate processes behind memory, learning, and decision-making. The interplay between emotions and cognition, and how they shape our behavior. The latest breakthroughs in understanding mental health disorders and their treatments. Insights into the future of brain research and the potential for enhancing cognitive abilities. Carter engaging narrative is enriched with real-life case studies, thought-provoking questions, and vivid illustrations, making the science of the mind accessible and relatable. Whether you are a student of psychology, a curious reader, or a professional in the field, this book offers a transformative journey that will deepen your understanding of yourself and the world around you. Join Eleanor Carter on this remarkable odyssey through the realms of thought, emotion, and consciousness, and gain a newfound appreciation for the extraordinary capabilities of the human mind."

Eleanor Carter (Author), Jess Knight, Jimmy Palmer, Nick Torres (Narrator)

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