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Our fears and compulsions often feel like part of our deepest selves—yet they're bound up in the currents of the world around us. This thrilling compendium of 99 phobias and manias, rare and familiar, delves into the obsessions that shape us all. Award-winning author Kate Summerscale takes us from the Middle Ages to the present day, using rich and riveting case studies to trace the links between the private and the public, the personal and the political.

There is an obesity epidemic in this country, and poor Black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health-care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than 200 years ago. 

Socializing doesn't have to be a nightmare: This audiobook will show you how to overcome your social anxiety for good. The issue is that social anxiety is physically and emotionally draining. You may spend days and weeks worrying about an awkward situation, and all that stress is taking a physical toll on your body. Constant exposure to stress hormones also weakens your immune system, leaving you vulnerable to infections. It's time to take action - otherwise, your social anxiety will continue robbing you of personal happiness and life-changing career opportunities.

From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of “everyday madness” The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a...

In the late 1990s, Infinity Foundation played a significant role in countering misinterpretations and distortions about Lord Rama taught in American schools and being presented in the media, which led to the term ‘Rama Phobia’. Without the foundation’s timely intervention, a wave of disinformation and harmful biases about the Ramayana would have spread unchecked, leading to grave misunderstandings and discrimination against Indians and Hinduism.

Western culture hates the fact that we have bodies-from evangelical culture, which insists "you are a soul and have a body," to wellness culture that turns your control over your body into a moral test, to transphobic activism that insists any step taken to change one's body is an immoral act, to the treatment of disabled bodies in a profoundly ableist culture.

You probably wonder if this book contains those secrets necessary to eliminate all your anxieties, all your fears, in short, all those monsters that make it impossible to live peacefully. Here's a secret right now. There is no secret. There is no magic formula that, when applied to the letter, solves all your insecurities. So stop looking for what doesn't exist and start focusing your attention on what will really make the difference: yourself. Are you willing to make a commitment to yourself? Are you willing to pay the price of the change?