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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Power Paradox by Dacher Keltner, read by Kaleo Griffith. A concise, paradigm-shifting account of the power dynamics that shape everyday life - from the board room to the dinner table, the playground to the bedroom The...

Nora Schulte und Alexander Pensel lassen das Eis schmelzen und lassen die Funken sprühen zwischen der unterkühlten Emerie und dem forschen Beckett. Ein wahres Winter-Liebesmärchen zum Einkuscheln und Wegträumen. Veterinärmedizinerin Emerie ist überglücklich: Sie darf an einer Forschungsreise in die Antarktis teilnehmen. Wenn da nur nicht der Leiter des Teams wäre. Beckett treibt Emerie auf der Polarstation zunehmend in den Wahnsinn.

Too many of us suffer from 'chronic performance': we feel constant pressure to look like we know what we're doing, to always be on, to rack up success after success and have all the answers, all because we assume that greater effort leads to greater success. But this temptation to portray ourselves as infallible is affecting both our work and personal lives and is blocking our ability for true growth. Through his work, co-founder of Mindset Works Eduardo Briceño has solved this by coming up with a game-changing framework that breaks our habit of chronic performance.

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world. It is taken for...

Brought to you by Penguin. When Davis Kennedy interviews at a mysterious new startup called Paradox Inc., he’s startled to find the venue is in the past. Silicon Valley’s emerging “temporal engineering” sector has just cracked time travel, and companies are racing to exploit it for...