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Delivered with Caitlin Cady’s signature wit, warmth and wisdom, each of the 101 messages will up the ante on your day, help you tune in to your highest self and plug into your full potential. Use this audiobook for a daily dose of guidance and inspiration. Close your eyes, reflect on a question or situation you’d like to shed a little light on and let your ears lead you to today’s message. Set fire to limiting beliefs, reframe resistance, say sayonara to self-doubt and peace-out perfectionism.

This audiobook is a plea for self-trust and a gentle guide to self-awareness. Instead of helping you become who you think you should be, The Art of Talking to Yourself hopes to introduce you to someone more interesting: who you are.

In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with "tools" they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness.

This book follows philosophy to the point where certainty no longer expands but instead reveals its boundaries. Beginning with the cogito not as a triumphant foundation but as a residue left after radical doubt, the text traces how attempts to ground existence, selfhood, consciousness, and reality repeatedly encounter structural limits. Animals, machines, simulated worlds, quantum theory, theology, and the self are examined not to extend certainty, but to show where and why it fails.

Have you always known you were meant for so much more, but don’t know why you aren’t living it yet? Meant for More is both an incredible story of one woman’s journey of discovery and awakening while being jam-packed full of bad--s fundamental truths that will blow your socks off...and transform how you operate in the world. Mia helps you to confidently create your own reality by accessing your innate power, shift your self-image, and clear the misconceptions and misunderstandings that have been getting in your way.

What remains of a human being when the oldest instinct—self-preservation—is silenced? In a world where survival has become both an obsession and a constraint, Stripped of Self-Preservation: Between Fear and Freedom asks what it means to live when the impulse to avoid harm dominates every gesture, every thought, every choice. This book unravels the instinct that once protected life, now turned into a force that limits it. Through the lens of philosophy, psychology, neurobiology, and cultural analysis, it explores how fear shapes not only bodies but entire civilizations.

Qué pasaría si toda la historia de la filosofía occidental pudiera leerse como una conversación viva, en lugar de una colección de doctrinas aisladas? En SÓCRATES. PLATÓN. ARISTÓTELES, Isaac Volpe ofrece un recorrido audaz, lúcido y profundamente cautivador por la evolución intelectual que dio forma a los fundamentos del pensamiento occidental. Los conceptos complejos se vuelven accesibles sin caer en simplificaciones, lo que convierte este libro en una obra igualmente valiosa tanto para lectores que se acercan por primera vez a la filosofía como para estudiantes experimentados.

The transgender movement has hit breakneck speed. In the space of a year, it’s gone from something that most Americans had never heard of to a cause claiming the mantle of civil rights. But can a boy truly be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine really “reassign” sex? Is sex something “assigned” in the first place? What’s the loving response to a friend or child experiencing a gender-identity conflict? What should our law say on these issues? When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment provides thoughtful answers to all of these questions.

Uno de los grandes científcos del comportamiento sondea las profundidades de la ciencia y la flosofía de la toma de decisiones para presentar un argumento devastador contra el libre albedrío. En Compórtate, su ya clásico ensayo sobre por qué los seres humanos hacen el bien y el mal, apuntaba a una conclusión inquietante: puede que no comprendamos la combinación precisa de naturaleza y educación que crea la física y la química en la base del comportamiento humano, pero eso no signifca que no exista.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE 3-MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLER The Art of Organizing Thoughts is a calming, practical guide to clear thinking for anyone struggling with information overload, a scattered mind, and a busy life that leaves little space for real attention. If you feel overwhelmed...

Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Kissinger. She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre. 

Imagination is a core aspect of being human. Our imagination allows us to fully experience ourselves in relation to the world and reality. Since the 17th century, however, imagination has been sidelined and dismissed as "make believe". Four centuries ago, a new way of knowing the world and ourselves emerged in the west and has gone on to dominate human life: science. Imagination has been marginalized - depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than coming to grips with it - and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Calm by Michael Acton Smith, read by Maria Teresa Creasey. Trains delayed, kids squabbling before bedtime, endless emails filling the inbox: everyone needs more calm in their life. The evidence in favour of calmness is huge...

In a series of essays that explore the notion of what brings significance to our existences, clarifying why we have this longing beyond the present moment and an insatiable dissatisfaction with where we are, scholar Frank Martela tackles the subject of finding meaning in life. With beautiful...

Are you a spiritual seeker, or simply curious about what it really means to wake up? If you've listened to books on enlightenment, mindfulness, or personal growth and still find yourself wondering how to actually experience those powerful states, you're not alone. In The Power of How, David Smithstein offers a refreshingly grounded approach to spiritual awakening. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, he demystifies the awakening process and shows that it’s not reserved for gurus or masters; it’s available to anyone willing to engage with awareness in a new way.

This audiobook makes a foray into cognitive behavioral therapy and enlightens us on how CBT is helping alleviate various mental health conditions.

Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways. Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives on imagination, the author shows how this facility, while potentially distorting, both frees us from immediate reality and enriches our sense of it, making possible our experience of a meaningful world.

A cuatro manos, la escritora y extranjera –como a ella le gusta llamarse– Clara Obligado y Raúl de Tapia, biólogo, botánico y degustador de paisajes –como a él le gusta llamarse– se internan en un bosque donde las raíces de las letras y las ciencias se unen. Memoria y naturaleza, ramas y raíces, lo aéreo y lo subterráneo. Y el fuego, ese pavor. Un árbol de compañía habla de lo que nos une al suelo y de lo que nos hace devorar el aire.

Memory: A Very Short Introduction explores the fascinating intricacies of human memory. Is it one thing or many? How does memory change as we age? And what about so-called recovered memories - can they be relied upon as a record of what actually happened in our personal past? This book brings together our most recent knowledge to address (in a scientifically rigorous but highly accessible way) these and many other important questions about how memory works, and why we can't live without it. 

In The Thread of Theseus, a bold and thought-provoking exploration of consciousness, identity, and transformation, the classic philosophical puzzle of the Ship of Theseus becomes the entry point to a rich synthesis of modern science and ancient wisdom. Bridging physics, biology, and spirituality, this book offers a radical new hypothesis: that the self is not fixed or isolated, but a living, evolving pattern—an entangled self—woven through time, memory, and matter.