From the award-winning psychologist and leading expert on PTSD and addiction, an essential guide to healing the trauma of growing up with addiction and dysfunction.
Esta obra aborda las definiciones y conceptos fundamentales de la salud y la enfermedad desde una perspectiva filosófica y médica contemporánea basada en las teorías de Georges Canguilhem, Christopher Boorse y Lennart Nordenfelt.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAROne of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it'We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable.
John O'Kane delivers a gripping tale of a life dedicated to football violence and gives an unparalled insight into the reality of being a career hooligan.
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.
There is no meant to be but the love I ve known has made it hard to believe thatAn inventive, funny and deeply moving family epic: a love story, an elegy and a reminder that even in the mess of family and memory there is something to laugh aboutAN OBSERVER NON-FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026'A wild ride' JON McGREGOR'Raw and intimate, so daring and disobedient SARAH HALL'The most beautiful and truthful song to the pain present in a good life' EVIE WYLDJarred McGinnis was born to a Southern US clan where masculinity, resilience and physical violence were intertwined.
Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic.
Beautifully wrought and staggeringly urgent , Fragile Minds documents Bella Jackson's time as a trainee mental health nurse, and the devastation and hope she encountered in winding corridors and behind locked doors.
Taut, lyrical and utterly gripping - the internationally award-winning and bestselling debutA fizzing headrush of a novel about four boys coming of age on the deprived outskirts of Oslo'A gut punch of a debut [in] hurricane prose' Times Literary Supplement'Raw and unfiltered, I was hooked from the very first page' Service95Last night i got woke up by marco ringing, and he was crying, he said, he died ivor, he died, and i didnt need to hear who to know, i just hung up.
La lúgubre atmósfera de un pueblo de montaña, cualquier lugar en Centroeuropa, y un tiempo indefinido del que la autora apenas deja entrever alguna coordenada, son los coprotagonistas de esta historia en la que amor y crueldad se atan firme y faltamente.
Este libro, primero de una trilogía producto de la investigación "El desarrollo de la capacidad de agencia y la reconfiguración emocional en adictos en proceso de 'rehabilitación'.
De la mano de un destacado experto en adicciones, esta es una historia provocadora y singular sobre cómo las grandes multinacionales se han orientado hacia el centro de recompensa de nuestro cerebro, llevándonos a adicciones que van desde los analgésicos hasta los Big Macs, pasando por Assassin's Creed, Snapchat o la pornografía.
Deja entrar la luz es una historia estremecedora de la realidad actual: el narcotráfico, el micro tráfico y sus últimas consecuencias, la adicción y el pequeño porcentaje de aquellos que la superan.
Nacido en una zona rural de Alabama, hijo de un chapero drogadicto y una madre soltera, Gucci Mane empezó a vender drogas en séptimo curso y a rapear a los 14 años.
Libro informativo que aborda el origen del VIH, sus antecedentes en Chile, las nociones fundamentales de la enfermedad, principales dudas y mitos, así como la prevención de su transmisión, entre otros aspectos relevantes.
