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Six of Kuczynski's more popular philosophical works.

This is a summary of Dr. Jason Fung's The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight. Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones - in everyone - and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss. In this absorbing and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition.

Gretchen Rudin tackles the critical question: How do we change? Her answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives. So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is: How do we change our habits? Better Than Before answers that question.

Giulia Enders provides a complete guide to the latest advances science has made in terms of our digestive system. The whole digestive process, from the time the food enters your mouth to when it is finally digested, is covered. Enders begins with an introduction to the system's overall structure and goes on to explain what role each part of the system plays and how each part interacts with the others in order to promote effective digestion.

In the game-changing best seller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together, some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries, to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you.

The empirical sciences make assumptions that they are not themselves capable of justifying. Philosophy justifies those assumptions; that is its job.

It is made clear how psychosis differs from psychopathy.

In The Secret Life of Bees, the narrator's voice is quite convincing as a 14-year-old girl. Sue Monk Kidd uses a straightforward style, adding small remnants of magical realism to incorporate the bees, as well as the strange string of events that brings Lily and Rosaleen to the Boatwright house. Using historical markers - like the Civil Rights Act - Kidd manages to keep the story grounded in real events, counterbalancing a few eccentric elements, like the pink house and a non-traditional view on religion.

This audiobook contains proven steps, strategies, and more about arthritis, its causes and effects, how it can be treated, and the right kind of diet for people suffering from it. Arthritis is the inflammation of a joint or joints. This audiobook is a basic guide to get to know more about arthritis and how you are going to cure it with the right diet. It aims to help relieve pain and suffering borne by arthritis.

What if losing weight didn't mean that you had to starve yourself or go to the gym every morning? Imagine if you could lose weight easily. Well you can! Diet consultant Andrew Mills reveals the proven step-by-step method to experiencing rapid weight loss without eating less or excessive exercise. Based on proven scientific research, Mills explains exactly how this method works, and how you can get started instantly towards achieving your weight loss goals.

A must-listen for anyone interested in philosophical psychology, moral epistemology, or Kant interpretation, this brisk monograph provides a long-overdue alternative to the dreary and opaque tomes on which Kant aficionados have thus far had to rely.

In this brisk volume, a case is made that a value is a belief as to how one live one's life if one's psychological architecture is to retain its integrity, and a case is thereby made that intention is an operationalized value. This analysis makes it possible to distinguish between minds that do and minds that do not host selves. The relationship between weakness of the will and self-deception is made clear, and it is explained how it is that one can knowingly act in self-destructive ways.

In this series of dialogues - clear, concise and cogent answers are given.

It is made clear what analytic truth is and how it differs from formal truth. Some important theorems about incompleteness are stated both comprehensibly and accurately.

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition.

A discussion of the psychological underpinnings of anorexia and other psychological morbidities.

A fictitious exchange in which a number of points about creativity, agency, and selfhood are illustrated and brought into connection with exotic theorems of mathematical logic.

Memory improvement made easy! This audiobook will teach you scientifically proven methods that will help you remember nearly anything you want to remember within a week or two. You’ll learn how to quit bad habits that may have been holding you back, and will in turn transform not only your memory but your entire body! This audiobook will unlock your hidden potential and will put you on the fast track to success.

A light-hearted discussion of the nature of knowledge and truth.

The distinction between neurosis and psychosis is discussed.