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The Paradox of Passion shatters the romanticized notion that intrinsic motivation is always superior. It exposes the hidden pitfalls of blindly chasing passion and purpose without understanding how the brain actually works. Backed by cutting-edge neuropsychological research, this book reveals the science of sustainable motivation—and shows you how to leverage your brain’s natural reward systems to fuel peak performance. Discover brain-aligned strategies that boost learning, drive productivity, enhance persuasion, and help you achieve more with less effort.

Bem-vindo ao Páginas Entrelaçadas Por aqui, cada leitura é como um café entre amigos — daquelas conversas que aquecem o peito e fazem o tempo passar mais devagar. Toda semana, um novo livro para te fazer companhia: no seu ritmo, no seu tempo, enquanto a vida acontece. Esse cantinho é seu! Quer sugerir uma leitura? Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com.br/hz/wishlist/dl/invite/cLdOU-gXXUk7LhokPQE1mxl9nV4-nUzjCDxoImSTxK_jtxrvz_xUe7B8GsK6WuWVd3RzzxeJ7L1cqjC Acompanhe também no Instagram: @paginas,entrelacadas_ Vamos juntos nessa viagem literária!

Indulge Your Desires—One Story at a Time.Craving steamy, seductive, and pulse-racing erotica? Your search ends here.Our short, tantalizing stories are designed to tease, tempt, and leave you breathless. From slow-burn seduction to raw, unapologetic passion, there’s a story for every fantasy.With immersive duet narrations and sensual sound effects, we bring every whisper, moan, and forbidden touch to life.Go ahead—press play and surrender.*All stories are fictional and ORIGINALLY WRITTEN by Kimaya Sloane. Only the voices are AI.*

Join book besties, Con and Lauren, along with their gamer husbands, Jon and Kyle, for book club discussions as they dive into popular fantasy series and share reactions, conversations, theories, and laughs.

Long renowned as one of the smartest writers on the loose, David Foster Wallace reveals himself in Consider the Lobster to be also one of the funniest. In this program, he ranges far and farther in his search for the original, the curious, or the merely mystifying. He discovers the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the Maine Lobster Festival and confronts the inevitable question just beyond the butter-or-cocktail-sauce quandary.

Nineteen Eight-Four or 1984 by George Orwell is read by professional narrator and actress Anna Butterworth in an easy-to-listen-to and understandable style that brings this classic novel to life. 1984 is included on many lists of the best English-language novels of the 20th century and is widely read by many English-speaking students. Listen to find out why this book has been one of the most talked-about and read novels of all time.

Dame Harriet Walter, renowned for her wonderful portrayals in Succession and Killing Eve, among others, is one of Britain's most esteemed Shakespearean actors. Now, having played most of Shakespeare's female characters, audaciously, she lets them speak their minds. With new parts for thirty Shakespearean women, written in 'Shakespearean' verse and prose, Harriet Walter goes between the lines of the plays to let us hear what she imagines - sometimes playfully and sometimes searchingly - these women were really thinking.

Number one New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of listeners with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels, the inspiration for the Starz original series. From the moment Claire Randall stepped through a standing stone circle and was thrown back in time to the year 1743 - and into a world that threatens life, limb, loyalty, heart, soul, and everything else Claire has - listeners have been hungry to know everything about this world and its inhabitants, particularly a Scottish soldier named Jamie Fraser.

From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.

Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally. While referring to her relationships with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller, as well as a new lover, the Peruvian Gonzalo More, she also reveals that her most passionate and enduring affair is with writing itself.

After years of wide-eyed blogging about the surreal 1980s perfection of Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High book series (and the surprising psychodrama that lurks below the town's perfectly-tanned surface), host Marissa Flaxbart is now forcing people to read the series with her. But beyond its obsession with the ubiquitous-yet-obscure book series, SWEET VALLEY DIARIES is a podcast about nostalgia — '80s nostalgia in particular — and the ways this nostalgia can (spectacularly, hilariously) fail us. It's a riotous cultural conversation about which parts of the past we long for and which ones...

A topsy-turvy science-y history podcast by Sam Kean. I examine overlooked stories from our past: the dental superiority of hunter-gatherers, the crooked Nazis who saved thousands of American lives, the American immigrants who developed the most successful cancer screening tool in history, the sex lives of dinosaurs, and much, much more. These are charming little tales that never made the history books, but these small moments can be surprisingly powerful. These are the cases where history gets inverted, where the footnote becomes the real story.

Philosophical, strange, and a little grotesque, The Island of Doctor Moreau by influential author H. G. Wells is praised as a classic due to its inspiration for many science fiction books and movies alike. H. G. Wells, who is renowned for his debut novel The Time Machine, is known as "the father of science fiction" thanks to his prophetic fiction on alien invasions, time travel, and space exploration. Wells' work habitually finds itself questioning evolution and religion, while stretching our imagination of a futuristic society. The Island of Doctor Moreau follows Edward Prendick, a ...

With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks listeners through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on poems by Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. This handbook is an invaluable glimpse into Oliver’s prolific mind—a must-have for all poetry-lovers.

Are the All for the Game books good or bad? Join Oona and Nate as they traverse the works of Nora Sakavic chapter by chapter in an attempt to dissect character motivations and debate worldbuilding realism. • Follow us on Tumblr, Instagram, and YouTube @thefoxholecast. Find all our social media and more at thefoxholecast.carrd.co.

In 1896 HG Wells produced the Island of Doctor Moreau. After a fateful shipwreck, a chance rescue, and offer of safe harbor, Edward Prendick must contend with a dark science. A man of science, Prendick must wrestle with the ethics of its passions. His inner struggle is illuminated by the island's outward horrors. Central to the themes are ethics, principles, and the extent of human compassion. This science fiction icon argues the true question of science: Could the cure be more dangerous than the disease?View our full collection of podcasts at our website: https://www.solgoodmedia.com or ...

A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

Language is the key to understanding and unlocking our complicated world. It is also the key to the human heart. East and West, North and South, regardless of race, sex, gender, colour, religion, ethnicity, nationality or any other category, we are all made of stories. Stories bring us together, but untold stories keep us apart. In losing our voice something in us dies. Words have the power to change minds, move hearts. They can help and heal, but just as easily, they can hurt and destroy. Deep within, we all know that words are magic, but we rarely, if ever, stop to think about ...

Writing advice tends to be full of "rules" and "tips" which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and Worldbuilding, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an empire.

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