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As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has made a career out of bridging intractable political differences and learning how to talk respectfully with people whose views she disagrees with passionately. Her viral TED Talk on the need to practice emotional - rather than political - correctness sparked a new way of considering how often we amplify our differences and diminish our connections. But these days even famously 'nice' Kohn finds herself wanting to breathe fire at her enemies.

A practical call to arms that challenges the persistent inequality of power between men and women. Why is gender inequality so stubbornly persistent? Power. Even today, power remains concentrated in the hands of men right across the worlds of business, politics and culture. Decisions taken by those with power tend to perpetuate gender inequality rather than accelerate solutions. And those who see the problem often feel powerless: ingrained sexism and gender inequality can seem too huge to solve. Equal Power holds a mirror up to society, showing the stark extent of gender inequality.

The gentle movements and relaxation practices in this audiobook are recommended by Gillian as a daily routine for maintaining a healthy spine, for alleviating back problems and for helping to prevent osteoporosis. Track one introduces energising breathing techniques and includes a sequence of gentle movements using the breath to both relax and strengthen your back. Track two is a deep relaxation practice known as yoga nidra in which you lie on your back and rotate your awareness passively through your body, allowing it to relax.

In the first of the two yoga sessions in this audiobook, Gillian guides you through gentle stretches and simple yoga postures with special emphasis on your breathing. The exercises are interspersed with meditative pauses and accompanied by soothing classical music. The second yoga session introduces you to a deep breathing technique and then takes you into a state of deep relaxation where, with the help of sounds from nature, you are guided into the experience of being different animals.

In We, Hominids, one of Holland’s greatest nonfiction writers hunts down answers to humanity’s most fundamental questions: who are we? What makes us different from animals? With an ancient skull as his starting point, he travels the globe, tracing the search for the first human being - the missing link between humans and apes.

The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliché that has forgiven bad behaviour for years: to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addiction and excess. No longer can artists be excused from the standards of conduct that apply to us all. But if we denounce the artist, then what becomes of the work that remains?