我們無法停止壓力，但可以控制壓力對我們的影響。活用FREEDOM模型與SOS法則，科學地管理壓力，改變大腦對壓力的反應方式，調整至最佳狀態，讓保護生命的「生存腦」與理性思考的「學習腦」成功合作，與壓力共生，完成想追求的目標。每個人的大腦中都有一個警鈴，在感應到緊急時，警鈴就會啟動身體的壓力反應系統，進入自我保護的狀態，幫助面對挑戰、保持警覺並生存下去。壓力不是敵人，壓力真正的問題在於人們不知道大腦警鈴「啟動」後該如何緩和，使警鈴變得過於敏感，容易過度反應甚至誤報，讓大腦陷入長期且不必要的...

Cosy up with a mug of hot chocolate for some festive sparkle from MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland.Everyone is getting into the festive spirit on Castle Street - snow is falling, fairy lights are glistening and Christmas shopping is underway.But for Tara Porter, owner of thriving cafe, The Chocolate Pot, this is the most difficult time of the year. From the outside, Tara is a successful businesswoman and pillar of the community. Behind closed doors, she is lo...

From the creators of the groundbreaking documentary comes the New York Times bestselling diet plan Sanjay Gupta called “the prescription you need to live a long, healthy life”—a plan to transition to a delicious whole-foods, plant-based diet in just twenty-eight days.The trailblazing film Forks Over Knives helped spark a medical and nutritional revolution. Backed by scientific research, the film’s doctors and expert researchers made a radical but ...

Lucy Remington takes cooking lessons to attract a stable, uncomplicated guy and ends up falling for hot and spicy firefighter Jake Bryant after she accidentally sets her kitchen on fire.Super organized Lucy Remington is done getting burned by unreliable men, so she’s giving up hot and spicy and holding out for reliable and responsible. When her friend sets her up on a blind date, she agrees to make dinner for a man who sounds like the very definition of stable: an ...

The #1 New York Times bestseller answers: What if one simple change could save you from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer?For decades, that question has fascinated a small circle of impassioned doctors and researchers—and now, their life-changing research is making headlines in the hit documentary Forks Over Knives. Their answer? Eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet—it could save your life.It may overturn most of the die...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist"With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Kla...

He’s already lost everything else… he can’t lose him, too.Jaxon values very little in his life, but what he does value? Football, school, and his best friend, Blaze.But an injury takes him out of the game permanently, and it bleeds into his schooling, making it hard for him to study, to do his classwork, and attend classes.Blaze is his only constant, the one thing in his life that hasn’t changed.Somewhere in the midst of th...

Discover how to “feed your family a plant-based diet that is delicious, cost-effective, and easy” (Mayim Bialik, author of Mayim’s Vegan Table) with this complete and accessible cookbook filled with more than 125 delicious and kid-friendly recipes and plenty of tips for raising a whole-foods-loving family.After the trailblazing film Forks Over Knives helped spark a medical and nutritional revolution, more and more people continue ...

USA Today BestsellerThe first four-color Forks Over Knives cookbook: head chef Darshana Thacker offers 150 delicious, all-new, easy-to-prepare whole-food, plant-based recipes for internationally inspired meals.The 2011 documentary Forks Over Knives ignited a revolution, empowering people to live healthier and happier lives. The film revealed the indisputable link between the average American diet—heavy in meat, dairy, and refined foods—and heart di...

Our brains are doing our best to help us out, but they can be real assholes sometimes. Sometimes it seems like your own brain is out to get you—melting down in the middle of the grocery store, picking fights with your date, getting you addicted to something, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. You already told your brain firmly that it isn't good to do these things. But your brain has a mind of its own. That's where this book comes in. With humor, patience, and lots ...

A BRAND NEW romantic comedy from TOP TEN BESTSELLER Phoebe MacLeodThea Rogers has dedicated her life to her career in corporate law. Apart from her colleague and long-time friend-with-benefits Alasdair, she’s forgone friendships and relationships, and now she’s on track to become her firm’s youngest ever female partner. She should be ecstatic. But when a senior partner dies unexpectedly, Thea realises the people at his funeral are only there out of duty. Suddenly, Thea can’t shak...

One of Alexander McCall Smith’s bestselling series and the funniest, 44 Scotland Street is the world's longest-running serialized novel and continues to be published weekly in The Scotsman newspaper for three months of each year.The 44 Scotland Street series is truly heart-warming, terribly funny and filled with the day-to-day lives of the residents of 44 Scotland Street, a converted Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh. The first five novels chronicle the epis...