Returning the self to nature

Returning the Self to Nature

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We Are the ARK: Returning Our Gardens to Their True Nature Through Acts of Restorative Kindness

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Self-Governance and Sami Communities

The early modern period was a transforming phase of property rights due to fundamental changes in Sami economy: from an economy based on fishing and h

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Self-Governance and Sami Communities

The early modern period was a transforming phase of property rights due to fundamental changes in Sami economy: from an economy based on fishing and h

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Male Body in Representation

The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter adds to Cultural Studies scholarship interested in the body and gender in general and contributes

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Male Body in Representation

The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter adds to Cultural Studies scholarship interested in the body and gender in general and contributes

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Solitary Self

Explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. This title argues that simple, one

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Making Healthcare Safe

Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by

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How Music Works

This book proposes a Physical Culture Theory, taking culture as a self-organizing impulse pattern of electric forces. Bridging the gap to consciousnes

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Arakelov Geometry and Diophantine Applications

Bridging the gap between novice and expert, the aim of this book is to present in a self-contained way a number of striking examples of current diopha

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Adolf Portmann

This edited volume is the first specialized book in English about the Swiss zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982). It provides a clarification and update of Portmann's theoretical approach to the phenomenon of life, characterized by terms such as "inwardness" and "self-presentation." Portmann's concepts of secondary altriciality and the social uterus hav...

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Mindful Path to Self-Compassion

Illuminates the nature of self-compassion and offers steps for incorporating it into daily life. This book is suitable for readers new to mindfulness

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Self and Other

Dan Zahavi engages with classical phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and a range of empirical disciplines to explore the nature of selfhood. He argues

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The Marshmallow Test : Understanding Self-control and How To Master It - Mischel Walter

Anotace: A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behaviour later in life?Walter Mischel`s now iconic `marshmallow test,` one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology, proved that the ability to delay gratification is critical to li...

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The Marshmallow Test : Understanding Self-control and How To Master It - Walter Mischel

<p>A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behaviour later in life? Walter Mischel's now iconic 'marshmallow test,' one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology, proved that the ability to delay gratification is critical to l...

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Self: A Very Short Introduction

This VSI is a multidisciplinary approach to central questions about the nature and existence of the self. It engages millennia-old questions about the

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The Concise Laws of Human Nature - Greene Robert

Anotace: From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people`s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of...

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Diaries by Franz Kafka - Kafka Franz

Anotace: An essential new translation of the author`s complete, uncensored diaries - a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century`s most influential writers`The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world` - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka`s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, incl...

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Nature of Small Birds – A Novel

When Mindy announces that she is returning to Vietnam to find her birthmother, it inspires her father, mother, and sister to recall the events of her

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Book of Nordic Self-Care, Find Peace and Balance Through Seasonal Rituals, Connecting with Nature, Mindfulness Practices, and More Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd

Discover the secrets of the Nordic way of life to gain meaning, calm and happiness....

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Laws Of Human Nature - neuveden

Anotace: Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people`s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend o...

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the So - Josef Šafařík

<p>Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and technical progress...

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Primer of Happiness 1 - The Return to Ourselves - Pavel Baričák

<p>In a simple form suitable for first-graders, this book explains the principles of self-acceptance, forgiveness, positive thinking, “letting go” of your parents, understanding illness, dissolving pain, “problem” solving, stopping fights, listening to your heart, becoming sensitive to the symbols of life and liberating yourself from other people's pain. Among the t...

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The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature - Greene Robert

Anotace: Daily doses of wisdom from the master of self-development.Over the last 22 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human whether that be getting what you want, understanding others` motivations, mastering your impulses, and recognizing strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into daily entries.Each entry delive...

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The Idiot (9781847493439)

Kniha – autor Fyodor Dostoevsky; Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij, 704 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá - anglicky After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian ...

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality - Šafařík Josef

Anotace: Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and te...

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Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

Anotace: Jon Krakauer's classic account of a gifted young man who chose literally to walk away from his life. By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who, in 1992, walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which...

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The Complete Fables: Complete Fables

<p>In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, the author creates a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. It shows you a wily fox being outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock the author.</p>

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Before the Fall - Noah Hawley

Anotace: The stunning new literary thriller from Richard & Judy bestselling author and writer and creator of Fargo Noah Hawley. Sunday Times top thriller read of the year 2016 The rich are different. But fate is blind. Down-on-his-luck artist Scott Burroughs would usually take the ferry back to New York from Martha's Vineyard, but he is unexpectedly offered a spare seat ...

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How to Build Impossible Things - Mark Ellison

‘Gorgeous . . .contains fascinating insights about working with your hands, the nature of talent, and how to create a meaningful life’ A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler‘Exquisite, purposeful, absorbing .. . a book with much to teach us all’ Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Homeland Elegies‘People think I’m a genius because I remember my high sch...

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The Complete Fables: Complete Fables - neuveden

Anotace: In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, the author creates a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. It shows you a wily fox being outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock the author.

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Things No One Taught Us About Love (The Good Vibes trilogy): How to Build Healthy Relationships with Yourself and Others - King Vex

Anotace: Things No One Taught Us About Love is a concise paperback that distils the ideas found in Vex King`s hardback book Closer to Love, reworked and presented in the warm, relatable style of his No. 1 bestseller Good Vibes, Good, Life.This extraordinary book is for anyone looking to harness the power of the universe, and their own self-understanding, to manifest stro...

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If I Have To Be Haunted - Miranda Sun

Anotace: Your first love will always haunt you... The most haunting, heartwarming debut of 2023. Perfect for fans of strong female leads and supernatural stakes in Buffy, with all the sweetness and romance of To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Cara's just trying to stay on top of all her classes, excel at her extracurriculars, and prepare for college - which m...

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If I Have To Be Haunted - Miranda Sun

<p>Your first love will always haunt you… The most haunting, heartwarming debut of 2023. Perfect for fans of strong female leads and supernatural stakes in Buffy, with all the sweetness and romance of To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Cara's just trying to stay on top of all her classes, excel at her extracurriculars, and prepare for college - which means not spea...

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Women Who Run with the Wolves

UPDATED, WITH NEW MATERIAL BY THE AUTHOR"WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows." - Alice WalkerWithin every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature...

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The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name, 1. vydání - Brian C. Muraresku

<p>The most influential religious historian of the twentieth century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same, secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next, ever...

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Batman Arkham Origins Socha The Joker a The Joker Exclusive 86

Prime 1 Studio is proud to present MMDC-21: The Joker from Batman: Arkham Origins. The Joker was an insane, homicidal supervillain, and the arch nemesis of Batman. His white skin, green hair and blood red lips belied the chaotic nature that underlay his cartoonish appearance. The extremely intelligent self-styled Clown Prince of Crime had no superpowers beyond a capacity ...

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The Super Bloom Handbook - Jac Semmler

Everyone needs flowers in their life: this is an easy guide to growing your own. Have you always wanted flowers at your fingertips but were not sure how to get started? Or even what to do to grow beauty? Featuring forty of the easiest and most beautiful flowers to grow for any space, The Super Bloom Handbook will show you how. From bearded irises and roses to pelargoniu...

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The Diaries of Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka

<p>An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.</p> <p> </p> <p>Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, li...

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Survival of the Friendliest - Brian Hare

<p>A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness "Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring--and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time."--Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge For most of the approximately 300,00...

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Good Omens: The phenomenal laugh out loud adventure about the end of the world - Gaiman Neil, Pratchett Terry

Anotace: The irreverant, hilarious, touching and philosophical caper about the end of the world.`Still makes me laugh 25 years later` Ben AaronovitchThere is a hint of Armageddon in the air. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered t...

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Erika Bornová - Šílenství je stráž noci / Madness is the Guard of the Night - Erika Bornová

<p>Kniha přináší výběr z nejnovější tvorby jedné z nejosobitějších umělkyň současnosti. <br /> Erika Bornová je vypravěčkou silných, mnohoznačných příběhů. Ať se již jedná o sochařský cyklus věnovaný Almě Mahlerové a jejím mužům, o uhrančivé akrylové Autoportréty nebo o imaginativní kresby Rostlin či Vodních bytostí, vždy s nadsázkou reflektuje banalitu život...

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Learning to Drive (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Learning to Drive - Now a major motion picture starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley§§Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of essays drawn from the author's own life.§§With deep feeling and sharp insig...

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Apollyon (The Fourth Covenant Novel) - Armentrout Jennifer L.

Anotace: The spellbinding fourth novel in the acclaimed Covenant series from #1 New York Times bestselling Jennifer L. Armentrout.Enter the world of Covenant...Alex has Awoken and become the Apollyon. She has connected with Seth and now the thing she feared most has happened: her true self has been lost. But love is stronger than fate, and Aiden St. Delphi will do anythi...

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Apollyon (The Fourth Covenant Novel) - Jennifer L. Armentrout

<p>The spellbinding fourth novel in the acclaimed Covenant series from #1 New York Times bestselling Jennifer L. Armentrout. Enter the world of Covenant... Alex has Awoken and become the Apollyon. She has connected with Seth and now the thing she feared most has happened: her true self has been lost. But love is stronger than fate, and Aiden St. Delphi will do anyth...

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Batman Arkham Origins Socha The Joker 86 cm

Prime 1 Studio is proud to present MMDC-21: The Joker from Batman: Arkham Origins. The Joker was an insane, homicidal supervillain, and the arch nemesis of Batman. His white skin, green hair and blood red lips belied the chaotic nature that underlay his cartoonish appearance. The extremely intelligent self-styled Clown Prince of Crime had no superpowers beyond a capacity ...

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Batman Arkham Knight Socha The Joker 84 cm

Prime 1 Studio is proud to present MMDC-27: The Joker from Batman: Arkham Knight. The Joker was an insane, homicidal supervillain, and the arch nemesis of Batman. His white skin, green hair and blood red lips belied the chaotic nature that underlay his cartoonish appearance. The extremely intelligent self-styled Clown Prince of Crime had no superpowers beyond a capacity f...

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The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky; Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski; Fjodor Michajlovič Dost...

Anotace: After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital - from greed, murder and nihilism to passion, vanity and love. Mocked for his childlike naivety yet valued for h...

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir - RuPaul

<p>From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introsp...

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Alone With You in the Ether - Olivie Blake

<p>From the no. 1 international bestselling author of The Atlas Six.'Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent' - Chloe GongChicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit ar...

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Alone With You in the Ether - Blake Olivie

Anotace: Chicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change.Everything else, howeve...

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One Win a Day: 365 little steps to make a big difference - Greedy Charlotte

Anotace: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of You Do You, an interactive workbook designed to bring a bit more magic into your everyday life, one day at a time.You can start at any point of the year. Every page contains a simple act of self-care to take on each day, that will make today just that little bit better than yesterday. It`s the best friend by your bedsi...

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One Win a Day: 365 little steps to make a big difference - Charlotte Greedy

<p>From the Sunday Times bestselling author of You Do You, an interactive workbook designed to bring a bit more magic into your everyday life, one day at a time.You can start at any point of the year. Every page contains a simple act of self-care to take on each day, that will make today just that little bit better than yesterday. It's the best friend by your bedsid...

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Alone With You in the Ether: A love story like no other and a Heat Magazine Book of the Week - Olivie Blake

<p>From the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake is a glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.Chicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is...

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Alone With You in the Ether: A love story like no other and a Heat Magazine Book of the Week - Blake Olivie

Anotace: From the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake is a glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. Chicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounte...

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The Talented Mr Varg : A Detective Varg novel - McCall Smith Alexander

Anotace: Spring is coming slowly to Sweden - though not quite as slowly as Detective Ulf Varg`s promised promotion at the Department of Sensitive Crimes. For Varg, referred by his psychoanalyst to group therapy at Malmoe`s Wholeness Centre, life now seems mostly a circle of self-examination, something which may or may not be useful when it comes to the nature of his prof...

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The Talented Mr Varg : A Detective Varg novel - Smith Alexander McCall

<p>Spring is coming slowly to Sweden - though not quite as slowly as Detective Ulf Varg's promised promotion at the Department of Sensitive Crimes. For Varg, referred by his psychoanalyst to group therapy at Malmoe's Wholeness Centre, life now seems mostly a circle of self-examination, something which may or may not be useful when it comes to the nature of his profe...

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Garden City: Supergreen Buildings, Urban Skyscapes and the New Planted Space - Anna Yudina

<p>A spectacular global survey of the new buildings merging architecture and nature to transform our cities for a sustainable future. Concrete horizons, urban sprawl, high-density living: never have our cities and their buildings been in greater need of greening. Yet what's required is more than an occasional vertical garden or living roof. Featuring seventy proje...

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Saving 6: Epic, emotional and addictive romance from the TikTok phenomenon - Walsh Chloe

Anotace: An epic and unforgettable love story begins in Saving 6, the third book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh`s extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate book hang...

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Why We Dream : The Science, Creativity and Transformative Power of Dreams - Robbová Alice

Anotace: We all dream, and 98 per cent of us can recall our dreams the next morning. Even in today`s modern age, it is human nature to wonder what they mean. With incredible new discoveries and stunning science, Why We Dream will give you dramatic insight into yourself and your body. You`ll never think of dreams in the same way again . . .Groundbreaking science is puttin...

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