What makes us the w***ay*** w***e are?*** Some say it’s the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it’s the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics—our health, our intelligence, our temperaments—are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth?That’s the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal origins. Over the past twenty years, scientists have been developi...

**A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A New York Times Notable BookA bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships**Use your head.That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backw...

Award-winning psychology writer Annie Paul delivers a scathing exposé on the history and effects of personality tests.Millions of people worldwide take personality tests each year to direct their education, to decide on a career, to determine if they'll be hired, to join the armed forces, and to settle legal disputes. Yet, according to award-winning psychology writer Annie Murphy Paul, the sheer number of tests administered obscures a simple fact: they don't work. ...

Reveals the true story behind Annie Murphy's secret affair with Eamonn Casey, who became the Bishop of Galway, Ireland, the birth of their son, her years of hardship, and the publicity surrounding the 1992 disclosure of the coverup.

**A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A New York Times Notable BookA bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships**Use your head.That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backw...

True devotion is surely worth waiting forSteven Macklin wakes up in a ditch one morning in foul, wet weather with no idea where he is or how he came to be there. Seriously injured, he struggles across bleak heathland to find shelter. The only house he finds is weather-beaten and deserted, although he's too sensible a guy to fall for the cliche of a haunted mansion.Isn't he?When he collapses and is taken in by the handsome Eliot, Steven finds himself...

Merry Claire Thomas expected to be long gone from her cottage that was adjacent to her old Victorian mansion, long before her absentee tenant returned. But when Patrick Ryan arrived unannounced in the middle of the night - all temptation and trouble in a pair of tight jeans - she was stunned that he looked exactly like the lover who'd been disrupting her sleep and making hot, steamy love to her in dreams every night of the past week. Merry was determined not to let herself get wrapped up i...

Zoé didn’t set out to hurt anyone. It just happened. When she replaces Cheska Murphy, the deceased Office Administrator at St. Cecilia’s church, she finds herself drawn into the eccentric lives of the mentally-damaged characters that she befriends. She’s quickly sidetracked into the past life of a very troubled Cheska. Suspicions lead to clues, and clues land Zoé straight into the shoes of the dead woman. Cheska died under mysterious circumstances, and Zoé becomes fixated on investigating ...

The intoxicating smell of a cube of Walnut pipe tobacco. The watery taste of the cream on the offered sweet. The 'Hello, little boy' as the man steps out of a copse of trees. These, the boy’s addiction to the smell of gas, deep poverty, alienation and the 11+ exam build the terrain that explodes into a quarter of a century of political violence. This is life seen through the inquisitive eye of a young boy, his older seven sisters and his band of brothers – who are drawn eve...

'All a politician needs to know about hacks is that the best story wins. They're only entertainers who've wrapped themselves in the flag of truth…' Taoiseach Jim Maguire has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Two rival journalists, Kevin Woody and Tony Sweetman, struggle to find the best story to tell about Maguire's vanishing act. As Woody and Sweetman navigate their turbulent personal lives while trying to keep the story of Maguire's disappearance alive for another day, it begin...

Emma Dunston, defiant daughter of turn of the century multi-millionaire industrialist, Jonathan Dunston, has been expelled from yet another boarding school. This time her fathers uncontrolled rage at her lack of acceptable decorum leads him to incarcerate her in a home for wayward girls, where Emma fantasizes about shooting him so she can watch tiny pieces of his tiny manhood fly everywhere. Emma eventually graduates from nursing school, further enraging her father's sense of upper class p...

For a time in their dating-wars romance, she seemed too good to be true—bright, witty, gorgeous and erotic. Finally when it became clear that she was real—and adored him—there was just this one little problem.This is one of T.V. LoCicero's shorter works published as an ebook. The others include the stories A Round with J.C., Fixed, The Jungle Plant, and The Visit. He has also published the short memoir Selling the Bison and the memoir/essay, The Lessons of Sport. His longer works i...