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Eric Walsh tries to live a normal life. He goes to work, cooks dinner for his wife, and visits his ailing father in the hospital, but Eric also carries the burden of schizophrenia. He hears voices in his head telling him what to do and how to think, and right now they're telling him some very bad things. Can Eric differentiate between what's real and what's just in his head?

As a psychologist, you never know who will walk through your door or what they’ll need to talk about. Tonight, he’ll take on a client who makes him face the age old question about nature vs. nurture, the debate about why people behave the way they do.

We've all heard the stories and watched the movies where someone finds a magic lamp or a monkey's paw and suddenly finds that their greatest wish can be made true. Today Doctor Kerr is visiting the ward to consult with a young man named Howard who claims he's in that exact situation. After listening to his story, the doctor will need to decide on his diagnosis. Is Howard being honest, is he delusional, or is it something else?

Billy, a middle-aged man, sits down with his psychologist, Doctor Kerr, to discuss how his life has been going. As they talk, he tells him about how he went over to his ex-wife’s house, the one they used to consider theirs, and tried to have a good day with his son, Josh, whom he never feels like he gets to spend enough time with. Unfortunately, as the morning continued on, things repeatedly got in the way of the perfect day he had planned for him and his boy, and he let his anger go too far.

This Very Short Introduction takes listeners into the inferno of a racing pyroclastic current, and the heart of a moving lava flow, as understood through the latest scientific research. Exploring how volcanologists forensically decipher how volcanoes work, Michael Branney and Jan Zalasiewicz explain what we do (and don't) understand about the fundamental mechanisms of volcanism, and consider how volcanoes interact with other physical processes on the Earth, with life, and with human society.

In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets. You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime. You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right.

I det nordlige Oxford lever lærerparret Dennis og Karen et tilsyneladende almindeligt liv. Men under overfladen lurer Karens fetich for at blive taget i utroskab og da hun indleder en affære med en middagsgæst, bliver konsekvenserne fatale. Den anerkendte krimiforfatter Michael Dibdin har skabt en gribende og saftig thriller om sex, jalousi og mord, der er umulig at lægge fra sig igen. Michael Dibdin (1947-2007) var en britisk krimiforfatter.