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The Fabulous Narcissist
Self Help2024 · 287 pp

The Fabulous Narcissist

Espen Skorstad

The Fabulous Narcissist offers a new look at one of the personality traits we seem most focused on and fascinated by in modern times, and it explains why the self-absorbed not only cause damage to their surroundings, but also move the world along. At the beginning of the 2000s, Espen Skorstad fell upon a project that was highly unusual for a psychologist at the time. He was fresh out of university and had just started his own business, but he had neither money nor clients. A celebrity psychologist he knew took pity on him, and asked if he wanted to help choose candidates for a couple of reality TV shows. Reality TV? Was that really how he should put his six-year-long education to use? What he didn't know then was that reality and celebrity TV was about to blow up. That in a few years, the Norwegian princess Märta Louise would be attempting to flee prison for our entertainment. That science journalists would be dancing shirtless on TV. Or that a politician would find the opportunity to run his election campaign from one of our most popular reality TV shows. Without knowing it, in 2001 Skorstad wandered into narcissism’s ground zero. Twenty years later, narcissism is in focus in popular culture and media. We are fascinated by antagonists, egoists and people who treat other people poorly. We must discuss: when is narcissism damaging, and when is it not? We might even ask: when is narcissism constructive? If we cannot see the positive aspects of a personality trait, or cannot recognise them in ourselves, will we ever be able to deal with our darker sides? «Interesting, well-written and diverse about narcissism.»DAGBLADET

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Talk to me!
Self Help2024 · 288 pp

Talk to me!

Kirsten Holtmon Resaland

Why is she evasive when I ask how school was? How can I know whether anything is wrong when he never says anything? Many of us parents want proper answers when wondering how our teenager is doing, and we hope they’ll talk to us if something happens. But how can we accomplish this? Through relatable examples from the everyday lives of young people, child and adolescent psychotherapist Kirsten Resaland gives specific tips on how to provide a safe space for communication between adults and young people. The book offers a number of specific insights and tips for facilitating honest feedback from young people, about both ups and downs in their lives and about difficult experiences or troubling thoughts. Talk to me! adresses not only parents, but also other adults working closely with teenagers, such as teachers, doctors, social workers and others, who benefit from a conscious approach when communicating with teens.

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Instruction Manual for Everyday Sex
Self Help2023 · 192 pp

Instruction Manual for Everyday Sex

Siri Dalsmo Berge

Sex is an important part of a relationship. Some believe it is the very glue in the relationship, but do you know what the key to good everyday sex over time is? It is neither technical skills nor synchronized orgasms that are most important. Couples who have good sex over many years primarily have a solid friendship at the bottom. A friendship characterized by mutual trust and admiration. And then they prioritize sex. Even though they are busy and have a thousand irons in the fire, they choose to spend time being intimate with each other. They make room for it, because they have experienced that everyday sex strengthens their closeness and sense of belonging. In Instruction Manual for Everyday Sex, GP and couples therapist Siri Dalsmo Berge guides you through common sexual concerns and problems as she does in consultations with patients. She combines medical knowledge and up-to-date research on sexuality and health with good, well-documented advice on how you can increase your sexual well-being and intimacy with your partner in everyday life. The quality of your close relationships is the most important factor that affects how long you live. Physical intimacy and sex are an important part of this, and a good sex life contributes to better health, while problems with sex or difficult sexual experiences create ill health. In other words, good everyday sex is good for you.

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Instruction Manual for Couples
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2022 · 168 pp

Instruction Manual for Couples

Siri Dalsmo Berge

Did you know that a good relationship can strengthen your immune system, lower your blood pressure, and make wounds heal faster? On the other hand, relationship troubles can triple the risk of heart attacks, increase the risk of infection and can cause more buildup of plaque in the arteries. In this fascinating and entertaining book GP and researcher Siri Dalsmo Berge shows how your relationships and health are connected. Through stories from both her life as a doctor and her personal life, she offers specific and research-based tools for better relationships and increased quality of life. Instruction Manual for Couples – the road to a healthier relationship highlights the benefits for your health related to relationship issues in a whole new way. It’s all put together with warmth, a bit of cheek and a large dose of hope – which offers you belief that improving your lives together is possible.

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How We Become
Self Help2022 · 144 pp

How We Become

Malin Eberhard-Gran / Siri Vangen

What was your life like before you were born? How We Become is a timely, impactful, and accessible answer to the ultimate question: “How did I become me and where do I come from?” Two of Norway’s leading pregnancy and maternity experts take you on the gripping and surprising journey of how we start life. Week by remarkable week. What does everyday life look like, living in a womb? Can we remember anything from our time there? When do we start to hear sounds? Do we form a relationship to others before we’re born? How do we experience our own birth? Take a sneak peak into the womb and follow how we develop from one tiny cell into a unique, screaming baby made up of thousands of billions of cells. Lively illustrations and digestible chapters create a delightful pace to this mind-expanding journey. How We Become combines research and illuminating history, with a refreshing voice that captivates you. 'At a time when pregnant women are inundated with information of varying quality, it is invaluable to have this book. Easy to understand and insightful about the most important thing in life - pregnancy.' Kari Løvendahl Mogstad. Medical Doctor, specialist in general medicine and author. 'As a reader, one is left humbled and in awe of the fine-tuned mechanisms behind the development of each of us.' Guttorm Haugen. Professor and head of the fetal medicine section, Oslo University Hospital.

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Good Morning – Simple habits to change your life before the day begins
Self Help2022 · 152 pp

Good Morning – Simple habits to change your life before the day begins

Sara Lossius

Do you struggle to find balance in your everyday life? Do you want more energy? Are you stressed or looking to make a change? Good Morning helps you to establish good and meaningful morning routines that can give you inner peace, extra motivation and support—no matter how busy you are. In this book, Sara Lossius gives inspiring insight into how simple habits and short rituals and exercises first thing in the morning can make a big difference to your day and your life. Good Morning provides 75 specific routines and reflection tasks, all of which take between two and 30 minutes.

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Map of Loneliness
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2022 · 344 pp

Map of Loneliness

Hilde Østby

In March 2020 the world closed down and stayed completely or partly closed for two and a half years. Most arenas where humans go for companionship, such as offices and concerts, weddings and funerals, disappeared or were decimated overnight. It’s as if the whole world has taken part in a huge experiment in loneliness, according to author Hilde Østby. The result of this experiment is worth dwelling on, as it’s not an easy diagnosis to just brush off. Research shows that loneliness, if it is chronic, is more dangerous for our health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In Map of Loneliness Hilde Østby approaches the subject on a personal, philosophical and journalistic level in order to get to grips with loneliness – one of our most enigmatic and under-communicated public health challenges. She shows us what loneliness does to us and asks where it comes from. That is a question which can be answered both medically and existentially. Maybe the mechanisms which drive us apart could later bring us back together? In that case loneliness is something we must solve as a community, through community, and for the community.

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The Art of Reading Body Language
Self Help2022 · 256 pp

The Art of Reading Body Language

Vidar Hansen / Siri Lill Mannes

Vidar Hansen er tidligere politimann og etterforsker, og omtales som Norges svar på Sherlock Holmes. De kriminelle nektet avhør med ham fordi de mente han kunne lese tanker, han har også fått Politiprisen for å ha pågrepet flest kriminelle i Norge. Han har en forbløffende evne til å tyde menneskers kroppsspråk og ubevisste signaler. Her forteller han fascinerende historier om hvordan kroppsspråket røper oss, som hvordan han vet hvem som kaster en flaske mot politibilen uten å ha sett hvem som gjorde det, hvordan han avslører løgn eller hva politikere og andre kjente personer forteller med kroppsspråket. Kroppsspråk har endret både sportsresultater, politikk og historiens gang. Få mennesker er bevisst på sitt eget kroppsspråk, og enda færre klarer å styre det. Kroppsholdninger, bevegelser, stemmebruk og ansiktsuttrykk avslører oss. Visste du for eksempel at entusiastisk kroppsspråk kan bidra til suksess? Jo tydeligere du uttrykker begeistring og glede, jo mer smitter det over på andre. Med denne boka kan du forstå andre bedre og forbedre din egen kommunikasjon.

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Becoming a Mother
Self Help2022 · 144 pp

Becoming a Mother

Oda Weider-Krog

“When a child is born, a mother is also born. Into a brand new day-to-day, a whole new life. She’s thrown into an existence one cannot prepare for in advance. It’s as if a line is put down, a line separating the before and the now.” Becoming a Mother is a small book about the biggest experience in the world. Oda Weider-Krog writes about the all-consuming time during the child’s first year, the demanding and the emotional, and the intoxicating feeling of getting to know your child. How many hours does a child need to be breastfed? Are there other mothers out there longing for some alone time and sleep? With warmth and humour she writes about the first months as a new mother, about breastfeeding and blocked milk ducts, changing diapers and endless nights awake, about loneliness, longing and doubt, falling in love and bottomless love – all these precious moments and the chaotic feelings that arrive together when you become a mother.

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The Eye
Self Help2022 · 208 pp

The Eye

Sara Nøland

The eyes are the body’s unique camera, livestreaming every waking hour to the brain. How in the world do these moist organs, decorated with irises of varying colours, manage this incredible task—that is, seeing? Sight is a bit like love: you don’t know you love it until it’s gone. In reading this book, you will come to realise that the function of the eye plays a key role in our lives. Many people live good lives without sight, but what can be prevented should be prevented. In this book, medical student and researcher Sara T. Nøland describes how vision works in a simple, entertaining and fascinating way, injecting fun facts, the latest and most cutting-edge research, and specific tips and tricks.

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ADHD
Self Help2021 · 232 pp

ADHD

Kristin Leer

ADHD is often defined as a psychiatric disorder, but physician and author Kristin Leer, who has ADHD herself, as well as children with ADHD, cannot see ADHD as the diagnosis of a disease. For the author, it was a relief to find out that she had ADHD. Had she realised earlier that the cause of so many challenges and sorrows – at school, in her professional career, in personal relationships – could be summed up in four simple initials, she would have been spared much frustration and anxiety. ADHD is something you can live with. What’s more, it can sometimes have some surprisingly positive sides. However, ADHD may also make life feel like an uphill struggle, and the range of functional impairments can be extensive. The book offers a new perspective on how to understand ADHD, reviews diagnostic criteria and treatments, and offers excellent everyday coping strategies. A better life is possible when ADHD is diagnosed than when it isn’t.

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Viruses on the Loose
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 352 pp

Viruses on the Loose

Eystein Hellstrøm Hoddevik

What is a virus? Even experienced microbiologists need to stop and think before answering this simple question. Viruses are tiny. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has a width of no more than one hundred nanometers. Ten thousand such viruses lined up after each other will barely have the width of a pinhead. But an invisible enemy like this can bring a whole world to its knees, just as it did in spring 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic. Through carefully selected stories, the author shows you what a virus is, what it consists of, how it is transmitted and how it produces disease. Viruses and humans have coexisted forever, so this journey covers biological evolution, our own bodies, historical events, diagnostics, global politics, genetic material, ethics and biological warfare. The book is also about vaccines, one of our most important weapons in the war against viruses. The making of vaccines is in itself a science which is based upon our knowledge of how viruses are constructed and cause disease. Viruses are bred to spread and don’t hesitate to set off on intercontinental journeys, like the travel-loving stowaways they are. In this book, you’ll get to know different kinds of viruses: some of the most common, some that are extremely cunning and some that are so dangerous their fatality rate is close to 100%. Viruses cause contagion by travelling, just as we do, but their journey doesn’t stop there. The way in which they produce disease inside us can also be viewed as a microscopic travelogue. We shall therefore follow some viruses as they travel through our bodies to reach the cells they both hijack and harm. If you are prepared to face what fear of viruses you might have, you’ll discover that knowledge of viruses is extremely helpful. In certain situations, it may help you survive and avoid diseases like warts, cold sores, shingles, blindness and even cancer.

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