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The award-winning Outside correspondent illuminates how fears and phobias play a key role in both staying and feeling alive, exploring what high-risk activities and cutting-edge research reveal about universal existential questions.

Drawing on the teachings of religious and secular literature and on the true stories of people who have faced their fears, Kushner helps us to see that fear can present us with extraordinary opportunities--to connect with our emotions, rethink our values, and change our lives, and the world, for the better.

"Farnoosh Torabi is familiar with fear. Growing up in the 1980s as the daughter of Iranian immigrants, she was warned to proceed with caution and play it safe. She spent her childhood immersed in fear--of rejection, loneliness, missed opportunities, and falling short of her potential. Of course, now her mother says, "It all worked out, didn't it?" Funnily enough, it did. Farnoosh came to the realization that fear never limited her. Instead, it has...

"Greg Harden changes lives. This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, business leaders, college students, and professionals from all walks of life have come to him for advice and direction--including 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, 23-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps, Heisman Trophy winners Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson, CEOs of major companies, and championship coaching staffs from all over the...

Peter and his fearful twin brother Francis attend a birthday party which ends in tragedy.

This wide-ranging anthology contains 10 hair-raising tales, but they are not your typical scary stories. Youngsters will meet an eccentric dentist, a little ghost, a wolf named Lobison, and the monster Veotodo, who sees all, to name a few... -- School Library Journal. Incluye cuentos, cantinelas, acertijos y actividades - 10 historias escalofriantes... No es solamente un libro de historias: para los listos, hay juegos y acertijos, y para los más...

Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become a national champion and to play the world grandmasters. "Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age...

A young boy is kept awake by the noisy, "talented" tiger in his closet that is busy dancing, eating, and making music.

Five-year-old Joey uses his super powers to help his parents out of a sticky situation.

Tiny fantasizes he is a mighty Barbarian who can conquer anything, but even he has trouble conquering the dark.