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Discover how cortisol production has an impact on your health, your skin, how young you look, and how well you sleep. Live a happier, more carefree life by reducing cortisol levels, and learn what it means to worry less, decrease anxiety, and find the best ways to look younger, lose weight, and stress out less. 

This collection of short stories of Chet the dog, “the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction” (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little includes: "Upper Story," "The Iggy Papers," and "The Numbers After Two."

Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his human partner Bernie Little find themselves high in the mountains this holiday season to help Dame Ariadne Carlisle, a renowned author of bestselling Christmas mysteries, find Rudy, her lead reindeer and good luck charm, who has gone missing. At Kringle Ranch, Dame Ariadne's expansive mountain spread, Chet discovers that he is not fond of reindeer. But the case turns out to be about much more than reindeer after Dame Ariadne's personal assistant takes a long fall into Devil's Purse, a deep mountain gorge.

Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn’t changed her killer tennis game one bit. One night Mrs. Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam. Of course, Loretta obliges.

Estrogen, along with two other hormones, greatly affects fertility, blood pressure, temperature, the reproductive system, emotions, and sexual desires. When you think about it for a moment, it is unbelievable that billions of women go through life with all these fluctuating hormones in their bodies without ever coming to an understanding of what they do to them. They may find themselves having mood swings, hot flashes, or get a burst of lust without realizing where those things are coming from or how to control them.

Neuromarketing techniques are based on scientific discoveries of what humans are really thinking. The brain processes thoughts so fast and people buy things so impulsively that it has often been hard to pinpoint why a certain someone makes a decision to purchase. But with neuromarketing principles, getting into the subconscious mind is now becoming easier and more targeted. 

Sometimes people call oxytocin the “cuddly” hormone, and rightfully so, because this hormone stimulates closeness, creates happiness, affects attachments patterns, and creates a chemical, biological connection between partners, friends, and family members. What else can we learn about oxytocin? Why do we need oxytocin as human beings? How can we increase oxytocin releases in our brain? Although these are the most important issues that will be tackled in this short guide, other subtopics related to it will be addressed as well. 

When Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little, are approached by a down-and-out older man with a cardboard sign at an exit ramp, Bernie is shocked to discover the man is a former teammate from his high school baseball team. Chet and Bernie take Rocket out for a good meal, during the course of which Rocket refers to their class's prom queen, who supposedly vanished in a mysterious way. 

While Bernie continues his struggle to pay the bills, Chet - with his sharp nose and even sharper teeth - keeps bringing down the perps. Told from Chet's perspective and featuring the humorous ramblings of a dog, Thereby Hangs a Tail is another winner.

Holiday time in the Valley, and in the holiday spirit - despite the dismal shape of the finances at the Little Detective Agency - Bernie refers a potential client to Victor Klovsky, a fellow private eye. It’s also true that the case - promising lots of online research but little action - doesn’t appeal to Bernie, while it seems perfect for Victor, who is not cut out for rough stuff. But Victor disappears in a rough-stuff way, and when he doesn’t show up at his mom’s to light the Hanukkah candles, she hires Chet and Bernie to find him. 

Chet and Bernie are contacted by a terribly scared young woman who seems to want their help. Before she can even tell them her name, she flees in panic. But in that brief meeting Chet sniffs out an important secret about her, a secret at the heart of the mystery he and Bernie set out to solve. It's a case with no client and no crime and yet great danger, with the duo facing a powerful politician who has a lot to lose. 

When Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his partner, PI Bernie Little of the desert-based Little Detective Agency, arrive to a meeting with hydrologist Wendell Nero, they are in for a shocking sight - Wendell has come to a violent and mysterious end. What did the hydrologist want to see them about? Is his death a random robbery, or something more? Chet and Bernie, working for nothing more than an eight-pack of Slim Jims, are on the case. 

Spencer Quinn's Heart of Barkness is the latest in the New York Times best-selling series that the Los Angeles Times called "nothing short of masterful". 

We may all know some people who could fit the profile, but sometimes, the term psycho gets used out of context. What defines a psychopath, and how are they different from sociopaths? Psychopathy is not uncommon, and chances are that you might know someone who is one, even though it may have never crossed your mind. To study and understand what a psychopath is and how to look for the signs and subtle differences, is to protect yourself and others, and to get a greater comprehension of the human mind.

Would you achieve more if you could envision your success? A neural network is a computing system made up of a number of simple, highly interconnected processing elements, which transfer information by their dynamic state response to external inputs. All of this sounds fancy, but what does it mean for computer intelligence or the future? In this book, you will find answers to many practical and theoretical questions related to neural networks, from insights about nodes and hidden layers to error spaces, network analyses, and computing influences.

If you have a basic idea of what the hypothalamus does, you probably know how important it is to keep it healthy and have it function in an optimal way. The hypothalamus is there for the regulation of specific metabolic processes and other activities that relate to the autonomic nervous system. It synthesizes and secretes neurohormones, called releasing hormones or hypothalamic hormones, and these in turn stimulate or inhibit the secretion of pituitary hormones. 

Would you achieve more if you could envision your success? Envisioning the future has been applied by professional athletes, coaches, hypnotherapists, and the most successful people on Earth. Being able to imagine what the best possible outcome would be like has helped numerous people get what they tried to accomplish in life.

The art of processing information faster and learning at a higher speed has been studied and gauged by numerous scientists and scholars. Training our brain is essential to achieving academic results, as well as our long-term success, income, and even closer relationships. If you’re ready to throw away old, stiff methods and embrace something new, then this audiobook is definitely for you.  

All the problems of the mind...can you do something about them? Listen to this guide for solutions and answers.   

Aphasia can happen to anyone. It’s serious, and it’s tough when you are confronted with it. But did you know there are also ways to avoid aphasia? Did you know there are different types of aphasia? Whether or not you can do something about it, depends on the type of aphasia. Various studies have been done about the subject. Clinicians and scientists have discovered many helpful insights that can aid the struggling individual who longs for answers.