{"product_id":"book-therapy-reading-is-life-9781912914319","title":"Book Therapy: Reading Is Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat can books do for us? Is reading useful? Is it therapeutic? Can\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit make us happy? Can it provide us with the spiritual resources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enecessary to shield ourselves from adversity? Can literature be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprescribed? Does it benefit both body and soul? Science increasingly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacknowledges the benefits of books. Studies show that the effects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof reading can be equated with those of meditation and medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders sleep better, they experience lower levels of stress and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edepression and have higher self-esteem than non-readers. Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprolongs life and changes us in an essential way; good fiction expands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eour horizons, it helps us to understand others better, it teaches us\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eempathy. Each chapter of Booktherapy is a formula for getting closer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the authors, the contexts, the fragments and the reflections that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave provided Jordi Nadal - author and editor of these and many\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother pages - with a soothing balm in difficult moments and which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave acted as a guide for each important decision. This is a recipe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebook for living more lives than just our own, and which serves to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econfirm the validity of Montesquieu's words: \"I have never known\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eany distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNadal, Jordi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jordi Nadal was born in Lliçà d'Amunt (Barcelona) in 1962 and holds a degree in Germanic Studies from the University of Barcelona. In 1998 he completed his studies in Stanford Professional Publishing Course. He began his career at Vicens Vives and continued at Herder (Germany). Among other positions, he has been director of EDHASA, editorial and publications director of Círculo de Lectores, consultant at Random House in New York, general director of corporate development for Spain and America at Grupo Plaza \u0026amp; Janés and assistant director at Ediciones Paidós, as well as Deputy General Manager at Planeta Agostini Profesional and Formación. He is co-author of the book Meditando el Management... y la vida (Planeta, 2007, Plataforma Editorial, 2012) and Libros o velocidad. Reflexiones sobre el oficio editorial (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Madrid and Mexico, 2005), and author of Todo tan cerca (Poliedro, 2005) (translated into 6 languagues), El paraíso interior (Plataforma, Editorial, 2011), Todo lo que tengo es el silencio (Estrella, 2020), Libroterapia (Plataforma, 2020) and La invención de la bicicleta (Plataforma, 2020).","brand":"Mensch Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382726332690,"sku":"9781912914319","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ec279660-a983-414f-abfc-ff60dda42d3b.jpg?v=1728715261","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/book-therapy-reading-is-life-9781912914319","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}