Book Therapy
Reading Is Life
Published on 15. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
238 pages
978-1-912914-31-9 (ISBN)
Description
What can books do for us? Is reading useful? Is it therapeutic? Can
it make us happy? Can it provide us with the spiritual resources
necessary to shield ourselves from adversity? Can literature be
prescribed? Does it benefit both body and soul? Science increasingly
acknowledges the benefits of books. Studies show that the effects
of reading can be equated with those of meditation and medicine.
Readers sleep better, they experience lower levels of stress and
depression and have higher self-esteem than non-readers. Reading
prolongs life and changes us in an essential way; good fiction expands
our horizons, it helps us to understand others better, it teaches us
empathy. Each chapter of Booktherapy is a formula for getting closer
to the authors, the contexts, the fragments and the reflections that
have provided Jordi Nadal - author and editor of these and many
other pages - with a soothing balm in difficult moments and which
have acted as a guide for each important decision. This is a recipe
book for living more lives than just our own, and which serves to
confirm the validity of Montesquieu's words: "I have never known
any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912914-31-9 (9781912914319)
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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 & 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).