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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert--Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab--reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better. Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses Overlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells--the bright tang of citrus, freshly sharpened pencils, parched earth...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In response to this emerging endangered resource, award-winning author Kat Duff blends myth, history, science, culture, and story with a contagious curiosity to unveil the hidden and invaluable healing benefits of sleep."--www.Amazon.com.
7) Dancing is the best medicine: the science of how moving to a beat is good for body, brain, and soul
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"We've all explored dance at some point in our lives--in a class, at a wedding, or at a club, crammed onto the floor and moving with the music. But dance is much more than a pleasurable way to pass the time. It could very well be the secret to a happy and healthy life. In Dancing Is the Best Medicine, Julia F. Christensen and Dong-Seon Chang--neuroscientists by day and dancers by night--explore why dancing is good for the body, mind, and soul. Movement,...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Neuroscientist Penny Lewis explores the latest research into the nighttime brain to understand the real benefits of sleep, showing how, while our body rests, the brain practices tasks it learned during the day, replays traumatic events to mollify them, and forges connections between distant concepts.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the past century, average life expectancies have nearly doubled, and today, for the first time in human history, many people have a realistic chance of living to eighty or beyond. As life expectancy increases, Americans need accurate, scientifically grounded information so that they can take full responsibility for their own later years. In The Art and Science of Aging Well, Mark E. Williams, M.D., discusses the remarkable advances that medical...
13) Brain games
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Uses interactive experiments and tricks to show how the brain creates the illusion of a seamless reality. As these revealing experiments provide a unique view into the brain, the world's leading experts explain how and why these tests work. Examines real people with extraordinary brains, and reveals new discoveries about attention, sensory perception and memory.
Author
Publisher
Victory Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Starrett ... unveils a detailed battle plan for surviving our chair-centric society, [providing] solutions for reducing the amount of time you spend perched on your backside, as well as strategies for transforming your desk into a dynamic, active workstation that can improve your life"--Page 4 of cover.
15) The natural
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
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Description
A once-promising baseball player on his way to stardom in the big leagues, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy," comes back to baseball, joins the roster of the lowly New York Knights to see if he can overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him and lead his team to the pennant.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When it comes to Mars, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets, the engines, the fuel. But upon arrival, what will it actually be like? In 2013, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is, along with five fellow crew members, she embarked on NASA's first HI-SEAS mission, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai'i. For four months she lived, worked, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome, conducting a sleep study...
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