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Food forensics : the health ranger's guide to foods that harm and foods that heal.
Mike Adams · Benbella Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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What's really in our food?Award-winning investigative journalist and clean food activist Mike Adams, the "Health Ranger," is founder and editor of NaturalNews.com, one of the top health news websites in the world, reaching millions of readers each month.Now, in Food Forensics,... |
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
Beau Lotto · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world, and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what... |
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
MARIANO SIGMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international... |
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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Benjamin K Bergen · Basic Books
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover
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It may be starred, beeped, and censored--yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains.Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks,... |
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
Kathleen Mcauliffe · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 268
Format: Print book
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A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures including humans think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can only live inside another animal, and as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host s behavior. Far more... |
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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mike Massimino · Crown Archetype
Pages: 313
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that s about to go from zero to 17, 500 miles per hour? Or to look back on the earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night?... |
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The Mystery of Sleep: Why a Good Night's Rest Is Vital to a Better, Healthier Life
MEIR KRYGER · Yale University Press
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative and accessible guide to what happens when we shut our eyes at night We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about how sleep affects us? In the past forty years, scientists have discovered that our sleep (or lack of it) can affect... |
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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit
Deepak Chopra · Harmony
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The Healing Self offers... |
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Randi Hutter Epstein · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them.Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity,... |
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change
Marc Morano · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning.... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point... |
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On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject
A Zee · Princeton University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativityOf the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most intimate. From the months each of us spent suspended in the womb anticipating birth to the moments... |
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The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names
John Wright · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Latin names – frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel – have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the eighteenth century. Why on earth has the entirely land-loving Eastern Mole been named... |
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