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Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Helen Fisher, one of the world's leading experts on romantic love, unlocks the hidden code of desire and attachment. Each of us, it turns out, primarily expresses one of four broad personality types--Explorer, Builder, Director, or Negotiator--and each of these types is governed by different chemical systems in the brain. Driven by this biology, we are attracted to partners who both mirror and complement our own personality type. Drawing on her unique...
Author
Publisher
Velopress
Pub. Date
[c2015]
Language
English
Description
"Fitzgerald puts you into the pulse-pounding action of more than a dozen epic races from running, cycling, triathlon, XTERRA, and rowing with thrilling race reports and revealing post-race interviews with the elites. Their own words reinforce what the research has found: strong mental fitness lets us approach our true physical limits, giving us an edge over physically stronger competitors. Each chapter explores the how and why of an elite athlete's...
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy is a far-reaching study of how music captivates us so completely and why we form such powerful connections to it. Leading us to an understanding of the pleasures of sound, Robert Jourdain draws on a variety of fields including science, psychology, and philosophy. He uses music from around the world to show how melodies work, how rhythm differs from beat, and why some sounds are beautiful and others ugly. Music, the Brain,...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A brilliantly starry night is one of nature's most thrilling wonders. Yet in our world of nights as bright as day, most of us no longer experience true darkness. Eight out of ten Americans born today won't ever live where they can see the Milky Way. And exposure to artificial light at night has been cited as a factor in health concerns ranging from poor sleep to cancer. Paul Bogard travels the globe to find the night, blending personal narrative,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The first book to open up a real conversation about aging. What has the experience of getting older felt like for you? It seems that life's milestones pass by in a flash: graduating from school, landing your first job, getting married, having kids. Most people look forward to these events and have some expectations about what each life milestone will be like. But what about when you get older? How can you continue to live fully in your sixties, seventies,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening exploration of the psychology of eating in todays unprecedented North American pantry of abundance, access, and excess.In Why You Eat What You Eat, acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Herz un- covers the fascinating and surprising facts that influence food consumption-such as why bringing reusable bags to the grocery store...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
What's the fastest a human can run the 100-meter sprint? What's the longest a human can hold his breath? What are the limits of human performance? Until 1954, common wisdom and scientific knowledge considered a sub-four-minute mile an impossible feat--but today the world record stands at 3 minutes, 43 seconds. Records are a mark of how well people have done, not how well they can do. What's the actual limit? In this thought-provoking book, John Brenkus,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Psychologists and philosophers have long grappled with the mysteries of dreaming, and now--thanks largely to recent innovations in brain imaging--neuroscientists are starting to join the conversation. In this book, the author traces the history of this emerging field. She then takes us into modern sleep labs across the country, asking the questions that intrigue us all: Why do we remember only a fraction of our dreams? Why are dreams usually accompanied...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lance Armstrong's personal coach shares the Tour de France champion's training regime, cutting-edge techniques, nutritional advice, goal-setting practices, and mental exercises, in a step-by-step program for aspiring cyclists.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lance Armstrong's personal coach shares the Tour de France champion's training regime, cutting-edge techniques, nutritional advice, goal-setting practices, and mental exercises, in a step-by-step program for aspiring cyclists.
Author
Publisher
Bull Publishing Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"While there are plenty of books offering advice about how to age, none takes the crucial step back to challenge how people think about aging until now. The Aging Syndrome, the core idea in this book, explains the aging process by using three pillars: intrinsic aging, the aging process that no one understands; disuse, both physical and mental; and chronic disease processes, which begin in childhood or sometimes in the womb. Using practical steps and...
Author
Publisher
HarperWave
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Recently, top pros have been performing well past a previously considered prime: World-class athletes such as Kelly Slater, the greatest surfer of all time, is winning competitions in his fifties; Tom Brady can beat players half his age. But what about the rest of us? Steven Kotler has been studying human performance for thirty years, and taught hundreds of thousands of people at all skill levels, age groups, and walks of life, how to achieve peak...