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An investigation into the restorative benefits of nature draws on cutting-edge research and the author's explorations with international nature therapy programs to examine the relationship between nature and human cognition, mood, and creativity. --Publisher.

"Everyone has one minute. A decade ago, Martin Gibala was a young researcher in the field of exercise physiology--with little time to exercise. That critical point in his career launched a passion for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), allowing him to stay in shape with just a few minutes of hard effort. It also prompted Gibala to conduct experiments that helped launch the exploding science of ultralow-volume exercise. Now that he's the worldwide...

"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,...

Did you know that some scientific discoveries have helped further the understanding of human health and the environment? A couple of these are discussed in the pages of this book. First, there's a discussion on acid rain, how it happens, and what its effects are. The second is about x-rays and how they're used for diagnosis. Enjoy a good read!

If the brain is the theatre, consciousness is the play. But who or what controls what we watch and how we watch it? In Theatre of the Mind Jay Ingram, whose past scientific investigations include the properties of honey on toast and the complexities of the barmaid's brain, tackles one of the most controversial of subjects: consciousness. Scientists have long tried to map our brains and understand how it is that we think and are self-aware, but what...

The book contains 20 IQ question (for the 1st edition, it is been improving by our staff) with answer with variety information. By answer those question, readers will find your our way to wake your IQ part in our great machine, brain. For this is the 1st edition, the mistakes may be exist, feedback to us, thank for your help.

● Why the interest in rest and sleep? All living things possess a sense of time. Like all animals (as well as plants, fungi and bacteria), we humans are hard-wired for a daily rhythm of rest and activity. The machinery that generates this daily rhythm resides in each and every one of our cells and it powerfully orchestrates our behavior. Setting aside time for rest and sleep optimally fits all living things and their bodily processes to the conditions...

La morfo-estructura humana, diversa y maravillosa, nos entrega información sobre la forma de las estructuras, los órganos y su interrelación para el adecuado funcionamiento de nuestro organismo, del ejercicio que se realiza, de la maduración física e incluso sobre la calidad alimentaria, siendo una fuente infinita de información para la práctica y la ciencia. En esta obra, los autores presentan las estrategias de evaluación contemporáneas...

Intended for all readers--including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists--this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand. In this illustrated work, John Napier explores a wide range of absorbing subjects such as fingerprints, handedness, gestures, fossil remains, and the making and using of tools.

As dramatic as The Double Hex and as absorbing as The Soul of a New Machine, Natural Obsessions explores the advanced reaches of molecular biology, the nature of the human cell, and the genes that control cancer. It unforgettably portrays some of the best young scientists in the world, the rewards and discouragements of scientific research, and the very process of scientific inquiry.