In Praise of Walking. The new science of how we walk and why it's good for us, Paperback - Shane O'Mara

In this hymn to walking, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits it confers on our bodies and minds, and urges us to appre...

Psychologists and philosophers have long grappled with the mysteries of dreaming, and now-thanks largely to recent innovations in brain imaging -ne...

The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the be...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Emma LoeweNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 210 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera fa...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Monty LymanNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 198 x 24Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. Absorbing, mind-enlarging, studded with insights ... This could have significant real-world results. - Sunday Times Humanity's greatest feat is our...

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Reducere. 'Absorbing, mind-enlarging, studded with insights ... This could have significant real-world results' Sunday TimesHumanity's greatest feat is our i...

DescriptionIs your diet feeding or defeating disease? Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science o...

A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown-of population growth, economies, and technological innovation

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Is your diet feeding or defeating disease? Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and ...

A celebration of the huge linguistic diversity that is open to all of us at birth, and that has inspired and fascinated humans since the invention ...

This book is not written specifically for White readers, Black readers, readers who are Latino, Asian, or other specific racial or ethnic groups. I...

Reducere. "A deft, informative, and often screamingly funny primer on the ways that machine learning can (and often does) go wrong." --Margaret Harris, Physi...

DescriptionThe author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human--and the ways we are (and aren't) unique...

Uncovering the science behind how and why we age.

In the tradition of Radical Candor, a highly respected Silicon Valley expert shows that in an age of ultra-transparency, companies that do not thin...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will ...

An exploration of the psychological effects - the pleasures, benefits and disbenefits - of computer games.

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are After 9/11...

DescriptionThe question of how and why organisms age has teased scientists for centuries. There are myriad competing theories, from the idea that a...

An urgent analysis of global gender inequality and a passionately argued case for change by a pioneer in the movement for women's economic empowerm...

Reducere. Everything about our existence-movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth, and ultimately death-is governed by our cells. They are th...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In the tradition of Radical Candor, a highly-respected Silicon Valley expert shows that in an age of ultra-transparency, companies that do not thin...

In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people on earth, Dr. Da...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): William von HippelNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 202 x 22Cover type:...

Publisher: BenBella BooksAuthor(s): Richard JohnsonNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire?In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells...

What is music? How is it made? And what's changed --- and what hasn't --- about how we listen to it? Here's all the best stuff about the science an...

Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true ha...

From the cutting edge of science and living spirituality: a guide to understanding our identity and purpose in the world - Outlines the new underst...

Reducere. The Sunday Times bestseller that explains the new science behind weight loss and how we can get in shape without counting calories.'A compelling lo...

Reducere. Code is the new literacy.Six hundred years ago, most people couldn't read. In 1440, the invention of the printing press laid the groundwork for mas...

The story of the science of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it.Publisher: Hodder ...

Publisher: Greystone Books, CanadaAuthor(s): Torbjorn EkelundTranslator: Becky L. CrookNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x ...

Are we really the masters of our own destiny? Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how far our future is already hardwired in our brains. Like Sap...

Everything you thought you knew about calories is wrong.

Reducere. The compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing that reveals how the brain responds to storytelling, based on the wildly popular creative ...

Everything you thought you knew about calories is wrong.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Dr Giles YeoNumber of pages: 320Publication date: ...

Reducere. Code is the new literacy.Six hundred years ago, most people couldn't read. In 1440, the invention of the printing press laid the groundwork for mas...

Reducere. An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped driving and rediscovered the joys of traveling by f...

From the author of }The Heretics{ and }Selfie{, this is an exploration of how master storytellers manipulate and compel us, from the Hebrew scriptu...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Daniel M DavisNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 17Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving cons...

A journey around the world to discover where in nature we can find the elements of life and the many, surprising ways in which they're essential to...

When it comes to relationships, there's no shortage of advice from self-help 'experts', pick-up artists, and glossy magazines. But modern-day myths...

Why The Universe Exists takes you deep into the world of particle physics to explore how the universe functions at the smallest scales.Publisher: H...