Footnotes - How Running Makes Us Human
Running is not just a sport. It reconnects us to our bodies ...
Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Ab...
Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aborigi...
The Storytelling Animal - How Stories Make Us Human
A provocative young scholar gives us the first book on the n...
God Is Watching You : How The Fear Of God Makes Us Huma...
"And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upo...
God Is Watching You : How The Fear Of God Makes Us Huma...
"And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upo...
Catching Fire - How Cooking Made Us Human
At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: th...
Introducing Anthropology - What Makes Us Human?
Introducing Anthropology is the first book of its kind. It o...
What Makes Us Human? - The Story of a Shared Dream
“Me, I’m a gangster. The police know me. Until recently, m...
The Hidden Life of Trees - The International Bestseller...
Sunday Times Bestseller `A paradigm-smashing chroni...
Footnotes - How Running Makes Us Human
A Really Good Day - How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
‘Ayelet Waldman is fearless’ – Rebecca Solnit ’Genuinely brave and human’ – The New York Times ’Wildly brilliant’ – Elle The true story of how a renowned writer’s struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses of LSD. Her fascinating journey provides a window into one family and the complex world of a once-infamous drug seen through new eye...
Human Anatomy & Physiology
Built for the Way Today’s Students LearnHuman Anatomy & Physiology takes a learner-centered approach to help today’s A&P students grasp key concepts in anatomy and physiology; and apply these concepts to understand how the human body works. Amerman uses just-in-time coaching; focused and uncluttered visuals that show one-concept-at-a-time; rich self-assessments provide students t...
Unbreakable Runner - Unleash the Power of Strength and Conditioning for a Lifetime of Strong Running
A “New York Times” Best Seller!“Men s Journal” Health Book of the YearIn “Unbreakable Runner,” CrossFit Endurance founder Brian MacKenzie and journalist T.J. Murphy examine long-held beliefs about how to train, tearing down those traditions to reveal new principles for a lifetime of healthy, powerful running. “Unbreakable Runner” challenges conventional training tenets such as high mileage...
Endure - Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
`This book is AMAZING!’ – MALCOLM GLADWELL `If you want to gain insight into the mind of great athletes, adventurers, and peak performers then prepare to be enthralled by Alex Hutchinson’s Endure.’ – BEAR GRYLLS How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person’s limits? From running a two-hour marathon to summiting Mount Everest, we’re fasc...
The Sun Does Shine - How I found life and freedom on death row
‘Both (Nelson Mandela and Ray Hinton) emerged from their incarceration with a profound capacity to forgive…The Sun Does Shine is amazing and heartwarming’ Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate ’Hinton is an example to us all of the power of the human spirit to rise above complete injustice. His book will inspire people to never accept the unacceptable.’ – Richard Branson The Sun Does Sh...
Human Anatomy & Physiology Global Edition + Modified Masterin
This pack contains 1 copy of Human Anatomy & Physiology Global Edition and 1 printed access card to Modified MasteringA&P with eText. For 2-semester Anatomy & Physiology Courses. Built for the Way Today’s Students Learn. Human Anatomy & Physiology takes a learner-centered approach to help today’s A&P students grasp key concepts in anatomy and physiology; and apply the...
Exercise Physiology Energy Nutrition & Human Performance
Setting the standard for more than 30 years; nearly half a million students have built a solid foundation of the scientific principles underlying modern exercise physiology withExercise Physiology by William D. McArdle; Frank I. Katch; and Victor L. Katch.. This Eighth Edition is updated with the latest research in the field to provide current coverage of how nutrition; energy transfer; and exerci...
The Rise of Superman - Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human. Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity’s Rainbow, ‘it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off’. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adve...
Mindful Thoughts for Walkers - Footnotes on the zen path
Mindfulness is so much more than a set of routine timed exercises; itÂ’s the transformative practice of conscious living we can nurture by being mindful of the moment. Mindful Thoughts for Walkers explores through a series of succint meditations, how walking is an opportunity to deepen our levels of physical and spiritual awareness. Adam Ford is an enlightening guide to how mindfulness and walki...
Piccolo Genio Discover The Human Body Kit
Piccolo Genio Discover The Human Body Kit is a box of fascintating facts and a skeleton building projectKids are always curious about how things work and this awesome affordable Piccolo Genio Discover The Human Body Kit will challenge them to assemble a human skeleton and whilst they complete the task learn fascinating facts about why and how the human body works.Features :Kids will buil...
The Ten Types of Human - A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be
This book will introduce you to ten people. In a way, you already know them. Only you don’t – not really. In a sense, they are you. Only they’re not entirely. They inform and shape the most important decisions in your life. But you’re almost certainly unaware of their intervention. They are the Ten Types of Human. Who are they? What are they for? How did they get into your head? We want to b...
Piccolo Genio Discover The Human Body Kit
Piccolo Genio Discover The Human Body Kit is a box of fascintating facts and a skeleton building projectKids are always curious about how things work and this awesome affordable Piccolo Genio Discover The Human Body Kit will challenge them to assemble a human skeleton and whilst they complete the task learn fascinating facts about why and how the human body works.Features :Kids will buil...
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life - An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
A forgotten book by one of historyÂ’s greatest thinkers reveals the surprising connections between happiness, virtue, fame, and fortune Â’A great book. Makes you feel better about life, humanity, and yourself.Â’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan Adam Smith became the patron saint of capitalism after he penned his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations. But few people know that w...
Holistic Anatomy - An Integrative Guide to the Human Body
Complementary and alternative approaches to health and medicine have become increasingly widespread as the limits of conventional treatments become more apparent. “Holistic Anatomy” presents an authoritative study of anatomy, physiology, and pathology but expands the discussion by connecting the science of the body to a variety of alternative modalities to explore how human beings exist within Â...
The Cool Impossible - The Running Coach from Born to Run Shows How to Get the Most from Your Miles-And from Yourself
Featured in the book Born to Run, running coach Eric Orton offers a guide for every runner… Natural running is more than barefoot running. It’s about the joy of running that we were all born with and can reawaken. With a program focused on proper form, strength development, and cardiovascular training, Orton will help beginners, competitors, and enduring veterans reach -the cool impossible—-the...
How to Perform Under Pressure - The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most
The New York Times bestseller that draws on research from over 12,000 individuals to explain what makes people ‘choke’ under pressure and show you how to develop nerves of steel ’An unusually sharp account of work and performing under pressure’ Financial Times Nobody performs better under pressure. The reality is that pressure only makes you do worse. But there are things you can do to dimin...
10% Human - How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of `WesternÂ’ diseases lie in our gut? You are 10% human. For every one of your cells, there are nine impostors hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and bone, but also bacteria and fungi. And you are more `themÂ’ than you are `youÂ’.Your gut alone hosts 100 trillion of them an...
Missing Microbes - How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues
A clarion call to save humanity’s most essential fellow creatures – and our health Far beneath our skin exists an unfathomable, ancient universe – an internal ecosystem that is critical to our health. Dr Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human `microbiome’, unfurling its inner workings and evolution. For thousands of years, bacteria and human cells have co-existed in a relation...
Endure - Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
From the National Magazine Award-winning RunnerÂ’s World columnist, frequent NewYorker.com contributor, and Cambridge-trained physicist: a fascinating and definitive exploration of the science of endurance and peak performance From the two-hour marathon to the summit of Mount Everest, weÂ’re fascinated by the extremes of human endurance. How high or far or fast can humans go? And what a...
Fascinating Footnotes From History
‘Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive . . . an inspiration for those of us who believe that history can be exciting and entertaining’ Matthew Redhead, The Times Did you know that Hitler took cocaine? That Stalin robbed a bank? That Charlie Chaplin’s corpse was filched and held to ransom? Giles Milton is a master of historical narrative: in his chara...
HELP! - How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done
How do you solve the problem of human happiness? It’s a subject that has occupied some of the greatest philosophers of all time, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna. But how do we sort the good ideas from the terrible ones? Over the past five years, Oliver Burkeman has travelled to some of the strangest outposts of the ‘happiness industry’ in an attempt to find out. Help! is the witty and thought-p...