This Is Your Brain on Music - The Science of a Human Ob...
Neuroscientist and professional musician Levitin presents a ...
This Is Your Brain On Music - Understanding a Human Obs...
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation ...
How Your Brain Works - Inside the most complicated obje...
Ever wondered whatÂ’s going on inside your head?You are your...
The Rise of Superman - Decoding the Science of Ultimate...
A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in ex...
The Rise of Superman - Decoding the Science of Ultimate...
“An exploration of how extreme athletes are able to break t...
Science in Action - Human Body - Your Bones
How many bones are in your body? Which bone protects your br...
Brain Maker - The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Pro...
Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise – from childre...
Mindsight - Change Your Brain And Your Life
The groundbreaking bestseller on how your capacity for insig...
417 More Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially D...
399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to...
Primal Fat Burner - Live Longer, Slow Aging, Super-Powe...
‘Wonderfully actionable, compassionately taking the reader ...
Running Science - Revealing the science of peak perform...
Running can encompass the absolute extremes of human perform...
Primal Fat Burner - Live Longer, Slow Aging, Super-Powe...
Popular nutritionist Nora Gedguadas returns with advice that...
This Is Your Brain On Music - The Science Of A Human Obsession
The Mindspan Diet - Reduce Alzheimer's Risk, Minimize Memory Loss, and Keep Your Brain Young
‘A fascinating guide to modifying your diet to prolong the longevity of your brain as well as your health.Â’ Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, KingÂ’s College London, and author of The Diet Myth ‘Eye-openingafascinating, important.Â’ Publishers Weekly, starred review ItÂ’s a terrifying fact – AlzheimerÂ’s disease is now a leading cause of death in developed countries. But hereÂ...
This Is How It Always Is - The warm and uplifting novel about a family keeping a big secret
’A very special book about a family with a secret. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.’ Liane Moriarty, No. 1 bestselling author of BIG LITTLE LIESLaurie Frankel’s THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS the ‘fascinating story of a thoroughly modern family and the giant, multifaceted love that binds them… Sparkles with wit and wisdom’ (Maria Semple). Perfect for readers of WE ARE ALL COMPLE...
Primal Fat Burner - Live Longer, Slow Aging, Super-Power Your Brain and Save Your Life with a High-Fat, Low-Carb Paleo D...
‘Wonderfully actionable, compassionately taking the reader from ‘why’ to ‘how’.’ Dr David Perlmutter, author of the international bestseller Grain Brain Expert nutritionist Nora Gedgaudas, bestselling co-author of Going Paleo with Pete Evans, explains the science and evidence behind the revolutionary new health message: Eat fat to burn fat. In her new book, Primal Fat Burner, she explains t...
The Talent Delusion - Why Data, Not Intuition, Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential
‘This book shows how to find, attract, develop, motivate, and retain stars. It’s full of evidence and provocative ideas to help every talent leader’ Dr Adam Grant, Wharton Professor, New York Times bestselling author, Originals and Give and Take ’This is the book I want to hand every manager I’ve ever worked with . . . Every chapter is filled with quotes, findings, and ideas that I want to p...
Team Dog - How to Establish Trust and Authority and Get Your Dog Perfectly Trained the Navy Seal Way
In Team Dog, former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland uses yearsÂ’ of experience to explain the science behind gaining a dogÂ’s trust, and offers invaluable steps for how to achieve any level of obedience. His unique approach uses entertaining examples and anecdotes from his work with dogs on and off the battlefield and direct tips from the Navy SEAL guidebook to teach dog owners how to choose the perfect do...
What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child - Revised and Updated Edition
In this updated classic, Glenn Doman – founder of “The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential” and pioneer in the treatment of the brain-injured children – brings real hope to thousands of children who have been sentenced to a life of institutional confinement. Based upon a half-century of successful work performed at The Institutes, this book explains why old theories and technique...
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...
The Science Magpie - Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science
Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams – and even jokes – across the scientific disciplines and from science’s bejewelled history. Science, humankind’s greatest intellectual achievement, is capable equally of delight and amusement as much as learning and the advancement of knowledge. The Science Magpie brings together a hugely diverse collection of classic, common and unu...
Habits of a Happy Brain - Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels
A revolutionary approach to enhancing your happiness level! Get ready to boost your happiness in just 45 days! Habits of a Happy Brain shows you how to retrain your brain to turn on the chemicals that make you happy. Each page offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your “happy chemicals”—serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin. You’ll also learn how to build new h...
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...
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: Revised and Expanded Edition - The breakthrough programme for conquering anxiety, d...
Revised and Expanded Edition. In this completely revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller thatÂ’s sold nearly a million copies worldwide, youÂ’ll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures work in your brain. YouÂ’re not stuck with the brain youÂ’re born with. Renowned neuropsychiatrist...
Make Your Bed - Small things that can change your life... and maybe the world
THE INCREDIBLE No. 1 New York Times BESTSELLER *** Make your bed to change the worldÂ… Â’What starts here changes the worldÂ’ was the university slogan that inspired William H. McRaven to take charge of the small things that could change his life . . . and even the world. Here McRaven shares the 10 life-changing principles he learned during his 37 years as a Navy SEAL. These 10 philosophies he...
Anzac's Long Shadow - The Cost Of Our National Obsession: Redbacks
‘A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It’s right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven’t we learned about war, and what might be the cost of our Anzac obsession?’ Defence analyst and former army officer James Brown b...
Keep Your Brain Alive - 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness
Over 40? Getting forgetful? Having trouble learning new things, or remembering that actress s name without reaching for your smartphone? Neurobics are simple, unique brain exercises that can be done anywhere, anytime. Now, the Neurobics bestseller “How to Keep Your Brain Alive” is repackaged in a trim, tote-able format that makes it an ideal gift. Based on leading neurobiological research, “Kee...
Primal Fat Burner - Live Longer, Slow Aging, Super-Power Your Brain and Save Your Life With a High-Fat, Low-Carb Paleo D...
Popular nutritionist Nora Gedguadas returns with advice that may sound counterintuitive: eat fat to burn fat. In Primal Fat Burner she explains the benefits and science behind a ketogenic (or fat-burning) diet, which switches your metabolism from a dependence on sugar to running on healthy fats. As Gedgaudas reveals, numerous studies in recent years refute the long-promoted anti-saturated fat and ...
Train Your Brain to be a Maths Genius
Packed with things to do, Train Your Brain to be a Maths Genius, will help you calculate equations that will make your knees tremble, it will make fretting about fractions a thing of the past, and best of all – it’s great fun! Jam packed with activities, puzzles, challenges, tips and tricks to boost brain power, this book also has a section on ‘Great Brains’, telling you all about the interes...
Time Your Body - The Science of Keeping It Healthy
Join the editors of TIME for a fascinating and illuminating journey inside a world that we ought to know well, but are too close to see: the human body. Harnessing the most advanced visual technologies available to medical science-CAT scans and ultrasound, MRIs, EKGs and more-the book shows the workings of the bodyÂ’s systems in revelatory new ways. Yet this splendidly illustrated volume is far mo...
Paranormality - The Science of the Supernatural
“People are emotionally drawn to the supernatural. They actively want weird, spooky things to be true . . . Wiseman shows us a higher joy as he deftly skewers the paranormal charlatans, blows away the psychic fog and lets in the clear light of reason.” Richard Dawkins Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don’t exist. But in the same way that the science of s...
Rewire Your Brain - Think Your Way to a Better Life
How to rewire your brain to improve virtually every aspect of your life-based on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology on neuroplasticity and evidence-based practices Not long ago, it was thought that the brain you were born with was the brain you would die with, and that the brain cells you had at birth were the most you would ever possess. Your brain was thought to be ?hardwired? t...
The Science of Intelligent Achievement - How Smart People Focus, Create and Grow Their Way to Success
Smart strategies for pragmatic, science-based growth and sustainable achievement. The Science of Intelligent Achievement teaches you the scientific process of finding success through your most valuable assets: Selectivity – how selective are you with who and what you let into your life? Ownership – how dependent are you on others for your happiness and success? Pragmatism – how consistent ...
Not Your Typical Book About the Environment
We live in a time of heightened environmental awareness; and this knowledge is creating a generation of children with feelings of eco-anxiety ? the world is doomed; isn't it? Maybe not. Not Your Typical Book about the Environment allays kids’ fears by showing how all is not lost. Young readers learn about the remarkable time they live in: smart technologies; innovative ideas; and a growing co...