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Psychologist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, reveals how to join forces with your unconscious to make better decisions, find more meaning in everyday life, and develop a richer, more balanced way of living.The conscious mind, the part of your mental life you experience directly, is responsible for only a tiny sliver of what science says is going on inside your brain. Most of what you experience, your moods, and the things you like or dislike-most of ...

If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising-not to mention sitting, sleeping, sprinting, weight lifting, playing, fighting, walking, jogging, and even dancing."Strikes a perfect balance of scholarship, wit, and enthusiasm." -Bill Bryson, New York Times best-selling author of The Body*If we are born to walk and ru...

In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we are told, is exercise - voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. However, most of us struggle to stay fit, and our attitudes to exercise are plagued by misconceptions, finger-pointing and anxiety.But, as Daniel Lieberman shows in Exercised, the first book of its kind by a leading scientif...

This highly engaging landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest?The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity and inactivity, even as each chapter shatters a particular myth about exercise. Because we cannot understand physical activity without understanding ...

This highly engaging, landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest?The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity and inactivity, even as each chapter shatters a particular myth about exercise. Because we cannot understand physical activity without understanding...

Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas--and progress itself. The authors examine how human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives rea...

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The world's leading knee reconstruction and sports medicine surgeons guide you to manage the toughest cases you'll see.Step-by-step guidance for more than 70 advanced reconstruction techniques.Developed in collaboration with The Knee Society, this powerful resource puts the expertise of top surgeons at your fingertips - tips, pearls, and techniques that reflect the leading edge of knee reconstruction.Procedures are liberally illustrated with f...

Warum wollen wir wie besessen bestimmte Dinge haben, sind aber gelangweilt, wenn wir sie bekommen? Warum verwandelt sich die Leidenschaft von Verliebten so schnell in Desinteresse? Die Antwort liegt in einem Hormon in unserem Gehirn: Dopamin. Es ist die Quelle unseres Verlangens und lässt uns für einen kurzen Nervenkitzel alles riskieren. Dabei ist es die Aussicht auf etwas Neues, die uns antreibt, nicht die Erfüllung. Dopamin ist der Grund, w...

Se da un lato l'uomo ha raggiunto condizioni di vita e un benessere prima impensabili, dall'altro è travolto da un'ondata di vecchi e nuovi mali, dalle mai risolte problematiche legate a una schiena notoriamente debole alla recente epidemia di obesità. Una piaga sanitaria per i singoli individui, ma anche economica e sociale per intere comunità. Da Harvard arriva oggi la tesi del biologo Daniel Lieberman: la salute del nostro corpo è strettame...

Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft unseres Körpers - das Standardwerk Wir glauben unseren Körper zu kennen, Veränderungen einschätzen zu können und leben heute so gesund und wohlgenährt wie nie zuvor. Gleichzeitig leiden wir an vielen, bereits zum Alltag gehörenden Erkrankungen wie Diabetes, zahlreichen Allergien, Herzproblemen oder Rückenbeschwerden. Wie es dazu kommen konnte, zeigt uns der Evolutionsbiologe Daniel E. Lieberman in seiner Biog...

Why are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them? Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict? Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference? Why are some people die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives? Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times-and so good at figuring them out? The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensu...

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The assessment of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted to and removed from the atmosphere is high on both political and scientific agendas internationally.  As increasing international concern and cooperation aim at policy-oriented solutions to the climate change problem, several issues have begun to arise regarding verification and compliance under both proposed and legislated schemes meant to reduce the human-induced global climate impact.  The a...

A leading scientist shows how our 21st century lifestyles are out of sync with our stone-age bodies. For readers of "The World Until Yesterday" by Jared Diamond.

The assessment of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted to and removed from the atmosphere is high on both political and scientific agendas internationally.  As increasing international concern and cooperation aim at policy-oriented solutions to the climate change problem, several issues have begun to arise regarding verification and compliance under both proposed and legislated schemes meant to reduce the human-induced global climate impact.  The a...

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