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"In 2018, Petra Kasperova won a six-day race in New York, running 370 miles. Akira Haraguchi, a sixty year-old man in Tokyo, can recite pi to the one-hundred-thousandth decimal point. John Nunn was accepted to Oxford University at age 15, the youngest undergraduate in five hundred years. Carmen Tarleton suffered injuries that nearly killed her. One of her surgeons said her injuries "were beyond anything we have ever seen." But Tarleton not only survived...
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"As groundbreaking synthesis that promises to shift our understanding of the mind-brain connection and its relationship with our bodies. We understand the workings of the human body as a series of interdependent physiological relationships: muscle interacts with bone as the heart responds to hormones secreted by the brain, all the way down to the inner workings of every cell. To make an organism function, no one component can work alone. In light...
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"A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain. Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver's Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look less steep as dieters lose weight, baseballs grow bigger...
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"A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's extraordinary ability to heal the body. In Cure, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant travels the world to meet the physicians, patients, and researchers on the cutting edge of this new world of medicine. We learn how meditation protects against depression and dementia, how social connections increase life expectancy, and how patients who feel cared for recover from...
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