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  • Wanderlust

    A History of Walking

    A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's RosesDrawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Immune

    A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell“Through wonderful analogies and a genius for clarifying complex ideas, Immune is a truly brilliant introduction to the human body’s vast system for fighting infections and other ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby

    Fully revised and updated

    More Than 1.5 Million Copies Sold!Now Revised and Updated to Include the Latest Scientific Information and Even More Success StoriesFor almost forty years, How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby has been the standard reference for couples trying to increase their chances of having the son or daughter they hope for. In this new edition of their classic book, Dr. Shettles and David Rorvik provide ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • The Telomere Effect

    A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer

    The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease and improving life.Have you wondered why some sixty-year-olds look and feel like forty-year-olds and why some ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Woman

    An Intimate Geography

    National Book Award Finalist: This look at the science of the female body is “a tour de force . . . wonderful, entertaining and informative” (*TheNew York Times Book Review*).**From a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who covers science for the New York Times, Woman is an essential guide to everything from organs to orgasms and hormones to hysterectomies. With her characteristic clarity and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

    A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in our bodies.What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical signals constantly traveling through our bodies, driving our thoughts, our movements, and even the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The One-Minute Workout

    Science Shows a Way to Get Fit That's Smarter, Faster, Shorter

    Finally, the solution to the #1 reason we don’t exercise: time. Everyone has one minute.A decade ago, Martin Gibala was a young researcher in the field of exercise physiology—with little time to exercise. That critical point in his career launched a passion for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), allowing him to stay in shape with just a few minutes of hard effort. It also prompted Gibala to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?

    Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise

    Award-winning journalist, physicist, and bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson reveals the little-known and often surprising truths that science has uncovered about exercise, ranging from cardio and weights to competition to weight loss.There's plenty of conventional wisdom on health and fitness—but how much of it is scientifically sound? The truth is: less than you'd think.In Which Comes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Complete Human Body, 2nd Edition

    The Definitive Visual Guide

    Series series DK Human Body Guides
    Intricate details of all aspects of the human body down to the smallest detail – from our cells and DNA to the largest bone in our bodies, the femur.3D generated illustrations and medical imaging provide a close look at the body’s forms and functions in physiology and anatomy, showing how the body works and its amazing systems and abilities.To understand our modern human bodies, this book first ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Anatomy and Physiology "The cardiovascular system"

    Things you should know (Questions and answers)

    Series Book 9 - Things you should know
    This book will explain the anatomy and physiology, the organs, their functions and the parts of the cardiovascular system. It will make you discover the cardiovascular system in its entirety. All in the form of questions and answers to facilitate understanding of the subject. ... Read more

    Free

  • Masters of the Planet

    The Search for Our Human Origins

    Series series MacSci
    50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct. So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Exciting and provocative . . . A tour de force of a book that begs to be seen as well as to be read.”—The Washington Post Book WorldWorld renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a thrilling saga that starts ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • The Universe Within

    The Deep History of the Human Body

    by Neil Shubin ...
    **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human bodies ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Concise Human Body Book

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Human Body Guides
    Discover all there is to know about human anatomy in DK's latest concise visual guide to the human body.Fully updated to reflect the latest medical information, The Concise Human Body Book is illustrated throughout with colorful and comprehensive diagrams, photographs, scans, and 3D artworks, which take you right into the cells and fibers that are responsible for keeping your body ticking.The ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Deepest Well

    Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

    “An extraordinary, eye-opening book.” —PeopleNational Health Information Awards winner“A rousing wake-up call. . . . This highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowDr. Nadine Burke Harris was ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • The Things We Make

    The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

    by Bill Hammack ...
    Discover the secret method used to build the world…For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method", is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of—let ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You

    A biochemist shows how we can finally control our fat—by understanding how it works.Fat is not just excess weight, but actually a dynamic, smart, and self-sustaining organ that influences everything from aging and immunity to mood and fertility. With cutting-edge research and riveting case studies—including the story of a girl who had no fat, and that of a young woman who couldn’t stop eating—Dr. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Move

    How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

    ***Shortlisted for Sunday Times Book of the Year**A Greater Good Science Center Best Book of 2022*An eye-opening journey into the power of human movement and how we can harness it to optimize our brain health, boost our mood and improve every aspect our lives**For our earliest ancestors who hunted and gathered, movement meant survival. Our brains evolved to reward physical activity. Moving, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Human

    The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique

    What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique? In his accessible style, Michael Gazzaniga pinpoints the change that made us thinking, sentient humans different from our predecessors. He explores what makes human brains special, the importance of language and art in defining the human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and even artificial intelligence. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • If Our Bodies Could Talk

    A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

    by James Hamblin ...
    "If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." —Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The GeneIn 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies Could Talk." With it, the doctor-turned-journalist established himself as a seriously entertaining authority in the field of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

    **A 2012 New York Times Notable BookA 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Award Winner in the Science & Technology categoryAn engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate.**Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it’s sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nine Pints

    A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

    by Rose George ...
    An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough scienceBlood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don’t even know their own blood ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Biology Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about the most important discoveries and theories of this science in The Biology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Biology in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Biology Book brings a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pure, White, and Deadly

    How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

    by John Yudkin ...
    More than 40 years before Gary Taubes published The Case Against Sugar, John Yudkin published his now-classic exposé on the dangers of sugar—reissued here with a new introduction by Robert H. Lustig, the bestselling author of Fat Chance.Scientist John Yudkin was the first to sound the alarm about the excess of sugar in the diet of modern Americans. His classic exposé, Pure, White, and Deadly, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD