Can we be conscious of our consciousness? What doesconsciousness feel like? Is it really a stream of steadily flowing thoughts,images and feelings, or something else altogether? What happens in those lapsesduring highway driving, in which you have no memory of the last 10 kilometres?How is it that most of what goes on in our brains is actually unconscious?And, in the end, do we even need our brain? 
Jay Ingram, renowned science broadcaster and bestselling author,takes us on his most challenging and controversial journey yet—a look at thestate of consciousness. Mixing science, philosophy, history and pop culture,Ingram transforms grey matter into a brilliantly hued, completely understandableexploration of what’s really going on in our conscious and unconscious minds.

Theatre of the Mind: Raising the Curtain on Consciousness

Science & Math

INGRAM, Jay

History & Philosophy

HarperCollins, Publishers

Eat salmon. It’s full of good omega-3 fats. Don’t eat salmon. It’s full of PCBs and mercury. Eat more veggies. They’re full of good antioxidants. Don’t eat more veggies. The pesticides will give you cancer.
 Forget your dinner jacket and put on your lab coat: you have to be a nutritional scientist these days before you sit down to eatwhich is why we need Dr. Joe Schwarcz, the expert who’s famous for connecting chemistry to everyday life. In An Apple a Day, he’s taken his thorough knowledge of food chemistry, applied it to today’s top food fears, trends and questions, and leavened it with his trademark lighthearted approach. The result is both an entertaining revelation of the miracles of science happening in our bodies every time we bite into a morsel of food, and a telling exploration of the myths, claims and misconceptions surrounding our obsession with diets, nutrition and weight.
 Looking first at how food affects our health, Dr. Joe examines what’s in tomatoes, soy and broccoli that can keep us healthy and how the hundreds of compounds in a single food react when they hit our bodies. Then he investigates how we manipulate our food supply, delving into the science of food additives and what benefits we might realize from adding bacteria to certain foods. He clears up the confusion about contaminants, examining everything from pesticide residues, remnants of antibiotics, the dreaded trans fats and chemicals that may leach from cookware. And he takes a studied look at the science of calories and weighs in on popular diets.
 An Apple a Day is a must-read book for anyone who looks forward to digesting the truth about what we eat.

An Apple A Day

Schwarcz, Joe

Biological Sciences

It sounds like a blockbuster Hollywood movie: a group ofscientists learn how to duplicate cells and transform them into blood, nerve andbone to regenerate different parts of the body. Sheets of living tissue canrenew exhausted organs. Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and spinal cordpatients now have new hope.
But this isn’t science fictionit’s scientific fact. Inthe fascinating new book The Golden Cell, Karen van Kampen, a veteranmedical journalist, tells us the stories of the people behind the science. Sheushers us into the laboratory where one Dr. Michael Kaplitt is reprogramming theoveractive brain cells of a Parkinson’s sufferer. She looks at the maelstromof ethical, legal and political issues, as two researchers are forced to selltheir stem cell discoveries to "big pharma." And she propels us intothe future, talking to a scientist who says he’s found the "cellularfountain of youth."
A book of people, personalities and politics, all connected byone of the most important scientific discoveries in history, The Golden Cell isan enthralling and provocative read.
"Today’s cells are tomorrow’spills." Dr. Thomas Okarma, CEOof Geron Corporation"We used to think our future wasin the stars. Now we know it is in ourgenes." James Watson, co-discoverer of thedouble helix structure of DNA

Golden Cell

Van Kampen, Karen

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Boston MA: Little Brown &amp; Co., 1984. Issued to tie-in with the BBC TV series. 320pp, lavishly illustrated in colour. Book and jacket in excellent condition.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +.

The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth

Attenbourough David

Little, Brown, and Co.

The Living Planet

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Collins

Worn dust jacket has a faded spine and is in a protective sleeve, page edges tanned, bookseller's pencil marks . Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Waders (The New Naturalist)

W G HALE

Sports & Outdoors

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Life on Earth: A Natural History Attenborough, Sir David

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Servants and Interpreters of Nature - A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities

Servants and Interpreters of Nature - A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities

Lewis Pyenson

& Susan Sheets-Pyenson

Harpercollins

From seers to scientists, mystics to meteorologists, there have always been peoplewho claim to know what will happen in the future. The Oracle at Delphi, Pythagoras, Newton and the stock analyst on a business report have all endeavoured to look forward in time. But even with recent technological advances and the help of computers and satellites, are we any better at predicting the future now than we were in the distant past? How can scientists claim to foresee future climate events when even three-day forecasts prove a serious challenge?In Apollo’s Arrow, David Orrell looks at the history of prognostication to show how scientists (and charlatans) have tried to forecast the future. He then breaks down the mathematics of what really goes into apredictive model. Orrell has created a compelling, elegantly written history of our future that addresses some of the most important issues of our time.

Apollo's Arrow

Orrell, David

Harper-perennial

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Theatre of the Mind: Raising the Curtain on Consciousness

An Apple A Day

Golden Cell

The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth

The Living Planet

Waders (The New Naturalist)

Life on Earth: A Natural History Attenborough, Sir David

The Living Planet

Servants and Interpreters of Nature - A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities

Apollo's Arrow