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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
ix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Training for long-course triathlons once demanded 15-20 hours each week - on top of work, family, travel and other time commitments. For many, preparing for long-distance triathlon is more challenging than the race itself. Now Fast-Track Triathlete opens the door to your best performance in full- and half-distance triathlons in half the traditional training time. Dixon's laser-focused, effective approach to workouts, recovery, strength and mobility,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use dreams? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented, astonishing study of the role and significance of dreams, from the beginning of human history. It is an investigation on the grand scale, encompassing literature, anthropology, religion, and science, one that articulates the essential place dreams occupy in human culture, and how they functioned as the catalyst...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xviii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth-century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds.
10) Sleep
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Description
"What is sleep? What is resting? What is the difference between them? This book explains that difference by looking at why people need sleep, how we sleep, and looking at how animals either sleep or rest"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"To run faster, better, and more efficiently, you have to learn to run faster, better, and more efficiently. Trainer and former triathlete Edward Yu shows you how to achieve the results you want with a new multidisciplinary approach."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 274 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Sensory science is increasingly proving that we don't perceive reality: we construct it through perception."--Dust jacket.
"As we move further into the 21st Century, sensory and consumer studies continue to develop, playing an important role in food science and industry. These studies are crucial for understanding the relation between food properties on one side and human liking and buying behaviour on the other. This book by a group of established...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
vii, 310 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric living fabric. And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric. With his hallmark clarity and enthusiasm he reveals the myriad ways that the brain absorbs experience: developing, redeploying, organizing,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvi, 218 pages ; 23 cm
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Larson and DeClaire offer practical advice for growing old with resilience and foresight. They examine the scientific evidence behind new perspectives on aging, and offer ideas for building better communities for our aging population.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Cutting-edge advice on how to achieve your personal best, for everyone from casual runners to ultramarathoners. In 80/20 Running, respected running and fitness expert Matt Fitzgerald introduced his revolutionary training program and explained why doing 80 percent of runs at a lower intensity and just 20 percent at a higher intensity is the best way for runners at all levels--as well as cyclists, triathletes, and even weight-loss seekers--to improve...
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