Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with nearly 90,000 copies in print
Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky’s acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress.
As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear-and the ones that plague us now-are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage, such as heart disease and cancer. When we worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that an animal’s does, but we do not resolve conflict in the same way-through fighting or fleeing. Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick.
Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humor and practical advice, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses. This new edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet.
Kapcsolódó könyvek
Robert M. Sapolsky - Behave
Why do we do what we do?
Behave is at once a dazzling tour and a majestic synthesis of the whole science of human behaviour. Brought to life through simple language, engaging stories and irreverent wit, it offers the fullest picture yet of the origins of tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, war and peace.
Robert Sapolsky’s ingenious method is to move backwards in time from the moment at which a behaviour occurs, layer by layer through the myriad influences that led to it:
- We begin with the split-second reactions of the brain and nervous system…
- Then we consider our response to sight, sound and smell in the minutes and seconds beforehand…
- Next he explains the interactions of hormones, which prime our behaviour in the preceding hours and days…
- He proceeds through the experiences of adolescence, childhood and foetal development that shape us over our lifespans…
- And continues over centuries and millennia through the profound influences of genetic inheritance, cultural context and ultimately the evolutionary origins of our species.
Throughout, Sapolsky considers the most important question: what causes acts of aggression or compassion? What inspires us to terrible deeds and what might help foster our best behaviour?
Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, that is unlikely to be surpassed for many years.
Giulia Enders - Gut
The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain or our heart, yet we know very little about how it works. In Gut, Giulia Enders shows that rather than the utilitarian and let s be honest somewhat embarrassing body part we imagine it to be, it is one of the most complex, important, and even miraculous parts of our anatomy. And scientists are only just discovering quite how much it has to offer; new research shows that gut bacteria can play a role in everything from obesity and allergies to Alzheimer s. Beginning with the personal experience of illness that inspired her research, and going on to explain everything from the basics of nutrient absorption to the latest science linking bowel bacteria with depression, Enders has written an entertaining, informative health handbook. Gut definitely shows that we can all benefit from getting to know the wondrous world of our inner workings. In this charming book, young scientist Giulia Enders takes us on a fascinating tour of our insides. Her message is simple if we treat our gut well, it will treat us well in return. But how do we do that? And why do we need to? Find out in this surprising, and surprisingly funny, exploration of the least understood of our organs.
Giulia Enders - Darm mit Charme
Darm mit Charme
Giulia Enders
Der Millionen-Bestseller jetzt aktualisiert — mit einem Zusatzkapitel über neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse
Unser Darm ist ein fabelhaftes Wesen voller Sensibilität, Verantwortung und Leistungsbereitschaft. Wenn man ihn gut behandelt, bedankt er sich dafür. Das tut jedem gut: Der Darm trainiert zwei Drittel unseres Immunsystems. Aus Brötchen oder Tofu-Wurst beschafft er unserem Körper die Energie zum Leben. Und er hat das größte Nervensystem nach dem Gehirn. Allergien, unser Gewicht und eben auch unsere Gefühlswelt sind eng mit unserm Bauch verknüpft. In diesem Buch erklärt die junge Wissenschaftlerin Giulia Enders, was die medizinische Forschung Neues bietet und wie wir mit diesem Wissen unseren Alltag besser machen können. Die dazu gehörigen Illustrationen stammen aus der Feder ihrer Schwester Jill. Die aktualisierte Neuauflage wird um ein Kapitel ergänzt: Die Schwestern Enders geben hier ein Update zu neuen Forschungsergebnissen und der Welt der Mikroben.
Bill Bryson - The Body
‘We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.’
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.
Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.
A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this book will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.
‘What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. There really is no story more amazing than the story of us.’
Bill Bryson
Adam Alter - Irresistible
How many times have you checked your phone today? Why are messaging apps, email and social media so hard to resist? How come we always end up watching another episode?
In recent years, media and technology have perfected the lucrative art of gaining and holding our attention. This extraordinary feat has changed the behaviour of billions of people, and especially the young: by current medical standards, we are experiencing an unprecedented, global pandemic of addiction. But what exactly is an addiction? And what, if anything, might we do about it?
From cliff-hangers to earworms, from religion to pornography, and from the awesome allure of the 'Kim Kardashian: Hollywood' app to the unexpected benefits of the 'butt-brush effect', Irresistible blends fascinating stories with ingenious science to explain how and why we all got hooked. Revealing the surprising causes and sometimes bizarre nature of addiction, this book will equip you with the tools and understanding you need to navigate our irresistible new world.
Michael W. Taft - The Mindful Geek
_The Mindful Geek_ details how to derive the benefits of mindfulness meditation without having to join a religion or drink metaphysical Kool-Aid. In the book, Michael Taft gives you step-by-step instructions in the powerful and reliable techniques of mindfulness meditation, and outlines the psychological and neuroscientific research underpinning these practices.
You don’t have to believe in mindfulness meditation for it to work. Like any good technology, mindfulness will do the job reliably whether you believe in it or not. And mindfulness IS a kind of technology for hacking the human wetware in order to improve your life.
If you are smart, rational, science-y, and have a desire to see what meditation is really all about, this book is for you.
David Attenborough - Life on Earth
In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more than 3,000 million years ago to apelike but upright man, equally well adapted to life in the rain forest of New Guinea and the glass canyons of a modern metropolis. Told through an examination of animal and plant life today - with occasional juxtapositions of extinct fossil forms to reveal the origin of living creatures - "Life on Earth" is an astonishing pageant of life, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of living animals the world over. Attenborough's perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of some four million species of living organisms that populate the planet is to trace the most significant thread in the history of each major group. He then proceeds to explain from the evidence of living representatives and fossil remains why certain animals adapted and survived, evolved to more complex and "higher" forms of life, while others, by some inherent limitation imposed by their physiology or structure, failed and became extinct. "Life on Earth" is a book of wonders. A model of clarity and ease as a guide, Attenborough takes the reader around the world with him into jungles where orchids have petals that "impersonate" wasps to attract pollinating insects; to Australia, where honeypot ants force feed nectar to workers of a special caste, then hang them up by their forelegs like living storage jars; to remote mountains in Japan where little monkeys called macaques have learned to combat the winter snows by bathing in hot volcanic springs.
Larry Gonick - Mark Wheelis - Képregén
Biológiai tankönyvet tartasz a kezedben, gyanútlan olvasó! Legalábbis tankönyvecskét, ha a többit már földhöz vágtad, ehhez talán lesz még türelmed, de ha mindet bevágtad, akkor se vesd meg egy mókás kedvű genetikus és egy tudós karikaturista szerény favicceit. Ha érettségire (felvételire, kollokviumra) készülsz biológiából, használhatod ezt a rendhagyó képregényt kávé helyett: napok alatt megtérül az ára, ha pedig érdek nélkül érdeklődsz az átöröklés, a nemesítés, a szaporodás, a génműködés vagy a génsebészet biológiai alapjai iránt, akkor külön üdvözlettel kíván a könyvhöz kellemes fejtágulást a Gondolat
Corinne Sweet - The Mindfulness Journal
In today's busy world, finding physical and mental space for peace and calm amidst the competing demands of work, family and friends can be a challenge. Mindfulness is a simple and powerful practice that can help you cut through the noise and reclaim tranquillity, wherever you are.
The Mindfulness Journal offers an introduction to mindfulness and easy exercises that can be done whether you are sitting at your desk, squeezed on to a crowded train, or standing in line at the supermarket. Beautifully illustrated, with notes pages to record your thoughts, this journal is your indispensable companion to a more peaceful, stress-free day.
Brian Wansink - Mindless Eating
In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you’re eating, what you’re eating–or why you’re even eating at all.
• Does food with a brand name really taste better?
• Do you hate brussels sprouts because your mother did?
• Does the size of your plate determine how hungry you feel?
• How much would you eat if your soup bowl secretly refilled itself?
• What does your favorite comfort food really say about you?
• Why do you overeat so much at healthy restaurants?
Brian Wansink is a Stanford Ph.D. and the director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab. He’s spent a lifetime studying what we don’t notice: the hidden cues that determine how much and why people eat. Using ingenious, fun, and sometimes downright fiendishly clever experiments like the “bottomless soup bowl,” Wansink takes us on a fascinating tour of the secret dynamics behind our dietary habits. How does packaging influence how much we eat? Which movies make us eat faster? How does music or the color of the room influence how much we eat? How can we recognize the “hidden persuaders” used by restaurants and supermarkets to get us to mindlessly eat? What are the real reasons most diets are doomed to fail? And how can we use the “mindless margin” to lose–instead of gain–ten to twenty pounds in the coming year?
Mindless Eating will change the way you look at food, and it will give you the facts you need to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices at the dinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, at the office–even at a vending machine–wherever you decide to satisfy your appetite.
Robert Anton Wilson - Prometheus Rising
Imagine trying to make sense of an amalgam of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I. Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybskis general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, and the several disciplines of Yoga; not to mention Christian Science, relativity, quantum mechanics, and many other approaches to understanding the world around us! That is exactly what Robert Anton Wilson does in Prometheus Rising. In short, this is a book about how the human mind works and what you can do to make the most of yours.
Bill Bryson - A test
Egész életünket egy testben éljük le, ám legtöbbünknek gyakorlatilag fogalma sincs arról, hogy miképp működik, s mi minden megy végbe benne...
A nagyszerű Majdnem minden rövid története című bestseller könyvében Bill Bryson a világegyetemet és mindenféle tudományt tár az olvasó elé. Az emberi test című könyvében a test belsejét vetíti elénk, hogy megkísérelje megértetni kivételes szerkezetét. Miközben végigkalauzol bennünket az emberi testben, hogy felfedezhessük, miképp működik, milyen bajai lehetnek, s felvillantja figyelemre méltó öngyógyítási képességét, kiderül, hogy sokkal összetettebbek, csodálatosabbak és rejtelmesebbek vagyunk, mint bárki is gondolná.
Génjeinktől beszédkészségünkig és nagy méretű agyunktól roppant ügyes ujjbegyeinkig bámulatba ejtő sikertörténet vagyunk. Annak története, hogy miképp próbáljuk uralni biológiánkat és elhárítani a betegségeket, tele van elfeledett hősökkel, meglepő anekdotákkal és különleges tényekkel. (Testünkben milliónyi vörösvérsejt képződik, miközben e sorokat olvassuk.)
A végtelenül érdekes, rendkívül olvasmányos és minden részletre kiterjedő Az emberi test könyv elősegíti, hogy jobban megértsük általánosságban az élet és különösképpen az ember csodáját. Mindenki számára olvasni való kézikönyv tekintetében Bryson a legeslegjobb.
Peter Wohlleben - The Hidden Life of Trees
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they grow, sharing nutrients with those who are sick or struggling and creating an ecosystem that mitigates the impact of extremes of heat and cold for the whole group. As a result of such interactions, trees in a family or community are protected and can live to be very old. In contrast, solitary trees, like street kids, have a tough time of it and in most cases die much earlier than those in a group.
Drawing on groundbreaking new discoveries, Wohlleben presents the science behind the secret and previously unknown life of trees and their communication abilities; he describes how these discoveries have informed his own practices in the forest around him. As he says, a happy forest is a healthy forest, and he believes that eco-friendly practices not only are economically sustainable but also benefit the health of our planet and the mental and physical health of all who live on Earth.
Ismeretlen szerző - The Phylogenetic Handbook
The Phylogenetic Handbook is a broad, hands on guide to theory and practice of nucleotide and protein phylogenetic analysis. This second edition includes six new chapters, covering topics such as Bayesian inference, tree topology testing and the impact of recombination on phylogenies, as well as a detailed section on molecular adaptation. The book has a stronger focus on hypothesis testing than the previous edition, with more extensive discussions on recombination analysis, detecting molecular adaptation and genealogy-based population genetics. Many chapters include elaborate practical sections, which have been updated to introduce the reader to the most recent versions of sequence analysis and phylogeny software, including BLAST, FastA, Clustal, T-coffee, Muscle, DAMBE, Tree-puzzle, Phylip, MEGA, PAUP*, IQPNNI, CONSEL, ModelTest, Prottest, PAML, HYPHY, MrBayes, BEAST, LAMARC, SplitsTree, and RDP. Many analysis tools are described by their original authors, resulting in clear explanations that constitute an ideal teaching guide for advanced-level undergraduate and graduate students.
Bagdy Emőke - Relaxáció, megnyugvás, belső béke
Elfáradtál? Feszült vagy? Nem tudsz elég jól koncentrálni? Nem megy a tanulás elég hatékonyan? Döcög az egészséged? Ideges tünetekkel bajlódsz?
Neked készült ez a segítség! Tegyél próbát, miképpen tudod a rejtett belső erőket a szolgálatodba állítani! Tanuld meg felhasználni erőforrásaidat! Állj szóba a belvilággal, az érzelmi tudatoddal, amely bölcsebb, mint gondolnád.
Csak a tapasztalatodban bízz! Mindent megtudsz, megismersz, ha kipróbálod az elmédben rejlő kincsek felhasználását.
Jóleső ellazulást, megnyugvást, belső békét, örömteli belső utakat kívánok: Bagdy Emőke
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A kötet bevezet a relaxáció és a meditáció alapjaiba, hogy jobban értsük azt a csodálatos világot, amelybe a hangoskönyv segítségével belépünk. A CD-n hét, Bagdy Emőke által összeállított és vezetett relaxáció/meditáció szerepel mp3 formátumban. (Közülük négy audio formátumban is meghallgatható.)
A programok között akad stresszmentesítő mélyrelaxáció; koncentráció-fejlesztő meditáció; gyors, hatékony önellazítás; egészséggondozó meditáció és a teljesítményhelyzetekre felkészülést megerősítő relaxáció is. Szövegük a könyvben nyomtatott formában is szerepel, azok számára, akik saját hangjukon szeretnék rögzíteni és hallgatni a gyakorlatokat.
Matt Ridley - Nature Via Nurture
This is acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are? In February 2001 it was announced that the genome contains not 100,000 genes as originally expected but only 30,000. This startling revision led some scientists to conclude that there are simply not enough human genes to account for all the different ways people behave: we must be made by nurture, not nature. Yet again biology was to be stretched on the Procrustean bed of the nature-nurture debate. Acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley argues that the emerging truth is far more interesting than this myth. Nurture depends on genes, too, and genes need nurture. Genes not only predetermine the broad structure of the brain; they also absorb formative experiences, react to social cues and even run memory. They are consequences as well as causes of the will. via Nurture chronicles a new revolution in our understanding of genes. Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to explain how this paradoxical creature, the human being, can be simultaneously free-willed and motivated by instinct and culture. Nature via Nurture is an enthralling, up-to-the-minute account of how genes build brains to absorb experience.
Maria Baker - Brigitte Ebbe - Jo Høyer - Lenaick Menot - Bhavani Narayanaswamy - Eva Ramirez-Llodra - Morten Steffensen - Deeper than light
The earliest perception of the earth and the sea was that they were flat, and if a sailor reached the horizon, he would fall off the edge! The geographical extent of the sea was unknown; its depth unfathomable and unlikely to be tested as myth proclaimed that the deep waters were inhabited by monsters ready to take the unwary seaman.
The last 170 years of scientific discovery have brought about revolutionary changes in the way we understand the deep seas and open ocean. Some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth lie hidden deeper than light. This book will take us on a journey from relatively shallow waters down to the abyss, discovering exciting deep-sea creatures on route.
Motivated by a passion for life in the deep sea, the authors, all active members of the Census of Marine Life, wanted to share their enthusiasm and convey the unsuspected richness of marine life, its strange animals and unusual ways of life at the greatest depths. Richly illustrated with photographs and art and introducing state-of-the-art knowledge in deep-sea biology, this book appeals to all curios by nature.
Dougal Dixon - The New Dinosaurs
Looks at how the dinosaurs might have evolved if they hadn't become extinct, and shows and describes the characteristics of these hypothetical creatures.
Dr. Seregély György - Fogamzásgátlás
A gyermek a nő élethivatásának beteljesülése, és szervesen hozzátartozik a házasélet boldogságához. Az utódok nemzése, világrahozatala és felnevelése mindig az egyik legnemesebb emberi tevékenység volt, és beláthatatlan időkig az is marad. Korunkban ezek az alapigazságok mindössze annyiban módosultak, hogy ma már számos olyan korszerű lehetőség birtokában vagyunk, amellyel a gyermekáldás bekövetkezését - a szexuális élet teljes zavartalansága mellett - szabályozhatjuk, tehát kiküszöbölhetjük annak véletlenszerű, elemi erőként ható jellegét. Minden ivarérett, egészséges nő és férfi szembetalálkozik életének valamely szakaszában a születésszabályozás problémájával, akár annak pozitív (a gyermek vállalása), akár negatív (születéskorlátozás) értelmében. Ez utóbbinak a tudatos megvalósítása nem képzelhető el másként, mint a rendelkezésre álló védekező eljárások pontos ismeretének és helyes használatának elsajátításával.
Az emberi szaporodás mérséklésére irányuló szándék a történelem minden ismert időszakában fellelhető. Megoldására a társadalmi és tudományos fejlődés egyes szakaszaiban a különféle földrajzi, demográfiai, szociális, vallási, erkölcsi, egészségügyi és egyéni tényezők hatása alatt más-más módszereket alkalmaztak. A születésszám befolyásolására használatos módszerek az idők folyamán egyre tökéletesedtek, jelenünkben pedig ugrásszerű fejlődést mutatnak. Nem utópia többé, hogy a nők tabletták bevételével szabályozhatják utódaik számát, és az sem túlzó állítás, hogy a közeljövő kutatásai a napjainkban legmodernebb preventív eljárásoknál is tökéletesebb módszerekkel fogják gazdagítani az emberiséget.
Ismeretlen szerző - Mindent az emberi testről
A legátfogóbb és leglátványosabb útmutató az emberi testről
Az autóhoz, a mosógéphez, a számítógépes játékokhoz mindig kapunk használati útmutatót - a testünkhöz azonban nem. A megoldás ez a kézikönyv, amely mindent tartalmaz, amit a testről tudni kell.
Honnan tudjuk, hogy éhesek vagyunk? Miért szorul össze a gyomrunk, ha idegeskedünk? Mi az oka az emésztési problémáknak, miért alakul ki rövidlátás és allergia?
Világos, könnyen érthető ábrák és elképesztő adatok. Minden, amit tudni szeretnénk a testünkben zajló rejtélyes, összetett folyamatokról.