Life sciences: general issues

What is as unique as your fingerprints and more revealing than your diary? Hint: Your body is emitting them right now and has been every single day of your life. Brainwaves. Analysing brainwaves, the imperceptible waves of electricity surging across...

Millions of people struggle every day against a chronic lack of sleep that exhausts them and threatens their health. There is a simple remedy- a daytime nap. Saved by the Siesta explains how siestas work and the remarkable role they can play in...

This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain’s complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and unregenerative unable to recover...

This groundbreaking new book from New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel, MD, introduces readers to his pioneering, science-based meditation practice. Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing...

This hands-on user's guide to the groundbreaking Wheel of Awareness meditation practice featured in the bestseller Awaretakes readers step-by-step through a 21-day journey to discover what it means to be truly present and aware in our daily lives. In...

Have you ever asked yourself why you can't remember anything from before the age of three, why we experience déjà vu, or indeed how a bundle of cells in our heads can produce the remarkable phenomenon that is human consciousness? Drawing on the latest...

Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change. How do species interact with each other and their environment? How do ecosystems...