A NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom adrenaline to dopamine, our lives are shaped by the chemicals that control us. They are the hormones and neurotransmitters that our brains run on, and Overloaded looks at the roles they play in all aspects of our experiences, from how we make decisions, who we love, what we remember to basic survival drives such as hunger, fear and sleep.Author Ginny Smith explores what these tiny molecules do: what roles do cor...

Nuestro cerebro está regulado por un grupo de sustancias químicas como son las hormonas y los neurotransmisores. Saturado analiza el papel que desempeñan estas sustancias en todos los aspectos de nuestras experiencias vitales, desde cómo tomamos decisiones, a quién amamos y qué recordamos, hasta impulsos básicos de supervivencia como el hambre, el miedo y el sueño. Ginny Smith explora la función de estas diminutas moléculas, apoyándose en las últimas investigaciones a la vanguardia de la q...

Bloomsbury presents Overloaded written and read by Ginny Smith.A NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom adrenaline to dopamine, our lives are shaped by the chemicals that control us. They are the hormones and neurotransmitters that our brains run on, and Overloaded looks at the roles they play in all aspects of our experiences, from how we make decisions, who we love, what we remember to basic survival drives such as hunger, fear and sleep.Author Ginny Smith explores wh...

After 30 years of providing counseling and support for people living with cancer, the Cancer Lifeline organization knows that one of the main areas of interest for patients and their families is food and nutrition. What foods have been shown to help prevent the spread of cancer? What are the nutritional "rules" for people with cancer? In answer, this new edition of the organization's cookbook presents up-to-date nutritional information (including the Top Ten Super Foods that may protect an...

A sweeping, eerily resonant epic of race and violence in the Jim Crow South: a lyrical and emotionally devastating masterpiece from Charlie Smith, whom the New York Public Library has said “may be America’s most bewitching stylist alive.”Delvin Walker is just a boy when his mother flees their home in the Red Row section of Chattanooga, accused of killing a white man. Taken in by Cornelius Oliver, proprietor of the town’s leading Negro funeral home, he discovers the art of caring fo...

An interfaith collection of prayers, blessings, and poems offering comfort and hope to the healthcare workers that give so much.The COVID-19 pandemic has left few of us unaffected, but our healthcare workers have borne the brunt of its impact. Chaplains and clergy across all lines of faith have ministered to those caregivers through prayers and blessings.This curated collection of interfaith prayers, blessings, and poems was written by those who minister to...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When renowned surgeon Dr. Samuel Price is found brutally murdered in his upscale home—his body left with precisely placed stab wounds and a scalpel positioned beside him—Detective Alex Mercer knows this isn’t just a homicide. It’s a message.As Mercer digs deeper, he discovers chilling similarities to an unsolved murder from a decade ago—a case t...

The Winter 2022-23 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporaryAmerican literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in avariety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton amongminnows.”The Winter 2022-23 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John

Some loves are written in ash. Some curses are older than gods.Lyra has always dreamed of fire. In the flicker of candlelight, in the shadow of strangers, she sees pieces of lives she has never lived—deaths she cannot explain, desires that feel older than her own body. When a stranger appears at a funeral, watching her with eyes that burn like centuries, the dreams sharpen into memory.Eryx is the man who does not die. Scarred by the hand of a god, he has walked through endl...

Welke rol spelen cortisol en adrenaline bij het opslaan van herinneringen? Hoe beïnvloeden neurotransmitters onze beslissingen? Hoe sturen deze stofjes honger, angst en slaap aan? En welke invloed hebben hormonen op onze romantische relaties? In Bestuurders van het brein maak je kennis met de stofjes die onze hersenen regeren. Wetenschapsschrijver Ginny Smith legt uit wat deze moleculen precies doen en hoe ze op elkaar inwerken. Ze praat met wetenschappers over de nieuwste inzichten en ver...