📚 Book of the Day (#non-fiction #sociology #biology)
📜BEHAVE📜
by Robert M. Sapolsky
❗Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
❗One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year
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➡️ "Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky—a neuroscientist and primatologist—uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement—a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do . . . for good and for ill.
📜BEHAVE📜
by Robert M. Sapolsky
❗Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
❗One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year
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➡️ "Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky—a neuroscientist and primatologist—uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement—a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do . . . for good and for ill.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #biology)
📜THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF📜
by Norman Doidge, M. D.
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➡️ Brilliant...Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science...The implications are monumental.” ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
An astonishing new science called "neuroplasticity" is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed. From stroke patients learning to speak again to the remarkable case of a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, The Brain That Changes Itself will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.
📜THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF📜
by Norman Doidge, M. D.
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➡️ Brilliant...Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science...The implications are monumental.” ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
An astonishing new science called "neuroplasticity" is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed. From stroke patients learning to speak again to the remarkable case of a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, The Brain That Changes Itself will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #biology #memoir)
📜NERVOUS📜
by Jen Soriano
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➡️ With Nervous, Soriano boldly invites us along on a journey toward healing, understanding, and communion. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In fourteen essays connected by theme and experience, Soriano traverses centuries and continents, weaving together memory and history, sociology and personal stories, neuroscience and public health, into a vivid tapestry of what it takes to transform trauma.
📜NERVOUS📜
by Jen Soriano
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➡️ With Nervous, Soriano boldly invites us along on a journey toward healing, understanding, and communion. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In fourteen essays connected by theme and experience, Soriano traverses centuries and continents, weaving together memory and history, sociology and personal stories, neuroscience and public health, into a vivid tapestry of what it takes to transform trauma.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #science #biology)
📖 THE BODY: A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS 📖
by Bill Bryson
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🔬 Explore the Wonders of the Human Body.
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📗 About:
"The Body: A Guide for Occupants" by Bill Bryson takes readers on a fascinating journey through the human body, uncovering its intricate mechanisms and explaining complex biological processes in an engaging and accessible manner. This illuminating exploration reveals the marvels and mysteries of our own physical selves.
👍 - I've read it
❤ - I wanna read it
📖 THE BODY: A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS 📖
by Bill Bryson
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🔬 Explore the Wonders of the Human Body.
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📗 About:
"The Body: A Guide for Occupants" by Bill Bryson takes readers on a fascinating journey through the human body, uncovering its intricate mechanisms and explaining complex biological processes in an engaging and accessible manner. This illuminating exploration reveals the marvels and mysteries of our own physical selves.
👍 - I've read it
❤ - I wanna read it
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #science #biology #2021)
📖 THE CODE BREAKER: JENNIFER DOWDELL’S WORLD-CHANGING GENOMIC RESEARCH 📖
by Walter Isaacson
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🧬 Exploring the Trailblazing Work in Genomics.
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📗 About:
"The Code Breaker" by Walter Isaacson chronicles the life and groundbreaking work of Jennifer Doudna, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and her colleagues in the field of CRISPR technology. This captivating narrative reveals the ethical, scientific, and societal implications of gene editing and its potential to reshape the future.
👍 - I've read it
❤ - I wanna read it
📖 THE CODE BREAKER: JENNIFER DOWDELL’S WORLD-CHANGING GENOMIC RESEARCH 📖
by Walter Isaacson
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🧬 Exploring the Trailblazing Work in Genomics.
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📗 About:
"The Code Breaker" by Walter Isaacson chronicles the life and groundbreaking work of Jennifer Doudna, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and her colleagues in the field of CRISPR technology. This captivating narrative reveals the ethical, scientific, and societal implications of gene editing and its potential to reshape the future.
👍 - I've read it
❤ - I wanna read it