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  Insights on Adam Alter’s...

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  Download now to get key insights from this book in 15 minutes. 
  Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction - an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a broken phone, and millennial kids spend so much time in front of screens that they struggle to interact with real, live humans. 
  In this revolutionary book, Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, tracks the rise of behavioral addiction and explains why so many of today's products are irresistible. Though these miraculous products melt the miles that separate people across the globe, their extraordinary and sometimes damaging magnetism is no accident. The companies that design these products tweak them over time until they become almost impossible to resist.

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  Melatonin - Neurological...

  Quinn Spencer

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  What if you knew everything there is to know about the hormone that regulates your sleep?  
  Did you know that melatonin is responsible for not only a lot of systems in your body, including sleep, but also preventing Alzheimer’s disease, headaches, and autistic traits? Yes, melatonin is related to a lot we do, and it has a direct impact on how well our brain functions. Many people underestimate how important a healthy melatonin regulation is.   
  When it comes to this, many are also confused whether or not they should take supplements, how to include it into their diet, and which foods or dosage are right to balance things out. If you don’t know what you’re doing, your whole pattern can shift, and it can influence your work, concentration, mood, and entire performance and happiness in life. That’s why knowledge of this important subject should not be overlooked.  
  In this guide, you will learn some of those key aspects, such as:  A clear understanding of sleeping patterns and how melatonin relates to them.The connection between melatonin and migraines.Surprising negative effects of the brain not producing enough melatonin. Why you should use melatonin as a dietary supplement (or not). The best dosage to take melatonin. Side effects of melatonin many people don’t know about.Crazy things you can do with brainwave entrainment.How melatonin can help you overcome a jet lag faster.Several healthy foods that contain melatonin you may not know about. 
  Sleep better, focus better, and stay healthier. With the right knowledge about what melatonin does, which dosage is the most beneficial, and how to naturally absorb melatonin from foods and diets, you will be able to live a happier life with enough sleep and a higher productivity level.   
  Add this audiobook to your cart. It’s an eye-opener.

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  The Moral Landscape - How...

  Sam Harris

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  New York Times Bestseller: “Makes a powerful case for a morality that is based on human flourishing and thoroughly enmeshed with science and rationality.” —Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now 
   
  Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to non-believing scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the primary justification for religious faith. 
   
  In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge. Defining morality in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. In his view, moral relativism is simply false—and comes at an increasing cost to humanity. And the intrusions of religion into the sphere of human values can be finally repelled: for just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, there can be no Christian or Muslim morality. Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our “culture wars,” Harris delivers a game-changing book about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation. 
   
  “Backed by copious empirical evidence.” —Scientific American 
   
  “I was one of those who had unthinkingly bought into the hectoring myth that science can say nothing about morals. To my surprise, The Moral Landscape has changed all that for me. It should change it for philosophers too. Philosophers of mind have already discovered that they can’t duck the study of neuroscience, and the best of them have raised their game as a result. Sam Harris shows that the same should be true of moral philosophers, and it will turn their world exhilaratingly upside down.” —Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene

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  Let Them Eat Flax! - 70 All-New...

  Joe Schwarcz

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  Award-winning author Joe Schwarcz continues his crusade against purveyors of poppycock as he investigates the surprising and sometimes sinister science of everyday food and life
  		 
  Do you know if your waiter sings in the bathroom?
  		 
  Or if the lady who whipped up the icing on your cake wore false fingernails?
  		 
  When was the last time you microwaved your dishcloth?
  		 
  Is your orange juice pasteurized?
  		 
  The bestselling popular science author of A Grain of Salt serves up “interesting factoids about the way that science has helped shape our everyday lives” (Joe Culotti, PhD, professor of molecular and medical genetics, University of Toronto).
  		 
  What difference does an atom make? It could mean life or death! Get the lowdown on oxygenated water, the healing powers of prayer, and the health benefits of chocolate. Could there be a link between McGill University and Jack the Ripper? Find out how cinnamon helps to counter high cholesterol, and learn just how sweet sugar alternatives can be.
  		 
  In the tradition of Schwarcz’s five previous bestsellers, Let Them Eat Flax fries scientific baloney with humor, wit, and information. From food poisoning to the secret of the Stradivarius violin, fertilizers to spontaneous human combustion, Schwarcz investigates explosive subjects and delivers the unbiased, scientific facts readers need to make informed decisions in their everyday lives.

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  About Time - Cosmology Time and...

  Adam Frank

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  The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe's "beginning" is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again-as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine, the railroad, the radio and the Internet.In About Time, Adam Frank explains how the texture of our lives changes along with our understanding of the universe's origin. Since we awoke to self-consciousness fifty thousand years ago, our lived experience of time-from hunting and gathering to the development of agriculture to the industrial revolution to the invention of Outlook calendars-has been transformed and rebuilt many times. But the latest theories in cosmology-time with no beginning, parallel universes, eternal inflation-are about to send us in a new direction.Time is both our grandest and most intimate conception of the universe. Many books tell the story, recounting the progress of scientific cosmology. Frank tells the story of humanity's deepest question-when and how did everything begin?-alongside the story of how human beings have experienced time. He looks at the way our engagement with the world-our inventions, our habits and more-has allowed us to discover the nature of the universe and how those discoveries, in turn, inform our daily experience.This astounding book will change the way we think about time and how it affects our lives.

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  Head Case - How I Almost Lost My...

  Dennis Cass

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  “Dennis Cass ventures into the terra infirma that is neuroscience, and returns with a fascinating, funny and touching tale. I recommend it for anyone who owns a brain.” -- AJ Jacobs, New York Times Bestselling author of The Know it AllIn the tradition of Supersize Me, Dennis Cass becomes a human guinea pig in a darkly comic journey to understand the human brain and find out what makes us who we areInfiltrating the world of neuroscience, Cass offers his own brain up to science, subjecting his mind and body to electric shocks, mind-numbing attention tests, stress tests of his own devising and cigarettes. In the spirit of George Plimpton and early Tom Wolfe, his exploits reveal the intricacies of fear, attention, stress, reward and consciousness from the inside out. Along the way, he weaves in the story of stepfather’s manic depression and drug addiction, as well as his own troubles with stress and depression, giving neuroscience a personal touch along with the clinical facts.Cass attacks the subject of the human brain with wit and candor, turning popular science into something distinctly human. Head Case is an imperative read for anyone who’s ever asked themselves why they are who they are.

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