Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings
Why is eating chocolate so pleasurable? Can the function of just one small group of chemicals really determine whether you are happy or sad? Is it really best to drink coffee if you want to wake up and be alert?
In this book, Gary Wenk demonstrates how, as a result of their effects on certain neurotransmitters concerned with behavior, everything we put into our bodies has very direct consequences for how we think, feel, and act.
Written in a jargon-free, readable style, this book should be of interest to all parents who are keen to understand their children's thoughts, feelings, behaviours and relationships.
Mindfulness For Dummies (For Dummies (Psychology & Self Help))
How to reduce stress, anxiety, high blood ure, and even chronic pain-by refocusing your mind A cutting-edge meditation therapy that uses self-control techniques, mindfulness has taken off across the globe as a way of overcoming negative thoughts and emotions and achieving a calmer, more focused state of mind.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth
Paul Erdös was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdös would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or another and announce, "My brain is open
Table of Contents: 1. Counting 2. The Search for Prime Numbers 3. The World Record Holders 4. The Distribution of Primes 5. Prime Races, Emirps, and More 6. The Baffling Law of Benford 7. What is so Special about 6174?
