内容简介 本书是关于我们如何从科学的视角重新认识这个世界的科普读物，阐述了宇宙、世界、生命科学视角下，对世界本源的认识，并结合生物学、数学、物理学和计算机科学知识，更加细致入微地解释我们观察到的世界中的各类现象。 在这本书中，作者希望表明我们的宇宙不仅仅是一座没有生命、毫无意义的数学机器。在我们真正了解意识和人类思想的奇迹之前，我们能真正了解宇宙吗？为了做到这一点，作者超越了物理世界去寻找答案。对于对生命、宇宙和一切事物的深层问题感到好奇的读者来说，《世界本身》是一本必不可少的读物。

Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, andfeeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasinglydifficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. Wemay not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus,insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused bynutritional deficiency. Green Smoothie Revolution takes aim at thissilent epidemic by restoring balance to our diets. Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack apowerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglectedfruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for ourbusy lives: with fast prep and delicious results. Featuring 200recipes, Green Smoothie Revolution offers both simplicity (4 ripepears, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water; blend well) and enoughvariety to keep taste buds happy and nutrients coming from a wealthof options.

The seasons of the year parallel the symbolic seasons of life,with spring representing the childhood years of hope and seeing theworld with new eyes; summer the young-adult years of growth andengagement; autumn the years of mid-life reflection, healing, andforgiveness; and winter the late-life years of rest, restoration,and rejuvenation. Daily Aromatherapy introduces readers to thetransformative qualities of nature’s aromas for each of theseseasons. Each month of the year profiles and explores thepsychological and subtle energy aspects of four different essentialoils–one per week. Forty-eight different oils are profiled in thisway. Readers experience each oil and its powers in depth throughseven different intention exercises: an affirmation, emotionalself-discovery questions, a ceremony, a blessing, an activity, avisualization, and a prayer. While aromatherapy is a holistic modality, affecting the body,mind, and spirit, the focus of Daily Aromatherapy is on mind andspirit. While not explicitly including

Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant CaroleJackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you looksmashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your colorpersonality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover yourclothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems,and more, including full-color palettes containing the thirtyshades for each season--pages you can cut out to carry when youshop!

The Touch of Healing offers readers the means togreater health, vitality, and self-understanding through thepractice of an ancient oriental healing art and practical holisticphilosophy called Jin Shin Jystsu. Gentle touching similar toacupressure is used to release tension that accumulates and is atthe root of dysfunction, disease, and imbalance. The authorsexplain the natural life force that runs through the body anddemonstrate with case studies, detailed analysis, and more than 30illustrations, how to integrate this system into one's life. Thekey healing points and body flows, known as "Safety Energy Locks,"are presented with step-by-step instructions on how to utilize themfor healing and greater self-awareness. Many self-help practicesare also offered that address a wide array of common ailments,including headaches, digestive disorders, fatigue, depression, andarthritis along with pre*ive exercises for relief of emotionalailments such as loss of confidence, anxiety, and depression.

The long-awaited revised edition! It’s no secret that breastfeeding is the normal, healthy way tonourish and nurture your baby. Dedicated to supporting nursing andexpectant mothers, the internationally respected La Leche Leaguehas set the standard for educating and empowering mothers in thisnatural art for generations. Now their classic bestselling guidehas been retooled, refocused, and updated for today’s mothers andlifestyles. Working mothers, stay-at-home moms, single moms, andmothers of multiples will all benefit from the book’s range ofnursing advice, stories, and information—from preparing forbreastfeeding during pregnancy to feeding cues, from nursingpositions to expressing and storing breast milk. With all-newphotos and illustrations, this ultimate support bible offers ? real-mom wisdom on breastfeeding comfortably—from avoiding sorenipples to simply enjoying the amazing bonding experience ? new insights into old approaches toward latching and attaching,ages and stag

If you're like most people, your life is so hectic that it'shard to imagine squeezing in time for daily exercise. The good newsis that you can get fit without an expensive gym membership orrigorous workout schedule. New research proves that you can "sneakup" on fitness by grabbing a little time here and there throughoutthe day so you total at least thirty minutes of moderateactivity on most days. The American Heart Association's Fitting inFitness guide will show you how to work spurts of activity into theway you live right now. Those few minutes can add up to hugerewards, including a stronger heart and bones, higher energylevels, better weight control, and more. You'll find hundreds of tips for fitting in fitness in thiseasy-to-use, inspiring guide. You'll even learn how to bring yourkids into the act and have a lifestyle program that works for allof you.

This short time is all it takes to master the 38 simpleexercises in this book. You will quickly grasp the ancientYoga secrets of breathing, concentration, nutrition andmuscle control -- in just minutes of your spare time andwithout any discomfort. Day by day you will noticeastonishing results -- loss of weight, greater firmness,more energy, relief from pain, freedom from stress andan overall feeling of youthfulness and well-being. This Yoga regimen will become a lifetime program to keep yourwhole organism radiant with a natural beauty andhealth. This Yoga regimen will become a lifetime program to keepyour whole organsim radiant with natural beauty andhealth!

What you need to know to have the best birth experience foryou. Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin,the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys ofnatural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancientwisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthingexperience. Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care,Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth gives expectant motherscomprehensive information on everything from the all-importantmind-body connection to how to give birth without technologicalintervention. Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, thisinvaluable resource includes:? Reducing the pain of labor withoutdrugs--and the miraculous roles touch and massage play ? What really happens during labor ? Orgasmic birth--making birth pleasurable ? Episiotomy--is it really necessary? ? Common methods of inducing labor--and which to avoid at allcosts ? Tips for maximizing your c

Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is aremarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency,Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa,Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristiccogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind hisofficial press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of thefrightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life duringwar. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.

In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist SoniaNazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy whobraves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in theUnited States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor tofeed her children, leaves Honduras to work in the United States.The move allows her to send money back home to Enrique so he caneat better and go to school past the third grade. Lourdes promises Enrique she will return quickly. But shestruggles in America. Years pass. He begs for his mother to comeback. Without her, he becomes lonely and troubled. When she calls,Lourdes tells him to be patient. Enrique despairs of ever seeingher again. After eleven years apart, he decides he will go findher. Enrique sets off alone from Tegucigalpa, with little more than aslip of paper bearing his mother’s North Carolina telephone number.Without money, he will make the dangerous and illegal trek up thelength of Mexico the only way he c

This original contribution to Indian history, focusing oncontemporary and largely indigenous documents, introduces a set ofconcepts for the analysis of late Mughal rule. More specifically itexamines the origins and development of the Maratha svardjya or'self-rule' within the context of declining Muslim power. It tracesthe expansion of Maratha dominion to a process of fitna, a policyof 'shifting alliances' which was recurrent in the wake of Muslimexpansion throughout its history. The book gives an interestingperspective on Hindu-Muslim relationships in the pre-British periodas well as on the nature of the Indo-Muslim state and its mostimportant successor polity, on its capacity for change anddevelopment in the intermediate sections of society, theland-tenurial system, the monetization of the economy, and on thefiscal system.

An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible waythey intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author HarukiMurakami.While simply training for New York City Marathon would beenough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about itas well. The result is a beautiful memoir about his intertwinedobsessions with running and writing, full of vivid memories andinsights, including the eureka moment when he decided to become awriter. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich andrevelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly privatewriter and for the exploding population of athletes who findsimilar satisfaction in athletic pursuit.

Steven Pinker's riveting, myth-destroying new book reveals how,contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively lessviolent, over millenia and decades. Given the images of conflict we see daily on our screens, canviolence really have declined? And wasn't the twentiethcentury the most devastatingly brutal in history? Extraordinarily,however, as Steven Pinker shows, violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare - really has declined fromprehistory to today. We are much less likely to die at someoneelse's hands than ever before. Debunking both the idea of the 'noble savage' and aHobbesian notion of a 'nasty, brutish and short' life, StevenPinker argues that modernity and its cultural institutions aremaking us better people. He ranges over everything from art toreligion, international trade to individual table manners, andshows how life has changed across the centuries and around theworld - not simply through the huge benefits of organizedgovernment, but also because of the ex

An intimate account of the Royal couple, featuringbreathtaking photos from the April 29th Royal Wedding. LIFE has covered all of the lavish royal weddings since evenbefore Queen Elizabeth II wed in 1947, and of course the magazinedocumented in splendid, intimate detail the "wedding of thecentury," that of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, years later. NowLIFE celebrates the royal engagement of Prince William and KateMiddleton. This book includes intimate pictures of William and Kate as theygrew to be the splendid adults they are today. The best photographs of royal weddings that have already been,including those of Charles and Diana, Grace Kelly and Rainier ofMonaco, Fergie and Andrew, and many others. A detailed look at the Middletons and the Windsors-thelatter,royal family dating back to Queen Victoria. Photography from Buckingham Palace insiders, including picturesfrom Litchfield and Lord Snowdon.

Louis Eguaras, a renowned chef at the Le Cordon Bleu Programat the California School of Culinary Arts, provides readers with aterrific overview of what is truly involved in the preparation,cooking, and presentation of meals. He also provides invaluableinsights into just what is involved in making this one's chosenprofession. The book will feature a wide range of illustrated lessons, fromhow to properly hold a knife... to the history of food... from foodpreparation and presentation... to restaurant hospitality andmanagement, and much more. The book will be presented in the distinctive andhighly-attractive packaged style of 101 THINGS I LEARNED INARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, and will be the perfect gift for anyone who isthinking about entering culinary school, is already enrolled, oreven just the casual chef.

In this classic work of economic history and social theory,Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought aboutby the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. Hisanalysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulatingmarket, but the potentially dire social consequences of untemperedmarket capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewedimportance of Polanyi's seminal analysis in an era of globalizationand free trade.

This book reformulates thesociological subdiscipline known as the sociology ofknowledge. Knowledge is presented as more than ideology,including as well false consciousness, propaganda,science and art.

The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychologymovement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of"client-centered therapy." His influence has spanned decades, butthat influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychologythat the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten. Anew introduction by Peter Kramer sheds light on the significance ofDr. Rogers's work today. New discoveries in the field ofpsychopharmacology, especially that of the antidepressant Prozac,have spawned a quick-fix drug revolution that has obscured thepsychotherapeutic relationship. As the pendulum slowly swings backtoward an appreciation of the therapeutic encounter, Dr. Rogers's"client-centered therapy" becomes particularly timely andimportant.

This book, published in 1986, addresses questions concerned witha central normative principle in contemporary assessments ofeconomic policies and systems. What does 'consumer sovereignty'mean? Is consumer sovereignty an appropriate principle for theoptimization and evaluation of the design and performance ofeconomic policies, institutions and systems? If not, what is a moreappropriate principle? The author argues that the conception ofconsumer sovereignty has to be broadened so that it is not limitedto the market mechanism but includes environmental, work and socialpreferences. However, even this version runs into seriousdifficulties as the principle of consumer sovereignty still relieson too subjectivist a conception of the interests of individuals tobe suitable for the evaluation of economic institutions. Analternative basis for such evaluation is 'human interests' that arenot contingent on particular economic systems, After consideringvarious possibilities, a basic-needs approach is proposed and itsuse in

HOPE FOR MANY “HOPELESS” DISEASES, FROM ONE OF THE FOREMOSTRESEARCHERS IN THE FIELD When Randy McCloy, Jr., the sole survivor of the Sago Minedisaster, finally walked out of the hospital to rejoin his family,it was in part due to the miracle of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is based on an almost laughablysimple idea: Oxygen can be used therapeutically for a wide range ofconditions where tissues have been damaged by oxygen deprivation.Restore that oxygen, goes the logical thinking, and you can restoremuch of the lost function. It seems too good to be true, but Dr. Paul G. Harch’s researchand clinical practice has shown that this noninvasive and painlesstreatment can help the tens of millions of Americans who sufferfrom a brain injury or disease, such as: · Stroke · Autism and other learning disabilities · Cerebral palsy and other birth injuries · Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and otherdegenerative neurological

An important and timely message about the biological roots ofhuman kindness. —Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have aninstinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only onearth to serve our own survival and interests? In thisthought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Apeexamines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals,including humans. By studying social behaviors in animals, such asbonding, the herd instinct, the forming of trusting alliances,expressions of consolation, and conflict resolution, Frans de Waaldemonstrates that animals–and humans–are "preprogrammed to reachout." He has found that chimpanzees care for mates that are woundedby leopards, elephants offer "reassuring rumbles" to youngsters indistress, and dolphins support sick companions near the water'ssurface to prevent them from drowning. From day one humans haveinnate sensitivities to faces, bodies, and voices; we've beendesigned to feel for one