Are the Lungs of the City Still Breathing?
Author : Margaret J. Griffiths
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Margaret J. Griffiths
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : James Nestor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0735213631
A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
Author : Reyes Ramirez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0816543275
The Book of Wanderers is a dynamic short story collection that shows readers what a family of luchadores, a teen on the run, a rideshare driver, a lucid dreamer, a migrant worker in space, a mecha soldier, and a zombie-and-neo-Nazi fighter can have in common. Reyes Ramirez takes readers on a journey through Houston, across dimensions, and all the way to Mars with riveting stories that unpack what it means to be Latinx in contemporary--and perhaps future--America.
Author : Martha Wells
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250872774
Before Martha Wells captured the hearts of MILLIONS with her Murderbot series, there was Khat, Sagai, and Elen, and a city risen out of death and decay... The city of Charisat, a tiered monolith of the Ancients’ design, sits on the edge of the vast desert known as the Waste. Khat, a member of a humanoid race created by the Ancients to survive in the Waste, and Sagai, his human partner, are relic dealers working in the bottom tiers of society, trying to stay one step ahead of the Trade Inspectors. When Khat is hired by the all-powerful Warders to find relics believed to be part of one of the Ancients' arcane engines, he, and his party, begin unravelling the mysteries of an age-old technology. This they expected. They soon find themselves as the last line of defense between the suffering masses of Charisat and a fanatical cult, bent on unleashing an evil upon the city with an undying thirst for bone. That, they did not expect. This updated and revised edition is the author’s preferred text. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Lindsey Kelk
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1576 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008141339
Indulge in the unputdownable I HEART series. Follow Angela’s adventures from day one . . . Includes two bonus short stories!
Author : Arthur Hastings Grant
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Cities and towns
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Author : Paul R. Alexander
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1525525336
Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander’s life is a saga that started in 1946 and has been profoundly shaped by the Polio epidemic of the early 1950’s. Survivors of the 1950’s Polio Epidemic in America are rare. Polio victims, like Paul Alexander, who require the assistance of an “Iron Lung” respirator for their life’s breath are even rarer. Paul Alexander has crafted his life against all odds and has a courageous and compelling story to share with us all. Victims of Polio, their families, friends and communities are struggling to cope with this obscure but still dangerous infectious disease. This book is a testimony to the strength of the human spirit and an affirmation of the need to continue efforts to eradicate the pestilence of Polio from the planet.
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Bees
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Author : Rod Giblett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474269834
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.