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Authors@Google: Tim Ferriss
“Four Hour Body” by Tim Ferriss Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger… which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing? Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book. The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question: For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results? Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women. From the gym to the bedroom, it’s all here, and it all works. YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each): How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails. * How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends) * How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested * How to produce 15-minute …
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Read MoreAuthors@Google: John Medina
“Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child” by John Medina Why is leaving your baby alone during the first part of pregnancy so important? Why is face time with Mom so crucial to maximizing your child’s potential and screen time so damaging? What can you do to give your child the best chance at being smart and happy? Scientists know. Following the success of his long-running New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, John Medina, renowned developmental molecular biologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine and director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University, brings us BRAIN RULES FOR BABY: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five. The book combines all the latest science on how best to develop your baby’s brain. Just one of the surprises: The best way to get your children into the college of their choice? Teach them impulse control. Bridging the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice, each chapter describes brain rules — what scientists know for sure about how the early childhood brain works. The book presents the science behind the rules while offering practical ways for parents to apply the research. Medina, a dedicated father himself, shares his passion for brain science and for raising children, making the book easily accessible with humor, fascinating stories, and enlightening case studies throughout. Each chapter ends with a summary of key points. brainrules …
Read MoreAuthors@Google: Frank Bruni
Frank Bruni was working as the New York Times’s Rome bureau chief when he got a call from an editor in New York: How would he like to become the newspaper’s next restaurant critic, a job draped in myth, glamour, intrigue and sometimes controversy? The most important question the editor asked, however, wasn’t about nerves, editorial confidence or culinary erudition. It was about Bruni’s weight: Was he willing to risk becoming fat again? In his New York Times bestseller, BORN ROUND: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite, Bruni shares his very surprising life-long struggle with food and weight. Stout, chubby and always and endlessly hungry, Bruni spent his much of his life fighting all manner of eating drama – fad diets, pills, fasting, purging, cleansing, and the all-too-familiar roller coaster of gains and losses. When his weight ballooned up to about 270 pounds, and his love life all but dried up, something had to change. And something indeed did. By the time he was offered the job of restaurant critic in 2004, he was 65 pounds lighter than he’d been at his worst. The new job was going to be his acid test: had he finally achieved a truce with food and found the ability to enjoy it without being undone by it? Frank Bruni was named restaurant critic for The New York Times in April 2004. Before that, he was the newspaper’s Rome bureau chief, a White House reporter, the lead correspondent covering George W. Bush’s 2000 Presidential Campaign, and a frequent …
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