Living with Air Plants
Title | Living with Air Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Yoshiharu Kashima (Protoleaf) |
Publisher | Tuttle Publishing |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2019-03-26 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1462920543 |
I loooooove air plants but have killed every one I have ever bought. This book is perfect for people like me. --Desire to Inspire blog
Living On Air
Title | Living On Air PDF eBook |
Author | Allyson Martinek |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-01-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781522764779 |
Beloved Detroit Radio Personality Allyson Martinek writes candidly about her experiences over 20 years of her radio career, including her recent, shocking firing from the station she devoted her life to. If you've been one of the thousands of loyal listeners who dearly miss Allyson in the morning, or you'd like a first hand look into the sometimes cut-throat world of radio broadcasting, you must read this book!
Air
Title | Air PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Nunn |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1432959131 |
"Level H, word count 138"--p. [4] of cover.
Breath
Title | Breath PDF eBook |
Author | James Nestor |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2020-05-26 |
Genre | 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.
When Breath Becomes Air
Title | When Breath Becomes Air PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Kalanithi |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2016-02-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1473523494 |
**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson
Why Living Things Need Light
Title | Why Living Things Need Light PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Nunn |
Publisher | Raintree |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1406233803 |
This science series looks at what living things need to stay alive. Each title looks at one of the basic elements of life and considers what it is, which things need it, why, and how they use it.
Ventilating Cities
Title | Ventilating Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Shinsuke Kato |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2012-01-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9400727712 |
The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate problem. This book discusses how to evaluate the urban wind environment, including ventilation performance and thermal comfort. This book is organized in two parts; Wind Environment and the Urban Environment and Criteria for Assessing Breeze Environments. It includes chapters on sea breeze in urban areas; thermal adaptation and the effect of wind on thermal comfort; health risk of exposures; pollutant transport in dense urban areas; legal regulations for urban ventilation and new criteria for assessing the local wind environment. Keywords: urban wind environments, urban heat island, urban climate, land use change, thermal comfort, risk assessment, urban air pollution, urban ventilation