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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You spend a third of your life unconscious, paralyzed, and hallucinating. Nobody knows why.We call it sleep, and after 5,000 years of trying to understand it, the honest scientific answer to 'what is sleep for ' is still 'we're working on it.' In the meantime, we've built a $700 billion global industry around the inability to do something that jellyfish manage without a brain.Out Cold is the story of humanity's long, frequently wrong, and occasionally fatal relationship with sleep. It begins in ancient temples where priests charged admission to watch you nap and told you the gods were speaking. It moves through Aristotle (who thought dinner vapors put you to sleep), a 32-day cave experiment involving rectal thermometers, and a 17-year-old in San Diego who stayed awake for eleven days and then lost the science fair. It covers the man who invented the light bulb and hated sleep so much he lied about how little of it he got. The military's 80-year quest to build a soldier who doesn't need to sleep (they can't). The hormone your body makes for free that a $3.3 billion supplement industry sells back to you in gummy form, possibly. The sleep tracker that watches you all night, grades your performance, and may be making the whole problem worse.From the author of Close Enough: The Absurd History of Measuring Everything comes a book about the gap between what we know about sleep and what we pretend to know, the industries that profit from that gap, and the very human tendency to build elaborate systems on top of our own ignorance and then charge money for them.You will learn why your teenager can't wake up (biology, not laziness), why your night-shift coworker is getting sicker (the WHO has opinions), and why the best sleep interventions are free, boring, and require no purchases, which is why nobody is selling them to you.You will not learn how to sleep better. You will learn why that's a harder question than it sounds. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1936, a railroad heir needed a ski resort. He found a dying sheep town in Idaho with good snow and a convenient mountain, saved it without quite meaning to, and set in motion ninety years of consequences that the people living those consequences did not choose and could not have anticipated.One Road In begins with a two-word telegram and ends with a housing waitlist 1,100 names long. In between, it traces the full arc of what happens when money discovers a beautiful place: the celebrities who came first, the ski bums who invented the service economy, the moment in 1977 when a Utah businessman paid $12 million for a ski resort in a county where median household income was under $15,000 a year, and the planning commission meetings that have been running four hours and producing motions to study the matter further for approximately forty-five years.This is a book about Sun Valley, Idaho, but not really. It is about the mechanism - the sequence by which an extraordinary place attracts people with the means to be where they want, whose presence raises prices, whose raised prices push out the people whose labor makes the place function, until what remains is a very high-quality amenity staffed by people who commute in from somewhere else and drive home before you wake up. That mechanism does not care about the scenery. It is currently operating in Nashville and Brooklyn and Austin and every mid-sized American city recently discovered by remote workers and capital in search of a cheaper place to land. The scenery just determines how fast it runs. Beautiful places run it faster.What Sun Valley adds to this story is time. The resort town is fifty years ahead of the country on this particular curve, which means it has the history, the data, and the hard-won institutional knowledge - the housing authorities, the land trusts, the people who show up to the meetings year after year and lose more often than they win and keep showing up anyway - that the rest of the country is about to need.Reported from sixty interviews and eight years of living inside the system it describes, One Road In is economic history, narrative nonfiction, and the work of a writer who taught skiing to the people changing the town while writing about the people being changed by it - a position that is either a conflict of interest or the only honest vantage point available, and possibly both.The resort town is not the story. It is where you go to read the ending before it happens to you.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You come from a soft, slow, clawless animal that had no business surviving. It never grew fangs or got faster. It did something stranger. It quit waiting for evolution and started building the upgrades outside its own body.That is the whole human story, and Prosthetic Gods tells it as one continuous act of theft. The hand axe. Fire. The written word. The wheel, the engine, the telegraph, the vaccine, the airplane, the equation, the network, the edited gene, and now the machine mind. Each one is a power that used to belong to gods, pulled down and put to work by a primate who keeps reaching for the next one before reading what the last one cost.Because every power sends a bill. The fire that cooked the first meal is cooking the planet. The cure that beat the old plagues bred the new ones. The wing that carried us off the ground carries the disease at the speed of sound. And the judgment we are now building outside our own skulls may be the last thing we ever hand over.The old myths saw all of it coming. Prometheus chained to his rock. Icarus and the wax. The clay man that would not switch off. They were not stories. They were warnings, filed and ignored.A.M. Neel, an engineer who cannot look at a built thing without taking it apart, traces four million years of borrowed power to the single question the species has never answered honestly. Who is steering.For readers of Sapiens, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and The Precipice.…

Full Calf. Zustand: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Two parts bound in one. First part is a fourth edition; second part is a 'New Edition.' 118; 120 pp. Full patterned calf. Bound by C. Smith. Five raised bands to spine with decorative gilt panels and leather title label. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Inner dentelles. Some damage to head of spine with loss of leather. Fold-out engraved map showing voyage to St. Cloud. Binding firm. VG 12mo.…