Books by James Nestor

300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have b...een breathing all our life, but we need to learn how to breathe properly! In 3.3, James Nestor meets cutting-edge scientists at Harvard and experiments on himself in labs at Stanford to see the impact of bad breathing. He revives the lost, and recently scientifically proven, wisdom of swim coaches, Indian mystics, stern-faced Russian cardiologists, Czechoslovakian Olympians and New Jersey choral conductors - the world's foremost 'pulmonauts' - to show how breathing in specific patterns can trigger our bodies to absorb more oxygen, and he explains the benefits for everyone that result, from staying healthy and warding off anxiety to improving focus and losing weight. 3.3 is a fascinating ride through evolution, medicine and physiology - and extreme sports. But mostly it explores you. Structured as a journey with chapters from the mouth and nose through to the lungs and nervous system, it is non-fiction at its breath-taking best.
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There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing- take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. In Breath, journalist James Nestor travels the world to d...iscover the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya and Tummo, to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.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, allergies, 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 ancient wisdom 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.
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Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea meets Born to Run and the cutting edge of popular science.

How our own imaginations enrich our lives is a book that brings to light the incredible role that fiction plays in our lives and also the great role that we play in the writing and creating of fiction. From the moment we enter this world, we are literally surrounded by fiction. A...s babies, and then kids, and even adults we are constantly surrounded by fiction, from Disney to the Muppet Babies and everything in between. We are totally engrossed by fiction and then we, in return, play such a huge role in the writing and creating of fiction. Along the way, we simply lose track of the role that fiction plays in our lives and eventually take it for granted. The role of fiction brings to light the important role that we so often take for granted. So, as you delve into this great Novel, please take a moment to remember the role that fiction has played in YOUR life and how you can further enrich the world by your creation of fiction. But through it all, please take time to remember the importance of The Role of Fiction.
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The ocean's depths contain wondrous biology and clues to unimagined human abilities, as intrepid researchers and athletes are now discovering.