Natural sciences

Our brains have numerous functioning parts, all of which serve us at any one moment. But decades of research reveal the existence of two basic brain “operating systems” - two fundamental ways in which the whole brain processes incoming information.

Without the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Apollo 11 moon landing would not have been possible in July 1969. Even today, nearly fifty years later, it remains by far the largest and most powerful rocket ever used. Equipped with computers that are easily surpassed today by any mobile phone, the Saturn V was an unprecedented technical achievement.

A unique mix of art and science, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of the world’s most controversial plant: Cannabis sativa. Cutting-edge scanning electron microscope images, combined with light micrographs and X-rays, bring this captivating plant vividly to life.

Explore the reaches of your imagination by combining art, craft, and mathematics to create the age-old geometric form of the polyhedra. More than 50 projects use just one center point to create shapes that are folded symmetrically and build upon each other.

In this follow-up to his first book, Folding Polyhedra, Alexander Heinz introduces eight more paper-folding models. Most of these models are easy to assemble from a combination of folded triangles, squares, pentagons, and hexagons, which are assembled in a symmetrical modular way, allowing you to create more than 60 forms by using and combining the different folded-paper models.

Grow Your Own Mushrooms is a beginner's guide to cultivating delicious and medicinal mushrooms at home. Learn step-by-step methods for growing six varieties, troubleshooting, and storing your harvest. Includes cooking tips and recipes to enjoy your mushrooms.

In this classic follow-up to his bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Joseph Chilton Pearce explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our self-limiting “cosmic egg” of consensus reality. Laying the groundwork for his later classic Magical Child, Pearce shows that we go through early childhood connecting with the world through our senses.

Over the course of his 25-year career as an anaesthetist and intensive care doctor, Jean Jacques Charbonier gathered hundreds of accounts of patients who returned from being clinically dead. With all of these accounts - from patients with vastly different backgrounds - Dr. Charbonier found striking similarities as well as indisputable proof that these experiences were more than hallucinations.

· Explores the structures of the vocal tract and their functional relationships to the entire musculoskeletal system with detailed drawings · Examines the components of the larynx and pharynx, the effects of muscular tensions on the vocal cords, the importance of skeletal alignment, and the complex roles of the diaphragm, soft palate, lips, and tongue in vocalization · Provides exercises and ...

Our understanding of the Universe is about to transform at all levels, from the tiniest Planck scale to the vast reaches of space. Recent scientific discoveries show that the information that upholds all of our modern technologies is exactly the same as the universal in-formation that underpins, pervades and is all we call physical reality.

For the outdated mainstream paradigm the world is a giant mechanism functioning in accordance with known and knowable laws and regularities. The new paradigm emerging in science offers a different concept - the world is an interconnected, coherent whole and it is informed by a cosmic intelligence. This is not a finite, mechanistic-material world. It is a consciousness-infused whole-system world.