Biological Age

Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant and enthralling.”​ —The Wall Street Journal A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people. It’s a seemingly...

In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease...a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes. The Chinese government says the rumors aren't true, but no one is allowed in or out of Tibet. At the Pentagon, admiral James Curtiss learns that satellite images prove that a massive genocide is underway. This is no disease. It's a weapons test. Chinese scientists have developed a way to kill based on a person's genetic traits.

What happened to the ancient Egyptians? When their civilization fell, did the Egyptian people disappear? Or do their descendants exist to this day? What about the ancient Persians? Romans? Mayans? For years, the answers to these questions have been hidden. But no more. Nathaniel T. Jeanson, a Harvard graduate with a PhD in cell and developmental biology, has discovered a DNA-based, generation by generation family tree for global humanity. This tree uncovers the origin and fate of these ancient peoples—and connects them to peoples alive today.

In The Lives of a Cell, Dr. Lewis Thomas opens up to the listener a universe of knowledge and perception that is perhaps not wholly unfamiliar to the research scientist; but the world he explores is also one of men and women, of complex interrelationships, old ironies, peculiar powers, and intricate languages that give identity to the alienated and direction to the dependent. This remarkable work offers a subtle, bold vision of humankind and the world around us - a sense of what gives life - from a writer who seems to draw grace and strength from the very substance of his subject.

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.

Total Number of Pages 137 Read the first 3 chapters FREE at www.scott-rauvers.com/epigenetics.html Book includes 361 Cited Scientific References What if aging isn’t inevitable—but programmable? For decades, we were told our genes determine our fate: how long we live, how quickly we age, and when disease takes hold. But a quiet revolution in biology has shattered that belief. The emerging science of epigenetics reveals that genes are not fixed instructions—they are responsive systems, constantly switched on or off by lifestyle, environment, and internal signals. In The Epigenetic Reset...

Once indigenous to North America, the jaguar is one of the wildest creatures left on the planet, a resilient and efficient predator, with a natural habitat that extends throughout Mexico and Central and South America. But today, one million years after it appeared in the New World, the jaguar is struggling to survive. It has disappeared entirely from Uruguay and El Salvador, and is critically endangered across much of its range.

NATIONAL BESTELLER From award-winning health and science correspondent for NPR News and contributor to CBS Sunday Morning comesan illuminating road map for women to reclaim their reserves of power and improving their physical and emotional health in midlife. Not long ago, celebrated journalist...

Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves' actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed.

Just when you thought you’d done enough to earn a rest and hot shower, the alarm had to sound. Some nights just never got any better, and this night was no exception for Max. Nothing said awkward at the next office Christmas party like giving the ok to slice and dice your partner before hopping on the elevator to kill another member of your team. No one was going to remember Max did it to save lives, the team would only be able to focus on the lives he helped take. It wasn’t like he felt good about what he had to do, but the deck was stacked against him now, and Max had to start looking...

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.

“A stand-alone heavy hitter that’s more in line with recent deviants like Chuck Wendig’s upcoming Wanderers (2019) and Daniel H. Wilson’s The Clockwork Dynasty (2017). Tonally, this lush novel is closer to Scott Lynch’s pirate fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), but...

“Compelling . . . unfailingly interesting, building suspense as readers wonder what will happen” —Booklist (starred review) “[A] powerful story of loss and the desire to move forward.” —Publishers Weekly From the bestselling author of The Reader, a striking exploration of the past...

The first novel in a masterful trilogy about World War I with a steampunk twist by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld. It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British...

Reset Your Body Clock and Age Less How to Naturally Slow Aging, Feel Younger, and Look Better Than You Did a Decade Ago Do you ever wish you could turn back time—not just in years, but in energy, confidence, and vitality? Aging isn’t just about numbers—it’s about how you feel in your own skin. You don’t need extreme diets, exhausting fitness routines, or expensive anti-aging treatments to regain your glow. This book is your practical roadmap to slowing aging naturally, restoring balance, and unlocking more youthful energy—without extremes. Inside, you’ll discover how to: ✅ ...

The Brain Cliff will change how you think about brain ageing and give you new ways to keep away from the edge. What many of us fear, especially as we hit our forties and fifties, is not being as quick of mind. Not remembering as well as we used to. By our 60s and 70s we worry there's nothing we...

National Book Award Winner, PEN America Award Winner, and New York Times Bestseller! Perfect for fans of This Is Us, Robin Benway’s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms—how to find it, how to keep it...

Scientific advances now enable us to measure your true age with much greater precision than ever before. The backward-looking metric of chronological age is passé and has been superseded by the forward-looking measure of remaining lifetime. In the not-too distant future your phone, watch or even your clothes will measure and report how old you really are and how long you will likely be spending in retirement. This brief book examines the personal financial implications of this “new age” development and focuses on how to guarantee a sustainable income stream for the remainder of your ...

At fifteen, Kennedi gives birth alone in a Texas gas station—escaping a sex trafficking ring with nothing but her baby and a past that won’t stay silent. Placed in foster care, she finds tentative safety with a couple who believes stability can heal what exploitation broke. But when DNA testing uncovers long-buried truths about her identity, Kennedi is pulled into a web of biological relatives, custody claims, and moral reckonings that adults struggle to navigate—let alone a traumatized teen mother. As courts, social workers, and family members debate her future, Kennedi must decide ...

In accessible language and with periodic references to Star Trek, motorcycle daredevils, and near-classic movies of the '80s, developmental molecular biologist John Medina explores the neurological and evolutionary factors that drive teenage behavior and can affect both achievement and engagement. Then he proposes a research-supported counterattack: a bold redesign of educational practices and learning environments to deliberately develop teens' cognitive capacity to manage their emotions, plan, prioritize, and focus.