Body Machine

Following the massive international success "The Netocrats" and its ambitious follow-up "The Global Empire", in this third installment of the "Futurica Trilogy", Bard and Söderqvist approach something far more personal - the fragile human being herself and, most of all, her brain. "The Body Machines", with a title borrowed from René Descartes, explains what a brain is, how it has developed and how it functions, and why it spends such an incredible amount of time and energy on fooling itself.

She just wanted to study the parasite. Now it’s studying her. Marie Poulopoulos is a junior researcher working quietly in the background while the world reels from the meteor incident that started it all. But while others fear infection, Marie seeks it. Hidden inside the university's bio lab, she exposes herself to the same alien strain that transformed Akakia—and the results are immediate, intimate, and irreversible. As her body mutates in unthinkable ways, Marie embraces the pleasure, power, and purpose the parasite offers. But something new is growing inside her… and it wants more ...

Depression, fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, brain fog, weakness, it doesn't matter what your doctor calls it, it ALWAYS involves toxicity — Dr. Sherry Rogers. Rest assured, this book contains everything you need to keep your health on track. Inside you will learn what heavy metals are, how they get inside us, and what you can do to remove them. When aluminum, mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and chromium are gently purged from the body, a stronger, clearer-thinking version of YOU comes to the surface. As an added bonus, detoxification helps protects against accelerated aging and sickness...

A brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts with the world For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really there—or so the thinking goes. But new...

Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health, by natural-health practitioner Becky Chambers, has been the best-selling book on Whole Body Vibration for over ten years. This new 2nd Edition updates this popular book with the latest cutting-edge research and developments in this rapidly changing field, including how whole body vibration lowers inflammation and strengthens the immune system, and triggers the regeneration of tissues with increased stem cell activity, benefits that will help people with a wide variety of chronic diseases. New, more versatile machines have also been developed....

In The Insulin-Resistance Diet, Cheryle R. Hart and Mary Kay Grossman show you how to control insulin resistance and lose weight without sacrificing all of your favorite foods.

JJ Smith, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse, provides an all-new and accessible detox system that rids the body of unwanted fat and bacteria for renewed energy and lasting weight loss. In the tradition of certified weight loss expert and nutritionist JJ...

“Whole Body Vibration truly is a beacon of hope.” Luz Peguero, MD What if, when you were given a diagnosis of diabetes, or high blood pressure, or IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), or any of the numerous other inflammation-driven chronic health conditions, your doctor told you that you could heal yourself, that there is a natural and safe way to lower inflammation? In her trademark accessible and easy-to-read style, Becky presents compelling evidence that WBV can not only lower inflammation but also stimulate your immune system to keep your body in tiptop shape, and with none of the ...

Whole Body Vibration (WBV) is a well-established, proven workout system for young people and athletes. Now, Becky Chambers, an expert in WBV and author of the previous best-seller Whole Body Vibration: The Future of Good Health, has turned her attention to the many benefits a gentler, integrated form of this workout can offer seniors. WBV’s revolutionary capacity to boost energy, mood, memory, sleep, libido, muscle strength, bone density, balance, and flexibility directly addresses the specific physical challenges most people face as they age—and the results of a 2019 Vibrant Health ...

When forbidden science meets insatiable desire, evolution becomes addiction... Dr. Marie Poulopoulos has perfected the impossible—parasitic organisms that transform human anatomy into something beyond nature's limits. Her underground "Nipple Lab" promises miraculous healing through revolutionary enhancement procedures that blur the line between medical breakthrough and erotic transformation. What begins as desperate treatment for damaged bodies becomes an empire of dependency and desire. Adrienne, the dancer whose breasts were destroyed by surgery, discovers her new anatomy produces ...

Sarah and Mia survived the first bite, the coroner’s twisted “enhancement,” and the shock of falling in love with a girlfriend who now sports an unexpected—and very functional—extra limb. They even managed to pass for normal long enough to finish senior year. But the morgue still has secrets. When a routine raid on the coroner’s basement lab unleashes half a dozen newly awakened, fully conscious zombies, Sarah and Mia become accidental leaders of the undead. Worse, a black-ops unit has quarantined the town, convinced that every reanimated body belongs on a dissecting table. Now ...

Simple Follow-Along Cardio Sessions for Fitness, Fat Loss and Stamina Start making better use of the rowing machine you already own. Whether your rowing machine is at home or waiting for you at the gym, this book gives you simple, structured workouts you can follow with confidence. Instead of rowing aimlessly every session or guessing how long, how hard or how far to row, you’ll have clear workouts with a beginning, middle and finish. Inside you’ll find: ✔ Timed workouts from 10 to 30 minutes ✔ Distance workouts from 2km to 10km ✔ Steady rows, interval workouts and power-focused ...

🌌 Fleshbound Horizons plunges you into the shadowy crossroads of science and flesh, where human ambition reshapes the body—and the soul pays the price. From oxygen harvested in black-market vaults to cathedrals made of living spines, from libraries etched into bone marrow to deserts where engineered seeds rewrite DNA, these stories capture the raw heart of biopunk sci-fi at its most intimate and disturbing. This anthology gathers 18 twisted tales that explore survival, sacrifice, and transformation: A desperate father bargains with black-market breath to save his child. A girl’s ...

Leo Bates knows what's behind every corner in her hometown, where she's lived her whole life. Some disjointed memories and grief for her late parents, sure, but nothing dangerous. Nothing unexplainable. But the familiar becomes strange the longer you look at it. When Tate Mulder goes missing and Leo is pinned as the prime suspect, she can only watch as the town she thought she knew deteriorates around her.

Somewhere in the dark, something has been knocking on William's mind for months, and he's just realized it isn't the only thing hunting him. Eight months of hard-won peace have made William careless in exactly one way: he let himself believe it would last. The commission is stable. The city is healing. Kathryn is beside him every night. Then the "routine" oversight paperwork starts arriving from the U.S.E. polite, bureaucratic, and completely false. Because somewhere out past Earth's boundary, a rival Datasphere is growing in secret: unstable, unfinished, and reaching for a door that was ...

Three engineered worlds. Three failing shelters. Three forms of survival that may no longer belong to humanity. In The Last City Under Glass, Noemi Strake repairs the dome that keeps millions alive beneath a poisoned atmosphere. When she sees a weather-changed survivor moving outside the glass — carrying evidence tied to her dead father — she uncovers the truth Aurel Station has buried for decades: the monsters outside may still be citizens, and the city’s leaders may be preparing to sacrifice the poor to preserve the machine. In Moonfall Station, mining supervisor Garran Dorne ...

The Final Transformation.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics—from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction “O’Neil...

Are you burned out on dieting? It’s time to try a new way! If you want to discover the ancient practice that can help you easily melt fat from your body and transform your health while still enjoying your favorite foods, then you’ve found the perfect book for you! This book is designed as a quick-start guide that will get you going on your One Meal a Day plan as soon as possible. It’s packed with all the basics to launch your successful journey.

For fans of Jack Campbell, Ann Leckie, and John Scalzi, a galaxy-spanning military SF epic where the line between human and machine becomes the key to saving civilization. Lieutenant Colonel Brian Kidd is a decorated fighter pilot who just wants to lay low after a career-threatening embarrassment. Instead, he catches a dying princess as she tumbles off a stage during an assassination attempt, and his life is never the same. Princess Rosa Blackburn was born in captivity on a radioactive world, and her body is failing. The Nobility’s best physicians have given up. But Rosa knows about a ...