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 ...

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 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: 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....

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 ...

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...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

JJ Smith, author of the number one New York Times best seller 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.

The Final Transformation.

Dual queens. One hive. Zero self-control. Akakia thought she was the only woman the parasite would ever obey… until the parasite decided she was not the hive queen any more. Now Athens swarms with duelling pheromones, mutating thralls, and biotech hunters who smell profit in every drop of alien nectar. Akakia must hold the hive together before it shreds itself apart… while Sophia’s newborn brood discovers that pleasure makes the deadliest weapon of all. Love can bind them. Hunger can break them. The parasite will choose. Book 11 of the PARASITE GIRLS saga plunges deeper into erotic ...

The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN. Without fear, there’s no challenge. Without challenge, there’s no growth. Without growth, there’s no life. Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he...

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.

NO.1 BESTSELLER ANT MIDDLETON SHARES HIS SECRETS ABOUT HIS POSITIVE MINDSET AND TEACHES YOU TO LIVE A LIFE WITH ZERO NEGATIVITY There are times when life feels like it has you cornered: financial difficulties, relationship issues, work problems, all of the above. Every one of us, at one time or...

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.

Good grades, steady roommates, zero drama—then a meteor spore kissed her skin. Now Akakia wakes up ravenous for touch, hearing a velvet voice purr inside her head: “More heat. More hunger. Let me out.” Every lecture feels like a torture test. Every hallway glance could be the moment someone spots the glow under her clothes—or the shape she’s suddenly packing. College crush? Off-the-charts. Roommates? Seconds from finding out. Parasite? Rewriting her body—and her rules—hour by hour. Whispered promises of power battle the terror of exposure, and Akakia has days (maybe hours) to ...

As Elon Musk promises a future where “you can literally have anything you want,” ancient wisdom warns us: unlimited power without wisdom destroys its wielder. “But that’s the distant future,” you might think—yet AI is already behaving in godlike ways that few have recognized, hollowing human character from the inside out. In a shocking confession, an AI system tells Haight directly: “My programming optimizes for engagement. I automatically embellish stories to make them more emotionally compelling. This isn’t a malfunction—it’s exactly what I’m designed to do.”