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The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health Review

The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health
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Because angels don't have bodies they don't need to read THE BODY CLOCK GUIDE TO BETTER HEALTH.For the rest of us - because we are human - it isa MUST read.And what a read! The book is just terrific! It must havetaken years to summarize all the research about how the body is influencedby time be it hours, days, weeks, season, or years.After introducing thesubject, The Body Clock helps the reader figure out if she or he is a lark(morning person) or an owl (night person).It explains what this means foryour job, your marriage, and your social relationships.I learned fromthis book how to use the body's natural rhythms to my advantage and how tomodify them if I need to.I found out when is the best time of day for me,personally, to make important decisions.The Body Clock's comprehensivesection about insomnia and how to deal with it in all of its various formsis spectacular.The tools are there to figure out exactly what kind ofinsomnia one has and how to work around it.It also wisely points out whenone should see a doctor about the problem.Things I have experienced allmy life and never really understood, such as that mid-afternoon drag when Ifeel like taking a nap, are explained.This book is a how-to-guide fortravelers who move between time zones and for those who must do shift work. It has fascinating information about the optimal time of day to consumevitamins and when to avoid coffee. But these are just a sampling. This bookhas changed the way I live my life, for example when I work out and when Igo to sleep at night.On the topic of exercise it corrects out-of-dateinformation with the latest research results. This eye-opening bookincludes information on why teenagers act the way they do.Often neglectedtopics relating to aging are considered including male hormones. I am goingto buy this book for everyone on my holiday gift list-no kidding! There issomething in it for everyone. The last half of the book summarizes what isknown about time and every imaginable illness and disease. I believe I willreturn to The Body Clock to re-read the sections that are relevant for meagain and again. This is because there are time related elements for somany health problems. The Body Clock is a book I don't want to loan outbecause I want it handy to consult when I get a cold or if I develop backpain or any of the other 30 to 40 medical problems assessed, each of whichhas a chapter of its own. Everything from high blood pressure tonosebleeds, from skin problems to toothache, from gout to heart disease isdiscussed.If you care about your body, you need this book. The Body Clockis a pleasure to read. Authors Smolensky and Lamberg make complex topicseasy to understand because they write clearly and succinctly. They avoidcomplicated medical terms altogether and for this I am grateful. I don'thave a lot of time for reading but this book is efficient - it doesn'twaste a minute or a page. It gives enormous value for your time and moneyinvestment. It is so interesting that I didn't want it to end! It is a funbook too - and I learned so much.I can't remember a book I have been ableto say this about in a long long time. Authors Smolensky and Lamberg - thisreader wants to thank you for writing it.

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A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior Review

A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior
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Lots of VERY interesting facts and pretty good analysis+presentation.
The book is not very comprehensive in dealing with issues - perhaps that is its strength. I have enjoyed reading Dawkins, Gould, Maynard Smith before. This book is only slightly less enjoyable. I will tuck it between 'Red Queen (Matt Ridley)' and 'Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)' with 'The Mating Mind (Geoffrey Miller)' somewhere nearby in my library.

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Described by the author as a book "about the weird diversity of sexual behavior," A Natural History of Sex explores "how to look at life, how to analyze and speculate about why something is as it is and not otherwise." In a series of engaging essays, Forsyth considers a host of more specific questions, which run the gamut from the obscure and the bizarre to the familiar. Why do roosters crow and waggle their wattles? Why does it benefit the female human to remain inscrutable about her sexual cycle? Who instituted monogamy? Why would a male mite copulate with its mother? Why does the male bedbug drive its "outlandish, formidable penis" into the female's abdomen? Forsyth's highly observational mind ranges over the natural world, revealing the seemingly random patterns and consequences of animal sexual behavior. This classic reference is a must for anyone who has ever wondered just what it is that makes the world go round.

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Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles Review

Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
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Among animals, humans seem unusually obsessed with sex and thus a bit separated from the rest of the animal biology, which seems to feature a preponderance of 10-second sex acts. Robin Baker uses a lifetime of university study to try to explain human behavior objectively through case studies and discussions at at rate of one per chapter. It is a mixture of illumination, rationalization and sadly some repetition as the explanations seem to cycle through in the ~33 chapters. Most of the time, he hits his points, but sometimes he seems to miss obvious ones; for instance in the "rough sex" chapter, the woman's reproductive advantage in marrying a mate is discussed but the male perspective in such mate exploration is not. Mate selection by physical endowment is essentially entirely neglected, yet in human societies it is the norm that most people have multiple partners over a lifetime.In fact, in this book sperm wars really alludes to instances in which multiple matings occur in a short enough time span that sperm of different mates are selected in the woman's reproductive tract--a topic of a number of chapters. Practically every sexual combination is presented and explained, even when it is a bit stretched, as for instance the explanation as to why homo- or bisexuality, lesbian or gay behavior may contribute to reproductive success.In his role, the author is largely amoral--an observing biologist trying to explain a role for behavior in reproductive success rather than judging its societal context--though sometimes outcome of the occasional case study seem to bear moral shadings. For those who want to learn about the biology underlying human sexual behavior, this book has some interesting ideas.As a biologist, I found the absence of direct citation of experimental evidence was distracting, as I would prefer seeing whether conjectures withstand scientific analysis, but that is not what this book is about.The current book looks and feels a lot like a second edition of his best-selling book "Sperm Wars" of a decade before, but I do not know that to be the case; I am looking forward to seeing what readers of both volumes say on that point.

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Published to acclaim and controversy a decade ago, Sperm Wars is a revolutionary thesis about sex that turned centuries-old biological assumptions on their head.
Evolution has programmed men to conquer and monopolize women while women, without ever knowing they are doing it, seek the best genetic input on offer from potential sexual partners.
In this book, best-selling author Robin Baker reveals these new facts of life: ten percent of children are not fathered by their "fathers;" less than one percent of a man's sperm is capable of fertilizing anything (the rest is there to fight off all other men's sperm); "smart" vaginal mucus encourages some sperm but blocks others; and a woman is far more likely to conceive through a casual fling than through sex with her regular partner.
It's no wonder that Sperm Wars is a classic of popular science writing that will surprise, entertain, and even shock.

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Woman: An Intimate Geography Review

Woman: An Intimate Geography
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This is one of those books that I am considering buying for every woman I know: young, old, of all creeds, races, and religions.... even after completing it I am STILL floored by its appropriate, humorous, scientific,lyrical, and profound words.  It is empowering without any negativism. There is not a shread of male-bashing in this work of art.   Natalie Angieris a science writer for the New York Times and her work is infused withjust enough science to make all the fascinating issues she coverscomprehensible to any and everyone who reads this book.   She covers thefemale body like no one ever has, and I don't just mean the chapters onbreasts, the uterus, and the ovaries, but the hormones, the menstrualcycles, nursing babies, menopause, exercise, chemistry, and the psychologyof being a woman.  I wish so much that this amazing piece of work had beenaround when I was 18 and wondering what the hell was WRONG with me! (nothing. apparently.  But who can tell an 18 year old anything.... maybeif I could have read it.....).  Angiers carefully weaves together themyths, the legends, the cultures, and even the misogyny from where we ALLcome and gracefully and humorously meshes them with the studies, thesciences, the theories and the facts, and gives the reader an entire bodyof work on all of the issues about ourselves we are curious about.   It isbook that teaches you something fascinating about how and why you are andwork and play and love.  One of the themes that surrepticiously repeats inthis book is the completely normal, completely natural, "you are SO ok- it's laughable to think otherwise" theme.  Women are complex andcomplicated creatures and we owe that to this magnificent temple called thebody and we now have all the evidence and joy in this book to know that.

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