Author:Qing Li
Humans are increasingly becoming an indoor species. We spend 90 per cent of our life indoors. And, on average, we dedicate eight hours a day looking at screens. Our increasingly domestic lives are having huge consequences to our health.
In Into the Forest, Immunologist and Forest Medicine expert, Dr Qing Li, examines the unprecedented benefits of the world's largest natural health resource: the great outdoors.
Applying cutting-edge research and emerging science, Dr Li explores the inherent connection between nature and improved wellbeing. This practical guide will help you overcome some of life's most problematic health issues, including how to:
· reduce blood pressure;
· lower stress;
· improve energy levels;
· and boost the immune system.
From mindful strolls in your local park to listening to the wind, from watching the sunset to walking barefoot in the grass, Dr Li reveals the life-improving advantages of spending time around trees, for a healthier and happier you.
A radical book from the world's top relationship councillors reveals the 8 dates that could make your marriage last forever
—— Daily Mail[A]n instant hit... If you've been married forever and think this book isn't for you, (dates??), think again
—— Oprah.comWhether you are already in a long term committed relationship or are just starting one, Eight Dates is an essential guide to building and maintaining true and lasting love. Based on decades of scientific studies and clinical wisdom from our world's leading visionaries in romance, this fabulous book will enable you to engage in fun and constructive conversations to nurture a love that can grow for a lifetime!
—— Daniel J. Siegel, author of 'Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence'How to save a relationship in eight dates
—— Red MagazineExtraordinary. . . you should read it
—— Nick Hornby , BelieverBrings the most difficult ideas alive in clear, appealing language. It is as close as I've come to a physics lesson that almost suggests the meaning of life
—— Rory StewartMeet the new Stephen Hawking. . . I've never seen special relativity explained so well, never visualised it less fuzzily, never felt such a jolt of shock at what it implies
—— James McConnachie , Sunday TimesA dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning everything I thought I knew about time
—— Charlotte Higgins , GuardianEnlightening... gives poetic voice to the common human experience of moving through time, while simultaneously leaving the reader much more equipped to understand how exactly that happens. . . A resounding affirmation of the humanity behind science
—— Time magazine, Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010sI consider Carlo Rovelli to be a poet as much as a physicist. . . Everybody should read this book
—— Es DevlinA joy to read. . . Rovelli writes easily, vividly and brilliantly - he is as at ease with Beethoven as he is with Boltzmann's constant, and verses by Horace launch each chapter, one of which ends with a couplet from the Grateful Dead. . . A delight
—— Tim Radford , GuardianA deep - and remarkably readable - dive into the fundamental nature of time. . . written with enough charm and poetry to engage the imagination of anyone who reads it
—— Clive Cookson , Financial TimesAnyone with the least interest in the science of the physical world will be by turns astonished, baffled and thrilled by what Rovelli has to say about the true nature of time, which has little in common with our everyday conception of it
—— John Banville , GuardianHighly original. . . The heart and humanity of the book, its poetry and its gentle tone raise it to the level and style of such great scientist-writers as Lewis Thomas and Rachel Carson
—— Alan Lightman , New York Times Book ReviewRovelli is one of our great scientific explicators. . . Not since Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has there been so genial an integration of physics and philosophy
—— Ian Thomson , ObserverPhysics' literary superstar makes us rethink time. . . The Order of Time will surely establish Rovelli among the pantheon of great scientist-communicators
—— Philip Ball , New ScientistAn elegantly concise primer makes theoretical physics intelligible. . . stunningly written
—— Tom Whipple , The TimesA masterly writer. . . In this little gem of a book, Mr. Rovelli demolishes our common-sense notion of time. . . an ambitious book that illuminates a thorny question and succeeds in being a pleasurable read
—— Priyamvada Natarajan , Wall Street JournalCarlo Rovelli has achieved almost prophetic status
—— Julian Baggini , ProspectThe physicist transforming how we see the universe
—— Financial TimesWith the publication of his million-selling Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli took his place with Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman as one of the great popularisers of modern theoretical physics
—— Sam Leith , SpectatorThe most fun physicist to be with -- as well as the greatest explainer of physics
—— Bryan Appleyard , Sunday Times