Product Description: This contemporary title explores yoga trends in today's health-oriented world. The teenage reader is exposed to the universe of the most popular styles of yoga, including hatha, vinyasa, Ashtanga (power yoga), Iyengar, and Bikram (hot yoga), and is encouraged to draw conclusions as to the appropriateness of the activity in his or her life...read more

Product Description: Can thinking happy thoughts help people overcome their fears? This reader examines the phenomenon of the "placebo effect" in helping people cope with health problems and fears.

Product Description: Have you ever changed your mind? In fact, your mind and your brain change all the time, throughout your life from before you are born, to the day you die. This book explains how our brain is the part of our body that makes our mind work...read more

Product Description: Have you ever changed your mind? In fact, your mind and your brain change all the time, throughout your life from before you are born, to the day you die. This book explains how our brain is the part of our body that makes our mind work...read more

Product Description: We all know the limits of our own bodies. That's what makes these unusual examples so incredible. Readers will be amazed by these mysteries of the human bodyfeats of strength, spontaneous combustion, human hibernation, sleepwalking, firewalkers, human pincushions, colored sweat, skin-shredding, human magnets, and feral, or wild, children...read more

Product Description: Features the extraordinary, sometimes scary, and frequently weird.

'This book is loaded with fun activities, challenges, recipes, and brain-benders for you to try on your own or with your friends. Use it to go crazy in the kitchen, power up your mind, teach your bod some new moves, and discover some of the amazing things the whole you can do!'--Back cover.Provides advice for girls on becoming the person they are meant to be by achieving a healthy lifestyle, including details on nutrition, exercise, learning styles, mental agility, emotional well-being, and related issues.

An overview of the anatomy, physiology, growth and development, and treatment of disease of the human body.

True stories about extraordinary people who have tapped in to the 90% of their brain most of us never use include a man suddenly capable of speaking foreign languages even though he'd never learned any of them. Original.

Discusses how the brain works, looks at the structure of the nervous system, and considers headaches, meningitis, epilepsy, head injuries, depression, and mental illness

Discusses the connection between the body and the mind examining such topics as how the brain and the immune system work together and the influence of thoughts and emotions on physical health

Explores nine techniques of creating greater harmony between the mind and the body. Includes Aikido, the Alexander technique, biofeedback, Shiatsu, and Tai Chi Chuan.