Un clavado a tu cerebro / Take a Dive Into Your Brain
Un clavado a tu cerebro / Take a Dive Into Your Brain

Author: Eduardo Calixto

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 6073150849

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¿Por qué sientes celos, ansiedad, angustia? ¿Sabías que existen áreas cerebrales de la fidelidad? ¿Sabes qué le sucede a tu cerebro cuando te enamoras? ¿Sabías que algunas neuronas sí pueden regenerarse? Eduardo Calixto, colaborador de Martha Debayle en W Radio y destacado experto en Neurociencias, te explica de manera clara y práctica el funcionamiento de tu cerebro y su papel en tu vida diaria. El destacado médico cirujano y doctor en Neurociencias, Eduardo Calixto, ofrece en estas páginas un recorrido por las funciones de tu cerebro y te explica de la manera más sencilla, clara y divertida, la importancia del amor en el cerebro, la fisiología sexual, en qué consiste la celotipia y la experiencia musical en el cerebro, entre muchos temas más, apasionantes, reveladores, que te permitirán conocerte más y entender aspectos de tus sensaciones que jamás habías imaginado. Además, te comparte los 10 elementos básicos para una mejor memoria, el decálogo cotidiano para hacer más inteligente a nuestro cerebro, así como una serie de mitos sobre éste, y recomendaciones para tener un mejor cerebro. Un clavado a tu cerebro es la respuesta científica que detalla las relaciones entre hormonas, conducta y cerebro, explica qué características le gustan a los hombres de las mujeres y cuáles las atraen a ellas de los hombres, qué procesos se dan para que el ser humano sienta envidia, desprecio o enojo y cómo reacciona el cerebro ante el estrés, el temor y la alegría. Si de verdad quieres conocerte más y profundamente, qué esperas: ¡Sólo échate con este libro un clavado a tu cerebro! ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWhy is it that we sometimes feel jealousy or anxiety? Did you know that our brains have an area with which we are faithful? Do you know what happens to our brain when we fall in love? Did you know that some neurons do regenerate? Eduardo Calixto, radio personality and prominent surgeon and expert on Neuroscience, clearly and easily explains the way your brain works and its role in your daily life. Calixto in these pages takes you through the different functions of your brain and explains in the simplest, clearest, and fun way things like: the importance that love has in the brain, sexual physiology, what pathologically morbid jealousy is, and musical experience in the brain, among many other exciting and revealing topics that will allow you to understand aspects of your sensations that you had never imagined. He also shares 10 basic elements to improve your memory, 10 daily things to do in order to make your brain more intelligent, as well as a series of myths about the brain. A dive into your brain is the scientific answer that details the relationships between hormones, behavior, and brain. If you really want to know yourself better, read this book and dive right into your brain!

Metagenealogy
Metagenealogy

Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1620551632

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A practical guide to recognizing and overcoming the patterns and influences of the four generations before you • Provides exercises to uncover your family’s psychological heritage, heal negative patterns of behavior and illness in your family tree, and discover your true self • Explains how we are the product of two forces: repetition of familial patterns from the past and creation of new ideas from the Universal Consciousness of the future • Interwoven with examples from Jodorowsky’s own life and his work with the tarot, psychoanalysis, and psychomagic The family tree is not merely vital statistics about your ancestors. It is an embodied sense of self that we inherit from at least four prior generations, constituting both a life-giving treasure and a deadly trap. Each of us is both an heir of our lineage and a necessary variation that brings the family into new territory. Are you doomed to repeat the patterns of your parents and grandparents? Or can you harness your familial and individual talents to create your own destiny? In Metagenealogy, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa show how every individual is the product of two forces: the imitating force, directed by the family group acting from the past, and the creative force, driven by the Universal Consciousness from the future. Interweaving examples from Jodorowsky’s own life and his work with the tarot, psychoanalysis, and psychomagic, the authors provide exercises, visualizations, and meditations to discover your family’s psychological heritage and open yourself to the growth and creativity of Universal Consciousness. They reveal how identifying the patterns, emotional programming, and successes and failures of the four generations that influence you--your siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and great-grandparents--allows you to see beyond the stable identity formed by family lineage. It frees you to overcome your inherited subconscious patterns of behavior and illness, stop the transmission of these patterns to future generations, and reconnect with your true self and unique creative purpose in life. By understanding your family tree and your place in it, you open your ability to heal the ancient struggle between the repetitive forces of the past and the creative forces of the future.

Rams and LCC Engineering for Railway Industry
Rams and LCC Engineering for Railway Industry

Author: Eduardo Calixto

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9781986524704

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This book aims to give the readers a background about the reliability and safety engineering methods as well as discuss the importance of physical asset optimization and asset management during the operational phase applied for railway industry. The book starts describing the basic concept of reliability and safety engineering, RAMS and LCC program and process. In addition, the big challenges of the RAMS and LCC program implementation as well as the reliability pitfalls are also listed in the first chapter. The further chapters describe in detail the most importance methods applied in the RAMS and LCC program such as Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Quantitative Accelerated Life Test (QALT), High Accelerated Life Test (HALT), Life Time Data Analysis (LDA), Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Analysis (RAM), Human Reliability Analysis (HRA), Integrated Logistic Support (ILS), risk analysis methods and asset management. In each chapter some case studies are presented to clarify the theoretical concepts. I hope you enjoy it and its enable you to put in practice some of the methods described here in your daily professional activities in railway industry.

Safety Science: Methods to Prevent Incidents and Worker Health Damage at the Workplace
Safety Science: Methods to Prevent Incidents and Worker Health Damage at the Workplace

Author: Eduardo Calixto

Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers

Published: 2015-09-02

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1608059529

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Risk management is a process through which an organization methodically analyses risks inherent in all of its operational activities with the aim of minimizing damage to physical assets or occupational health hazards. Risk Management, therefore, should be a central element in the management strategy of any organization as it plays a crucial role in giving the organization a sustainable operational advantage. Safety Science: Methods to Prevent Incidents and Worker Health Damage at the Workplace is a handbook for management students and working professionals (safety professionals, human resource managers, insurance officers etc.) interested in the science of risk management and methods to implements safety standards at the workplace. The book introduces readers to the concept of occupational risk and occupational health management. It explains the concepts relevant to these topics such as safety economy valuation and asset integrity management. Assessment tools related to qualitative and quantitative risk management, incident and vulnerability analysis are also provided. Additionally, readers will find information on the human factors and methods to improve human engagement in risk management as well as information about current safety standards and systems in organizations around the world.

Structure & Function of the Body
Structure & Function of the Body

Author: Gary A. Thibodeau

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 9789997639318

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There are many wonders in our world, but none is more wondrous than the human body. This is a textbook about that incomparable structure. It deals with two very distinct and yet interrelated sciences: anatomy and physiology. As a science, anatomy is often defined as the study of the structure of an organism and the relationships of its parts. Physiology is the study of the functions of living organisms and their parts. - p. 1.

A First Course in Loop Quantum Gravity
A First Course in Loop Quantum Gravity

Author: Rodolfo Gambini

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2011-09-22

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0191003239

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This book provides an accessible introduction to loop quantum gravity and some of its applications, at a level suitable for undergraduate students and others with only a minimal knowledge of college level physics. In particular it is not assumed that the reader is familiar with general relativity and only minimally familiar with quantum mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics. Most chapters end with problems that elaborate on the text, and aid learning. Applications such as loop quantum cosmology, black hole entropy and spin foams are briefly covered. The text is ideally suited for an undergraduate course in the senior year of a physics major. It can also be used to introduce undergraduates to general relativity and quantum field theory as part of a 'special topics' type of course.

Marks of Identity
Marks of Identity

Author: Juan Goytisolo

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781852427672

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New edition of first volume of Goytisolo's great trilogy.

Loop Quantum Gravity For Everyone
Loop Quantum Gravity For Everyone

Author: Rodolfo Gambini

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2020-01-08

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 9811211973

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'In this remarkably well-written text, the authors introduce readers gently to the conceptual bricks of LQG without using any mathematics (quite an achievement). The debate started with the discovery that the space-time geometry of general relativity can be written in terms of the electromagnetic field. This led to intersecting graphs called loops. Now known as spin networks, they are the foundations of LQG. This slender volume discusses applications of LQG to black holes and cosmology and introduces the notion of spin foam, acknowledging that as yet the theory, though elegant, has no experimental confirmation … This book offers a fascinating introduction to an esoteric realm otherwise accessible to only a fortunate few.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty researchers.'CHOICEChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020Loop quantum gravity is one of the main contenders to unify Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, therefore providing a quantum theory of gravity. If these words do not mean much to you, do not worry, we will define them in simple terms.This book describes loop quantum gravity and its applications to cosmology, black holes and spin foams without using formulas. It is concise and has a light style that makes for easy reading yet covering many of the cutting-edge developments in the field. It also addresses some of the controversies that surround these topics as they are incomplete science.

Saracen Tales
Saracen Tales

Author: Giuseppe Bonaviri

Publisher: Crossings

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Fiction. Short Stories. Translated from the Italian by Barbara De Marco. In SARACEN TALES, Italian-born Giuseppe Bonaviri brings a wild newness to the tale of the life of Jesus. In this succession of stories, Bonaviri explores all manners of the known and unknown, the archetypal, the mythological, the symbolic--the life of Jesus is both his material and his point of departure. Part surrealism, part folklore, readers will be amazed at the originality and creativity with which a long-familiar tale is presented. "Bonaviri is a myth-maker, looking simultaneously to the historical past and to the future, to arrive at the a-historical, at cosmic universality"--Franco Zangrilli. Giuseppe Bonaviri was born in 1924 in Sicily. He began writing when he was ten and continued through high school, college, and in his professional life as a doctor, health official, and cardiologist. His work has been widely translated.