physiological aspects

Discusses how recent developments in brain imaging have offered new insight to why people dream and what those dreams can reveal about the human psyche.

Argues that educators and parents greatly underestimate students' achievement capacity, explains how the brain can be enriched to maximize learning, memory, behavior, and overall function, and offers tips on how to improve a child's brain function at any age.

Experiments and activities help students learn how the human body stays fit, describing how the muscles, heart, sweat glands, and other systems work together to help people stay healthy.

Explains the biology of pregnancy, examining the reasons humans are conceived in the fashion that they are, describing the development of the embryo, and discussing the ways babies cope with the dangers they face during and immediately after birth.

Anthropologist Helen Fisher explains how the brain reacts when a person falls in love, concluding that romantic passion is hardwired into the brains of humans by millions of years of evolution.

A guide for runners, with information on fitness, training, equipment, nutrition, and injuries, as well as special considerations for different types of runners.

Presents an illustrated, step-by-step guide for achieving total soccer fitness through exercise, drills, and nutrition.

Examines how the muscles of the human body help it to move and how a healthy diet and exercise helps to keep the body clean.