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The Pleasure Instinct: Why We Crave Adventure, Chocolate, ...

The Pleasure Instinct: Why We Crave Adventure, Chocolate, ...

Gene Wallenstein

From our enjoyment of music to our cravings for chocolate, from our love of family and friends to our attraction to things of beauty, this book embarks on an intriguing exploration of the purpose of pleasure in our lives and in human ...
Encyclopedia of Emotion

Encyclopedia of Emotion

Gretchen Reevy

... emotion; a good starting point for investigating this topic is Gene Wallenstein's ( 2003) book Mind, Stress, and Emotions: The New Science of Mood. Further Reading: McEwen, B., & Lasley, E.N. (2002). The end. See also anger, depression, ...
Encyclopedia of Emotion

Encyclopedia of Emotion

Gretchen M. Reevy

... starting point for investigating this topic is Gene Wallenstein's (2003) book Mind, Stress, and Emotions: The New Science of Mood. See also anger, depression, fear, hormones, hypothalamus, physiology of emotion, stress, sympathetic ...
Need for Sleep: Daybeams - Moondreams - New Schemes

Need for Sleep: Daybeams - Moondreams - New Schemes

Lisa Pavlik-Malone

In his book, the pleasure instinct (2009), neuroscientist Gene Wallenstein distinguishes between pleasure and happiness. He states: Pleasure is a hedonistic reflex, a burning impulse to abandon rational thought altogether and immerse ...
Wallenstein ; and, Mary Stuart:

Wallenstein ; and, Mary Stuart:

Friedrich Schiller

Presents Shiller's dramatic masterpiece, the "Wallenstein" trilogy, and "Mary Stuart" in their entirety. Includes notes on the historical background of both plays.
Mind, Stress & Emotions: The New Science of Mood

Mind, Stress & Emotions: The New Science of Mood

Gene Wallenstein

This book examines how genetic, biological, and environmental conditions generate and shape our moods, linking recent findings in brain science, immunology, and stress research with novel treatment strategies for mood and anxiety disorders.
Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind and Free Yourself from the ...

Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind and Free Yourself from the ...

Joyce Meyer

5 Gene Wallenstein, Mind, Stress, and Emotion: The New Science of Mood. ( Boston, MA: Commonwealth Press, 2003). Facts.randomhistory.com/stress-facts. html. ACCessed April 22, 2015. Chapter 8: Laugh, Laugh, and Laugh Some More 1.
Meet Your Sexual Mind: The Interaction Betwen Instinct and ...

Meet Your Sexual Mind: The Interaction Betwen Instinct and ...

Mark Abraham

Pleasure Instincts, The Gene Wallenstein, Ph.D Wiley, 2009 Planet Earth Johathan Weiner Bantam Books 1986 Poetics, Aristotle, S. H. Butcher, 1951 Political Psychology Journal of the International Scoiety of Political Psychology, Plenum ...
What Have You Done Now, Eugene?

What Have You Done Now, Eugene?

Gene Mingo

Perhaps due to finding success too quickly, Gene developed a tendency to fall in with a bad crowd. His poor choices led to near tragedy, but he always found a home on the football field. Gene Mingo's story isn't simple.
IBM System Blue Gene Solution Blue Gene/Q Application ...

IBM System Blue Gene Solution Blue Gene/Q Application ...

Megan Gilge

It describes the requirements to develop applications on this high-performance supercomputer. This book explains the unique Blue Gene/Q programming environment.
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

Richard Dawkins

In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate.
Gene Marshall: Girl Star

Gene Marshall: Girl Star

Mel Odom

A fictional biography of Gene Marshall, the popular fashion doll, captures the glamour of the Golden Age of Hollywood as it chronicles Gene's humble beginnings, her discovery by a famed Hollywood director, and her meteoric rise of fame, all ...
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader

Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader

Peter Wright

This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New ...
The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

An ethologist shows man to be a gene machine whose world is one of savage competition and deceit
Arranging the Score: Portraits of the Great Arrangers

Arranging the Score: Portraits of the Great Arrangers

Gene Lees

These thirteen original essays draw together Gene Lee's observations on the craft of the arranger.
The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin

The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin

Ellen Ruppel Shell

The Hungry Gene takes an unflinching look at the spread of obesity, the most vexing scientific mysteries of our time.Acclaimed science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell reveals the existence of a gene that causes obesity and meets the ...
Gene Cloning

Gene Cloning

Julia Lodge

Applications of gene cloning in medicine, both for diagnosis and treatment, and in the pharmaceutical industry and agriculture, are also covered in the book.
Proteomics of Spermatogenesis

Proteomics of Spermatogenesis

G. S. Gupta

But observations suggest that the gene regulation by histone acetylation may operate in both methylation dependent and independent manners (Kundo and Rao 1999; Struhl, 1998) (Fig. 14.4). Role of acetylases and deacetylases in testis germ cells and their isoform are yet to be investigated. 14.6.2. ESET Histone Methyltransferase Covalent modifications of histone tails play important roles in gene transcription and silencing. An ERG (ets - related gene)-associated protein with a SET ...
Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry

Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry

Holly George-Warren

The Life and Times of Gene Autry Holly George-Warren. as well as being featured in the movies, including Gene's 1946 picture, Sioux City Sue. 12. Philip K. Scheuer, “Town Called Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 4, 1940. 13.
The Unselfish Gene

The Unselfish Gene

R. Burns

What they aren''t expecting is psychosis among their own.This is the second edition of Unselfish Gene, updated with a bit more accurate scientific information about the nuclear-pulse ship featured in this novel.
The Gene: by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Summary & Analysis

The Gene: by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Summary & Analysis

Instaread

Inside this Instaread Summary of The Gene · Overview of the Book · Important People · Key Takeaways · Analysis of Key Takeaways The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Summary & Analysis Preview: The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee describes ...
The Neurobiology of Autism

The Neurobiology of Autism

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Jonathan Pevsner, Ph.D. The human genome is estimated to contain 35,000 genes (Lander et al., 2001 ). In all eukaryotic cells, the expression of a gene that encodes a protein proceeds in several steps: the gene is transcribed, the RNA ...
Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April ...

Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April ...

Gene Salecker

... (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-61251-773-5 (eBook) The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Salecker, Gene Eric, 1957- Disaster on the Mississippi: the Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865/Gene Eric Salecker p. cm.
Women in Biotechnology: Creating Interfaces

Women in Biotechnology: Creating Interfaces

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Barbara Duden(*ü) and Silja Samerski Abstract: Within the last two decades the word 'gene' has migrated from science into ordinary conversation. Gene-talk has spread epidemically in political and professional arguments and ethical debates,  ...
The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success

The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success

David Epstein

Throughout, The Sports Gene forces us to rethink the very nature of success.
Hellenic Immortal:

Hellenic Immortal:

Gene Doucette

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gene Doucette is an awardwinning screenwriter, novelist, playwright, humorist, essayist, father, husband, cyclist, dog owner – and a few other things, too. He is, in other words, a writer. A graduate of Boston College, ...

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