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Superhuman : life at the extremes of mental and physical ability

Hooper, Rowan2018
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Why can some people achieve greatness when others can't, no matter how hard they try? What are the secrets of long life and happiness? Just how much potential does our species have? In this inspirational book, New Scientist Managing Editor Rowan Hooper takes us on a tour of the peaks of human achievement. We sit down with some of the world's finest minds, from a Nobel-prize winning scientist to a double Booker-prize winning author; we meet people whose power of focus has been the difference between a world record and death; we learn from international opera stars; we go back in time with memory champions, and we explore the transcendent experience of ultrarunners.
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Imprint:
London : Little, Brown, 2018.
Collation:
344 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408709467 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
264928
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