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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of “Why We Sleep”\, by Matthew Walker. \nThis is from Amazon: \nThe first sleep book by a leading scientific expert – Professor Matthew Walker\, director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab – reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep\, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better. \nSleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life\, wellness\, and longevity. Until very recently\, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep\, or what good it served\, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don’t sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life – eating\, drinking\, and reproducing – the purpose of sleep remained elusive. \nBut an explosion of scientific discoveries in the last 20 years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now\, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Among so many other things\, within the brain\, sleep enriches our ability to learn\, memorize\, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions\, restocks our immune system\, fine-tunes our metabolism\, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity. \nWalker answers important questions about sleep: How do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us\, and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice\, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning\, mood\, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer\, Alzheimer’s\, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children\, and boost the efficiency\, success\, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed\, fascinating\, and immensely accessible\, Why We Sleep is the crucial account on sleep that will forever change listeners’ minds on the subject.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-6/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion of “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. This is from Amazon: \nTaking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present\, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse\, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man\, while Hassan\, the son of Amir’s father’s servant\, is a Hazara – a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives\, and their fates\, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California\, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. \nThe Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal\, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons\, and the power of fathers over sons – their love\, their sacrifices\, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before\, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation\, Khaled Hosseini offers hope for redemption.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-7/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:“The World According to Color” by James Fox \nFrom Amazon: \nWe have an extraordinary connection to color―we give it meanings\, associations\, and properties that last millennia and span cultures\, continents\, and languages. In The World According to Color\, James Fox takes seven elemental colors―black\, red\, yellow\, blue\, white\, purple\, and green―and uncovers behind each a root idea\, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. \nThrough a series of stories and vignettes\, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and\, ultimately\, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes\, fears\, prejudices\, and preoccupations. \nFox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color\, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian\, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art―from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner\, Titian to Yves Klein―in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature\, philosophy\, cinema\, archaeology\, and art―moving from Monet to Marco Polo\, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond. \nBy creating a new history of color\, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language\, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-9/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
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