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Fascinating ... O’Mara argues [walking] is intimately connected to our bodies, our brains, and ultimately how we exist as a species
In Praise of Walking is both informative and persuasive enough to rouse the most ardent couch potato – perhaps saving humanity before our lifestyle consumes our brains completely
Convincing and compelling ... In Praise of Walking is peppered with insights about everything from 19th-century poets and flâneurs to modern-day experiments with subjects playing video games in fMRI scanners
Walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier ... [O'Mara] knows this not only through personal experience, but from cold, hard data
Full of insights… an accessible and thought-provoking discussion of walking as a key to human success
A book that will leave you itching to go out for a good old-fashioned stroll
A fascinating new book that examines the multitudinous benefits of this form of locomotion
Like a poem to walking… [and] the science that might help convince planners to prioritise walking as a means of getting around
Forget apples. A walk a day really will keep the doctor away
[In Praise of Walking] it provides an antidote to the many miseries that can accumulate because of our modern, sedentary lifestyle
Whether you’re an avid hiker or simply like to get out and do the school run on foot, this book will make you appreciate the physical, mental and societal benefits of getting outdoors on two feet.
An informative yet witty book on the importance of walking for our health and wellbeing, and for societies in general
Compelling… A new angle on our favourite pastime
A fascinating read… This informative book…will rouse you from the sofa and make you want to get moving
Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College Dublin - the University of Dublin. He is Principal Investigator in, and was Director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, one of Europe’s leading research centres for neuroscience. He is also a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator.
He is the author of two previous books, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation and A Brain for Business – A Brain for Life. He has also written many scientific papers, as well as for the newspapers and magazines.
He loves to walk wherever and whenever he can, with long urban walks in any walkable city a particular favourite.
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www.shaneomara.com