James Nestor has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 1,293 ratings. The most-rated is Breath.
Breath
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A New York Times Best Seller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe - and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love) No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: Take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
©2020 James Nestor (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Deep
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. An Amazon Best Science Book of 2014. A Scientific American Recommended Read. Deep is a voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth. Fascinated by the sport of freediving - in which competitors descend to great depths on a single breath - James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and other strange phenomena. Most illuminating of all, he learns that these abilities are reflected in our own remarkable and often hidden potential - including echolocation, directional sense, and the profound bodily changes humans undergo when underwater. Along the way Nestor unlocks his own freediving skills as he communes with the pioneers who are expanding our definition of what is possible in the natural world - and in ourselves.
©2014 James Nestor (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Breath - Atem
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Der New York Times- und Spiegel-Bestseller. Nichts ist wichtiger für unsere Gesundheit und unser Wohlbefinden als der Atem. Doch viele haben verlernt, wie man richtig atmet. Unsere Atmung kann uns helfen abzunehmen, unseren allgemeinen Gesundheitszustand positiv beeinflussen und sogar unser Leben verlängern. Wer richtig atmet, ist selbstbewusster und kann sich besser fokussieren. Egal, was wir essen, wie viel Sport wir machen, wie gut unsere Gene sind, wie schlank oder jung wir sind - nichts davon spielt eine Rolle, wenn wir falsch atmen. Dieses Hörbuch will uns die verlorene Kunst des guten Atmens wieder näherbringen. James Nestor trifft Spitzenwissenschaftler in Harvard und studiert die Auswirkungen von Atembeschwerden. Er bringt uns das Wissen von Schwimmtrainern ebenso nahe wie das von indischen Mystikern und strengen russischen Kardiologen, um zu zeigen, was die Atmung in unserem Körper auslösen kann. James Nestor nimmt uns in seinem internationalen Bestseller mit auf eine faszinierende Abenteuerreise in alle Welt, um herauszufinden: wie unsere Atemfähigkeit im Laufe der menschlichen Entwicklung abgenommen hat, wie die Luft, die in unsere Lungen eintritt, jeden Augenblick des Lebens beeinflusst, wie wir unser volles Potenzial bis zum letzten Atemzug ausnutzen können, wie wir lernen, wieder richtig zu atmen, wie wir gesünder leben können. James Nestor, amerikanischer Journalist und Bestsellerautor, schreibt unter anderem für das Outside Magazine und die New York Times. Er lebt in San Francisco. Die Originalausgabe erschien unter dem Titel: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art.
©2020 / 2021 James Nestor / Piper Verlag GmbH, München (P)2021 ABP Verlag
Half-Safe
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In 1948, a young Australian mining engineer named Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in a single vehicle. The vehicle in question was an amphibious jeep developed by the U.S. Army, which Carlin christened Half-Safe, after a deodorant slogan. It was a mechanical mongrel that was supposed to move with equal ease across land and water but in practice wasn't much good for either one. Undaunted, Carlin and his wife Elinore set off across the Atlantic Ocean with dreams of fame and fortune, and of carving a small notch in history. What happened next is one of the most bizarre, remarkable, and forgotten adventure stories of the 20th century. In Half-Safe, author James Nestor endeavors to uncover Ben Carlin's fate and finds a gripping story of love, danger, and extraordinary perseverance that spans three oceans and five continents. Half-Safe takes us from the eye of an Atlantic Ocean hurricane to the sweltering Sahara to the impenetrable jungles of Southeast Asia - and into the mind of a man who could overcome everything but his own demons.
©2012 The Atavist, James Nestor (P)2012 The Atavist, James Nestor