Lucy Jones

Una brillante exploración de la transición hacia la maternidad y cómo esta afecta al cuerpo, el cerebro y la mente de la mujer. LIBRO DEL AÑO PARA THE NEW YORKER, NEW STATESMAN Y DAILY MAIL NOMINADO

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When the forces that give our planet life exceed our ability to withstand them, they become disasters. Together they have shaped our cities and architecture, elevated leaders and toppled governments, influenced the way we think, feel, fight, unite and pray. The history of natural disasters is a history of ourselves. The Big Ones investigates some of the most impactful natural disasters, and how their reverberations are still felt today. From a volcanic eruption in Pompeii challenging and reinforcing prevailing views of religion, through the California floods of 1862 and the limitations of memory, to what Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 tsunami can tell us about governance and globalisation. With temperatures rising around the world, natural disasters are striking with ever greater frequency. More than just history or science, The Big Ones is a call to action. Natural hazards are inevitable; human catastrophes are not. With this energising and richly-researched book, Jones offers a look at our past, readying us to face down the Big Ones in our future.

Los terremotos, inundaciones, tsunamis, huracanes, volcanes provienen de las mismas fuerzas que dan vida a nuestro planeta. Los terremotos nos dan manantiales naturales; los volcanes producen suelos fertiles. Solo cuando estas fuerzas exceden nuestra capacidad de resistirlas se convierten en desastres. Juntas han moldeado nuestras ciudades y su arquitectura; han aupado lideres y derrocado Gobiernos; han influido en la forma en que pensamos, sentimos, luchamos, nos unimos o rezamos. La historia de los desastres naturales es nuestra propia historia. Jones ofrece una mirada vigorizante a algunos de los desastres naturales mas importantes del mundo, cuyas reverberaciones seguimos sintiendo hoy: desde la erupcion volcanica en Pompeya en el siglo I d. C., hasta las inundaciones de California de 1862, el tsunami del oceano Indico de 2004 o los huracanes estadounidenses de 2017. Con el crecimiento de la poblacion en regiones peligrosas y el aumento de las temperaturas en todo el mundo, los impactos de los desastres naturales son mayores que nunca. Los peligros naturales son inevitables, pero las catastrofes humanas no lo son.

Nesta investigação inovadora e pessoal, a jornalista científica Lucy Jones parte da própria experiência de maternidade para explorar as transformações físicas, mentais e sociais que as mulheres viven

A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARBeautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world Isabella Tree, author of WildingBy the time Id read the first chapter, Id resolved to take my son into the woods every afternoon over winter. By the time Id read the sixth, I was wanting to break prisoners out of cells and onto the mossy moors. Losing Eden rigorously and convincingly tells of the value of the natural universe to our human hearts Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunToday many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves?Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth.Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves.

As one of the largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns.Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also the least understood.In Foxes Unearthed Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes in a media landscape that often carries complex agendas. Delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own family history, Lucy travels the length of Britain to find out first-hand why these animals incite such passionate emotions, revealing our rich and complex relationship with one of our most loved and most vilified wild animals. This compelling narrative adds much-needed depth to the debate on foxes, asking what our attitudes towards the red fox say about us and, ultimately, about our relationship with the natural world.

By the world-renowned seismologist, a riveting history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to comeEarthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--they stem from the same forces that give our planet life. Earthquakes give us natural springs; volcanoes produce fertile soil. It is only when these forces exceed our ability to withstand them that they become disasters. Together they have shaped our cities and their architecture; elevated leaders and toppled governments; influenced the way we think, feel, fight, unite, and pray. The history of natural disasters is a history of ourselves.In The Big Ones, leading seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones offers a bracing look at some of the worlds greatest natural disasters, whose reverberations we continue to feel today. At Pompeii, Jones explores how a volcanic eruption in the first century AD challenged prevailing views of religion. She examines the California floods of 1862 and the limits of human memory. And she probes more recent events--such as the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the American hurricanes of 2017--to illustrate the potential for globalization to humanize and heal.With population in hazardous regions growing and temperatures around the world rising, the impacts of natural disasters are greater than ever before. The Big Ones is more than just a work of history or science; it is a call to action. Natural hazards are inevitable; human catastrophes are not. With this energizing and exhaustively researched book, Dr. Jones offers a look at our past, readying us to face down the Big Ones in our future.

Hoy, más que nunca, vivimos confinados en espacios interiores. Según las estadísticas, pasamos hasta un 90 por ciento de nuestra vida entre cuatro paredes, totalmente desconectados de la naturaleza. No obstante, esta sigue estando profundamente enraizada en nuestro lenguaje, nuestras tradiciones y nuestra conciencia. Durante siglos, las sociedades se han guiado por la intuicion de que vivir en armonia con el entorno es fundamental para el ser humano. En pleno siglo XXI, coincidiendo con nuestro alejamiento de la naturaleza, ha empezado a emerger un fascinante campo de investigacion cientifica que confirma esta intuicion ancestral y demuestra la importancia del contacto con la naturaleza para nuestro bienestar psicologico o el desarrollo de nuestras facultades cognitivas y afectivas.Lucy Jones nos abre las puertas de la vanguardia de la biologia humana, la neurociencia y la psicologia, y descubre nuevas formas de entender (y reparar) nuestra relacion disfuncional con la naturaleza. A caballo entre la investigacion periodistica y la confesion autobiografica, la autora emprende un viajeapasionante desde las escuelas forestales del este de Londres hasta el Svalbard Global Seed Vault, pasando por bosques primitivos, los laboratorios mas punteros de California y el sofa de algun que otro ecoterapeuta.La critica ha dichoPerdiendo el Eden muestra la evidencia de como la naturaleza nos vuelve mas serenos, sanos, felices e incluso amables. Times Literary SupplementUn estudio muy bien escrito y con una gran cantidad de investigaciones sobre como la naturaleza nos ofrece bienestar. Jones desentraña la ciencia con una escritura accesible y conmovedora. The GuardianAl terminar el primer capitulo, habia decidido llevar a mi hijo al bosque todas las tardes durante el invierno. Tras leer el texto, queria sacar a los presos de sus celdas y llevarlos a los paramos cubiertos de musgo. Perdiendo el Eden habla de manera rigurosa y convincente del valor de la naturaleza para el espiritu humano. Amy LiptrotUn ensayo oportuno que ofrece un rayo de esperanza. The ObjectiveEsta autora britanica nos recuerda que la naturaleza no es un lujo estetico para urbanitas sino un factor indispensable para nuestro bienestar. El Salto

Los terremotos, inundaciones, tsunamis, huracanes, volcanes provienen de las mismas fuerzas que dan vida a nuestro planeta. Los terremotos nos dan manantiales naturales; los volcanes producen suelos fertiles. Solo cuando estas fuerzas exceden nuestra capacidad de resistirlas se convierten en desastres. Juntas han moldeado nuestras ciudades y su arquitectura; han aupado lideres y derrocado Gobiernos; han influido en la forma en que pensamos, sentimos, luchamos, nos unimos o rezamos.La historia de los desastres naturales es nuestra propia historia. Jones ofrece una mirada vigorizante a algunos de los desastres naturales mas importantes del mundo, cuyas reverberaciones seguimos sintiendo hoy: desde la erupcion volcanica en Pompeya en el siglo I d. C., hasta las inundaciones de California de 1862, el tsunami del oceano Indico de 2004 o los huracanes estadounidenses de 2017.Con el crecimiento de la poblacion en regiones peligrosas y el aumento de las temperaturas en todo el mundo, los impactos de los desastres naturales son mayores que nunca. Los peligros naturales son inevitables, pero las catastrofes humanas no lo son.

*A New Yorker,New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR**Longlisted for the 2024 Womens Prize for Non-Fiction*The best book Ive ever read about motherhood Jude Rogers, ObserverI kept scribbling in the margins: We need to know this stuff! Joanna Pocock, SpectatorA radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and bodyDuring pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.There is no other time in a humans life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. And yet this life-altering transition has been sorely neglected by science, medicine and philosophy. Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts. Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel-hued dream remains, for the most part, taboo.In this ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, acclaimed journalist and author Lucy Jones brings to light the emerging concept of matrescence. Drawing on new research across various fields - neuroscience and evolutionary biology; psychoanalysis and existential therapy; sociology, economics and ecology - Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind, brain and body are far more profound, wild and enduring than we have been led to believe. She reveals the dangerous consequences of our neglect of the maternal experience and interrogates the patriarchal and capitalist systems that have created the untenable situation mothers face today.Here is an urgent examination of the modern institution of motherhood, which seeks to unshackle all parents from oppressive social norms. As it deepens our understanding of matrescence, it raises vital questions about motherhood and femininity; interdependence and individual identity; as well as about our relationships with each other and the living world.

Una brillante exploración de la transición hacia la maternidad y cómo esta afecta al cuerpo, el cerebro y la mente de la mujer. Durante el embarazo, el parto y la entrada en la maternidad, las mujeres experimentan una verdadera metamorfosis fisiologica, psicologica y social. Salvo la adolescencia, no existe otro momento en la vida humana que suponga una transformacion de este calado, y sin embargo la ciencia y las humanidades apenas se han ocupado de ello.En este libro, Lucy Jones saca a la luz el concepto emergente de matrescencia. Basandose en su testimonio como madre de tres hijos y en las ultimas investigaciones en el campo de la neurociencia, la biologia evolutiva, el psicoanalisis, la terapia existencial, la sociologia, la economia y la ecologia, Jones describe los cambios que se producen en la mente, el cerebro y el cuerpo maternos y muestra como dichos cambios son mucho mas profundos y duraderos de lo que creiamos. Ademas, revela las peligrosas consecuencias de haber descuidado la experiencia de la maternidad y cuestiona los sistemas patriarcales y capitalistas que han creado la situacion insostenible que enfrentan las mujeres hoy en dia.Esta es una exploracion urgente de la institucion moderna de la maternidad, que tiene por objetivo liberar a las familias de las normas sociales opresivas. A medida que profundiza en nuestra comprension de la matrescencia, plantea preguntas fundamentales sobre la maternidad y la feminidad; la interdependencia y la identidad individual, y sobre la relacion con los demas y con el mundo vivo.

A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the 2024 Women s Prize for Non Fiction The best book I ve ever read about motherhood Jude Rogers Observer I kept scribbling in the margins We need to know this stuff Joanna Pocock SpectatorA radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind brain and bodyDuring pregnancy childbirth and early motherhood women undergo a far reaching physiological psychological and social metamorphosis There is no other time in a human s life course that entails such dramatic change other than adolescence And yet this life altering transition has been sorely neglected by science medicine and philosophy Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel hued dream remains for the most part taboo In this ground breaking deeply personal investigation acclaimed journalist and author Lucy Jones brings to light the emerging concept of matrescence Drawing on new research across various fields neuroscience and evolutionary biology psychoanalysis and existential therapy sociology economics and ecology Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind brain and body are far more profou

A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the 2024 Women s Prize for Non Fiction The best book I ve ever read about motherhood Jude Rogers Observer I kept scribbling in the margins We need to know this stuff Joanna Pocock SpectatorA radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind brain and bodyDuring pregnancy childbirth and early motherhood women undergo a far reaching physiological psychological and social metamorphosis There is no other time in a human s life course that entails such dramatic change other than adolescence And yet this life altering transition has been sorely neglected by science medicine and philosophy Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel hued dream remains for the most part taboo In this ground breaking deeply personal investigation acclaimed journalist and author Lucy Jones brings to light the emerging concept of matrescence Drawing on new research across various fields neuroscience and evolutionary biology psychoanalysis and existential therapy sociology economics and ecology Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind brain and body are far more profou