A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSX; WSE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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T�tulo: The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
Editor: Quercus Publishing
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2015
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 1784291226
ISBN 13: 9781784291228
Encuadernaci�n: Encuadernaci�n de tapa blanda
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A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human.

Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow, 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off'.

Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adventure sports - from sky-diving to motocross to surfing and beyond - have been pushed farther and faster. A generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible; not just raising the bar, but obliterating it altogether. Along the way, they have become a force pushing evolution relentlessly onward.

In a thrilling narrative that draws on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Steven Kotler asks why, at the tail end of the 20th century and the early portion of the 21st, are we seeing such a multi-sport assault on reality? Did we somehow slip through a wormhole to another universe where gravity is optional and common sense obsolete? And where - if anywhere - do our actual limits lie?

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Steven Kotler is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His books include Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, and West of Jesus. His articles have appeared in New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Outside, Popular Science, Men's Journal and Discover. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, the author Joy Nicholson.

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