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Radical Evolution
The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
In Radical Evolution, bestselling author Joel Garreau, a reporter and editor for the Washington Post, shows us that we are at an inflection point in history. As you read this, we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through advances in genetic, robotic, information and nanotechnologies,...
by Ryan James
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Have you ever wondered why there are some people you take an instant dislike to and others to whom you gravitate? Obviously, there's something else happening besides their verbal communications that are attracting or repelling you, right? You might just discover what that is by reading our book. ...
by Chase Andersson
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
EKG | ECG
An Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to 12-Lead EKG | ECG Interpretation, Rhythms & Arrhythmias Including Basic Cardiac Dysrhythmias
We have researched extensively and consulted key figure in the nursing fraternity before coming up with this book. All the finer details you need as a...
Health Promotion for Nurses
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse’s role – both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the...
Why Us?
How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In this daring treatise on the current state of scientific inquiry, James Le Fanu challenges the common assumption that further progress in genetic research and neuroscience must ultimately explain all there is to know about life and man’s place in the world. On the contrary, he argues, the most...
by Stephen T. Asma
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases—all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the whole room is erupting with laughter. Or maybe it’s...
Born That Way
Genes, Behavior, Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
A comprehensive view of the most heated debate of our time -- are genes the primary influence on human personality and behavior? In presenting the recent findings, William Wright argues that in a century dominated by psychoanalytic thought, there has been an insistence that humans, unlike all other...
Chronic Illness and Disability
Principles for Nursing Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
This text provides evidence-based principles for practice for chronic illness and disability. It provides a solid theoretical and practical foundation for students in their 2nd and 3rd years. The book will included a holistic framework for major and common chronic illness and disability.
Fundamentos de enfermería
Ciencia, metodología y tecnología
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Esta segunda edición de Fundamentos de enfermería. Ciencia, metodología y tecnología, es una obra en la que el lector encontrará información completa acerca de las bases científicas de la enfermería, asi como de los métodos empleados en la práctica y tecnologías actuales que permiten el...
by Jennifer H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Diabetes is a condition where the glucose levels in a person's blood is too high. If left untreated, diabetes can progress over time, resulting in serious complications such as blindness, heart attacks, and strokes. Unfortunately, there is currently no medical cure for diabetes.
A healthy lifestyle...
The Midwives' Guide to Key Medical Conditions E-Book
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
The only book of its kind, this essential reference offers quick access to information on the effects medical conditions can have on pregnancy and childbirth. Coverage includes a brief overview of normal anatomy and physiology with concise, practical guidelines for managing disorders commonly seen...
The Murderer Next Door
Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals,...
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What WeDo
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Now available in paperback?a provocative new look at biology, evolution, and human behavior ?as disturbing [as it is] fascinating? (Publishers Weekly).
Why are most neurosurgeons male and most kindergarten teachers female? Why aren?t there more women on death row? Why do so many male politicians...
Sperm Wars
Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Published to acclaim and controversy a decade ago, Sperm Wars is a revolutionary thesis about sex that turned centuries-old biological assumptions on their head. Evolution has programmed men to conquer and monopolize women while women, without ever knowing they are doing it, seek the best genetic...