Human Physiology category: 622 books
The Body Builders
Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week
Weaving together vivid storytelling and groundbreaking science, The Body Builders explores the current revolution in human augmentation, which is helping us to triumph over the limitations and constraints we have long accepted as an inevitable part of being...
The Invisible History of the Human Race
How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
**• A New York Times Notable Book •
“The richest, freshest, most fun book on genetics in some time.” —The New York Times Book Review**
We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible...
Human Errors
A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times...
by Robert S. Behnke
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Created primarily for those who will work in physical activity fields, the third edition of Kinetic Anatomy continues to building on its previous editions to assert itself as the ideal resource for learning structural anatomy and how it affects movement. The text gives students a firm concept of musculoskeletal...
Human Biological Aging
From Macromolecules to Organ Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Comprehension of the theories of aging requires rudimentary knowledge of oxidation and reduction reactions, protein function, cell organelles, mitosis, acquired immunity, and evolution, among other basic biological concepts. Without these fundamentals, students of biological aging struggle to learn...
Human Navigation and Magnetoreception
30th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Human Navigation and Magnetoreception, first published in 1989, was written to draw a line under an academic feud that had enlivened much of the 1980s. Now, thirty years on, a new generation of researchers, students and journalists have voiced a need for the book's contents to be made generally available...
by Mary Roach
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly,...
The Story of the Human Body
Evolution, Health, and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field—gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity...
Evolution's Bite
A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human species
Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite,...
We Have the Technology
How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
An award-winning journalist investigates how scientists and citizens around the world are re-tooling our senses-and what their discoveries are teaching us about the nature and future of human perception
How do we know what's real? That's not a trick question: sensory science is increasingly...
Molecular Pathology
The Molecular Basis of Human Disease
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Molecular Pathology: The Molecular Basis of Human Disease provides a current and comprehensive view of the molecular basis and mechanisms of human disease. Combining accepted principles with broader theoretical concepts and with contributions from a group of experts, the book looks into disease processes...
Summary and Analysis of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Based on the Book by Mary Roach
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Stiff tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Mary Roach’s book.
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This short summary...
by Leslie Klenerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
A vast subject that includes a strange vocabulary and an apparent mass of facts, human anatomy can at first appear confusing and off-putting. But the basic construction of the human body - the skeleton, the organs of the chest and abdomen, the nervous system, the head and neck with its sensory systems...
by Sophie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
This compendium of mind-blowing facts about the human body will help you achieve mastermind status in no time.
Why are modern humans larger than people who lived 500 years ago? Can people spontaneously combust? How many organs could you live without? In Who Knew? Human Anatomy, you’ll learn...