Human Physiology category: 622 books
by Patricia S. Churchland
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications.
What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is the science experiment book that will guide your little one to love and understand the subject better. Learning through experiments may be much more effective than plain reading because of the hands-on experience included. Try the experiments listed here today. Which is your favorite? Share your thoughts with us!
Change of Heart
Unraveling the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A Change of Heart is a detailed account of the revolutionary Framingham Heart study — which, over the years, has provided conclusive evidence that cardiovascular disease is largely the result of measurable and modifiable risk factors. First begun in 1948, not long after Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
by Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
**A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2018
“A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine, and self-discovery.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee**
Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing,...
Le corps humain
Un guide pratique pour découvrir l'anatomie
Language: French
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Le corps humain sous toutes ses facettes !Découvrez le fonctionnement du corps humain : le squelette, les muscles, la circulation du sang, le système nerveux…Un ebook pratique et malin qui répondra rapidement à toutes vos questions sur ce sujet.Avec plus de 300 titres parus, la collection "Petit...
Surviving Leukemia and Hodgkin's Lymphoma
An Overview Of Effective Treatment Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
"Surviving Leukemia and Hodgkin's Lymphoma" is a text that will give the reader a more than basic insight into the inner workings of both diseases. The author guides the reader through the various symptoms that come with each and the current methods that are used to diagnose the diseases....
by Francis Galton
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Landmark discusses the evidence validating fingerprints as a means of personal identification, permanence of the fingerprint characteristics, uniqueness of an assemblage of ridge details, and the variability and classifiable nature of finger patterns — along with such fundamental investigations as biological and racial variations and the inheritance of fingerprint traits. 34 tables. 15 plates.
Anatomy and Embalming
A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to This Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book is the result of many years of contact with embalmers in training and in practice. We have included in this work a crystallization of essential information without which, the embalmer must be poorly equipped to carry out the many duties incident to his calling in a manner satisfactory to...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
The Textbook of Nephro-Endocrinology is the definitive translational reference in the field of nephro-endocrinology, investigating both the endocrine functions of the kidneys and how the kidney acts as a target for hormones from other organ systems. It offers researchers and clinicians expert, gold-standard...
Procréation
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Le terme procréation est souvent réservé à notre espèce, comme s'il était plus digne que celui de reproduction, qu'on utilise plutôt pour les animaux. En fait la plupart des animaux, et tous les mammifères, si nous prenons ce terme dans son sens littéral, ne se reproduisent pas mais procréent, puis...
Cancer
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Cancer is the second biggest killer in the world, but few of us understand how it works or how we treat it. In this illuminating introduction, Paul Scotting explains the science behind the disease and explores why some of us are more likely to develop it than others. Arguing that we're in a new age...
Pure, White, and Deadly
How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
More than 40 years before Gary Taubes published The Case Against Sugar, John Yudkin published his now-classic exposé on the dangers of sugar—reissued here with a new introduction by Robert H. Lustig, the bestselling author of Fat Chance.
Scientist John Yudkin was the first to sound the alarm...
by Bruce A. Carnes, Ph.D., S. Jay Olshansky
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2002
"This is by far the best book I've read on the science of aging."—Andrew Weil, M.D.
"Life-span Truth Will Set You Free from Age-old Worries," announced the Chicago Tribune upon the first publication of this book. The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed, "For...
Faster, Higher, Stronger
How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--and What We Can Learn from Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
A New York Times bestseller
“A smart and important book.”—Gretchen Reynolds, author of The First 20 Minutes
Publications as varied as Wired, Men’s Fitness, and The New Yorker are abuzz over the New York Times bestseller Faster, Higher, Stronger. In it, veteran journalist Mark McClusky...