Physiology category: 1850 books
Human Origins
7 million years and counting
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed...
Extra Sensory
The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Extra Sensory is a pop-science look at the untapped abilities of human beings, from ESP to Telekenesis and other real life sciences that are currently being studied today, from physicist Brian Clegg.
We'd all love to have 'psi' abilities like telepathy, telekinesis, and remote viewing. But is there...
Blood
The Stuff of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.
Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every...
by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - Fully Illustrated Edition.
is a book on evolutionary theory by Charles Darwin, It was Darwin's second book on evolutionary theory, following his work, On the Origin of Species, in which he explored the concept of natural selection. In...
Blood
An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Essence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals that of any other business--millions of lives...
by Judith Holder
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
We all know what it means these days to be a grumpy old man, because part of that role is to be outspoken. Well, we've heard just about enough out of the men, thank you very much! Grumpy Old Women gives us the other perspective: the female take on the million irritations of today's world.
So...
Pedagogical Anthropology
(Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
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For some time past much has been said in Italy regarding Pedagogical Anthropology; but I do not think that until now any attempt has been made to define a science corresponding to such a title; that is to say, a method that systematises the positive study...
Body, Subject & Subjected
The Representation of the Body Itself, Illness, Injury, Treatment & Death in Spain and Indigenous and Hispanic American Art & Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to...
'The Year I Turn'
A Quirky A-Z of Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
In this buoyant, inspirational A-Z, Angela Neustatter writes about the quirky side of ageing. The ways we learn to deal with conflicts, problems, relationships, feelings about our appearance and behaviour through the years become a delight rather than a chore. Angela Neustatter considers in a light-hearted...
by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
"A marvelous, organ-by-organ journey through the body eclectic…Irresistible [and] impressive." —John J. Ross, Wall Street Journal
The human body is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique yet universal fact of our lives. It is the inspiration for art,...
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...
Masters of the Planet
The Search for Our Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival...
by Alfred Binet, Victor Henri
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
La Bibliothèque de pédagogie et de psychologie que nous inaugurons aujourd’hui en publiant ce premier volume sur la Fatigue intellectuelle, est destinée à faire profiter la pédagogie des progrès récents de la psychologie expérimentale.
Ce n’est pas, à proprement parler, une...
by Miriam Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
This book is intended to be used as a general guide for physician residents physician assistants and nurse practitioners regarding inpatient care and management of orthopedic patients. Information is included to provide comprehensive patient care from admission to discharge with sections dedicated to...