Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
The Assemblage Brain
Sense Making in Neuroculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Once upon a time, neuroscience was born. A dazzling array of neurotechnologies emerged that, according to popular belief, have finally begun to unlock the secrets of the brain. But as the brain sciences now extend into all corners of cultural, social, political, and economic life, a yet newer world has...
by Barry Barnes, John Dupré
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits—and warnings of the dangers—of genomics...
by Theodore Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Why do we age? How do we age? These questions have baffled scientists for centuries and remain unresolved. The answer to the “how” question is critical to our ability to successfully prevent and treat age-related diseases like cancer and heart disease that now cause the majority of all deaths...
Boundaries
A New Way to Look at the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
More than twenty years ago, noted psychiatrist and dream researcher, Ernest Hartmann, developed the concept of 'boundaries' as a dimension of personality. With his new book, Boundaries: A New Way to Look at the World, Hartmann extends the boundaries concept beyond the individual and into the world...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
MicroRNAs as the endogenous mediators of RNA interference have experienced an unprecedented career in recent years, highlighting their pathogenic, diagnostic and potential therapeutic relevance. Beside tissue microRNAs, they are also found in body fluids, most notably in blood. Significant differences...
Regenerative Medicine - from Protocol to Patient
1. Biology of Tissue Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Regenerative medicine is the main field of groundbreaking medical development and therapy using knowledge from developmental and stem cell biology, as well as advanced molecular and cellular techniques. This collection of volumes on Regenerative Medicine: From Protocol to Patient, aims to explain...
The Strange Order of Things
Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that...
by Engelbert Buxbaum
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book serves as an introduction to protein structure and function. Starting with their makeup from simple building blocks, called amino acids, the 3-dimensional structure of proteins is explained. This leads to a discussion how misfolding of proteins causes diseases like cancer, various encephalopathies,...
Annual, Lunar, and Tidal Clocks
Patterns and Mechanisms of Nature's Enigmatic Rhythms
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
There is more to biological rhythms than circadian clocks. This book aims at promoting the exciting potential of a deeper understanding of circannual, circatidal, and circalunar clocks. It highlights new developments, summarizes existing knowledge, and integrates different perspectives with the tools...
Synaptic Self
How Our Brains Become Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons—the...
Plant Functional Diversity
Organism traits, community structure, and ecosystem properties
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Biological diversity, the variety of living organisms on Earth, is traditionally viewed as the diversity of taxa, and species in particular. However, other facets of diversity also need to be considered for a comprehensive understanding of evolutionary and ecological processes. This novel book demonstrates...
The Nature of Nutrition
A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive, how populations evolve and decline, and how ecological communities...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The articles included in this volume were all presented at the 15th annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) conference held at the University of York on the 13th and 15th of September 2013. Ten papers are presented, on a range of topics and themes, including...
Sex and Death
An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Is the history of life a series of accidents or a drama scripted by selfish genes? Is there an "essential" human nature, determined at birth or in a distant evolutionary past? What should we conserve—species, ecosystems, or something else?
Informed answers to questions like these,...