Human biology

A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf , this book reenergises the study of kinship.

Regulation of Organ and Tissue Growth investigates the mechanisms underlying the regulation of organ and tissue growth.

Noted for their haunting melodies and enigmatic lyrics, Bauls have been portrayed as spiritually enlightened troubadours traveling around the countryside in West Bengal in India and in Bangladesh.

What do you know about the sense of sight?

Enzymes of the Arterial Wall is a comprehensive up-to-date monograph, and is the first publication dealing specifically with quantitative determinations of enzyme activities in human and animal vascular tissue.

Twelve per cent of UK theatregoers have a disability.

Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology.

The Managed Body productively complicates 'menstrual hygiene management' (MHM)-a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South.

An examination of dental studies in archaeology and related disciplines, first published in 2005.

This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility.

Recognised by universities worldwide and fully comparable to UK reformed GCE A levels.

Evolution is among the most central and most contested of ideas in the history of anthropology.

Worlds of Psychotic People brings a fresh twenty-first century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the manner in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds.

What's a baby beaver called?

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Protein: The Basis of All Life examines the relationship between pulsatory cycles and metabolic cycles happening inside a protein.

Following the birth of the first test-tube baby in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the First Phase of ARTs.

Human Growth Hormone is a compendium of papers that discusses all aspects of human growth hormone (HGH) relevant in the treatment of dwarfs who are HGH deficient.

Neuropsychology: A Textbook of Systems and Psychological Functions of the Human Brain provides a comprehensive account of the physiography of the brain and its working systems.

Winner of the 2015 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Edited VolumeSex, sexuality and sexual relationships are hotly debated in Indonesia, triggering complex and often passionate responses.

First published in 1992, Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US, UK, and Western Europe.

Feeding Behavior: Neural and Humoral Controls discusses the role of well-known neural or humoral substrates.

Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values.

Ninja were skilled warriors in medieval Japan.

Setting out to challenge various common assumptions in risk research, this collection explores how uncertainty is handled in a range of social contexts across the globe.

The book, Animals Have Classes Too!

This book presents the application of genomic tools to examine bacterial adaptation.

This book focuses on human anatomy and medicine and specifically on both muscular and skeletal birth defects in humans with trisomy.

The proceedings were designed to bring together researchers who share a common interest in the quantitative description of the biological form.

The Physics of Ear discusses various concerns of the physical aspects of the auditory systems.

This book provides a timely, critical, and thought-provoking analysis of the implications of the disruption of COVID-19 to the foreign aid and development system, and the extent to which the system is retaining a level of relevance, legitimacy, or coherence.

Winner of the 2011 W.

Welcome to the Australian Outback!

This volume offers a bold and long-overdue intervention into the field of psychological anthropology.

Blood Vessels and Lymphatics focuses on the embryology, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, and pathology of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Advances in Metabolic Disorders, Volume 8: Somatomedins and Some Other Growth Factors covers the proceedings of the 28th Nobel Symposium held at Hasselby, Sweden on September 4-7, 1974.

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies.

Learn About The Basic Building Blocks Of All Living Things - Cells.

Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches unites sociocultural, biological, and archaeological anthropological scholarship to spark new conversations and research about breastfeeding.

The Eye: Volume 2, The Visual Process is a compendium of papers that describes the physiology of the eye, particularly the visual functions, the photobiology of the visual process, and the visual pathway.

The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects.

Minireviews of the Neurosciences from Life Sciences is a collection of minireviews of research in the neurosciences and originally published by the Journal of Life Sciences.

This book covers two known controversial topics - antioxidants and stem cells as therapies to treat coronary heart disease.

Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules.

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Receptors in the Human Nervous System is a synthesis of the results of receptor mapping by leaders in the field.

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans.

Compare different types of scales and discover how they protect the bodies of fish and reptiles.