Human biology

Our house is on fire - it's time to wake up to the climate crisis facing planet Earth before it's too late.

Yoga is big business today, and teacher training programs are booming.

The Sunday Times BestsellerFrom the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoir'It's beautiful - full of love and light - and an exploration into not only how, but why we survive, despite everything' Christie Watson, author of The Language of KindnessOn Good Friday, 2010 Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back.

This practical, comprehensive and highly illustrated book will be invaluable to students and doctors of neurology and internal medicine in Africa.

It s not the dream that matters, it s the telling of the dream the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mindThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others.

Originally published in 1957, The Uniqueness of the Individual is a collection of 9 essays published from the ten years preceding publication.

Longlisted for the 2024 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksLonglisted for the 2024 Green Earth Book AwardGet the facts you'll really want to know when you really need to go.

Environmental pollution is an emerging global public health problem of both developing and developed nations.

Pain is the most frequent cause of disability in America.

Get to grips with the core practicals and develop the skills students need to succeed with an assessment-driven approach, combining clear summaries of practical work that reinforce understanding, with sample questions and answers to improve exam technique.

Aimed at graduate students, this book explores some of the core phenomena in non-equilibrium statistical physics.

An Indispensable Resource on Advanced Methods of Analysis of Human Skeletal and Dental Remains in Archaeological and Forensic Contexts Now in its third edition, Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton has become a key reference for bioarchaeologists, human osteologists, and paleopathologists throughout the world.

This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death.

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Weve all heard the risk factors for cardiovascular disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking, stress, and a sedentary lifestyle.

Drawing together contributions from a diverse group of international experts in the field, this collection of papers examines the biology and pathology of elastin at the molecular level.

Understand the human body from head to toe with this educational encyclopedia for children.

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance.

With 66,000 members the Japanese-Canadian community is one of the smallest ethnic communities in Canada.

Problems of the Biochemistry of the Nervous System is a collection of papers presented at the Second Conference on the "e;Biochemistry of the Nervous System, organized by the Institute of Biochemistry of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences on February 12-16, 1957.

Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: BiologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Ensure your students get to grips with the core practicals and develop the skills needed to succeed with an in-depth assessment-driven approach that builds and reinforces understanding; clear summaries of practical work with sample questions and answers help to improve exam technique in order to achieve higher grades.

'This book could not be more timely' OBSERVERGot endometriosis?

Even the youngest children love animals; they want to pet puppies, visit lions at the zoo, and imitate animal sounds.

The scientific study of networks - computer, social, and biological - has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years.

The book examines biological processes vital for organism survival through a chemical lens.

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds.

This 2002 book provides a cultural and ecological history of European impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

Elementary Medical Biochemistry deals with the biochemical basis of the process of life, particularly, the principles of metabolic processes and the systems controlling these processes.

Winner of the Reader Views Literary Award, Societal Issues and the Reviewers Choice Best Non-fiction Book of the Year, Specialty Awards, Schooled on Fat explores how body image, social status, fat stigma and teasing, food consumption behaviors, and exercise practices intersect in the daily lives of adolescent girls and boys.

Did you know scientists perform hundreds of experiments in space each year?

This book is the first comprehensive history of international efforts to protect the ozone layer, the greatest success yet achieved in managing human impacts on the global environment.

This book presents original research findings of The Million Person Study of Low-Dose Radiation Health Effects (MPS), the largest and most comprehensive epidemiologic study of its kind to investigate the health effects of low-level chronic radiation exposure on American workers and veterans throughout the 20th century.

Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health addresses the sexual and reproductive health needs of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women from a structural and intersectional perspective.

Known as the red planet, Mars is the closest planet to the sun.

Medical Physiology: Objectives and Multiple Choice Questions, Second Edition defines explicitly what students should be able to accomplish at the end of a one-year course in human physiology and related biochemistry.

Ready for Science series, Emergent Reader, non fiction narrative, strong picture support, Text features: Picture glossary, labels, Comprehension strategies: Identify main idea and details, ask and answer questions, and make text to self and text to world connections.

What is Life?

This book examines the evolutionary lead taken by the matriline in providing the intergenerational co-adaptations required for successful pregnancy.

Food is the body's fuel-but what happens to each yummy mouthful from the moment you take a bite?

A clear and straightforward explanation of genetics in this new edition of the popular 101 series.

In this book, pioneering social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, shows how inequality affects social relations and well-being.

Selected as the "e;Most Enduring Edited Collection"e; by the Council on Anthropology and ReproductionSince Roe v.

'Breast is best' is today's prevailing mantra.

Once headhunters under the rule of White Rajahs and briefly colonised before independence within Malaysia, the Iban Dayaks of Borneo are one of the world's most extraordinary indigenous tribes, possessing ancient traditions and a unique way of life.

What animals have shells?

How did our knowledge of cells, heredity, evolution, ecosystems, and photosynthesis develop?