Human biology

This comprehensive introduction to the field of human biology covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and non-infectious diseases, aging, growth, nutrition, and demography.

What do you know about the sense of hearing?

This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners-midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians-to take a fresh look at the "e;standard procedures"e; that are routinely used to "e;manage"e; American childbirth.

An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology is designed primarily for students of medicine and physiology.

Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: BiologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2017Develop students' experimental, analytical and evaluation skills with contemporary and topical biology examples, practical assessment guidance and differentiated end of topic questions, with this AQA Year 2 student book.

Originating in the popular Sociologia en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis of the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

Intricate details of all aspects of the human body down to the smallest detail - from our cells and DNA, to the largest bone in our bodies, the femur.

Nervous Regulation of Circulation in Skeletal Muscle covers the proceedings of the 1966 International Symposium on Circulation in Skeletal Muscle, held at Smolenice, Czechoslovakia.

The Handbook of Sex Differences is a four-volume reference work assembled and written to assess sex differences in human traits (although findings regarding other species are also included).

The book, Animals Have Classes Too!

Recently, mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh.

The inhibition of angiogenesis is an effective mechanism of slowing down tumor growth and malignancies.

This book summarizes rapid progress and innovation in transplantation and regenerative medicine - the merger of reconstructive plastic surgery and transplantation - called Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation.

Contributes to the debate about modern human origins by exploring the diets and foraging patterns of both Neandertals and early modern humans.

This transformative guide completely breaks down our current understanding of biological sex and gender diversity.

First published in 1922, this book represents an attempt to outline the biological approach to the questions of religious thought.

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery, including gender, class and ethnicity, and explore how these are negotiated.

Recent Progress in Hormone Research, Volume 46 provides a superior summary of the developments in the field of hormone research.

**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023***Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2023*From the author of Spillover, the book that predicted the pandemic, Breathless is the story of Covid-19 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists tasked with fighting it.

The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change.

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Functional and Clinical Neuroanatomy: A Guide for Health Care Professionals is a comprehensive, yet easy-to read, introduction to neuroanatomy that covers the structures and functions of the central, peripheral and autonomic nervous systems.

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce and transmit culture is radically changing.

Everything you need to create exciting thematic science units can be found in these handy guides.

Handbook of Endourology contains five focused, review-oriented volumes that are ideal for students and clinicians looking for a comprehensive review rather than a whole course.

Themes: Microscopic Life Forms, Science, Nonfiction, Tween.

Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition.

This book rejects traditional, dominant-typically reductive and anti-realist-explanations of stress, PTSD, and resilience.

Key Themes in Qualitative Research is an attempt by three well-respected ethnographic researchers to present a balanced view of qualitative methodology and research.

This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Please see the website of author Thurka Sangaramoorthy for extra resources and material related to this book, at thurkasangaramoorthy.

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is commonly considered to be a reliable procedure, with high implant survival rates at 10 to 15 years of follow-up.

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.

This book addresses how skeletons can inform us about behavior by describing skeletal lesions in the Gombe chimpanzees, relating them to known life histories whenever possible, and analyzing demographic patterns in the sample.

Covid-19 and Governance focuses on the relationship between governance institutions and approaches to Covid-19 and health outcomes.

Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called humoral medical traditions, as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years.

This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health.

This book reveals unexamined assumptions and shows how sociocultural context influences measurement of disease.

Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and worldviews within healthcare.

Charts the fascinating interaction of specialized gamete cells, forming the early embryo and a blueprint of new life.

Audisee(R) eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!

Histology and Histopathology of the Eye and its Adnexa provides information pertinent to the histopathology of the eye.

The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax.

Fatigue is a condition spanning the breadth of human functioning in health and disease and is a central concern in sport and exercise.