Human biology

Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation.

Many things can be found in the woods.

From its prehistory in the biological theories of racial difference formulated in the 1800s to its current position in academic debate, Richard Rees investigates the diverse fields of scholarship from which the multifaceted understanding of the term ethnicity is derived.

Chemical Pathways of Metabolism, Volume I focuses on the chemical steps involved in the metabolism of the major constituents of living organisms.

Give students in grades 5 and up tons of information to digest with Your Body and How It Works!

Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 11: Kidney and Body Fluids offers a thorough discussion of the experiments, research, and investigations done on the function, composition, and chemical reactions the kidney and body fluids undergo.

The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine.

COVID-19 is a highly contagious viral illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome SARSCoV-2.

International Review of Connective Tissue Research, Volume 3 is a collection of papers that deals with the histochemisty of connective tissues.

A succinct volume presenting current views of Rapanui prehistory, utilising biological evidence to modify existing archaeological and cultural anthropological preconceptions.

"e;The common perception of Alzheimer's from people who haven't experienced it is that it's more like a 'quirk' which all elderly people experience at some point.

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory.

Describes How Sounds Are Made, Volume, Pitch, And Vibrations.

The newly revised and thoroughly updated standard source for mastering the human fossil record.

A readable and fascinating account of the story of mummification from around the world.

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Fully revised and updated content matching the Cambridge International AS & A Level Biology syllabus (9700).

Twelve-year-old Clyde Tombaugh stepped up and took his first look through a telescope.

The Trouble with Human Nature brings together biological and cross-cultural evidence to critically examine common preconceptions and challenge popular assumptions about human nature.

Sunlight, air, water, and minerals help keep plants alive.

How do living things reproduce?

The field of physical anthropology deals with issues that everyone thinks about and cares about: our origins, our evolutionary history, and why we look and act the way we do.

Observa cómo se compara Venus con todos los planetas cercanos.

Hormones, Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis, Volume 35, emerged from the international symposium on "e;"e;Hormones, Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis"e;"e; held in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

This fourth edition of the best-selling textbook, Human Genetics and Genomics, clearly explains the key principles needed by medical and health sciences students, from the basis of molecular genetics, to clinical applications used in the treatment of both rare and common conditions.

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia.

Nervous System Theory: An Introductory Study focuses on the nervous system theory, stressing the means for understanding the nature of the biological system rather than the elaboration of mathematical theories.

Primate Sexuality provides an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - prosimians, monkeys, apes, and human beings.

This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease.

The sweet smell of roses.

This volume examines the current state of knowledge concerning the influence of a hot environment on nutrient requirements of military personnel.

The bubonic plague wreaked havoc in the fourteenth century.

Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology, Volume 9 reviews developments in the fields of psychobiology and physiological psychology, with emphasis on selected areas of research relating brain mechanisms and behavior.

The Neuropsychology of Consciousness is based on a symposium entitled "e;Consciousness and Cognition: Neuropsychological Perspectives held at the University of St Andrews, September 1990.

Blood and Tissue Antigens documents the proceedings of the International Symposium on Blood and Tissue Antigens held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 17-19, 1969.

Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men s experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life.

Mechanisms of Speech Recognition explores the mechanisms underlying speech recognition.

In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV-positive loved ones.

Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents.

Blast off with SpaceX, the company that builds and launches rockets and spacecraft.

From snot and phlegm to earwax and eye gunk, there's some pretty gross stuff in that body of yours!

Amino Acids, Proteins, and Cancer Biochemistry focuses on the contributions of Jesse P.

This book is the first comprehensive study of rare disorders from a historical, political, and social perspective.

When the 23-year-old British Doctor Wilfred Grenfell first set foot in Newfoundland in 1892, bent upon serving migrant fishermen, he had no clear idea who his patients were or how they lived there.

Did you know that both electricity and light move in waves, like water does?

Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: PhysicsFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam Summer 2018This second edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect the changes made by the SQA to the National 5 Course Specification with chapters on the following areas of physics: Electricity, Properties of matter, Waves, Radiation, Dynamics, and Space.

Venous Ulcers, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive synthesis of evidence-based recommendations and the highest level of expertise from a leading group of doctors, which is a fundamental constituent for the appropriate management of nonhealing venous wounds in everyday practice.

What became of these millions of immigrant descendants?

Third party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions.