Human biology

Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population s interaction with modern medicine.

How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issues that are raised in the process of attempting to conceive life in the face of infertility?

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.

Did you know the moon helps stabilize Earth's tilt, which effects our climate?

Explore the obstacles humans would face if they were to try living on Mars.

Have you ever used your imagination to solve a problem?

This book presents the contemporary history and dynamics of Mexican midwifery - professional, (post)modern or autonomous, traditional and Indigenous - as profoundly political and embedded in differing societal stratifications.

Basic Mechanisms in Hearing is a collection of papers that discusses the function of the auditory system covering its ultrastructure, physiology, and the mechanism's connection with experimental psychology.

A girl’s straightforward, accessible, and nonjudgmental guide to everything they need to know about adolescence and growing up.

A diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other - for those living with dementia, as well their families, caregivers, friends, health professionals, neighbours, shopkeepers and the community.

Woldwide, developed and developing countries increasingly depend on groundwater resources for domestic water supply.

This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2023.

This book paints a comprehensive portrait of Mexico's system of assisted reproduction first from a historical perspective, then from a more contemporary viewpoint.

Volume One of Hormones and the Fetus contained a generalization of the role of hormones during fetal life.

Memories establish a connection between a collective and individual past, between origins, heritage, and history.

Hazardous Waste Site Management addresses current methods used in the regulatory process with respect to water quality cleanup levels.

In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures - from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe - to understand what it means to be human.

Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: PhysicsFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Endorsed for Edexcel Help students to build and develop the essential knowledge and skills needed, provide practical assessment guidance and plenty of support for the new mathematical requirements with this Edexcel Year 2 Student Book- Supports practical assessment with Practical Skill summaries throughout- Provides support for all 16 required practicals with detailed explanations, data and exam style questions for students to answer- Builds understanding and knowledge with a variety of questions to engage and challenge students throughout the course: prior knowledge, worked examples, Test Yourself and Exam Practice Questions- Acts as an aid for the mathematical requirements of the course with worked examples of calculations and a dedicated 'Maths in Physics' chapter- Develops understanding with free online access to Test yourself Answers.

Thousands of years ago, humans believed that Earth was the center of the universe, that the world they lived on was all there was.

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

Companion to Dental Anthropology presents a collection of original readings addressing all aspects and sub-disciplines of the field of dental anthropology from its origins and evolution through to the latest scientific research.

China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life.

We emerged after millions of years of evolution, first in the rainforest and then in the dry savanna bush.

Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a richly detailed analysis of the experience of the bleeding disorder of haemophilia based on longterm ethnographic research.

Biologically Active Amines Found in Man: Their Biochemistry, Pharmacology, and Pathophysiological Importance deals with the biochemistry, pharmacology, and pathophysiology of biologically active amines present in the human body.

Connect students in grades 4 and up with science using Amazing Facts about Animals.

Matter Is Anything That Has Mass, And This Title Teaches Students About How Temperature Affects The Different States Of Matter And Why.

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimean account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility.

¿De dónde viene la electricidad?

This book is backwards!

Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society.

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications.

A rock sinks in the water.

What do you know about the Moon?

This lively and informative book introduces beginning readers to the planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets that make up our solar system; the Sun as the center of the solar system; and more.

This assessment of Britain's influential 14 day rule governing embryo research explores how and why it became the de facto global standard for research into human fertilisation and embryology, arguing that its influence and stability offers valuable lessons for successful biological translation.

Practical text to the study of humans and close relatives from the evidence of their teeth.

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Join Ackerley the Acanthostega and travel back in time 4,500 million years to the Precambrian period, when our planet first formed.

Do you know why a 10-ton boat floats but a tiny pebble sinks?

The Physiology and Pharmacology of the Microcirculation, Volume 2, discusses the microcirculatory function of specific organ systems.

How recent breakthroughs in longevity research offer clues about human agingAll of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age.

What do we mean when we talk about 'the body'?

This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2022.

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.

This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today.