Human biology

Un libro sumamente claro, sencillo y muy bien estructurado que explica detalladamente, y con un enfoque profundamente humanista, todos las etapas evolutivas del desarrollo de la personalidad, desde el periodo prenatal y el nacimiento hasta la adolescencia.

This is the story of a professor of Medical Sociology, diagnosed with colon cancer.

GRADES K-2: Bring Spanish into the classroom!

Do you like to gaze at the stars?

This Title Teaches Students That Everything Is Made Of Matter, And That Physical Changes Create Different Forms Or States Of Matter.

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.

This Element is based on the many examples of superorganisms – socially organized species – in the natural world, and in evolution.

How did our knowledge of matter, gravity, and electricity develop over time?

Cilia, Ciliated Epithelium, and Ciliary Activity reviews the state of knowledge of the activity of cilia and of the role these structures play in maintaining the normal physiology of the body, especially in the respiratory and genital systems.

Provide clear guidance to the 2014 changes and ensure in-depth study with accessible content, directly mapped to the new syllabus and approach to learning.

The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question: How does a thing-such as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrument-become a gendered object?

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

Pulmonary Gas Exchange, Volume I: Ventilation, Blood Flow, and Diffusion considers the mechanisms of gas exchange in the lung.

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts.

Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women.

The only DP Physics resource developed with the IB to accurately match the new 2014 syllabus for both SL and HL, this completely revised edition gives you unrivalled support for the new concept-based approach to learning, the Nature of science.

Calcium and Cell Function, Volume III covers the many aspects of research on calcium, dealing with its biochemistry, biology, and pharmacology in animals as well as in plants.

The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field.

This proceedings volume describes the current state of research dealing with biological shape analysis.

This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID 19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities and disease comorbidities.

Reconstructs European and Mediterranean climate over the last 20 million years in relation to human evolution.

Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients.

First published in 2006, this is a comprehensive review of the health, demography and population genetics of Caribbean populations of African descent.

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.

Birds do it, bees do it, penguins do it, and orangutans do it.

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

Cardiac Muscle: The Regulation of Excitation and Contraction is a 12-chapter text that covers the research studies on characterizing the ionic and molecular mechanisms that regulate excitation and contraction of cardiac muscle.

“Despegue.

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology.

Introduces Atoms And Molecules, Talks About The Elements, Bonding And Reacting, And Matter And Materials.

Tantalizing Therapeutics in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia is a concise reference that provides an overview of emerging concepts in the understanding of lung development and injury from a molecular and cellular point-of-view, including exciting pathways that are paving the way for new options to prevent or treat Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD).

Why do animals, plants, and people look like their parents?

Did you know that there are more than 600 muscles in your body?

Could astronauts use wormholes to travel from galaxy to galaxy?

What happens to the bodies of animals and humans after death?

This publication presents the structure and function of biological membranes to improve the understanding of cells in both normal and pathogenic states.

Albert Einstein rewrote the rules of physics and changed how scientists see space and time forever.

Medicine is always improving.

'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and contemporary neighbors' Steven Pinker'A brilliant analysis of the role of aggression in our evolutionary history' Jane GoodallIt may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful.

Living Tissues: An Introduction to Functional Histology discusses the fundamental concepts that are essential in studying organic tissues.

¡La Tierra es bastante increíble!

Take a trip into orbit with the most up-to-date information on space tourism.

Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent--we get hemorrhoids and impacted wisdom teeth, for instance--but do the imperfections extend down to the level of our genes?