Human biology

What is life like on the International Space Station?

Bizarre creatures are floating around in our oceans-squishy, slimy, spiky-headed monsters.

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Asteroids are always moving in space, but what do we do if one of these giant space rocks heads straight for Earth?

High Blood Pressure: Its Variations and Control, A Manual for Practitioners covers aspects and consideration of blood pressure estimation and control.

Charting the experiences of internally or externally migrant communities, the volume examines social transformation through the dynamic relationship between movement, reproduction, and health.

This book tells the amazing story behind seashells: how they are made by mollusks, used for protection and camouflage, and full of clues about all they've been through.

Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of daght, translated as "e;pressure"e; or "e;stress,"e; and another related primarily to obesity.

This book is an introduction to recent advances in neuromorphic robotics and its contribution to furthering our understanding of the brain.

Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts.

Explore The Relationship Between The Strength Of A Force And Its Effect On An Object As Well As The Effects Of Forces In Nature.

Engaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine and health development.

This book examines the intersectionality and stratified lived experience of rural poor and urban middle-class childless women in Bangladesh.

Talks About Skin, What Your Skin Does For You, Your Sense Of Touch, And How To Keep Skin Clean And Healthy.

A comprehensive review of the corticospinal and spinal contributions to the control of movement in human subjects.

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction is a comprehensive overview of the topics, approaches, and trajectories in the anthropological study of human reproduction.

Themes: Wormholes, Space, Nonfiction, Tween.

What foods should you eat to stay healthy?

From reproduction to respiration and from enzymes to ecosystems, this guide makes complex topics easy to grasp at a glance.

Will we one day be able to regrow limbs?

Lately, everybody is talking about medicinal cannabis.

Minireviews of the Neurosciences from Life Sciences is a collection of minireviews of research in the neurosciences and originally published by the Journal of Life Sciences.

Heart failure continues to be a major public health problem in the United States with close to half a million new cases diagnosed each year.

This book offers an accessible and up-to-date reference on primate zoonoses.

What do you know about jellyfish?

In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language.

The Surgery of the Alimentary Tract provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of the surgery of the alimentary canal and its adnexal organs.

This first of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development.

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This fascinating book draws it subject matter from a range of relevant disciplines that extend from molecular nutrition, nutritional sciences, and nutrition dietetics through to genetics, genomics, and anthropology.

Protides of the Biological Fluids: Proceedings of the 30th Colloquium, 1982 is a collection of manuscripts presented at the 30th Colloquium, held in Brussels, Belgium in 1982.

COVID-19 has shut down most people's normal lives.

Recognizing the significance of cultural aspects in the practice of medicine, this book places a strong emphasis on the social structure, customs, and history of the indigenous population and its ramifications on health care providers.

The Human Nervous System is a definitive account of human neuroanatomy, with a comprehensive coverage of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system.

What do you know about the sense of sight?

For hundreds of years scientists have sought and studied new worlds beyond Earth.

Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2018In the UK and beyond, Down's syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal care.

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All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event.

The Vein Book is a comprehensive reference on veins and venous circulation.

This book offers a concise, methodological approach to the evaluation and treatment of patients with sleep disorders.

Biochemistry of Glucuronic Acid provides a comprehensive study of the metabolic importance of glucoronic acid.

Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation.

Discover the variety of animals that live in the rain forest, including frogs, jaguars, monkeys, parrots, and sloths.

Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways.

Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine.

Both very funny and as propulsive as a thriller .

The Managed Body productively complicates 'menstrual hygiene management' (MHM)-a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South.

Book Features:* Ages 4-7, PreK-Grade 2, Guided Reading Level B, Lexile 120L* 16 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches* Vibrant, full-color photographs* Includes a photo glossary, high-frequency vocabulary list, and review activity* Reading/teaching tips includedReady For Science: In Animals Need Food, preschoolers through second graders discover and explore the eating habits of some of their favorite animals!