Biological category: 21163 books
Dark Pool of Light, Volume Three
The Crisis and Future of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
In books like Embyogenesis and Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings, author Richard Grossinger brought together the subjects of biological embryology and the esoteric process of human consciousness becoming embodied ("The embryo is the universe writing itself on its own body"). In Dark...
by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - Fully Illustrated Edition.
is a book on evolutionary theory by Charles Darwin, It was Darwin's second book on evolutionary theory, following his work, On the Origin of Species, in which he explored the concept of natural selection. In...
A Troublesome Inheritance
Genes, Race and Human History
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story
Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different...
Orphan Black and Philosophy
Grand Theft DNA
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
In Orphan Black, several apparently unconnected women discover that they are exact physical doubles, that there are more of them out there, that they are all illegally produced clones, and that someone is having them killed. They find themselves in the midst of a secret and violent struggle between...
Germs
Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is no terrorist threat more horrifying -- and less understood -- than germ warfare, and that it would take very little to mount a devastating attack...
Living Terrors
What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
America is one killer organism away from a living nightmare that threatens all we hold dear....
A deadly cloud of powdered anthrax spores settles unnoticed over a crowded football stadium.... A school cafeteria lunch is infected with a drug-resistant strain of E. coli.... Thousands in a bustling...
by Wilhelm Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The Bion Experiments, published in a limited German edition in 1938 and now available in English for the first time, represents a cornerstone in Reich's scientific development. The work documents a series of experiments conducted in Oslo in 1936-37 in which Reich applied the formula of tension?charge?discharge?relaxation,...
by Herbert Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The two parts of which this Essay consists, originally published in The Nineteenth Century for April and May 1886 respectively, now reappear with the assent of the proprietor and editor of that periodical, to whom my thanks are due for his courtesy in giving it. Some passages of considerable length which,...
by Erik Nordenskiold
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This work, which is here present in the English language, is based on a course of lectures given at the University of Helsingfors, Finland, during the academic year 1916-17. It is the author's intention to present a picture of the development of biological science throughout the ages, viewed in conjunction...
After Me
An Essay
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The human being, homo sapiens... A unique species that has hauled its way onto the top of the food chain and now dominates the near entirety of the Earth's ecosystems. What is life like at the top? Do we enjoy the fruits of our labour? Looking at things with a clear gaze, we seem to have replaced...
Grand Canyon For Sale
Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research,...
The Other Side of Normal
How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In this enthralling work of popular science, respected Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller addresses one of humankind’s most enduring and perplexing questions: What does it mean to be “normal?” In The Other Side of Normal, Smoller explores the biological component of normalcy, revealing the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
A common approach to understanding the functional repertoire of a genome is through functional genomics. With systems biology burgeoning, bioinformatics has grown to a larger extent for plant genomes where several applications in the form of protein-protein interactions (PPI) are used to predict the...
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
A Day in the Life of Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Did you know that you can tell time in your sleep? That women have more nightmares than men? Or that up to half of the calories you consume can be burned off simply by fidgeting? In Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream, acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ackerman takes us on an astonishing and illuminating...