Physiology category: 1850 books
by Charles Spender
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
This text describes water treatments of influenza, such as the adapted cold shower, head shower, and nasal washings. The proposed techniques reduce pain, fever, weakness, nasal congestion, and the duration of illness. The biological mechanisms are also explained.
Change of Heart
Unraveling the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A Change of Heart is a detailed account of the revolutionary Framingham Heart study — which, over the years, has provided conclusive evidence that cardiovascular disease is largely the result of measurable and modifiable risk factors. First begun in 1948, not long after Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
by Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
**A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2018
“A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine, and self-discovery.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee**
Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America focuses on freshwater invertebrates that can be identified using at most an inexpensive magnifying glass. This Guide will be useful for experienced nature enthusiasts, students doing aquatic field projects, and anglers looking for the best...
Bones, Stones and Molecules
"Out of Africa" and Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004
Bones, Stones and Molecules provides some of the best evidence for resolving the debate between the two hypotheses of human origins. The debate between the 'Out of Africa' model and the 'Multiregional' hypothesis is examined through the functional and developmental processes associated with the evolution...
Le corps humain
Un guide pratique pour découvrir l'anatomie
Language: French
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Le corps humain sous toutes ses facettes !Découvrez le fonctionnement du corps humain : le squelette, les muscles, la circulation du sang, le système nerveux…Un ebook pratique et malin qui répondra rapidement à toutes vos questions sur ce sujet.Avec plus de 300 titres parus, la collection "Petit...
Surviving Leukemia and Hodgkin's Lymphoma
An Overview Of Effective Treatment Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
"Surviving Leukemia and Hodgkin's Lymphoma" is a text that will give the reader a more than basic insight into the inner workings of both diseases. The author guides the reader through the various symptoms that come with each and the current methods that are used to diagnose the diseases....
Parenting Tips: Toilet Training
How to Potty Train Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
**How to get your child from nappies and diapers into using the toilet themselves, written by a leading expert.**An explanation of the process children go through when they learn how to use the toilet by themselves. Once you understand this process, you'll be able to help them learn to go by themselves.The...
The Trouble With Testosterone
And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predi
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as “one of the best scientist/writers of our time,” a collection of sharply observed, uproariously funny essays on the biology of human culture and behavior.
In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould and...
An Alchemy of Mind
The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Zookeeper's Wife, an ambitious and enlightening work that combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never before, the magic and mysteries of the human mind.
Long treasured by literary readers for her uncommon ability...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1889 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Darwinism Applied to Man' contains an account of of the general identity of human and animal structure, diseases common to man and other animals, summary...
by Francis Galton
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Landmark discusses the evidence validating fingerprints as a means of personal identification, permanence of the fingerprint characteristics, uniqueness of an assemblage of ridge details, and the variability and classifiable nature of finger patterns — along with such fundamental investigations as biological and racial variations and the inheritance of fingerprint traits. 34 tables. 15 plates.
The Busy Body Book
A Kid's Guide to Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move!
Your amazing body can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. Your body is built to move.
Lizzy Rockwell explains how your bones and muscles, heart and lungs, nerves and brain all work together to keep you on the go. Kids walk...
Anatomy and Embalming
A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to This Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book is the result of many years of contact with embalmers in training and in practice. We have included in this work a crystallization of essential information without which, the embalmer must be poorly equipped to carry out the many duties incident to his calling in a manner satisfactory to...