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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

by Ph.D., Jill Bolte Taylor

The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment

On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist...


The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

by Neil Shubin

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery story as big as the world itself: How have astronomical events that...


Anatomy and Physiology for Dummies

by Maggie Norris & Donna Rae Siegfried

Learn about the human body from the inside out

Every year, more than 100,000 degrees are completed in biology or biomedical sciences. Anatomy and physiology classes are required for these majors and?others such...


The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind

by Barbara Strauch

A leading science writer examines how our brains improve in middle age.

Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Barbara Strauch explores the latest findings that demonstrate how the middle-aged brain is more...


Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form

by Michael Sims

In this amusing and brilliantly conceived book, Michael Sims introduces you to your body. Moving from head to toe, Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative...


Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

by Gerd Gigerenzer

Why is split second decision-making superior to deliberation? Gut Feelings delivers the science behind Malcolm Gladwell?s Blink

Reflection and reason are overrated, according to renowned psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer....


The Endless Web: Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality

by R. Louis, Ph.D. Schultz, Rosemary Do Feitis & Diana Salles

The result of more than two decades of research and practice, The Endless Web presents in clear, readable language a comprehensive guide to understanding and working effectively with the myofascial system, the...


The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

by David Waltner-Toews

An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, this cultural history explores an often ignored subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal...


Back to Basics in Physiology: Fluids in the Renal and Cardiovascular Systems

by Juan Pablo Arroyo & Adam J. Schweickert

This original six chapter book will briefly review and integrate the basic concepts behind water distribution and movement in the body. This fills a knowledge gap that most medical and undergraduate physiology...


Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Skeletal Regeneration

by Elena Jones, Peter Giannoudis & Xuebin Yang

This book covers our current understanding of the role of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and other mesenchymal progenitors in skeletal regeneration, encompassing bone, cartilage and whole joint regeneration....


Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Biomechanics

by Paul Grimshaw, Neil Fowler & Adrian Lees

Instant Notes Sport and Exercise Biomechanics provides a comprehensive overview of the key concepts in exercise and sport biomechanics. The kinematics of motion are reviewed in detail, outlining the physics...


The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only...


A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe

by Gino Segre

In a wonderful synthesis of science, history, and imagination, Gino Segrè, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist, embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of how the fundamental scientific concept...


Masters of the Planet

by Ian Tattersall

50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions...


Big Brain

by Gary Lynch & Richard Granger

Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human. 

But barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called "Boskops" flourished in South Africa. They...


An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

by Diane Ackerman

The most ambitious and enlightening work to date from the bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses, An Alchemy of Mind combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never...


Atlas of Developmental Field Anomalies of the Human Skeleton: A Paleopathology Perspective

by Ethne Barnes

Written by one of the most consulted authorities on the subject, Atlas of Developmental Field Anomalies of the Human Skeleton is the pre-eminent resource for developmental defects of the skeleton. This guide...


Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body

by Jennifer Ackerman

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,...


Remembering Smell: A Memoir of Losing--and Discovering--the Primal Sense

by Bonnie Blodgett

In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett—a professional garden writer...


The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

by Eric Swanson, Yongey Rinpoche Mingyur & Daniel Goleman

For millennia, Buddhists have enjoyed the limitless benefits of meditation. But how does it work? And why? The principles behind this ancient practice have long eluded some of the best minds in modern science....