Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
$17.95 Read moreWhat happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie
- Author: Ashcroft, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2013
- ISBN10: 039334679X
- Language: English
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Gray’s Anatomy Puzzle Book
$19.99 Add to cartThink you know your cranium from your clavicle? Tibia from your trachea? Think again…
Test your brain, solve riddles and learn about how the body works with this unique puzzle book using illustrati… [more below]- Author: Moore, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0711254419
- Language: English
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Bones: Inside and Out
$17.95 Read moreHuman bone is versatile and entirely unique: it repairs itself without scarring, it’s lightweight but responds to stresses, and it’s durable enough to survive for millennia. In Bones, orthopedic surge
- Author: Meals, Roy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868257
- Language: English
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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
$16.95 Read moreSweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but it’s also one of our most vital and least understood. In The Joy of Sweat, Sarah Everts delves into its role in the body–and in human his
- Author: Everts, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 132402206X
- Language: English
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
$19.00 Add to cartA landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years–with charts and line drawings throughout.
“Fascinating…. A readabl- Author: Lieberman, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 030774180X
- Language: English
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Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies’ Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations
$29.99 Add to cartBill Bryson’s The Body meets Mary Roach’s Gulp (with a dash of What’s Your Poo Telling You?) in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions–from mucus to sweat to poop–
- Author: Wood, Cutter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0063048604
- Language: English
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The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms
$30.00 Add to cartHow the groundbreaking science of circadian rhythms can help you sleep better, feel happier, and improve your overall health
Your body contains a symphony of tiny timepieces, synchronized to the sun- Author: Peeples, Lynne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0593538900
- Language: English
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human
$17.95 Add to cartIn this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases–from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb syndrome. With a storyteller’s eye for compell
- Author: Ramachandran, V. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340627
- Language: English
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Heredity: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe concept of heredity is fundamental to how we see ourselves and others. It goes far beyond the obvious continuity of physical traits across generations. We routinely ascribe similarities in persona… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Waller, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0198790457
- Language: English
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
$19.99 Add to cartFrom 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 ma
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04, 2005
- ISBN10: 0743246748
- Language: English
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Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
$20.00 Add to cartWhy have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Even today in our technologically advanced age, more than seventy percent of Americans claim to believe in God. Why, i… [more below]
- Author: Newberg, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 034544034X
- Language: English
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Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body’s Most Fascinating Organ
$28.95 Add to cartThe fascinating–and often secret–history of the body’s most fascinating system: the gut.
The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent, inco- Author: Richardson, Elsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367241
- Language: English
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Bent Out of Shape
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Michel, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0615292097
- Language: English
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Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)
$21.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed journalist Bill Gifford comes a roaring journey into the world of anti-aging science in search of answers to a universal obsession: what can be done about getting old?
Spring Chicken:- Author: Gifford, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1455527432
- Language: English
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The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
$23.99 Add to cartInternationally bestselling author and world-famous human behaviorist Desmond Morris turns his attention to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour of the female body from head to toe. Hig
- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0312338538
- Language: English
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Anatomy 101: From Muscles and Bones to Organs and Systems, Your Guide to How the Human Body Works
$16.99 Add to cartAn all-in-one guide to the human body
Anatomy 101 offers an exciting look into the inner workings of the human body. Too often, textbooks turn the fascinating systems, processes, and figures of anato- Series: Adams 101
- Author: Langford, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1440584265
- Language: English
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The Brain; Student text
$16.95 Add to cartThis is the student text portion of the full curriculum book “The Brain; Introduction to Neurology” by Ellen J. McHenry. The student text is provided in this format (apart from the full curriculum boo
- Author: McHenry, Ellen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: September 19 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986863702
- Language: English
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The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
$20.00 Add to cart“A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing.” —The Boston Globe
“Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our spe- Author: Wilson, Frank R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 1999
- ISBN10: 0679740473
- Language: English
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
$25.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening exploration of blood, the life giving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science.
Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes peo- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1250230683
- Language: English
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
$16.99 Add to cartA biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections–from faulty knees to junk DNA–that make us human. “A funny, fascinating catalog of our collective shortcomings that’s tough to … [more below]
- Author: Lents, Nathan H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1328589269
- Language: English
