Neil Shubin
Editura: Vintage
From the scientist who made the groundbreaking discovery of the fish with hands, here is a lively, thoroughly engrossing chronicle of evolutionary history that unearths the often ...
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Frederic Delavier
Editura: Human Kinetics Publishers
With information on strengthening and toning the legs, buttocks, abs, and back, "Women's Strength Training Anatomy" provides full-color, detailed anatomical ...
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Natalie Angier
Editura: Mariner Books
National Book Award finalist A New York Times notable book "A tour de force, a womderful, entertaining and informative book." --Abraham Verghese, New York Times Book Review After ...
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Caitlin Doughty
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
Bestselling author and mortician Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens ...
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Matthew Walker
Editura: Scribner Book Company
" Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book...Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for ...
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Matthew Walker
Editura: Scribner Book Company
" Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book...Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for ...
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Bernd Heinrich
Editura: Ecco Press
In Why We Run, biologist, award-winning nature writer, and ultramarathoner Bernd Heinrich explores a new perspective on human evolution by examining the phenomenon of ...
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Naomi Wolf
Editura: Ecco Press
One of our bestselling and most respected cultural critics, Wolf brings an astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how the vagina and ...
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Eduardo Calixto
Editura: Aguilar
Por qu sientes celos, ansiedad, angustia? Sab as que existen reas cerebrales de la fidelidad? Sabes qu le sucede a tu cerebro cuando te enamoras? Sab as que algunas neuronas s ...
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Walter B. Cannon
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
The first detailed account of the way in which our bodies preserve their stability against the many disturbing forces they encounter, suggesting that the lessons to be derived from ...
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Sam Kean
Editura: Back Bay Books
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. In The Disappearing Spoon , bestselling ...
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Miguel Nicolelis
Editura: Yale University Press
A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist who places the human brain at the center of humanity's universe Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis ...
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Elizabeth Blackburn
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done ...
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Elizabeth Blackburn
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done ...
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V. S. Ramachandran
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, an eminent neurologist offers unprecedented insight into the evolution of the uniquely human brain. In this landmark work, V. ...
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Sam Kean
Editura: Little Brown And Company
The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the human brain used a simple ...
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Daniel Coyle
Editura: Bantam
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you're ...
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Daniel Lieberman
Editura: Vintage
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. He illuminates the major ...
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David Epstein
Editura: Portfolio
The New York Times bestseller - with a new afterword about early specialization in youth sports - from the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World . The ...
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David Epstein
Editura: Current
The New York Times bestseller - with a new afterword added to the paperback - from the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World . In high school, I wondered ...
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Frances Ashcroft
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in bodies. What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does ...
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Sylvia Tara
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
Fat is not just excess weight, but actually a dynamic, smart, and self-sustaining organ that influences everything from aging and immunity to mood and fertility. With cutting-edge ...
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Wallace B. Mendelson
Editura: University Of Chicago Press
We often hear that humans spend one third of their lives sleeping--and most of us would up that fraction if we could. Whether we're curling up for a brief lunchtime catnap, ...
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T. Owens Moore
Editura: Eworld
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R. Douglas Fields
Editura: Simon & Schuster
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Rita Carter
Editura: Dk Publishing (dorling Kindersley)
This award-winning science book uses the latest findings from neuroscience research and brain-imaging technology to take you on a journey into the human brain. CGI illustrations ...
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Richard Walker
Editura: Dk Publishing (dorling Kindersley)
An all-in-one visual guide to human anatomy with encyclopedic coverage from bones and muscles to systems and processes. This in-depth manual to the human body's physical structure, ...
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Frank R. Wilson
Editura: Vintage
In this provocative celebration of the human hand, a neurologist makes the striking claim that the unique structure of the hand and its cooperation with the brain are the reasons ...
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Thomas Metzinger
Editura: Basic Books
Examine the inner workings of the mind and learn what consciousness and a sense of self really means - and if it even exists. We're used to thinking about the self as an ...
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Virginia Sole-smith
Editura: Holt Mcdougal
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture. Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will ...
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Dk
Editura: Dk Publishing (dorling Kindersley)
Discover all there is to know about human anatomy in DK's latest concise visual guide to the human body. Fully updated to reflect the latest medical information, The Concise Human ...
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Bill Bryson
Editura: Doubleday Books
Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides readers through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and ...
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Bill Bryson
Editura: Random House Large Print Publishing
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD "Glorious. . .You will ...
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Sharon Moalem
Editura: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
A Guardian Book of the Week An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life Here are some ...
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David Epstein
Editura: Turtleback Books
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Riley Black (brian Switek)
Editura: Riverhead Books
"A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone." -- Wall Street Journal Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen. ...
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Carl Sagan
Editura: Ballantine Books
The world's most celebrated team of science writers explores the origins of human life on Earth--a wonderfully entertaining and awe-inspiring excursion through more than a billion ...
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Ann Swanson
Editura: Dk Publishing (dorling Kindersley)
Explore the physiology of 30 key yoga poses, in-depth and from every angle, and master each asana with confidence and control. Did you know that yoga practice can help lower your ...
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John Yudkin
Editura: Penguin Books
More than 40 years before Gary Taubes published The Case Against Sugar, John Yudkin published his now-classic expos on the dangers of sugar--reissued here with a new introduction ...
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Pierce Howard
Editura: William Morrow & Company
Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated. At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool ...
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Julian Jaynes
Editura: Mariner Books
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 ...
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Rose George
Editura: Picador Usa
An 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 ...
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Hana Ros
Editura: Nobrow
Do you know what your brain is made of? How does memory function? What is a neuron and how does it work? For that matter what's a comic? And in the words of Lewis ...
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Florence Williams
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while walking over the ...
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Pamphlet Books
Editura: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
✔ Master the muscular system , benefit from realistic medical anatomy illustrations that will help you master the muscular system with effortlessness while you're having fun ...
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Martin J. Blaser
Editura: Picador Usa
"In Missing Microbes , Martin Blaser sounds an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat of antibiotic overuse goes far beyond resistant ...
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Iain Mcgilchrist
Editura: Yale University Press
A new edition of the bestselling classic - published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of ...
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Gary Marcus
Editura: Mariner Books
A New York University psychologist argues that the mind is a "kluge"-a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption-as he ponders the accidents of evolution that caused this structure and ...
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Sandra Kahn
Editura: Stanford University Press
There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic ...
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Peter Gluckman
Editura: Harvard University Press
As humans evolved, we developed technologies to modify our environment, yet these innovations are increasingly affecting our behavior, biology, and society. Now we must figure out ...
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Nathan H. Lents
Editura: Mariner Books
An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly ...
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Benjamin A. Rifkin
Editura: Abrams
Praised by Nature ("stunning"), the London Times ("remarkable"), and the Guardian ("mesmeric"), this lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable history of anatomical ...
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Leslie Klenerman
Editura: Oxford University Press, Usa
A vast subject that includes a strange vocabulary and an apparent mass of facts, human anatomy can at first appear confusing and off-putting. But the basic construction of the ...
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Margaret Matt
Editura: Dover Publications
"Human Anatomy Coloring Book" contains careful, scientifically accurate line renderings of the body's organs and major systems: skeletal, muscular, nervous, ...
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New Scientist
Editura: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your ...
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Dk
Editura: Dk Publishing (dorling Kindersley)
A bold, accessible, illustrated guide that delivers real scientific information on how the body works with a healthy side of fun facts and trivia. If you've ever searched the ...
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Vanessa Heggie
Editura: University Of Chicago Press
During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalayas to Antarctica and ...
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Giulia Enders
Editura: Greystone Books
"Everything you ever wanted to know about the gut (and then some)." --SELF In this New York Times bestseller, scientist Giulia Enders reveals the secrets of your digestive ...
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Mary Roach
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always bestselling Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm that people carry around inside. Like all of Roach's books, Gulp is ...
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Henry Gray
Editura: Arcturus Publishing
Henry Gray's Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical has been the definitive medical book for students of the human body since its first publication in 1858. This professional guide is ...
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Henry Gray
Editura: Arcturus Publishing
Written in the 1850s by a young doctor, Henry Gray, Gray's Anatomy was the most comprehensive and accessible anatomy of its time. This beautifully produced slipcased volume ...
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Christie Aschwanden
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
Acclaimed science journalist Christie Aschwanden takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour through the latest science on sports and fitness recovery. She investigates ...
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Matt Ridley
Editura: Harper Perennial
"A fascinating tour of the human genome. . . . If you want to catch a glimpse of the biotech century that is now dawning, and how it will make life better for all of us, "Genome" ...
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Beth Skwarecki
Editura: Adams Media Corporation
A clear and straightforward explanation of genetics in this new edition of the popular 101 series. Our genetic makeup determines so much about who we are, and what we pass on ...
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Bob Holmes
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from that of red snapper? How the taste of a Fuji apple differs from a Spartan? For most of us, this is a difficult task: flavor ...
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Paul Brand
Editura: Ivp Books
This edition combines and updates two previous titles, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image. ECPA 2020 Christian Book Award Finalist - Christian Living 2019 IVP Readers' ...
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Stefan Gates
Editura: Quadrille Publishing
What is a fart? Do all creatures fart? Why do farts smell? Why do we find them so embarrassing ... and so darned funny?! Broadcaster and obsessive fartologist Stefan ...
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Doug Schoon
Editura: Schoon Scientific
Doug Schoon, currently residing in Dana Point, CA, is an internationally-recognized scientist with a Masters Degree in Chemistry from UC-Irvine, as well as an author and educator ...
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Alex Hutchinson
Editura: William Morrow & Company
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell Limits are an illusion: discover the revolutionary account of the science and psychology of endurance, revealing the ...
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Hollis Liebman
Editura: Firefly Books
"This useful title, which will also work well as a circulating item, presents that something extra for fitness enthusiasts who want to become serious about their conditioning." -- ...
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Alice Roberts
Editura: Dk Publishing (dorling Kindersley)
Un atlas de anatom a para el siglo XXI La combinaci n de ilustraciones en 3D a tama o natural e im genes m dicas muestra el cuerpo humano como nunca antes lo hab as visto. El texto ...
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Steven Bassett
Editura: Houghton Mifflin
This resource delivers the appropriate amount of expert coverage on anatomy and physiology topics for consumers who need a supplement to a standard anatomy and/or physiology text, ...
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Christopher Ryan
Editura: Simon & Schuster
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Christopher Ryan
Editura: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which "progress" has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, ...
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Dk
Editura: Dk Publishing (dorling Kindersley)
C mo funciona el cuerpo humano explora los maravillosos procesos que ocurren dentro nuestro propio cuerpo, normalmente, sin que nos demos cuenta de ello. Por qu nos mareamos o ...
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Taschen
Editura: Taschen
Life-size model (1.8 m / 5'9'') With anatomical labels in English and Latin Has joints that bend and straighten Cardboard kit Precut pieces with ...
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James Nestor
Editura: Riverhead Books
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our ...
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Mary Roach
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
The bestselling author of "Stiff" turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. 16 illustrations. In ?Bonk, ?the ...
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Andrea Olsen
Editura: Wesleyan University Press
BodyStories is a book that engages the general reader as well as the serious student of anatomy. Thirty-one days of learning sessions heighten awareness about each bone and body ...
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