Biology

her Name Was Henrietta Lacks, But Scientists Know Her As Hela. She Was A Poor Southern Tobacco Farmer Who Worked The Same Land As Her Slave Ancestors, Yet...

CO-PUBLISHED BY SINAUER ASSOCIATES, INC., AND W. H. FREEMAN. More than any other general biology text, Life focuses students on the experiments that led to ...

What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive th...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet...

The act of reading is a miracle. Every new reader's brain possesses the extraordinary capacity to rearrange itself beyond its original abilities in order t...

Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can't remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with the...

Having Achieved The Seemingly Unachievable-- Becoming A U.s. Memory Champion-- Foer Shows How Anyone With Enough Training And Determination Can Achieve Mast...

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...

with Its Unique Combination Of Depth, Clarity, And Humor That Has Enchanted Millions, This Beloved Classic By Bestselling Author Gary Zukav Opens The Fasci...

Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all th...

Birds Are Astonishingly Intelligent Creatures. In Fact, According To Revolutionary New Research, Some Birds Rival Primates And Even Humans In Their Remarkab...

david Quammen's Book, the Song Of The Dodo, Is A Brilliant, Stirring Work, Breathtaking In Its Scope, Far-reaching In Its Message — A Crucial Book In Prec...

The national bestseller chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 10 best books of 1991 is now available in paperback. The author of Brainstor...

Robert Kemp Adair. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Encyclopedias & Subject GuidesSports Science & MathHisto...

The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, is nothing less than an autobiography of our species. Spelled out ...

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in ...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life.From the moment we ar...

The superb researcher, humanist, and author of Descartes' Error binds the body to the spirit in an exploration of consciousness The publication of this boo...

A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes--and what we can do about it. We are living through the most p...

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. In The Dis...

From one of the world's leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artif...

In Clean Gut, Alejandro Junger, M.D, New York Times bestselling author of Clean and creator of the world-famous Clean Program, delivers a complete toolkit ...

A Masterpiece Of Science Reporting That Tracks The Animal Origins Of Emerginghuman Diseases.Categories: Science & Math Biological SciencesBacteriology ...

Shares anecdotal insight into the illogical influences behind poor financial decisions and how to outmaneuver them, covering topics ranging from credit-card...

The Heartrending Story Of A Midcentury American Family With Twelve Children, Six Of Them Diagnosed With Schizophrenia, That Became Science's Great Hope In T...

“Bruce Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist.” —Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia Born for Love is the d...

If you change your brain, you can change your life. Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built ess...

Do you ever wonder what is happening inside your brain when you feel anxious, panicked, and worried? In Rewire Your Anxious Brain, psychologist Catherine P...

Biology of Ticks is the most comprehensive work on tick biology and tick-borne diseases. This second edition is a multi-authored work, featuring the researc...

In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society yea...

The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the fronti...

In this passionate polemic, Greg Graffin argues that art and science have a deep connection. He describes his own coming-of-age as an artist and the format...

An Oxford-trained evolutionary anthropologist explores the ever-elusive science of love.\What can the social and life sciences tell us about the most fundam...

An Authoritative Survey Of Current Groundbreaking Research Into The Human Mind Reveals How Top International Laboratories Have Innovated Unique Technologies...

The erythrocyte presents morphologic, cytochemical, and quantitative adaptations as it progresses through its evolutionary continuum. This text is a compreh...

A basic introduction and must-read for aspiring nurses, written by one of the founders of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.Categories: Medical BooksHist...

The 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist, International Bestseller, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2017!“Marsh has retired, which mean...

Grace Lindsay reveals the value of describing the machinery of neuroscience using the elegant language of mathematics. The brain is made up of 85 billion ...

What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How ...

An introduction to the world of gene cloning assumes almost no background knowledge. Its widely admired clarity, extesnive illustrations, and solid referenc...

scientists, Theologians, And Philosophers Have All Sought To Answer The Questions Of Why We Are Here And Where We Are Going. Finding This Natural Basis Of...

Sifting Through Rich Layers Of Scientific Evidence, Dawkins' The Greatest Show On Earth Is A Stunning Counterattack On Advocates Of Intelligent Design, Expl...

With more than 100,000 copies sold of his self-published book, The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton teams up with Hay House to bring his message to an even w...

In this provocative, witty, and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, Nancy Etcoff skewers one of our culture's most enduring ...

the Father Of Cognitive Neuroscience And Author Of human Offers A Provocative Argument Against The Common Belief That Our Lives Are Wholly Determined By Ph...

part Odyssey, Part Pilgrimage, This Epic Personal Narrative Follows The Author's Exploration Of Coasts, Islands, Reefs, And The Sea's Abyssal Depths. Scie...

Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American b...

A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientist...