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Life's Blueprint The Science and Art of Embryo Creation
ISBN: HB: 9780300196634, Yale University Press, October 2014
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 71 colour illus.
In the span of just three decades, scientific understanding of the formation of embryos has undergone a major revolution. The implications of these new research findings have an immediate bearing on human health and future therapies, yet most nonscie...
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£25,00
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In Search of Cell History The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks
ISBN: PB: 9780226174280, ISBN: HB: 9780226174143, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 12 line drawings
The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With "In Search of Cell History", Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial ta...
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£30,00
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£88,50
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Investigations in Healthcare Interpreting
ISBN: HB: 9781563686122, Gallaudet University Press, September 2014
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables
In healthcare, the accuracy of interpretation is the most critical component of safe and effective communication between providers and patients in medical settings characterized by language and cultural barriers. Although medical education should pre...
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£68,00
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Misbehaving Science Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226058450, ISBN: HB: 9780226058313, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables
Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene", claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Ma...
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£22,00
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£67,00
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Discoveries in the Economics of Aging
ISBN: HB: 9780226146096, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2014
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 figures, 128 tables
The oldest members of the Baby-Boomer generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare with extensive and significant implications for these programs' overall spending and fiscal sustainability. Yet the aging...
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£88,00
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Brain Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs
ISBN: PB: 9780300205725, ISBN: HB: 9780300175226, Yale University Press, April 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 68 black&white illus.
After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes them so. In this delight...
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£15,99
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£25,00
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Cancer on Trial Oncology as a New Style of Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780226143040, ISBN: HB: 9780226428918, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones, 28 line illus.
Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy. Most practitioners then viewed the treatment of terminally ill cancer patients with heroic courses of chemotherapy as highly questionable. The randomized cl...
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£28,00
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£42,00
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Medical Book 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (New Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9781435148048, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2014
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
The history of medicine is as old as the history of human civilization. In "The Medical Book", popular science writer Clifford A. Pickover explores 250 milestone discoveries in medicine that span more than 12,000 years. Whether writing on "hard scien...
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£30,00
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Nutrition for Runners
ISBN: PB: 9781782550273, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, March 2014
232 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 55 colour and black&white illus., 8 tables
Author of the bestseller "The Run-Walk-Run Method", Jeff Galloway now offers an expansive, state-of-the-art book on the importance of proper nutrition for runners. Jeff's trademarked Run-Walk-Run method has helped hundreds of thousands of average peo...
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£11,95
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Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
ISBN: HB: 9780226114521, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
"The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France" examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was i...
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£44,00
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