Life Sciences: General Issues

Precision Medicine in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Part One, Volume 192 in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology deals with the Why in the approach to...

Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications examines human success from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with contributions...

A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politiciansNature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat pre...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. Hi...

A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience'Lisa Miller is the lea...

Over the years, researchers have reported solubility data in the chemical, pharmaceutical, engineering, and environmental literature for several th...

Attitudes towards science, medicine and the body are all profoundly shaped by peoples worldviews. When discussing issues of bioethics, religion oft...

Brain Banking, Volume 150, serves as the only book on the market offering comprehensive coverage of the functional realities of brain banking. It f...

This book celebrates the pioneering work and contributions of Helen J. Neville, who conducted seminal neuroimaging work using electroencephalograph...

Among the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is one family, containing some 4,300 species, that stands out as one of the most diver...

A Sunday Times and Financial Times Book of the YearWhat happens in our brains when we wake up, savour a meal or a glass of wine, walk the dog, st...

This book explains how the brain interacts with the social worldand why stories matter.How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And ...

Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long-standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists...

Colleges and universities are at the forefront of efforts to preserve the earth's resources for future generations. Carbon neutrality, renewable en...

For decades, the creationist movement was primarily situated in the United States. Then, in the 1970s, American creationists found their ideas welc...

The 9th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC 2010, was organized under the auspices of EATCS and Academia Europaea, by the Un...

Exploring the interconnectedness of human health, biodiversity, and bioethics.We all depend on environmental biodiversity for clean air, safe water...

'This is a book of miracles. Fascinating... An absorbing compendium of unlikely recoveries from physical and mental ailments offers evidence that t...

The definitive textbook for students of wildlife management, now updated to cover the latest techniques, tools, and topics.Wildlife Management and ...

As scholars debate the most appropriate way to teach evolutionary theory, Constance Areson Clark provides an intriguing reflection on similar debat...

** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 **We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades h...

Understanding the mechanisms driving biological diversity remains a central problem in ecology and evolutionary biology. Traditional explanations a...