Life Sciences: General Issues

Human beings seek to transcend limits. This is part of our potential greatness, since it is how we can realize what is best in our humanity. Howeve...

Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become comm...

Focusing on care workers for the elderly, this book examines the paradoxical position of irregular migrants in European society, who are often labe...

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cav...

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cav...

This history of one of the most contentious educational issues in America examines bilingual instruction in the United States from the common schoo...

The collection's focus is on girls' secondary education, and hence the gendered cultural expectations of the middle classes and upper classes, will...

Utilizing François Laruelle's non-philosophical method, Smith constructs a unified theory of philosophical theology and ecology by challenging envi...

Spintronics Handbook, Second Edition offers an update on the single most comprehensive survey of the two intertwined fields of spintronics and magn...

Precision Medicine in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Part Two, Volume 193  in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology deals with the How in the reconfigur...

Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our ...

This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual ...

Recommended by the New Scientist.'Brilliant.' Stylist'Thoughtful and thought-provoking - you need to read this book' Gina Rippon'An affecting and i...

Based on a decade of study, this book provides a scholarly overview of organic dairy politics, showing how politics, policy, and protest both insid...

Travel back in time almost eight million years to explore the roots of the human family tree. Written and authenticated by a team of experts and wi...

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietname...

The best book I have ever read about AI. -Roger McNamee, New York Times bestselling author of ZuckedArtificial intelligence is going to change the ...

Corrosion Control Through Organic Coatings, Second Edition provides readers with useful knowledge of the practical aspects of corrosion protection ...

This book discusses how and why animals evolved into particular shapes. The book identifies the physical laws which decide over the evolutionary (s...

Remote sensing stands as the defining technology in our ability to monitor coral reefs, as well as their biophysical properties and associated proc...

In Then I Am Myself the World, Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-infor...

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?Jeff H...