Life Sciences: General Issues

'Sarma's book may be the most important work on education written this century' - SkepticAs the head of Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a da...

In this ground-breaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark turns a common view of the human mind upside down. In stark opposition...

Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an...

Why do some surprises delightthe endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pips benefactor is not (an...

Doctors have been able to cure some forms of congenital blindness and deafness for decades. But this has created another problem: most people end u...

Most of the plant breeding programs aim to increase yield, disease and insect resistance, abiotic stress tolerance and to improve quality character...

Annelids (the segmented worms) exist in a remarkably diverse range of mostly marine but also freshwater and terrestrial habitats, varying greatly i...

'Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe ... [A] brave and honest book' The New York Times Boo...

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interco...

40 simple, brain-changing neuroscience techniques for overcoming trauma.I cant ever calm down. I am emotionally numb. I cant stop thinking about wh...

This historical biography examines Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam's abolitionist roots growing up on a stop of the Underground Railroad, her training at...

This book offers low-cost and rapid molecular assays for the characterization of mutant plant germplasm. Detailed protocols are provided for the de...

This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women's studies scholars, focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first ...

This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly. It analyzes if, and under wh...

Combining theory, case studies and speculative fiction, a range of contributors, from leading UK academics to pioneering renewable activists, creat...

This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not enough to wri...

Den neurologischen Blick schärfen mit dem Klassiker Vielfältige und präzise diagnostische Hilfsmittel stehen in der Neurologie heute zur Verfügung...

Our health, our income and our social networks at older ages are the consequence of what has happened to us over the course of our lives. The situa...