Life Sciences: General Issues

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide today, but are not just a modern phenomenon. To explore the deep roots of C...

Computational thinking is increasingly gaining importance in modern biology, due to the unprecedented scale at which data is nowadays produced. Bri...

Yale's Reports, published in 1828, is a seminalpublication for understanding the development of American higher education. Giving highest priority ...

This book has expanded classic concept of immunology. Immunoglobulins have been widely discovered to be produced by many non-B cells. The non B cel...

A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brains amazing capacity...

In the rapidly-evolving landscape of neurosciences, it is no easy task to select a limited array of topics to present in a text such as this. The c...

Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The e...

RNAs form complexes with proteins and other RNAs. The RNAinfrastructure represents the spatiotemporal interaction of these proteins and RNAs in a c...

This book explores the latest developments in neuroscience research.

BIOCALCULUS: CALCULUS, PROBABILITY, AND STATISTICS FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES shows students how calculus relates to biology, with a style that maintain...

How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our li...

There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born...

BIOETHICS IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT--PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, HISTORY, POLITICS presents a unique, philosophical approach to modern bioethics. Rather than...

Surrogacy is the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. The practice raises several ethical que...

We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, ex...

Neurophysiology: A Conceptual Approach offers a refreshing alternative to learning by rote. Under new authorship, the sixth edition preserves the l...

'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSON...

What do we owe future people? Intergenerational ethics is of great philosophical and practical importance, given human beings' ability to affect no...

Information is central to the evolution of biological complexity, a physical system relying on a continuous supply of energy. Biology provides supe...

In this informed, incisive and passionate commentary on the state of nature and conservation, Mark Avery reflects on our relationship with the wild...