Life Sciences: General Issues

What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist...

This clear and accessible textbook introduces the brain's remarkable capacity for memory. The text was developed for undergraduate and beginning gr...

Winner of the Inaugural Book Prize from the Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History NetworkA compelling environmental history of...

What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent o...

Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousne...

Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience introduces and explicates key principles and concepts in cognitive neuroscience in such a way that the reader ...

Cortical Evolution in Primates provides a stand-alone resource for neuroscience graduate students and established neuroscientists who have an inter...

Human Molecular Genetics has been carefully crafted over successive editions to provide an authoritative introduction to the molecular aspects of h...

A unique and important resource, full of critical practical knowledge and technical details made readily accessible. - Tiffany Ito, University o...

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...

Rethinking Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Environmental Education and Research arose from a physical and philosophical journey that critica...

Leading scholars from various disciplines analyze the relevance of evolutionary theory for future developments, whereby the fields of anthropology,...

A unique and important resource, full of critical practical knowledge and technical details made readily accessible. - Tiffany Ito, University o...

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference is a concise version of the widely read Agrochemicals Desk Reference and Groundwater Chemicals Desk Referenc...

This book introduces bioengineers and students who must generate and/or report scientific data to the ethical challenges they will face in preservi...

This book cover advances in the study of processes of nonlinear propagation of continuous and pulsed laser radiation in a continuous and micro stru...