Physiology

A must-have book for understanding one of the most fundamental areas of physical therapy: the nervous system and its relationship to musculoskeleta...

Lecture Notes: Human Physiology provides concise coverage of general physiology for medical students as well as students of biological sciences, sp...

Humans possess the most expressive faces in the animal kingdom. Adam Wilkins presents evidence ranging from the fossil record to recent findings of...

See how to achieve stronger starts, more explosive turns, and faster times! Swimming Anatomy will show you how to improve your performance by incr...

Whether classified as regulators of inflammation, metabolism, or other physiological functions, a distinctive set of molecules enables the human bo...

An experimental pathologist and molecular geneticist, Philip Wood uses gene-knockout technology to study the way mouse genes regulate the metabolis...

This book presents an overview of the latest theories of affect regulation and focuses on how these theories work in clinical settings and how ther...

A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information.Decades of cognition research hav...

The Science of Walking recounts the story of the growing interest and investment of Western scholars, physicians, and writers in the scientific stu...

An attempt to create a framework for understanding the complexities of human performance by specifying the capacities that man brings to the perfor...

With the invention of compressed air in the 1840s, human divers could enter previously inaccessible deep water environments and engineers could des...

During the 1960s, Margaret Mead's argument that gender identity is a product of learning in particular cultural contexts was incorporated into the ...

Evolutionary innovations—the bony skeleton of vertebrates, avian flight, or the insect pollination system of angiosperms, for example—have in recen...

Kepler's successful solution to the problem of vision early in the 17th century was a theoretical triumph as significant as many of the more celebr...

For half a century, Sleep and Wakefulness has been a valuable reference work. It discusses phases of the sleep cycle, experimental work on sleep an...

This book provides easy-to-understand, scientifically backed answers to readers' questions about hormones, helping them understand the many importa...