wired - Biological Sciences 1

From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an old truth: it is better to have loved and lost than ……続きを見る

We are profoundly social creatures--more than we know. In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect w……続きを見る

As 95 per cent of our brain activity carries on at a subconscious level, we’re not always aware of why we think what we think and do the things we do. Sometimes these subconscious wirings can make u……続きを見る

“Beautifully written… a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety.”ーDr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score In this c……続きを見る

From the world’s foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an old truth: better to have loved and lost than never ……続きを見る

Get Wired For Success shows professionals how to wire their brain for success in business and life with neuroscience-made-easy. When Dr. Rod Irwin purchased his business for over a quarter of a mill……続きを見る

The nervous system is a complex, sophisticated system that regulates and coordinates body activities. It is made up of two major divisions: the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spi……続きを見る

Alan Herbert has played a leading part in discovering the biological roles for a high-energy form of DNA twisted to the left rather than to the right. Both Z-DNA and the Z-RNA sensing proteins are c……続きを見る

Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular Psychology Psychologists have long been aware that most people tend to maintain an irrationally positive outlook on life. In fact, ……続きを見る

**The instant New York Times bestseller “Excellent…Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” – Wall Street Journal One of our gre……続きを見る

It was Charles Darwin who first thought of the Theory of Evolution. Scientists have expanded that theory by studying evolution down to the genetic mutation, variation, and adaptation. This science b……続きを見る

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.1201/9781003082613, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Deri……続きを見る

A Century of X-Rays and Radioactivity in Medicine: With Emphasis on Photographic Records of the Early Years celebrates three great discoveries-x-rays (1895), radioactivity (1896), and radium (1898)-……続きを見る

Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide u……続きを見る

Research participants who have cognitive disabilities and differences may be considered a vulnerable population. At the same time, they should also be empowered to participate in research in order t……続きを見る

Covering the latest cutting-edge techniques in biomedical signal processing while presenting a coherent treatment of various signal processing methods and applications, this second edition of Practi……続きを見る

Designed as a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Western neuroscientists, this book takes readers on a journey through opposing fields of thoughtーshowing that they may not be so opposing after……続きを見る

The monograph comprehensively presents the research on the prototype of the biomimetic Multi-Spiked Connecting Scaffold (MSC-Scaffold) for cementless fixation of the components of a new generation o……続きを見る

This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This ……続きを見る

Die Biografie Johann Sebastian Bachs wird unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Resilienz betrachtet: Wie ist es dem großen Komponisten gelungen, trotz zahlreicher Verluste, Rückschläge und Grenzsituationen s……続きを見る

Dennis Gordon, with a PhD in zoology and an ordained minister, comments on how we should read the book of Genesis. He offers a constructive way to think about issues of creation and evolution, as we……続きを見る

A thought-provoking argument that consciousnessーmore widespread than previously assumedーis the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The Feeling of Life Itself, Chr……続きを見る

The Fovea: Structure, Function, Development, and Disease summarizes the current biological knowledge regarding the two types of the vertebrate fovea (and its main structural elements, the Müller cel……続きを見る

**"Eagleman renders the secrets of the brain’s adaptability into a truly compelling page-turner.” *ー*Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner “Livewired reads wonderfully like what a book would b……続きを見る

Many scientists and students are asking for advice in statistical analyses during preparation of their publications or theses. This book aims to address these needs by representing a “recipe book” f……続きを見る

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, th……続きを見る

The backward-flowing method is a process with a beginning, a middle, and an end. And like any process, it has to proceed step-by-step in proper order, like a scientific experiment. The first step is……続きを見る

FORENSIC SCIENCE Forensic Science: Current Issues, Future Directions presents a comprehensive, international discussion of key issues within the forensic sciences. Written by accomplished and respec……続きを見る

Science and religion are often viewed as dichotomies. But although our contemporary society is often perceived as a rationalization process, we still need broad, metaphysical beliefs outside of what……続きを見る

A Very Short Introduction on Evolution. And then came Homo Erectusーthe upright monkeyーand the Ducati Girl. The original theory on the evolution of man is still uncertain; evolutionists couldn't ag……続きを見る