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Author : Herbert George Wells,Julian Huxley,George Philip Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : WISC:89050724863
Author : Herbert George Wells,Julian Huxley,George Philip Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1546 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Biology
ISBN : COLUMBIA:HS64877957
Author : Graham Lawton
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781529362084
You are what you eat. Food and diet have an enormous influence on your health and well-being, but eating the right amount of the right things - and not too much of the wrong things - isn't easy. But, as in most walks of life, knowledge is power. This book will empower you to eat healthily, lose weight, and sort the fads from the science facts. This is the New Scientist take on a "New Year, New You" book: an eye-opening and myth-busting guide to everything from sugar to superfoods, from fasting to eating like a caveman and from veganism to your gut microbiome. Forget faddy diet books or gimmicky exercise programs, this is what is scientifically proven to make you live longer and to be healthier and happier.
Author : Sharon Ruston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 185124557X
What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science, medicine and personal loss?This book is the first to compile the many attempts in science and medicine to account for life and death in Mary Shelley's time. It considers what her contemporaries thought of air, blood, sunlight, electricity and other elements believed to be most essential for living. Mary Shelley's (and her circle's) knowledge of science and medicine is carefully examined, alongside the work of key scientific and medical thinkers, including John Abernethy, James Curry, Humphry Davy, John Hunter, William Lawrence and Joseph Priestley. Frankenstein demonstrates what Mary Shelley knew of the advice given by medical practitioners for the recovery of persons drowned, hanged or strangled and explores the contemporary scientific basis behind Victor Frankenstein's idea that life and death were merely 'ideal bounds' he could transgress in the making of the Creature. Interweaving images of the manuscript, portraits, medical instruments and contemporary diagrams into her narrative, Sharon Ruston shows how this extraordinary tale is steeped in historical scientific and medical thought exploring the fascinating boundary between life and death.
Author : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781509522743
Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are poised to edit, even rewrite, the texts of life to correct nature’s mistakes. Yet, how far should the capacity to manipulate what life is at the molecular level authorize science to define what life is for? This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that science’s promises of perfectibility have gone too far. Science may have editorial control over the material elements of life, but it does not supersede the languages of sense-making that have helped define human values across millennia: the meanings of autonomy, integrity, and privacy; the bonds of kinship, family, and society; and the place of humans in nature.
Author : Jonathan Silvertown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226072104
“[A] whimsical book on aging . . . the author mixes art, science, and humor to brew a highly readable concoction, presenting one aging theory after another.” —Publishers Weekly Everything that lives will die. That’s the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans—and that variation is nothing compared to what’s found in other animal and plant species. With The Long and the Short of It, biologist and writer Jonathan Silvertown offers readers a witty and fascinating tour through the scientific study of longevity and aging. Dividing his daunting subject by theme—death, life span, aging, heredity, evolution, and more—Silvertown draws on the latest scientific developments to paint a picture of what we know about how life span, senescence, and death vary within and across species. At every turn, he addresses fascinating questions that have far-reaching implications: What causes aging, and what determines the length of an individual life? What changes have caused the average human life span to increase so dramatically—fifteen minutes per hour—in the past two centuries? If evolution favors those who leave the most descendants, why haven’t we evolved to be immortal? The answers to these puzzles and more emerge from close examination of the whole natural history of life span and aging, from fruit flies, nematodes, redwoods, and much more. The Long and the Short of It pairs a perpetually fascinating topic with a wholly engaging writer, and the result is a supremely accessible book that will reward curious readers of all ages. “Captivating and enlightening.” —The New York Times Well Blog
Author : Lars Olof Björn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401005814
Photobiology - the science of light and life - begins with basic principles and the physics of light and continues with general photobiological research methods, such as generation of light, measurement of light, and action spectroscopy. In an interdisciplinary way, it then treats how organisms tune their pigments and structures to the wavelength components of light, and how light is registered by organisms. Then follow various examples of photobiological phenomena: the design of the compound eye in relation to the properties of light, phototoxicity, photobiology of the human skin and of vitamin D, photomorphogenesis, photoperiodism, the setting of the biological clock by light, and bioluminescence. A final chapter is devoted to teaching experiments and demonstrations in photobiology. This book encompasses topics from a diverse array of traditional disciplines: physics, biochemistry, medicine, zoology, botany, microbiology, etc., and makes different aspects of photobiology accessible to experts in all these areas as well as to the novice.
Author : Jay Ingram
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780143173649
Have you ever felt a sudden rush of recognition that you've been in a place before? What causes a déjà vu? Why do dogs look like their owners? What's up with insect swarms? What's the science behind showing your tongue? Do you keep drier by walking or running through a rainstorm? In this updated and expanded edition of The Science of Everyday Life, bestselling author Jay Ingram explains these and many more weird and fascinating mysteries.
Author : Rupert Sheldrake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0892815353
Questioning many concepts of life and consciousness, the visionary biologist describes his innovative theory of morphic resonance.
Author : Len Fisher
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781628721096
Scientists are in the business of trying to understand the world. Exploring commonplace phenomena, they have uncovered some of nature’s deepest laws. We can in turn apply these laws to our own lives, to better grasp and enhance our performance in daily activities as varied as cooking, home improvement, sports—even dunking a doughnut! This book makes the science of the familiar a key to opening the door for those who want to know what scientists do, why they do it, and how they go about it. Following the routine of a normal day, from coffee and breakfast to shopping, household chores, sports, a drink, supper, and a bath, we see how the seemingly mundane can provide insight into the most profound scientific questions. Some of the topics included are the art and science of dunking; how to boil an egg; how to tally a supermarket bill; the science behind hand tools; catching a ball or throwing a boomerang; the secrets of haute cuisine, bath (or beer) foam; and the physics of sex. Fisher writes with great authority and a light touch, giving us an entertaining and accessible look at the science behind our daily activities.
Author : Colleen M. Belk,Virginia Borden Maier
Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biology
ISBN : 0321767837
Learn biology through engaging stories. Coleen Belk and Virginia Borden Maier have helped students demystify biology for nearly twenty years in the classroom and ten years with their text, Biology: Science for Life with Physiology. In the new Fourth Edition, they continue to connect biology to intriguing stories and current issues, such as the case of Andrew Speaker and his involuntary quarantine for a deadly strain of tuberculosis...Learning outcomes, which are new to this edition and integrated within the book and online at MasteringBiology, guide your reading and allow you to assess your understanding biology. -- back cover.
Author : William Kirkwood Purves
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 0716738759
Author : Rupert Sheldrake
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781848314450
**The fully revised edition of Rupert Sheldrake's controversial science classic, from the author of the bestselling Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2021!** After chemists crystallised a new chemical for the first time, it became easier and easier to crystallise in laboratories all over the world. After rats at Harvard first escaped from a new kind of water maze, successive generations learned quicker and quicker. Then rats in Melbourne, Australia learned yet faster. Rats with no trained ancestors shared in this improvement. Rupert Sheldrake sees these processes as examples of morphic resonance. Past forms and activities of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space.Individual plants and animals both draw upon and contribute to the collective memory of their species. Sheldrake, now Director of the Perrott-Warwick Project supported by Trinity College, Cambridge, reinterprets the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws. Described as 'the best candidate for burning there has been for many years' by Nature on first publication, this updated edition will raise hackles and inspire curiosity in equal measure.
Author : Norman MacKenzie,Jeanne MacKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0671215205
Author : Dacher Keltner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393073355
“A landmark book in the science of emotions and its implications for ethics and human universals.”—Library Journal, starred review In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short,” why have we evolved with positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and cooperative societies? Illustrated with more than fifty photographs of human emotions, Born to Be Good takes us on a journey through scientific discovery, personal narrative, and Eastern philosophy. Positive emotions, Keltner finds, lie at the core of human nature and shape our everyday behavior—and they just may be the key to understanding how we can live our lives better. Some images in this ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.
