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Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human
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Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them? Dr. Kenneth Kamler has...
The Undiscovered Mind: How the Brain Defies Explanation
This book takes readers to meet the presumed experts on how the brain works, but demonstrates that we cannot absolutely understand what is happening inside our heads, that science has...
Some Body!: Your Body's Book of Records
In this introduction to the human body, Dr Rowan's humorous text incorporates information on key parts of the anatomy, and invites the reader to discover the fascinating facts and amazing...
The Egg and Sperm Race
This comprehensive guide to the body combines recent cell and molecular biology in a story that begins with the first life on earth. With a simple text and illustrations, it...
Perception
This work is a revision of Sekuler and Blake's text on sensation and perception. The third edition focuses on developments in perceptual research, blending anatomy, physiology and psychophysics to explain...
Serious Training for Serious Athletes
"SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes" provides the coach, trainer and athlete with solid guidelines for designing personalised training programmes. Author Rob Sleamaker has analysed the world's best systems of endurance...
You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
One of America's top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine--with powerful lessons for today Every medical decision--whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery--is a risk, no matter...
Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism
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A myth-busting tour of the body's hidden foundations from a pioneering evolutionary biologist Why do so many diets lead to more weight gain? Do more active people have faster metabolisms?...
Encyclopedic Atlas of the Human Body: A Visual Guide To The Human Body
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Adventures in Human Being
We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey...
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Glucose, Metabolism and Limitless Health
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The best deep dive into the diseases that plague us all today, and what to do to heal.' Jessie Inchauspe, The Glucose Goddess'A powerful...
Life at the Extremes
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