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Cancer - Basic Science and Clinical Aspects (Paperback): C.A. Almeida Cancer - Basic Science and Clinical Aspects (Paperback)
C.A. Almeida
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"...Useful background information is displayed in blue boxes, and good use is made of numerous tables and diagrams...a useful book for the undergraduate medical or allied health professional..." -Oncology News, May/June 2010 This forward looking cancer biology book appeals to a wide ranging audience. Introductory chapters that provide the molecular, cellular, and genetic information needed to comprehend the material of the subsequent chapters bring unprepared students up to speed for the rest of the book and serve as a useful refresher for those with previous biology background. The second set of chapters focuses on the main cancers in terms of risk factors, diagnostic and treatment methods and relevant current research. The final section encompasses the immune system's role in the prevention and development of cancer and the impact that the Human Genome Project will have on future approaches to cancer care. While best suited to non-majors cancer biology courses, the depth provided satisfies courses that combine both majors and non-majors. Also, and deliberately, the authors have incorporated relevant information on diagnosis and treatment options that lend appeal to the lay reader.

Life on a Knife's Edge - A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival (Hardcover): Rahul Jandial Life on a Knife's Edge - A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival (Hardcover)
Rahul Jandial
R516 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R97 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'It's a brilliant book... There are lessons in every paragraph... Get it now.' Chris Evans 'Wonderous and wild. I loved this book' James Nestor, bestselling author of Breath 'Moving, raw and unflinching' Julia Samuel, bestselling author of This Too Shall Pass 'Incredible storytelling' Dr Rangan Chatterjee, bestselling author of Feel Better in 5 ____________________________________________________________________________ How do you carry on when things go deadly wrong? When Dr Rahul Jandial operated on Karina, an eleven-year-old girl whose spinal cord was splitting in two, he had to make an impossible decision. He followed his head over his gut and Karina was left permanently paralysed, altering both patient and surgeon's lives for ever. This decision would haunt Rahul for decades, a constant reminder of the fine line between saving and damaging a life. As one of the world's leading brain surgeons, Rahul is the last hope for patients with extreme forms of cancer. In treating them, he has observed humanity at its most raw and most robust. He has journeyed to unimaginable extremes with them, guiding them through the darkest moments of their lives. Life on a Knife's Edge is Rahul's poetic and beautifully written account of the resilience, courage and belief he has witnessed in his patients, and the lessons about human nature he has learned from them. It is about the impossible choices he has to make, and the fateful consequences he is forced to live with. From challenging the ethics of surgical practices, to helping a patient with locked-in syndrome communicate her dying wish to her family, Rahul shares his extraordinary experiences, revealing the depths of a surgeon's psyche that is continuously pushed to its limits.

Urban Evolutionary Biology (Paperback): Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South, Anne Charmantier Urban Evolutionary Biology (Paperback)
Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South, Anne Charmantier
R1,504 Discovery Miles 15 040 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Urban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research. The growing rate of urbanization and the maturation of urban study systems worldwide means interest in the urban environment as an agent of evolutionary change is rapidly increasing. We are presently witnessing the emergence of a new field of research in evolutionary biology. Despite its rapid global expansion, the urban environment has until now been a largely neglected study site among evolutionary biologists. With its conspicuously altered ecological dynamics, it stands in stark contrast to the natural environments traditionally used as cornerstones for evolutionary ecology research. Urbanization can offer a great range of new opportunities to test for rapid evolutionary processes as a consequence of human activity, both because of replicate contexts for hypothesis testing, but also because cities are characterized by an array of easily quantifiable environmental axes of variation and thus testable agents of selection. Thanks to a wide possible breadth of inference (in terms of taxa) that may be studied, and a great variety of analytical methods, urban evolution has the potential to stand at a fascinating multi-disciplinary crossroad, enriching the field of evolutionary biology with emergent yet incredibly potent new research themes where the urban habitat is key. Urban Evolutionary Biology is an advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers studying the genetics, evolutionary biology, and ecology of urban environments. It is also highly relevant to urban ecologists and urban wildlife practitioners.

Laboratory Manual for Human Anatomy & Physiology - A Hands-On Approach, Main Version, Loose Leaf + Modified Mastering A&p with... Laboratory Manual for Human Anatomy & Physiology - A Hands-On Approach, Main Version, Loose Leaf + Modified Mastering A&p with Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package (Loose-leaf)
Melissa Greene, Robin Robison, Lisa Strong
R3,379 Discovery Miles 33 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Loose Leaf for Human Anatomy (Loose-leaf, 6th ed.): Michael McKinley, Valerie O'Loughlin, Elizabeth... Loose Leaf for Human Anatomy (Loose-leaf, 6th ed.)
Michael McKinley, Valerie O'Loughlin, Elizabeth Pennefather-O'Brien
R5,421 Discovery Miles 54 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Developmental Juvenile Osteology (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Craig Cunningham, Louise Scheuer, Sue Black Developmental Juvenile Osteology (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Craig Cunningham, Louise Scheuer, Sue Black
R4,406 R3,992 Discovery Miles 39 920 Save R414 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Developmental Juvenile Osteology was created as a core reference text to document the development of the entire human skeleton from early embryonic life to adulthood. In the period since its first publication there has been a resurgence of interest in the developing skeleton, and the second edition of Developmental Juvenile Osteology incorporates much of the key literature that has been published in the intervening time. The main core of the text persists by describing each individual component of the human skeleton from its embryological origin through to its final adult form. This systematic approach has been shown to assist the processes of both identification and age estimation and acts as a core source for the basic understanding of normal human skeletal development. In addition to this core, new sections have been added where there have been significant advances in the field.

Biology, Evolution, and Human Nature (Hardcover): TH Goldsmith Biology, Evolution, and Human Nature (Hardcover)
TH Goldsmith
R4,229 Discovery Miles 42 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uses evolution as the unifying theme to trace the connections between levels of biological complexity from genes through nervous systems, animal societies, and human cultures. It examines the history of evolutionary theory from Darwin to the present, including: the impact of molecular biology and the emergence of evolutionary social theory.

Mapping the Body with Art workbook (Paperback): Ellen J. McHenry Mapping the Body with Art workbook (Paperback)
Ellen J. McHenry
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior (Paperback): Peter B. Gray, Justin R Garcia Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior (Paperback)
Peter B. Gray, Justin R Garcia
R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Few things come more naturally to us than sex-or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like clothes, why we prefer to make love on a bed, and why we fuss so needlessly over privacy. Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior invites us into the thought-experiment of imagining human sex from the vantage point of our primate cousins, in order to underscore the role of evolution in shaping all that happens, biologically and behaviorally, when romantic passions are aroused. Peter Gray and Justin Garcia provide an interdisciplinary synthesis that draws on the latest discoveries in evolutionary theory, genetics, neuroscience, comparative primate research, and cross-cultural sexuality studies. They are our guides through an exploration of the patterns and variations that exist in human sexuality, in chapters covering topics ranging from the evolution of sex differences and reproductive physiology to the origins of sexual play, monogamous unions, and the facts and fictions surrounding orgasm. Intended for generally curious readers of all stripes, this up-to-date, one-volume survey of the evolutionary science of human sexual behavior explains why sexuality has remained a core fascination of human beings throughout time and across cultures.

The Genetics of African Populations in Health and Disease (Hardcover): Muntaser E. Ibrahim, Charles N. Rotimi The Genetics of African Populations in Health and Disease (Hardcover)
Muntaser E. Ibrahim, Charles N. Rotimi
R2,145 Discovery Miles 21 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The birthplace of modern humans, Africa, has the highest genetic diversity in the world, yet it remains vastly understudied. With biomedical research increasingly focused on human variation, studying the large population size and number of mutations in African genomes could unravel the complexity of phenotypic traits underlying the biology of our species and hold huge potential for scientific and medical advances. An initial chapter 'conceptualizes Africa', providing relevant terminology. The first section covers genetic history and population structure. The next section looks at the genetic basis of common infectious diseases, such as leishmaniasis, malaria and tuberculosis, with a final part considering common non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, heart disease and cancer. Gene environment interaction under globalization and the burden of diseases of lifestyle are included. For researchers and graduate students in biological anthropology, genetic anthropology, human and population genetics, and public health.

Race Unmasked - Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover): Michael Yudell Race Unmasked - Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Michael Yudell; Foreword by J. Craig Venter
R1,320 R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Save R283 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in American history and has had a profound effect on the human experience. "Race Unmasked" revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences, examines the roots of the modern idea of race, and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age.

Through rigorous historical research, "Race Unmasked" reveals how genetics and related biological disciplines formed and preserved ideas of race and, at times, racism throughout the twentieth century. Surveying the work of some of the twentieth century's most notable scientists, the book tests and then proves the limitations of a racial worldview. This new work is a gripping history of science and scientists that throws the contours of our current and evolving understanding of human diversity into sharp relief.

Vision Facts - Questions about the Human Eye (Paperback): Jason Yang, Charles Pidgeon Vision Facts - Questions about the Human Eye (Paperback)
Jason Yang, Charles Pidgeon
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene (Hardcover): Susan M. Cheyne, Carolyn Thompson, Peng-Fei Fan, Helen J. Chatterjee Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Susan M. Cheyne, Carolyn Thompson, Peng-Fei Fan, Helen J. Chatterjee
R2,113 Discovery Miles 21 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Hylobatids (gibbons and siamangs) are the smallest of the apes distinguished by their coordinated duets, territorial songs, arm-swinging locomotion, and small family group sizes. Although they are the most speciose of the apes boasting twenty species living in eleven countries, ninety-five percent are critically endangered or endangered according to the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species. Despite this, gibbons are often referred to as being 'forgotten' in the shadow of their great ape cousins because comparably they receive less research, funding and conservation attention. This is only the third book since the 1980s devoted to gibbons, and presents cutting-edge research covering a wide variety of topics including hylobatid ecology, conservation, phylogenetics and taxonomy. Written by gibbon researchers and practitioners from across the world, the book discusses conservation challenges in the Anthropocene and presents practice-based approaches and strategies to save these singing, swinging apes from extinction.

Human Anatomy (Hardcover): Robin Piper Human Anatomy (Hardcover)
Robin Piper
R3,746 R3,228 Discovery Miles 32 280 Save R518 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Face-To-Face with Doug Schoon Volume III - Science and Facts about Nails/nail Products for the Educationally Inclined... Face-To-Face with Doug Schoon Volume III - Science and Facts about Nails/nail Products for the Educationally Inclined (Paperback)
Doug Schoon
R760 R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Save R136 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Thinking Body (Paperback): Mabel Elsworth Todd The Thinking Body (Paperback)
Mabel Elsworth Todd
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Face-To-Face with Doug Schoon Volume II - Science and Facts about Nails/nail Products for the Educationally Inclined... Face-To-Face with Doug Schoon Volume II - Science and Facts about Nails/nail Products for the Educationally Inclined (Paperback)
Doug Schoon
R761 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Save R136 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hidden Talents Framework - Implications for Science, Policy, and Practice (Paperback): Willem E. Frankenhuis The Hidden Talents Framework - Implications for Science, Policy, and Practice (Paperback)
Willem E. Frankenhuis
R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Kluge (Paperback, Main): Gary Marcus Kluge (Paperback, Main)
Gary Marcus 1
R302 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R38 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A 'kluge' is an engineering term for a makeshift solution, an inelegant construction that somehow works. This is Gary Marcus's analogy for the way the human mind has evolved. Arguing against a whole tradition that praises our human minds as the most perfect result of evolution, Marcus shows how imperfect and ill-adapted our brains really are. They have had to adapt from the environment of our early hominid origins to a complex world in which our penchant for short-term satisfactions is literally fatal. We are prone to rages, addictions and other habits that limit our capacity for rational action in every sphere, from food to politics. A breathtaking, witty and revolutionary book.

The Brain: A User's Manual - A simple guide to the world's most complex machine (Paperback): Marco Magrini The Brain: A User's Manual - A simple guide to the world's most complex machine (Paperback)
Marco Magrini
R351 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R91 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Congratulations on the purchase of this exclusive product, tailor-made just for you. It will provide you with years of continuous service." The brain is one of nature's most miraculous but misunderstood creations. In this fascinating user-friendly guide, you will discover all you need to know about what is ceaselessly happening inside your head - from the 38 million billion calculations the brain makes per second, to the complex distribution of memory (there is no central storeroom for information) and why love is an entirely neuronal experience. With wit and style, Marco Magrini cuts through the noise of cerebral misinformation to tell the real story of who you are and, crucially, what you are capable of achieving. N.B. Product comes with a 10-year warranty. T&Cs apply "A fantastically original and clever way to popularise neuroscience." - Professor Gilberto Corbellini, Philosophy of Science, La Sapienza University, Rome "In these pages, Magrini describes beautifully, and often very humorously, the extraordinary harvest of new neuroscientific discoveries shedding light on the most complex and astonishing thing in the universe itself." - Tomaso Poggio, MIT McGovern Institute

Life on a Knife's Edge - A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival (Paperback): Rahul Jandial Life on a Knife's Edge - A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival (Paperback)
Rahul Jandial
R350 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R73 (21%) Ships in 3 - 5 working days

As one of the world's leading brain surgeons, Dr Jandial is the last hope for many patients who have extreme forms of cancer - patients who can't be saved, but deserve more time. Life on a Knife's Edge is his account of the resilience, courage and belief he has witnessed in his patients, and the lessons he has learned from them. Both an unflinching account of extreme surgeries and a profound, moving and introspective memoir, this book reveals the depths of a surgeon's psyche who is pushed to his limits, day in, day out. From keeping a gun victim's heart pumping with his own hand, to saving a woman from paralysis and performing brain surgery while time is running out on a haemorrhaging patient, we see how making life and death decisions and facing unimaginable pressure has shaped one man's life. Now, he shares the many truths about human nature that he has learned along the way: from how we deal with trauma, loss and threat to our innate belief and sense of self. From a life spent balancing on the line between life and death, above all else he reveals what it really means to survive.

Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong (Hardcover): Matt Brown Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong (Hardcover)
Matt Brown 1
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A highly entertaining book debunking the many myths about the human body. Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong debunks the scientific myths we all take for granted. Written by author Matt Brown in his trademark humourous style, this book takes you through all the facts we thought true, from bodily blunders, medical mis-quotes and curious cures. Does giving kids sugar make them go hyper-active? Not at all - there is no proven link! Is there such a thing as being 'double-jointed'? And is it dangerous to swim after eating? Covering everything from pseudoscience to recent research, Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong shatters a range of illusions we have accepted unquestioningly since childhood and demystifies this most puzzling of subjects.

The Hidden Power of Smell - How Chemicals Influence Our Lives and Behavior (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Paula Moore The Hidden Power of Smell - How Chemicals Influence Our Lives and Behavior (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Paula Moore
R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The main purpose of the book is to provide insight into an area that humans often take for granted. There are wonderful and exciting stories of organisms using chemical signals as a basis of a sophisticated communication system. In many instances, chemical signals can provide more detailed and accurate information than any other mode of communication, yet this world is hidden from us because of our focus on visual and auditory signals. Although we have a diversity of senses available to us, humans are primarily auditory and visual animals. These stimuli are sent to the more cognitive areas of our brain where they are immediately processed for information. We use sounds to communicate and music to excite or soothe us. Our vision provides us with communication, entertainment, and information about our world. Even though our world is dominated by other stimulus energies, we have chosen, in an evolutionary sense, either auditory or visual signals to carry our most important information. This is not the case for most other organisms. Chemical signals, mediated through the sense of smell and taste, are typically more important and are used more often than other sensory signals. The world of communication using chemicals is an alien world for us. We are unaware of how important chemical signals are to other organisms and we often overlook the influence of chemical signals in our own life. Part of this naivete about chemical signals is due to our cultural focus on visual and auditory signals, but a larger part of our collective ignorance is the lack of information about chemical communication in both popular and scientific writings. The popular press and popular writings virtually ignore the chemical senses, especially in regard to their role or influence for humans and our human culture. Academic books and textbooks are no better.

Cancer Biology and Treatment (Paperback): Aysha Divan, Janice Royds Cancer Biology and Treatment (Paperback)
Aysha Divan, Janice Royds
R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Written primarily for mid-to-upper level undergraduates, this primer will introduce students to topics at the forefront of the subject that are being applied to probe biological problems, or to address the most pressing issues facing society. These topics will include those that form the cornerstone of contemporary research, helping students to make the transition to active researcher. This primer provides an overview of the complex processes underpinning cancer development and progression along with a summary of cancer treatment strategies, emphasising the development of targeted molecular therapies and the opportunities they provide. It takes a contemporary and integrated approach, encompassing debates on genetics, epigenetics, and cancer addictions, and highlighting the remaining challenges and future research directions to advance the field.

The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation (Paperback): Gordon Lynn Walls The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation (Paperback)
Gordon Lynn Walls
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2013 Reprint of 1942 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Walls' classic text is a comprehensive treatise on the eye in which he includes and correlates an immense amount of data on the anatomy and physiology of the eye in relation to the various environments in which it functions. The 689 pages of text are very readable, appealing to the interests of the biologist, clinician or lay reader, and constitute, therefore, a textbook on the eye. There are 197 illustrations throughout the book. Part one outlines the essentials of the vertebrate (human) eye, the histology and physiology of the vertebrate retina, and discusses scotopic and photopic vision. To this is added an account of the embryological and evolutionary genesis of the eye. Part two discusses the following topics: adaptations to arhythmic activity as seen in photomechanical retinal changes and in pupil mobility; adaptations to diurnal activity; adaptations to nocturnal activity; adaptations to space and motion; adaptations to media and substrates including aquatic and aerial vision; and adaptations to photic quality including color vision in animals, dermal color-changes, and coloration of the eye. Part three traces the history of the eye from the lowest to the highest living vertebrates. There is a 24-page bibliography and an index and glossary.

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