A fascinating look at what’s rattling around in your skull.

Neuroscience For Dummies introduces you to the mind-boggling study of the human brain. It tracks to the content of a typical introductory neuroscience class at the college level ―and it’s perfect for anyone curious about what makes us tick. New technologies and an explosion of research have completely transformed our understanding of memory, depression, the mind-body connection, learning, and genetics. This updated edition―still in classic, beginner-friendly Dummies style―covers the latest research advances and technologies in the field of neuroscience. Put some knowledge about the brain into your brain.

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For students and general readers alike, Neuroscience For Dummies is a great way to understand what’s going on inside our heads.

Examine important global environmental changes that will affect the future of agriculture! Here is a complete introduction to the influence of global environmental changes on the structure, function, and harvestable yield of major field crops. It gives you an in-depth look at the effects of climate change, air pollution, and soil salinization. The book provides an introduction to the ramifications, both positive and negative, of these ongoing environmental changes for present and future crop production and food supply. Crops and Environmental Change: An Introduction to Effects of Global Warming, Increasing Atmospheric CO2 and O3 Concentrations, and Soil Salinization on Crop Physiology and Yield integrates a discussion of the physiological effects of environmental change with background information on basic topics in plant physiology. Numerous charts, tables, and figures are included to assist in understanding the empirical effects of the environment on crops. Topics addressed in Crops and Environmental Change include: the effects of increasing global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration climatic changes associated with increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases the effects of increasing ozone concentrations in the lower atmosphere across large crop-growing regions soil salinization in areas of irrigated crops the causes and trajectories of ongoing environmental changes the implications of environmental changes on the future of crop production and much more! The information in this book is appropriate for newcomers to the field as well as for seasoned professionals. It is written in language accessible to those new to the area and serves as a good jumping off point for more in-depth study. And since it is organized like a traditional plant physiology textbook, it is appropriate for students in the field. For experienced professionals, it acts as a handy refresher/reference tool on the basics of plant physiology. Crops and Environmental Change is a valuable resource for anyone concerned with the future of agriculture. Make it part of your professional/teaching collection today!

The approachable, comprehensive guide to neurobiology Neurobiology rolls the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the nervous system into one complex area of study. Neurobiology For Dummies breaks down the specifics of the topic in a fun, easy-to-understand manner. The book is perfect for students in a variety of scientific fields ranging from neuroscience and biology to pharmacology, health science, and more. With a complete overview of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the nervous system, this complete resource makes short work of the ins and outs of neurobiology so you can understand the details quickly. Dive into this fascinating guide to an even more fascinating subject, which takes a step-by-step approach that naturally builds an understanding of how the nervous system ties into the very essence of human beings, and what that means for those working and studying in the field of neuroscience. The book includes a complete introduction to the subject of neurobiology. * Gives you an overview of the human nervous system, along with a discussion of how it's similar to that of other animals * Discusses various neurological disorders, such as strokes, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and schizophrenia * Leads you through a point-by-point approach to describe the science of perception, including how we think, learn, and remember Neurobiology For Dummies is your key to mastering this complex topic, and will propel you to a greater understanding that can form the basis of your academic and career success.

Respiration is a large and important component of the carbon economy of crops. There are already several good books dealing with the biochemistry and physiol ogy of plant respiration, but there are none I know of that are devoted to the rela tionship between respiration and crop productivity, although this relationship is more and more frequently being studied with both experiment and simulation. Crop physiology books do cover respiration, of course, but the treatment is limited. The purpose of the present book is to fill this void in the literature. The approach taken here is to use the popular two-component functional model whereby respiration is divided between growth and maintenance components. Mter thoroughly reviewing the literature, I came to the conclusion that at present this is the most useful means of considering respiration as a quantitative compo nent of a crop's carbon economy. This functional distinction is used as the frame work for describing respiration and assessing its role in crop productivity. Discussions and critiques of the biochemistry and physiology of respiration serve primarily as a means of more fully understanding and describing the functional approach to studying crop respiration. It is assumed that the reader of this book is familiar with the fundamentals of plant physiology and biochemistry. The research worker in crop physiology should find this an up-to-date summary of crop respiration and the functional model of respiration. This book is not, however, a simple review of existing data."

This study of Japanese business discourse adopts Bakhtin's notion of speech genres as an heuristic in order to analyze groups of spoken texts which display similar constellations of compositional, thematic, and stylistic features. Drawing upon a corpus of over 540 naturally-occurring telephone conversations collected in the Kanto and Kansai areas of Japan, Lindsay Amthor Yotsukura demonstrates how Japanese business professionals present, negotiate and clarify their identities and intentions and enlist and offer assistance with respect to a variety of transactions such as toiawase inquiries, merchandise orders, shipping confirmations, and reports of delivery problems. In the process, she highlights the critical deictic function of linguistic devices such as the no desu (extended predicate) construction in producing formulations, and politeness expressions that index the dynamic uti/soto ('inside'/ 'outside') continuum. She also illustrates some of the ways in which these "negotiating moves" are consonant with a number of Japanese "folk" metalinguistic concepts and expressions in order to underscore the importance of shared assumptions and expectations developed through experience in performing these genres of "talk at work" on a regular, collaborative, basis. Yotsukura's findings represent a unique and significant contribution to the discourse - and conversation-analytic literature on business negotiation because the field has until now focused almost exclusively on English and other Indo-European languages. The study should therefore provide an entirely different but equally important ethnographic perspective on the culturally nuanced, rhetorical strategies used by a non-Western community of speakers for the presentation and resolution of problems in business transactions.

A NEW core textbook on neuroscience with a uniquely clinical focus and hundreds of full-color illustrations Developed by an exciting author team composed of University of California-San Francisco faculty members who are currently teaching neuroscience, this innovative new resources skillfully bridges the gap between basic and clinical science. Clinical content and numerous cases throughout the book enable readers to actually apply the principles they are learning to real-world situations. Essentials of Modern Neuroscience includes the strong pedagogy that has proven popular in other revised LANGE basic science titles, including chapter opening Learning Objectives, bulleted chapter Summaries, cases, and application boxes. Chapters are intentionally succinct, making them more manageable to student readers. The text is bolstered by nearly 500 rich full-color images that clearly depict the content being discussed in the chapter. The Table of Contents and organization mirrors the way most medical schools teach the subject, and contents include unique chapters on Addiction, Affective Disorders, and Neurologic Diseases.

The literary oeuvre of Joseph Roth (1884 1939) presents and focuses on the disastrous political changes of the first half of the 20th century like few others. The present volume compiles contributions that inquire the modernity of an author who has been mostly perceived as a traditionalist by literary scholars. The essays follow the fissures in his identity, his mind set and his manner of writing."

Seit del' Herausgabe des ersten Heftes del' "Vereinbarungen" sind in dem Mitgliederbestande derVereinigung mehrere Veranderungen zu verzeichnen. Del' Ehrenprasident del' Vereinigung, Geheimer Hofrath Professor Dr. Remigius Fresenius und del' Direktor del' land wirthschaftlichen Versuchsstation zu Colmar i. E., Professor Dr. M. Barth wurden del' gemeinsamen Arbeit durch den Tod ent- rissen. Freiwillig ausgeschieden ist Professor Dr. A. Stutzer (Breslau) wegen Aenderung seines Arbeitsgebietes. Neu eingetreten sind Regierungsrath Professor Dr. von Buchka (Berlin), zugleich als Mit- glied des geschaftsfiihrenden Ausschusses, und Geheimer Regierungs- rath Professor Dr. M. Delbruck (Berlin). Die dritte Plenar-Versammlung del' Vereinigung fand am 5. und 6. August 1897 in Eisenach statt; an derselben nahm ausser den standigcn Mitgliedern nocll del' Chemiker Dr. Metzger aus Nurnberg als Referent flir den Abschnitt Essig Theil. Berathen wurden die Abschnitte Me hI und Brot, Gewurze, Essig, Honig, Thee, Kakao und Chokolade, sowie Tabak. An del' vierten Plenar-Versammlung, die am 2. und 3. November 1898 in Berlin stattfand, nahmen ausser den standigen Mitgliedern Theil: als Referenten del' bayerischen Vereinigung: Ober-Inspektor Dr. Rottger-Witrzburg, Inspektor Dr. Schlegel-Nurnbel'g und Dr. Weigle-Nurnberg; als Mitverfasser einzelner Abschnitte: Professor Dr. Herzfeld (Zucker), Professor Dr. Hintz (Wasser), Regierungsrath Dr. Ohimuller (Wasser), Professor Dr. Reinke (Bier), Professor Dr. Saare (Starkezucker); ausserdem vom Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte: Dr. Busse, Dr. Kerp, Dr. Rost. In diesel' Tagung wurde uber die Abschnitte Zucker, Zuckerwaaren, Fruchtsafte und Gelees, Gemuse und Fruchtdauerwaaren, kitnstliche Sussstoffe, Branntweine und Likore, Wasser und Bier Beschluss gefasst.

When former prosecutor Caroline Spencer answers a middle-of-the-night call for help from her friend Kate Daniels-a prominent medical researcher-she has no idea the toll it will take. Her seven-year-old daughter, her marriage, her professional relationships, and her sometimes-precarious emotional health are all jeopardized. How is Kate able to explain her presence at the apartment of a dead graduate student? What connects this career-driven woman to a ruthless drug dealer? Why does Caroline have trouble recognizing the friend she's known for half her life? As she struggles to answer these questions and discovers the person Kate has become, Caroline is forced to examine her own life and make some painful choices. Set in Madison, Wisconsin, amid the backdrop of the federal criminal justice system, Taken for Granted is page-turning psychological fiction.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Klange Aus Osten: Enthaltend Neun Makansen Des Hamadani, Zwei Kleinere Episoden Aus Dem Schalmame Des Firdausi, Geschichte, Sentenzen, Spruchworter Eduard Gottlieb Amthor Engelmann, 1841

Caroline and David Spencer believe they are prepared for the changes they've decided to make: their move from the suburbs to the city. Caroline's new job as an assistant federal prosecutor. David's more prominent role in child-care and his new business venture. Lily's new school. The twins' graduation to pull-ups and big-kid beds. But they aren't prepared for the unthinkable. When a freak accident turns the Spencers' world upside down, Caroline must rely on a cadre of helpmates-her mother-in-law, her best friend, and a tenacious private investigator-who each bring complications to the mix. How will Caroline deal with her anger, grief, and loss of control? How will the family weather the storm? In the sequel to "Taken for Granted," Leslyn Amthor Spinelli takes us back to Madison, Wisconsin, and the often-chaotic Spencer household, where most anything can happen.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Meditationes Philosophicae De Iustitia Divina Et Materiis Cum Ea Connexis Christoph Heinrich Amthor

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Das Industrielle Und Kommerzielle Deutschland: Ein Rundgemalde Der Gesammten Vaterlandischen Industrie Und Handelsgebiete In Geographischen Einzelbildern. Fur Manner Der Wissenschaft Und Praxis Herausgegeben Von Ed. Amthor, Volume 1; Das Industrielle Und Kommerzielle Deutschland: Ein Rundgemalde Der Gesammten Vaterlandischen Industrie Und Handelsgebiete In Geographischen Einzelbildern. Fur Manner Der Wissenschaft Und Praxis Herausgegeben Von Ed. Amthor; Eduard Gottlieb Amthor Ed Amthor Amthor & Ileib, 1867