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"Some low-frequency sounds--such as noise from storms or truck engines--can make you feel dizzy and nauseated. An index finger's light touch can stop people from losing balance. You are more prone to trip when you think someone is watching you. A breakthrough in improving balance as we age might just come through the study of the Achilles tendon. A person gets "falling down drunk" due to a tiny structure in the inner ear that floats when it becomes...
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First published in 1872 and his third major work on evolutionary science, "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" is Charles Darwin's classic and influential examination of human behavior as it can be observed through the outwardly visible expression of emotions. The timeless question of whether nature or nurture is more important as the basis of human activity is one that has perplexed behavioral scientists since the inception of the...
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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...
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The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
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5) PLANT FOSSIL ATLAS from (Pennsylvanian) CARBONIFEROUS AGE FOUND in Central Appalachian Coalfields
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This book is a picture guide to fossil plants and a few fossil marine organisms found in close association with the local measures in the central Appalachian region. The fossils are sorted by groups and the specimens sampling site locations are listed by coal seam horizon and geographic location. Short descriptions of each group of fossil types are provided. This publication has been designed with the amateur (rock hound) as well as a virtual guide...
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"It is a wicked disease that robs its victims of their memories, their ability to think clearly, and ultimately their lives. For centuries, those afflicted by Alzheimer's disease have suffered its debilitating effects while family members sit by, watching their loved ones disappear a little more each day until the person they used to know is gone forever. The disease was first described by German psychologist and neurologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906....
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In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called the 'races' of mankind by means of what he calls sexual...
8) Physiology
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A Physiology Study Guide can help a student in various ways. Basically this study guide highlights what a student needs to know and puts the knowledge in easily understood terms. These guides are easy to use, easy to read and help you with your Physiology coursework. This Physiology study guide will make your Physiology class go better and make complex terms more easily understood and relevant. In addition, a Physiology Study Guide is affordable and...
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A Urogenital System Reference Guide provides lateral & anterior views and explanations of the female and male anatomy, with attention to the genitourinary and reproductive systems. It includes details and illustrations of nephrons, renal corpuscles, the bladder and kidneys, and also has a description of the development of the system in a developing embryo. The guide explains the workings of supporting structures and processes of the urinary tract,...
10) Mutual Aid
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Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution represents one of the major contributions to twentieth-century political thought. A classic, though often misunderstood text of anarchist thinking, the book offers an exciting and viable alternative to our current political models. Kropotkin's idea of mutual aid is the radical practice of caring for each other while actively working to change the world. This new and authoritative edition of Kropotkin's...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863) has been considered the most important of Thomas Huxley's Darwinian writings. Despite warnings from friends that publishing an argument in support of evolution could ruin his career, it in fact did the opposite. This book did much to facilitate the general acceptance of Darwinism in Huxley's day. Huxley demonstrates that...
12) Before Adam
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With dramatic and detailed first person narration, Jack London's Before Adam follows the dreams of a young boy who has a genetically imprinted memory and knowledge of an ancestor who lived in prehistoric times. Big Tooth is a pre-human ape and is the protagonist of the young boy's dreams. He lives in a tribe that rests in the middle of two extremes. In the surrounding area, there are tribes of differing levels of development. One is primitive and...
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DNA of the Gods is an Anthropologist examination of human intelligence. The B4'5 Haplo group indicates a traversal of the world's oceans in deep antiquity 50,000 years ago. The Neanderthals have tested positive for the human speech locus at 300, 000 years ago. Find the discovery of the speech gene locus, and the deep roots never mixing with the apes in the human genome. Archaeology indicates a deep antiquity to human intelligence. What are the OoPArts...
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How to Prepare for the Afterlife will define the Universe's powerful information system with the force particle that is the basis of all living entities. This new insight explains life, its origins and eventualities using modern medicine and physics. Readers will learn the life mechanisms with words and brilliant pictures as the stranger-than-fiction events unfold. Included with the book is the Universe's Concept and Timeline map that explains the...
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Este texto reemplaza un manuscrito no publicado que fue preparado por el primer autor en 1999 y que fue multiplicado de manera informal en la Sede Palmira de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. En general, esta versión cubre los mismos aspectos del manuscrito original, pero amplía y actualiza los temas inherentes a la relación planta-insecto, el muestreo de poblaciones, el papel de los insectos como vectores de enfermedades de plantas, el control...
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Medicinal plants in Ecuador add up to 3118 species, 75% being native, of these, 80 were investigated by the PUCE-KRIBB project, finally 30 species were collected in this publication for being the most promising. We hope that this book contributes to new research on active ingredients that at some point will be used for the preparation of phytopharmaceuticals, for the benefit of society in general.
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¿Qué hay en la belleza y por qué nos importa tanto? Desde tiempos inmemoriales los humanos han acudido a tinturas, pócimas, filtros y otros artilugios para ser mirados y admirados. Los egipcios, por ejemplo, delineaban sus párpados con kohl y las mujeres usaban sombras verdes y azules, colorete en las mejillas y carmín de un rojo intenso en los labios. De ese modo no sólo cautivaban a sus medias naranjas, también obtenían la protección de...
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The world is blindfolded by two systems known as the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar, and both are giving inaccurate timelines for archaeological discoveries, radiocarbon dating and your actual age. You Are Younger than Your Age seeks to clarify any doubts about your actual age and the age of the other worlds. It offers comprehensive information about creationism and spirituality, as well as the functioning of the other distinctive worlds....
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In Emergence, Mind, and Consciousness, author Gary A. Lucas does something that many consider impossible: he bridges the gap between a bottom-up description of brain mechanisms and the top-down emergence of mental processes. The result is a comprehensive yet readily understandable explanation of how consciousness emerges. Lucas, however, strives to do more. He seeks to design an artificial agent with all the essential properties of the human mind...
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