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  • Scale

    The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

    by Geoffrey West ...
    **"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street JournalWall Street JournalFrom one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in.**Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Life on the Edge

    The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

    New York Times bestseller • Life on the Edge alters our understanding of our world's fundamental dynamics through the use of quantum mechanics.Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

    A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in our bodies.What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical signals constantly traveling through our bodies, driving our thoughts, our movements, and even the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book

    by Peter Forbes ...
    A cutting-edge science book in the style of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and ‘Chaos’ from an exciting and accessible voice in popular science writing.Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists, architects and engineers are looking at imitating nature by manufacturing 'wet' materials such as spider ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Every Life Is on Fire

    How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things

    A preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life.Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things that, puzzlingly, weren't.For centuries, the scientific question of life's origins has confounded us. But in Every Life Is on Fire, physicist Jeremy England argues that the answer has been under our noses ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rainbow And The Worm, The: The Physics Of Organisms (3rd Edition)

    by Mae-wan Ho ...
    This highly unusual book began as a serious inquiry into Schrödinger's question, “What is life?”, and as a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals and fractals, all necessary for illuminating the problem of life. In the process, the reader is ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Science of Spin

    How Rotational Forces Affect Everything from Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather

    by Roland Ennos ...
    What exactly made the earth round? How do boomerangs turn around mid-air? And why do cats always land on their feet? “A basic scientific concept receives long overdue attention” (Kirkus Reviews) in this “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) new book from the masterful author of The Age of Wood.From the solar system to spinning tops, hurricanes to hula hoops, power plants to pendulums, one mysterious ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information

    The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate history. This book documents the many advances, as well as the prejudices and founder fallacies. It highlights the premature relegation of RNA to simply an intermediate between gene and protein, the underestimation of the ... Read more

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  • Aging and Health - A Systems Biology Perspective

    Edited by A.I. Yashin, S.M. Jazwinski ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology and Geriatrics
    Aging is a major risk factor for chronic diseases, which in turn can provide information about the aging of a biological system. This publication serves as an introduction to systems biology and its application to biological aging. Key pathways and processes that impinge on aging are reviewed, and how they contribute to health and disease during aging is discussed. The evolution of this situation ... Read more

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  • Ethics for Radiation Protection in Medicine

    This book presents an up to date ethical framework for radiological protection in medicine. It is consistent with the requirements of the system of radiation protection and with the expectations of medical ethics. It presents an approach rooted in the medical tradition, and alert to contemporary social expectations. It provides readers with a practical framework against which they can assess the ... Read more

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  • Biomaterials Science

    An Introduction to Materials in Medicine

    The revised edition of this renowned and bestselling title is the most comprehensive single text on all aspects of biomaterials science. It provides a balanced, insightful approach to both the learning of the science and technology of biomaterials and acts as the key reference for practitioners who are involved in the applications of materials in medicine.Over 29,000 copies sold, this is the most ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Wonder of Water

    From roaring waterfalls and crashing waves to gentle rain and billowing clouds, water pervades our planet's majestic biosphere. It is easy to take for granted. But this ever-present substance is amazingly fit in a myriad of ways to sustain life on Earth, especially human life. Its unique properties allow it to fill many roles throughout the biological world, from forming the matrix of our cells, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Different Universe

    Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down

    A Nobel-winning physicist argues that fundamental physical laws are found not in the world of atoms, but in the macroscopic world around usIn this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. But in A Different Universe, Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin argues that the scientific frontier is right under our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth

    The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere

    Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as a planetary process. Combining geology, geochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, evolution and statistical physics to create an inclusive picture of the living state, the authors develop the argument that the emergence of life was a necessary cascade ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Radiological Issues for Fukushima’s Revitalized Future

    Edited by Tomoyuki Takahashi ...
    This book overviews environmental issues 4 years after the Fukushima nuclear accident, covering a wide range of areas related to radiation and radioactivity. The topics discussed are necessary to make clear the relationship between the results of research and Fukushima’s revitalized future. The chapters are divided into four parts: Part 1 presents the identification of radionuclides in soil and ... Read more

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  • Furry Logic

    The Physics of Animal Life

    The animal world is full of mysteries. Why do dogs slurp from their drinking bowls while cats lap up water with a delicate flick of the tongue? How does a tiny turtle hatchling from Florida circle the entire northern Atlantic before returning to the very beach where it hatched? And how can a Komodo dragon kill a water buffalo with a bite only as strong as a domestic cat's?These puzzles – and many ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Introduction to Nanoscience

    Nanoscience is not physics, chemistry, engineering or biology. It is all of them, and it is time for a text that integrates the disciplines. This is such a text, aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the sciences. The consequences of smallness and quantum behaviour are well known and described Richard Feynman's visionary essay 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom' ... Read more

    $98.99 USD $87.99 USD

  • As Above So Below...

    Series Book 1 - Spirit Matters
    As Above So Below... is a soul's journey through the cosmos, inner and outer. It documents the explorations of Rev. Dr. Glen Swartwout in his search of the ultimate meaning of the universe, creation, existence, life, consciousness and eternity. His Clinical Theory of Everything stands squarely in the middle, on the human scale of experience, between the infinitely large vastness of space and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (III)

    After 7 Years

    This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This third volume in the series reports on studies undertaken at contaminated sites such as farmland, forests, and marine and freshwater environments, with a particular focus on ... Read more

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  • Hybrid Imaging in Cardiovascular Medicine

    Edited by Yi-Hwa Liu, Albert J. Sinusas ...
    Series series Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy
    This comprehensive book focuses on multimodality imaging technology, including overviews of the instruments and methods followed by practical case studies that highlight use in the detection and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Chapters cover PET-CT, SPECT-CT, SPECT-MRI, PET-MRI, PET-optical imaging, SPECT-optical imaging, photoacoustic Imaging, and hybrid intravascular imaging. It also ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Self-Assembling Brain

    How Neural Networks Grow Smarter

    What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itselfHow does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiologists investigate how nature accomplishes this feat, computer scientists interested in artificial intelligence strive to achieve this through technology. The Self-Assembling Brain tells the stories of both fields, exploring the historical and modern ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Back to Basics in Physiology

    Fluids in the Renal and Cardiovascular Systems

    This original six chapter book will briefly review and integrate the basic concepts behind water distribution and movement in the body. This fills a knowledge gap that most medical and undergraduate physiology students acquire when these topics are studied separately. As of now, there is no textbook that fully integrates renal, cardiovascular and water physiology in a clear understandable manner. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • BioBuilder

    Synthetic Biology in the Lab

    Today’s synthetic biologists are in the early stages of engineering living cells to help treat diseases, sense toxic compounds in the environment, and produce valuable drugs. With this manual, you can be part of it. Based on the BioBuilder curriculum, this valuable book provides open-access, modular, hands-on lessons in synthetic biology for secondary and post-secondary classrooms and laboratories ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Biophysics of Cell Membranes

    Biological Consequences

    Series Book 19 - Springer Series in Biophysics
    This volume focuses on the modulation of biological membranes by specific biophysical properties. The readers are introduced to emerging biophysical approaches that mimick specific states (like membrane lipid asymmetry, membrane curvature, lipid flip-flop, lipid phase separation) that are relevant to the functioning of biological membranes. The first chapter describes innovative methods to mimic ... Read more

    $134.99 USD