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  • The Life Puzzle

    On Crystals and Organisms and on the Possibility of a Crystal as an Ancestor

    by A.G. Cairns-Smith ...
    Series series Heritage
    What is the origin of life? Molecular biology shows us one kind, but in thinking about it we must consider those generalised aspects of living organisation that are common to all conceivable forms of life. The author believes that only a combination of general biological theory and particular chemical knowledge can solve the problems of the origin and re-creation of life. This book does not fall ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Secrets of the Mind

    A Tale of Discovery and Mistaken Identity

    by A.G. Cairns-Smith ...
    How can we reconcile Shakespeare's account of human behavior and that of modern brain science? That's the central question addressed by the noted Glasgow chemist A.G. Cairns-Smith in this provocative, witty, and highly accessible discussion of conscious awareness, free will, and science. Written in a conversational style, Secrets of the Mind is not only a splendid introduction for the general ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Your Conscious Mind

    Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain

    by New Scientist ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
    What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human?The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes us aware of the world around us and our own self. How all this emerges from a kilogram of brain cells is one of the greatest unanswered questions.In Your Conscious Mind leading brain ... Read more

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  • Ordinary Geniuses

    How Two Mavericks Shaped Modern Science

    by Gino Segre ...
    A biography of two maverick scientists whose intellectual wanderlust kick-started modern genomics and cosmology.Max Delbruck and George Gamow, the so-called ordinary geniuses of Segre's third book, were not as famous or as decorated as some of their colleagues in midtwentieth-century physics, yet these two friends had a profound influence on how we now see the world, both on its largest scale (the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics

    Edited by Judy Illes, Barbara J. Sahakian ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront head-on some significant ethical issues regarding our application of this information in the real world- whether using brain images to establish guilt within a court of law, or developing drugs to enhance cognition. Historically, any consideration of ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Crystallography Made Crystal Clear

    A Guide for Users of Macromolecular Models

    by Gale Rhodes ...
    Crystallography Made Crystal Clear makes crystallography accessible to readers who have no prior knowledge of the field or its mathematical basis. This is the most comprehensive and concise reference for beginning Macromolecular crystallographers, written by a leading expert in the field. Rhodes' uses visual and geometric models to help readers understand the mathematics that form the basis of x ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • How Literature Plays with the Brain

    The Neuroscience of Reading and Art

    by Paul B. Armstrong ...
    An original interdisciplinary study positioned at the intersection of literary theory and neuroscience."Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Introduction To Dynamic Spin Chemistry: Magnetic Field Effects On Chemical And Biochemical Reactions

    by Hisaharu Hayashi ...
    Series Book 8 - World Scientific Lecture And Course Notes In Chemistry
    This book presents a detailed account of one of the most mysterious problems in science — whether ordinary magnetic fields can exert an appreciable influence on chemical and biochemical reactions. The first aim of the book is to introduce this research, through theoretical and dynamic spin chemistry, to graduate students and researchers, by means of detailed theoretical and experimental ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics

    by Jozef J. Zwislocki ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics organizes part of psychophysics -- a science of quantitative relationships between human sensations and the stimuli that evoke them. Although psychophysics belongs to sensory neuroscience, and is coupled to neurophysiology, it has also branched out to various specialized disciplines, including the disciplines of vision and hearing, ophthalmology, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Molecular Science of Fluctuations Toward Biological Functions

    Edited by Mikio Kataoka, Ryuichi Ueoka, Yuko Okamoto, Mazahide Terazima ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    In this monograph, the importance of fluctuations for biological reactions is discussed from various points of view. Understanding the biological reactions at the molecular level is one of the major targets in many scientific fields, including not only basic biology but also physics, physical chemistry, and medical science. One of the key factors in the process is “fluctuation”. Thermal energy ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • New Frontiers in Mirror Neurons Research

    Edited by Pier Francesco Ferrari, Giacomo Rizzolatti ...
    The discovery of mirror neurons caused a revolution in neuroscience and psychology. Nevertheless, because of their profound impact within life sciences, mirror neuron are still the subject of numerous debates concerning their origins and their functions. With more than 20 years of research in this area, it is timely to synthesise the expanding literature on this topic. 'New frontiers in Mirror ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Fast Spectrum Reactors

    Edited by Donald R. Todd, Alan E. Waltar, Pavel V. Tsvetkov ...
    This book is a complete update of the classic 1981 FAST BREEDER REACTORS textbook authored by Alan E. Waltar and Albert B. Reynolds, which , along with the Russian translation, served as a major reference book for fast reactors systems. Major updates include transmutation physics (a key technology to substantially ameliorate issues associated with the storage of high-level nuclear waste ), ... Read more

    $242.99 USD