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1) Body atlas
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This series takes the viewer on a journey through the human body. New techniques film the interior workings of the body in action. Each program matches the interior process to the way it affects our everyday lives.
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This title helps you succeed in the challenging anatomy and physiology course with an easy-to-understand narrative, precise visuals, and steadfast accuracy. Every chapter of the eleventh edition includes one- and two-page 'Spotlight Figures' that seamlessly integrate text and visuals to guide you through complex topics and processes.
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"Pathophysiology offers a unique clinical approach that facilitates learning by viewing pathophysiology as health care professionals do. This textbook's approach recognizes how disease affects multiple systems. Additionally, rather than covering only a limited number of diseases, aiming for rote memorization of the key factors in those diseases, the clinical approach details the mechanisms of disease. By mastering the core concepts of altered human...
4) Physiology
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Seeking to emphasize broad concepts and principles, this textbook explains physiology with the understanding that one of the central goals of physiology is the elucidation of organisms' ability to maintain homeostasis. Berne (emeritus, molecular physiology and biological physics, U. of Virginia Health Sciences Center), Levy (emeritus physiology and biomedical engineering, Case Western Reserve U.), Koeppen (medicine and physiology, U. of Connecticut...
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The bodies of some animals stretch and shrink in extraordinary ways. The anaconda can swallow prey twice its own body size and then go for over a year without eating. The camel's curious hump can almost double in weight giving it the energy to travel huge distances across deserts. What is the secret behind such expandable bodies?
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Thibodeau and Patton's Structure & Function of the Body, 14th Edition makes the difficult concepts of anatomy and physiology clear and easier to understand. Focusing on the normal structure and function of the human body and what the body does to maintain homeostasis, this introductory text provides more than 400 vibrantly detailed illustrations and a variety of interactive learning tools to help you establish an essential foundation for success in...
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By their very nature, sports competitions push the human body to its limits. In this program, we examine four bodily systems - skeletal, muscular, respiratory, and circulatory - to demonstrate how our anatomy enables us to be physically active. Extensive computer graphics and sports footage provide a comprehensive overview of the subject. - Container.
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"Sensations of hunger, thirst, sexual attraction, and love can dominate our thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else, but up until the past ten years or so, the precise reasons why these passions arise have not been well understood. We now know that these, and other drives like the urge to sleep, are controlled by a small portion of the brain called the hypothalamus. This book presents the latest information about how the brain controls...
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"Physiology at a Glance provides an accessible and concise introduction to physiology. It covers the core knowledge required by all students on any biomedical or medical programme that contains a physiology component, including medicine and nursing." "The book follows the easy-to-use At a Glance format of double-page spreads composed of clear, memorable diagrams that support accompanying key facts and essential information."--Jacket.
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This series explores the startling new map of the brain that has emerged from the past decade of neuroscience and shares a revelatory view of this most complicated organ, which now contradicts much of what we previously believed. Narrated by actress Blair Brown, the series tells stories through a mix of personal histories, expert commentary and cutting-edge animation. Viewers will not only learn startling new truths about the brain, they will voyage...
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Now in its ninth edition, this text continues to set the standard for short-course A & P texts with an enhanced media package, an updated art program, and new active learning features to help allied health students better visualise and understand the structure and function of the human body.
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The brain has never been subject to such intense scrutiny - barely a day passes without a newspaper splashing the results of the latest brain scan study purporting to reveal the neurological location of happiness, love, rage, or any number of human emotions. Yet, for all of the gains in our understanding of brain function credited to scientific research, there is a growing body of hype and misinformation about how the brain works. Great Myths of the...
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Drawing on a number of cutting-edge discoveries from brain research as well as on his own insights as a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist, Goldberg presents a wide-ranging discussion of history, culture, and evolution to arrive at an original understanding of the nature of human creativity. He discusses the origins of language, the nature of several neurological disorders, animal cognition, virtual reality, and even artificial intelligence. Included...
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