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Human biology
Hardcover. Contends to understand epidemics and their history we need to think about maps of varying scale, from the individual body to shared symptoms evidenced across cities, nations, and the world. This title provides a review of epidemic mapping today and a detailed example of its power. Num Pages: 368 pages, 106 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; MBNS; PSXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 187 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1100.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226449357
- ISBN
- 9780226449357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 39.88
€ 51.99
€ 39.88
Hardback. Is membership of our species important in itself, or is it just important to have the properties that a normal grown-up human being has? This text confronts and attempts to answer this and other moral and ethical questions. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 559.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792350682
- ISBN
- 9780792350682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.86
€ 126.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HDW; JHM; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 182 x 13. Weight in Grams: 442. 196 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HDW; JHMP; PSX. Dimension: 246 x 182 x 13. Weight: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801498756
- ISBN
- 9780801498756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.00
€ 51.99
€ 46.00
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PSC; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118867822
- ISBN
- 9781118867822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.12
€ 164.12
Hardback. This reference dictionary describes the development of physical or biological anthropology concepts, tracing the history of their usage from their origins to the contemporary and usually multidisciplinary contexts in which physical anthropologists participate. Series: Reference Sources for the Social Sciences & Humanities. Num Pages: 448 pages, index. BIC Classification: GBC; JHMP; PSX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313247569
- ISBN
- 9780313247569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.13
€ 94.13
Hardcover. Num Pages: 630 pages, Approx. 150 illustrations. BIC Classification: MFC; MFKH; PSC; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 285 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1932.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780123821065
- ISBN
- 9780123821065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 234.69
€ 234.69
paperback. Expands on Louis Bolk's evolutionary theory and proposes that humans have not descended from apes, but rather that apes have evolved by diverging from a humanlike prototype. Num Pages: 432 pages, 177 line drawings. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586. Expands on Louis Bolk's evolutionary theory and proposes that humans have not descended from apes, but rather that apes have evolved by diverging from a humanlike prototype. Num Pages: 432 pages, 177 line drawings. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Adonis Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780932776297
- ISBN
- 9780932776297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.49
€ 6.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; PDZ; PSX; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 173.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846275524
- ISBN
- 9781846275524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified, human behaviors. Our earthiest instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: JHMP; JMM; PSAN; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674284135
- ISBN
- 9780674284135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.77
€ 35.99
€ 30.77
Paperback. Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: MBS; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 818.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470283554
- ISBN
- 9780470283554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.00
€ 96.00
Paperback. Providing much needed understandings of cultural differences in attitudes and beliefs towards issues such as illness, death and mental health, this book is a remedy against the cultural dissonance occurring at present between Western medical systems and their increasingly diverse patients, in order to facilitate integrated and suitable care. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JKSM; MBPK; MMH; PSXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785920844
- ISBN
- 9781785920844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.03
€ 34.03
Hardback. The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters cover a range of ethnographic areas and examine notions of personhood, agency, uncertainty and control among other questions. Editor(s): Littlewood, Roland; Lynch, Rebecca. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785331770
- ISBN
- 9781785331770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.97
€ 154.97
Paperback. This work considers the complex, far reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project - an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the human genetic structure by the year 2005 - offering the elimination of genetic abnormalities and diseases. Editor(s): Sloan, Phillip R. Series: Studies in Science & the Humanities from the Reilly Centre for Science, Technology & Values. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHMP; PDA; PSX; TCBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 907.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268008208
- ISBN
- 9780268008208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.01
€ 37.99
€ 34.01
Paperback. Series: Culture, Illness & Healing. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMP; M; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556080760
- ISBN
- 9781556080760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 244.12
€ 244.12
Hardback. This compelling study is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and non-clinical settings at a time when Italy was considered the 'Wild-West' of assisted conception. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 10 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DS; JFSJ; JFSK; JHBK; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451127
- ISBN
- 9781845451127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.60
€ 154.60
Paperback. Building on the success of the second edition, this truly accessible textbook comprehensively covers the 2008 AS and A2 level Human Biology specifications for all the main UK exam boards.The book also has a companion website which is free to book users providing extra resources. Series: Collins Advanced Science. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 4KL; PSX. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 222 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1746.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Third edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007267514
- ISBN
- 9780007267514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.34€ 36.97
€ 53.34
€ 36.97
Hardcover. As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills, and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized settings to resource-poor communities with weak or little infrastructure, countries with emerging economies are starting to expand new indigenous science bases of their own. Editor(s): Konrad, Monica. Num Pages: 308 pages, 4 figs. BIC Classification: JHM; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550. Counterparts in Anthropologicial Knowledge and International Research Relations. 308 pages, 4 figs. Editor(s): Konrad, Monica. As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills, and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized settings to resource-poor communities with weak or little infrastructure, countries with emerging economies are starting to expand new indigenous science bases of their own. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JHM; PSXM. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 21. Weight: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857454805
- ISBN
- 9780857454805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.57
€ 155.57
Hardback. Presents a collection of core PCR techniques useful for the study and diagnosis of human diseases. This book includes chapters which describe applications exploiting the sensitivity of PCR in the detection of rare or single cells, as in identifying fetal cells circulating in maternal blood, or detecting circulating cancer cells. Editor(s): Lo, Y.M. Dennis. Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine. Num Pages: 353 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBGL; MF; MJA; PSD; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896034990
- ISBN
- 9780896034990
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.32
€ 187.32
Hardcover. All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Editor(s): McCourt, Chris. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MQD; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455866
- ISBN
- 9781845455866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.23
€ 155.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 2AB; 2ADS; JHMP; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Nationalmuseet Denmark
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788776020514
- ISBN
- 9788776020514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.13
€ 18.13
Paperback. Scientists have discovered that at the most fundamental level humans are genetically linked to every part of the natural world. A dog is 85 per cent genetically identical to a human and humans have only twice as many genes as a worm or a fly. This work brings together these astonishing discoveries, and offers a vision of the impact these findings. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: PSAK; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 202 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001394
- ISBN
- 9780747558200
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological and social anthropology.. Editor(s): MacClancy, Jeremy; Fuentes, Agustin. Series: Studies of the BioSocial Society. Num Pages: 316 pages, 30 ills. BIC Classification: JHMC; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456900
- ISBN
- 9781845456900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.97
€ 155.97
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ranzato, Elia; Martinotti, Simona. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: PSX; TDCT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631172519
- ISBN
- 9781631172519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.01€ 100.83
€ 147.01
€ 100.83
Hardback. This text provides both an overview of the fundamental biology of carcinogenesis and mutagenesis testing, presenting a highly practical collection of all the major laboratory assays. Editor(s): Douglas, J.Fielding. Series: Contemporary Biomedicine. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MF; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 675.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896030428
- ISBN
- 9780896030428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65