This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Product Description In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: • [...]
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Product DescriptionUnabridged Audiobook – 8 CDs – Read by Shelly Frasier… More >> Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism
Product DescriptionThe global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, “animal spirits” are driving financial events worldwide. In this audiobook, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom [...]
Atlas of Human Anatomy: With Netteranatomy.com
Product DescriptionNetter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy is the most loved and best selling anatomy atlas in the English language. In over 540 beautifully colored and easily understood illustrations, it teaches the complete human body with unsurpassed clarity and accuracy. This new edition features 57 revised, 200 relabeled and 17 wholly new plates, drawn fully in [...]
Guns, Germs & Steel : The Fates of Human Societies
Product DescriptionWhy did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for shaping the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced [...]
Introduction to Human Nutrition
Product DescriptionIn this second edition of the introductory text in the acclaimed Nutrition Society Textbook Series, Introduction to Human Nutrition has been revised and updated to meet the needs of the contemporary student. Introduction to Human Nutrition is an essential purchase for students of nutrition and dietetics, and also for those students who major in [...]
Human Relations: A Game Plan for Improving Personal Adjustment
Product Description Using group discussion, and reader activities, this interactive and user-friendly “workbook” teaches readers practical skills for dealing with everyday situations. It balances coverage of theoretical concepts and research with interesting personal stories, anecdotes, and case studies, and applies theoretical concepts throughout. The author’s counseling background and sense of humor in dealing with serious [...]