Anatomists And Eponyms: An Illustrated History Of Anatomy

£41.50

The medical curriculum teaches the barest essentials of human anatomy. The policy of eliminating all eponyms from the anatomical nomenclature is depriving both students and teachers of the incentive to learn the history of the great anatomist or physician who discovered the structure associated with his or her name. This book aims to address this.

Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews - Vol 25

£75.00

A well-established hardcover review series with one new volume published each year. Each volume contains approximately 15 original, major review articles covering important developments in industrial, agricultural, and medical applications of biotechnology (wide sense), with particular emphasis on the genetic manipulation of the organisms concerned.

Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews - Vol 27

£75.00

A well-established hardcover review series with one new volume published each year. Each volume contains approximately 15 original, major review articles covering important developments in industrial, agricultural, and medical applications of biotechnology (wide sense), with particular emphasis on the genetic manipulation of the organisms concerned.

Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews - Volume 24

£75.00

A well-established hardcover review series with one new volume published each year. Each volume contains approximately 15 original, major review articles covering important developments in industrial, agricultural, and medical applications of biotechnology (wide sense), with particular emphasis on the genetic manipulation of the organisms concerned.

Biotechnology And Genetic Engineering Reviews - Vol 26

£75.00

A well-established hardcover review series with one new volume published each year. Each volume contains approximately 15 original, major review articles covering important developments in industrial, agricultural, and medical applications of biotechnology (wide sense), with particular emphasis on the genetic manipulation of the organisms concerned.

Distilled Spirits - Production, Technology And Innovation

£55.00

The source material for this book originated at the Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference - 2005. At that event, organised by the Scottish Section of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling, a group of over 250 distillers from around the world gathered to share knowledge under the theme of Production, Technology and Innovation - Meeting the Challenges of Tomorrow.

Great Wealth, Poor Health: Contemporary issues in eating and living

£25.00

The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to many of the current issues that relate to the environment, nutrition, food, wellbeing and health in our society. It highlights the role of wealth and "affluenza" leading to substantial waste and some unfortunate changes in our eating habits. The food industry has had a role in these changes. The book details simple guidelines that lead to a healthy lifestyle, and what we should avoid and what we should embrace in everyday living and eating. Should there be a tax on some undesirable foods and this used to subsidise healthy foods?

Occupational Health Psychology - Key Papers Of The European Academy (Vol 6)

£15.00

This book contains the proceedings of the 6th full conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology.

Occupational Health Psychology - Key Papers Of The European Academy (Vol 7)

£15.00

This book contains the proceedings of the 7th full conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology.

Occupational Health Psychology: Euro. Perspectives On Research, Education . . . (Vol 1)

£20.00

This book is the first volume in a groundbreaking annual series from the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology.

Pursuing Postgraduate Training In The UK

£10.00

A practical step-by-step guide, this book is a must for all medical professionals intending to pursue postgraduate medical or dental training in the UK. It contains useful information on everything from traveling, settling down and networking, to passing examinations, applying for attachment placements and climbing the training ladder. Its real-life scenarios can be tailored to individual situations, relevant to doctors, pharmacists, physiotherapists, nurses and biomedical scientists.

Ruined by Excess, Perfected by Lack: The Paradox of Pet Nutrition

£40.00

Present day nutrition dogma is at odds with the diet mammals have been perfected to thrive on. Cellular wisdom in the mammalian genome is the pinnacle of four billion years of evolution and is based on a diet available in the primordial world. Creative humans in the last 10,000 years have revolutionized diet with the domestication of cereal crops, but the mammalian genome has not yet adapted to a diet high in soluble carbohydrate and excess energy. 10,000 years in the history of evolution is the same as one second in five days. The mammalian species is far better perfected to deal with lack of nutrition, the constant problem evolution had to solve.

Searching For Patterns

£12.00

Searching for Patterns gives a concise overview of the methods used in data mining, the process of sifting through volumes of data, looking for patterns relationships that no one has seen before.

Shoulder of Mutton Field: The Retail Butchers Trade in Camden

£25.00

The history of the urban butcher’s shop is comparatively modern, and whilst particular districts in the Borough of Camden created in 1965 may be unfamiliar to some readers, their growth followed similar patterns elsewhere. It is not possible to profile every butchers shop and therefore Kentish Town has been chosen as representing the development of the trade. The story is not solely confined to statistics or even great events, but just as importantly the employees and customers, essential to their success. It was a time when meat was only second in importance to bread and customers regularly visited the retail butchers shop three or four times a week. Since that era events have decreed otherwise, and this particular style of shopping for meat, together with employment opportunities afforded by the retail butchers trade, has almost passed into history.

The Magnetic Pulse Of Life

£10.00

An understanding of how the earth's magnetic field affects the planet's indigenous life is important to our overall understanding of life as we know it. This book evaluates, reviews and compiles results of research into this subject from over 400 published papers from various scientific journals into a single volume.

The Physics of Cricket

£20.00

Spin, swing, seam, irregular bounce, using the pace of the ball, Hawkeye – cricket is littered with technical terms and, increasingly, with technology. The Pakistani bowlers who, in the 1990s, discovered that under certain circumstances they could get the ball to swing through the air in the opposite sense to the way that all logic suggested (so-called “reverse swing”) were actually applying fluid dynamics and the modification of airflow over a surface in a quite brilliant way, although probably ignorant of the hydrodynamical principals involved. When, appalled by the increasing degree of controversy that television replays were causing about the decisions of umpires, it was not a sportsman who was approached to help out, but the astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, who made a study of how physics could help umpires to make the right decisions. Now fans around the world are used to seeing the infrared technology of “Hotspot”, the acoustics of “Snicko” and the ballistics of “Hawkeye”, but how many people actually understand how these aids work and what their applications and limitations are? Is there any scientific reason why a white ball should behave differently to a red one? Why do we use a red or a white ball anyway? Cricket is also an eminently statistical sport. Statistics play a huge part in making and breaking careers, but the old adage that there are “lies, damn lies and statistics” tends to be forgotten by many people who use them without understanding how they work and who often try to force them to support conclusions that are beyond the weight that simple numbers can reasonably be expected to bear. This book will look at the science behind cricket – not just physics – explaining to the armchair fan and the sportsman alike how many different branches of science come together on a cricket field to produce the end result that is the game that we watch with such passion. This will be done in a way that should be understandable to the intelligent layman and to people with a basic grounding in science, but illustrative to people with a deeper understanding of the principles involved.

The Physics Of Rugby

£20.00

Nominated as one of the Top Ten Physics Books by "Physics World". Physics is not mathematics. It is not about blocks of mass M sliding down inclined planes. True physics is the process of coming up with a model. For example, Shane Williams dives for the corner on a muddy day & his momentum carries him over. How far out can he dive & still score? The answer is given by the same equation as those dull sliding blocks. Now, the reader can see how a simple model is built very easily.

The Physics of Scuba Diving

£20.00

This book provides a fun introduction to the mathematics and physics needed to really understand scuba diving; it was written by an enthusiastic scuba diver, who is also a mathematician. The book is written for the lay person, and assumes only a willingness to express basic scientific relationships using mathematical equations. The book describes all of the basics regarding pressure, depth and density, covered more completely than in the typical open water diving course. But in addition, it looks at the mathematical background for dive tables and dive computers, tools divers use to avoid getting decompression sickness. The book explains the basic Haldane theory of nitrogen on-gassing and off-gassing, in more depth than is found in the popular literature. The book would appeal to divers interested in a bit more background that is available in the popular literature, and to people interested in how basic science and mathematics has a large impact on the sport of scuba diving. The book has been used as a textbook for a popular introduction to mathematical thinking.

The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View

£25.00

The main purpose of this book is to educate other patients with schizophrenia, and their family members or friends. The author has written about his personal experiences, in addition to the scientific facts that are known about the illness. He believes that, through sharing his own experiences, he can help other patients feel less isolated and cope with their personal problems. Other mentally healthy persons will also find the book of interest, if they want to know what it is like to live with a mental illness. The subject of schizophrenia is approahced strictly through a patient’s perspective.

Understanding Mathematics

£19.50

Without a basic understanding of maths, students of any science discipline are ill-equipped to tackle new problems or to apply themselves to novel situations. In this book, Keith Gregson covers a few essential topics that will help encourage an understanding of mathematics so that the student can build on their understanding and apply it to their own scientific discipline.

What the Recent Advances in Genetic Research Mean to Your Family's Medical Care

£25.00

We are fast approaching the era of personalized medicine, in which we will each be able to know our level of risk for many diseases, and medical treatments will be tailored to fit the individual, rather than treating all patients who have the same disorder in the same manner. This book is intended to help you understand how your genes influence your health, help you estimate your level of risk for a number of common diseases, and to inform you of the genetic tests which can be performed to help your doctor choose a medication or adjust the dose of a medication to best suit you personally. It also contains a chapter which focuses on the interaction between genes and nutrition, and lists a number of genetic tests which can help a nutritionist, dietician or wholistic health practitioner develop a diet plan which best suits your individual physiology. We have also written a companion book for physicians, nutritionists, dieticians and wholistic health practitioners, entitled Genetics, Genomics And Medicine In The 21st Century. We hope that these two books will make it easier for both you and your doctor to know what tests can be performed to help determine your risk for a certain disease, the best dose of a medicine to prescribe for you, and what kind of diet will best maintain your health. We also hope that having two books written by the same authors will help you and your doctor communicate as efficiently as possible.