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Language
English
Description
Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet determined and all possibilities...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this ... brutally honest account will make you think again"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
North American edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains how the five senses supply constant input to the master control center, how nerves respond, and describes the biology behind the mysteries of thought, feelings, and actions.
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the nervous system. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
9) Neuromancer
Author
Series
Sprawl trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Case, a burned out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What do obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, fatty liver disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, neurological disorders, and premature death have in common? All can be stoked by high uric acid levels. Our most respected scientific literature is bursting with evidence that elevated uric acid levels lie at the root of many pervasive health conditions, but mainstream medicine for the most part remains unaware of this connection. This...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
790 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Why do we do the things we do? Sanford professor Robert Sapolsky attempts to answer that question as fully possible, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky starts by examining the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. The first category of explanation is the neurobiological...
16) Use your brain
Author
Publisher
T. Y. Crowell Co
Pub. Date
[1971]
Physical Desc
33 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the brain receives and sends messages via the nervous system.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xviii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human." --Amazon.
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term--"coelenterates"--and deemed these animals too similar to plants to warrant a nervous system. In Dawn of the Neuron, Michel Anctil shows how Darwin's theory of evolution completely eradicated this idea and cleared the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted surprising intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting...
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