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A Means to an End: The Biological Basis of Aging and Death

by William R. Clark
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1999-04-22)
ISBN: 0195125932
EAN: 9780195125931
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 256 pages
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Why do we age? Is aging inevitable? Will advances in medical knowledge allow us to extend the human lifespan beyond its present limits? Because growing old has long been the one irreducible reality of human existence, these intriguing questions arise more often in the context of science fiction than science fact. But recent discoveries in the fields of cell biology and molecular genetics are seriously challenging the assumption that human lifespans are beyond our control.
With such discoveries in mind, noted cell biologist William R. Clark clearly and skillfully describes how senescence begins at the level of individual cells and how cellular replication may be bound up with aging of the entire organism. He explores the evolutionary origin and function of aging, the cellular connections between aging and cancer, the parallels between cellular senescence and Alzheimer's disease, and the insights gained through studying human genetic disorders--such as Werner's syndrome--that mimic the symptoms of aging. Clark also explains how reduction in caloric intake may actually help increase lifespan, and how the destructive effects of oxidative elements in the body may be limited by the consumption of antioxidants found in fruits and vegetables. In a final chapter, Clark considers the social and economic aspects of living longer, the implications of gene therapy on senescence, and what we might learn about aging from experiments in cloning.
This is a highly readable, provocative account of some of the most far-reaching and controversial questions we are likely to ask in the next century.

A new model of the solar system

by Sam Elton
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Philosophical Library (1966)
ISBN: B0006BO5JU
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 216 pages
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A Second Way of Knowing: The Riddle of Human Perception

by Edmund Blair Bolles
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Prentice Hall Trade (1991-06)
ISBN: 0134715829
EAN: 9780134715827
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 213 pages
Edition: 1
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A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination

by Gerald Edelman, Giulio Tononi
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Publisher: Basic Books (2001-02-28)
ISBN: 0465013775
EAN: 9780465013777
Binding/Media: Paperback - 288 pages
Release Date: 2001-03-06
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In A Universe of Consciousness, Gerald Edelman builds on the radical ideas he introduced in his monumental trilogy-Neural Darwinism, Topobiology, and The Remembered Present-to present for the first time an empirically supported full-scale theory of consciousness. He and the neurobiolgist Giulio Tononi show how they use ingenious technology to detect the most minute brain currents and to identify the specific brain waves that correlate with particular conscious experiences. The results of this pioneering work challenge the conventional wisdom about consciousness.

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Emily Dickinson wrote "The Brain--is wider than the Sky," and who can argue with that? Quoted by Nobel-winning scientist Gerald M. Edelman and his Neurosciences Institute colleague Giulio Tononi in A Universe of Consciousness, Miss Emily neatly explains the problem of conscious awareness, then ducks out of the way as the two scientists get to work solving it. Testable theories of consciousness are mighty lonely, as even the soberest mind can be driven to tears of madness pondering its own activity. Centuries of work by philosophers and psychologists like James and Freud have made little progress by starting with awareness and working backward to the brain; these days we have a secure enough base to try looking in the other direction and building a theory of the mind out of neurons.

Though Edelman and Tononi do make a good effort to help out the lay reader, ultimately A Universe of Consciousness is aimed at the interdisciplinary gang of scientists and academics trying to understand our shared but invisible experience. The first sections of the book cover the basic philosophical, psychological, and biological elements essential to their theory. Swiftly the authors proceed to define terms and concepts (even the long-abused term complexity gets a reappraisal) and elaborate on these to create a robust, testable theory of the neural basis of consciousness. Following this hard work, they consider some ramifications of the theory and take a close look at language and thinking. This much-needed jump-start is sure to provoke a flurry of experimental and theoretical responses; A Universe of Consciousness might just help us answer some of the greatest questions of science, philosophy, and even poetry. --Rob Lightner

Abstract methods in partial differential equations (Harper's series in modern mathematics)

by Robert Wayne Carroll
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harper & Row (1969)
ISBN: B0006BZ4M2
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 374 pages
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An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (Dover Books on Biology)

by Claude Bernard
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Dover Publications (1957-06-01)
ISBN: 0486204006
EAN: 9780486204000
Binding/Media: Paperback - 272 pages
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Clear and penetrating presentation of the basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; functions of pancreatic juice in digestion; elucidation of glycogenic function of the liver.

Applications of Linear Algebra

by Chris Rorres, Howard Anton
Product Group: Book
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (1984-06)
ISBN: 0471868000
EAN: 9780471868002
Binding/Media: Paperback - 374 pages
Edition: 3rd
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This undergraduate textbook, which includes problems and exercises, covers all applications of linear algebra. Topics include constructing curves and surfaces through specified points, plane geometry, graphy theory, computer graphics, linear programming and much more.

Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases

by Douglas Gordon Browne, Tom Tullett
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Dorset Pr (1989-03)
ISBN: 0880293071
EAN: 9780880293075
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 464 pages
Edition: REPRINT Edition
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Biological and Behavioral Aspects of Salt Intake (A Monograph series - The Nutrition Foundation)

by M. Kare
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Publisher: Academic Pr (1980-06)
ISBN: 0123977509
EAN: 9780123977502
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 459 pages
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Breakthroughs in mathematics (Signet science library)

by Peter Wolff
Product Group: Book
Publisher: New American Library (1963)
ISBN: B0006BLKI4
Binding/Media: Mass Market Paperback - 285 pages
Condition: Used: Good
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