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Meet Your Hormones
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Meet Your Hormones

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-05
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

Foreword by Professor John Wass, Professor of Endocrinology at Oxford University Did you know that you have thousands, perhaps millions, of hormones in your bloodstream? Did you know that these complex chemical messengers regulate the function of our cells and organs? Or that they keep our bodies working properly, co-ordinating processes like growth, fertility and metabolism? Meet Your Hormones explores and explains the fascinating world of hidden hormones: what they are, what they do and why you can't live without these super-fast chemical messengers. Including in-depth profiles on each of the most important hormones at work in the human body, and helpful advice on how you can look after your own health through greater knowledge of your hormones, this is a wide-ranging introduction to the secret world inside your own body. This book: - Explores what hormones are, where they are made and how they work - Explains the key functions of the body in which they are involved - Offers practical advice on how we can help our hormones help us through diet and lifestyle - Examines the latest thinking and cutting-edge research - Forms a companion volume to Meet Your Bacteria

Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-07
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

'These minibiographies of women who persisted will move anyone with an avid curiosity about the world.' Publishers Weekly With a foreword by Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge and Master of Churchill College. Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women. Their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events. What drove these...

Botanicum Medicinale
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Botanicum Medicinale

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-20
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

A beautifully illustrated, informative, and engaging guide to 100 plants used for medicinal purposes. Remedies derived from plants are the world's oldest medicines. Used extensively in China, India, and many African countries, herbal medicine has become increasingly popular in the West along with other holistic and alternative therapies. Botanicum Medicinale offers a modern guide to 100 medicinal plants, featuring beautiful, full-color botanical illustrations and informative, engaging text. Each entry describes the plant's classification and habitat, traditional and current medicinal uses, and an interesting fact or two. Readers will learn, for example, that absinthe, the highly alcoholic, v...

Meet Your Bacteria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Meet Your Bacteria

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-08-05
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

Meet Your Bacteria introduces you to all of your tiny tenants, and reveals the fascinating inner workings of your body, and the importance of these usually helpful (but sometimes harmful) microbes. Highly topical and accessible, this book: - Explores the different bacteria that live on and in various parts of your body (not just in the gut) - Explains what they do, and why some are beneficial and some harmful - Offers practical advice for promoting the good and inhibiting the bad bacteria - Examines the latest thinking on good and bad dirt, and the links between bacteria and disease Including in-depth profiles on each of the most important families of bacteria living in the human body, and helpful advice on how you can look after your own health through greater knowledge of your microbial friends, this is a wide-ranging introduction to the secret world inside your own body.

The Princeton Guide to Evolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 886

The Princeton Guide to Evolution

The essential one-volume reference to evolution The Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions. Edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary biologists, with contributions from leading researchers, the guide contains some 100 clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics in seven major areas: phylogenetics and the history of life; selection and adaptation; evolutionary processes; genes, genomes, and phenotypes; speciation and macroevolution; evolution of behavior, society, and humans; and evolution and modern society. Complete wit...

The Italian Americans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 122

The Italian Americans

The Italian Americans: A Multicultural View exemplifies a meaningful attempt to inform readers about the Italian Americans’ various experiences in the United States. Unlike many works on the Italian American experience, this unique text explains why popular negative notions of Italian American life are inaccurate. Moreover, this book provides useful information to help the reader become more cognizant of not only the Italian American experience, but the ethnic American experience in general. The eleven chapters of this book are an important beginning for the reader to become informed of the Italian American sociohistorical experiences, including the oppression, exploitation, and discrimination in the United States, past and present.

The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 602

The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1871
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Longworth's American Almanac, New York Register, and City Directory ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 738

Longworth's American Almanac, New York Register, and City Directory ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1832
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Supreme Court Appellate Division Third Judicial Department
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1564

Supreme Court Appellate Division Third Judicial Department

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1898
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory: for the ... Year of American Independence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 742