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 | MediaPhys: An Introduction to Human Physiology Product# 460683782 Selling for $117.5 "McGraw-Hill is proud to introduce MediaPhys, the most comprehensive physiology study tool available. MediaPhys is a multimedia educational CD-ROM that offers cross-platform compatibility (Windows or Macintosh systems). Packaging version available for $10.00 with any McGraw-Hill text (ISBN 0-07-255140-2). This dynamic program offers 13 complete modules featuring detailed explanations, high-quality illustrations, and animations to provide students with a thorough introduction into the world of physiology. MediaPhys is filled with interactive activities and quizzes to help reinforce physiology concepts that are often difficult to understand. Now students can learn and study on their own while using a powerful tool that challenges them to succeed!" |
 | Membrane Permeability: 100 Years Since Ernest Overton Product# 460684144 Selling for $187 "Membrane permeability is fundamental to all cell biology and subcellular biology. The cell exists as a closed unit. Import and export depend upon a number of sophisticated mechanisms, such as active transport, endocytosis, exocytosis, and passive diffusion. These systems are critical for the normal housekeeping physiological functions. However, access to the cell is also taken advantage of by toxic microbes (such as cholera or ptomaine) and when designing drugs. Ernest Overton, one of the pioneers in lipid membrane research, put forward the first comprehensive theory of lipid membrane structure. His most quoted paper on the osmotic properties of cells laid the foundation for the modern concepts of membrane function, most notably important in anesthesia. This book is designed to celebrate the centennial anniversary (in the first chapter) of Overton's work. Subsequent chapters present readers with up-to-date concepts of membrane structure and function and the challenge they pose for new explorations. Key Features * Provides an historical perspective" |
 | Calcium-Activated Chloride Channels Product# 460684145 Selling for $187 "This volume draws together studies on the diverse group of calcium-activated chloride channels (CaCCS) in one comprehensive format. The characteristics of CaCCs identified in a number of different systems are described by experts in the field. Channels discussed include those described in cardiac, neuronal, endothelial and epithelial systems, in addition to sections on the CaCC of 'Xenopus' Oocytes and the newly identified family of CLCA proteins. Key Features * Includes description of CaCCs in excitable and non-excitable tissues * Reviews identification and cloning of the CLCA protein family * Contains section on CaCCs in 'Xenopus' Oocytes" |
 | What Is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life Product# 460687910 Selling for $27.95 "what is death? A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life Answering the question 'What is death?' by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the biosphere. Death now is tied to all of life, via the atmosphere and ocean. Death supports the awesome biological enterprise of making abundant the green and squiggly life. Talk about death has headed us straight into a contemplation of life, not only individual life, but big life, life on a global scale. Death and life are neatly dovetailed by the supreme cabinetmaker of evolution. Again, the crucial feature is not the death of any one creature per se, but rather what is done with death. To reach into the meaning of death, we must reach out into the wider context of which death is a part." |
 | Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are Product# 460765756 Selling for $17 "Reveals how our brains, and particularly their synapses--the spaces between neurons that are the channels through which we think, act, feel, remember, imagine, and encode our most fundamental traits, preferences, and beliefs--define our personalities. Reprint" |
 | The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force Product# 460766154 Selling for $27.5 "A landmark work that offers new answers to one of the oldest mysteries in human thought: the connection between mind and brain. Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now comes a major work, grounded in two decades of research, that argues exactly the opposite: that the mind has a life of its own. In 'The Mind and the Brain, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, a leading researcher in brain dysfunctions, and 'Wall Street Journal science columnist Sharon Begley demonstrate that the human mind is an independent entity that can shape and control the functioning of the physical brain. Their work has its basis in our emerging understanding of adult plasticity -- the brain's ability to be rewired not just in childhood, but throughout life, a trait only recently established by scientists. But in this paradigm-shifting work, Schwartz and Begley take neuroplasticity one critical step further. Through decades of work treating patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (" |
| Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are Product# 460767672 Selling for $17 "Reveals how our brains, and particularly their synapses--the spaces between neurons that are the channels through which we think, act, feel, remember, imagine, and encode our most fundamental traits, preferences, and beliefs--define our personalities. Reprint" |