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Wohlsen delivers a chronicle of DIY biotech scientists and their idealistic quest to democratize DNA like the Internet did information.

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Biosociology is an emerging paradigm seeking to understand human behavior by integrating relevant insights from the natural sciences into traditional sociological thinking. Biosociology posits no ultimate causes of human behavior, rather it seeks to understand how biological factors interact with other factors to produce observed behavior.

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Elliptic equations of critical Sobolev growth have been the target of investigation for decades because they have proved to be of great importance in analysis, geometry, and physics. The equations studied here are of the well-know Yamabe type.

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The first book to bring together the many different everyday gestures that are used all over the world. The result is a fascinating reference book of over 600 different gestures from Europe, the Middle East, North & South America and the Far East.

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Offers an overview of what is known about the structure and mechanics of bone, bones, and teeth. This work shows how bone structure and bone's mechanical properties are intimately bound up with each other and how the mechanical properties of the material interact with the structure of whole bones to produce an adapted structure.

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Are reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer baby" method.

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This book has as its subject the boundary value theory of holomorphic functions in several complex variables, a topic that is just now coming to the forefront of mathematical analysis. For one variable, the topic is classical and rather well understood. In several variables, the necessary understanding of holomorphic functions via partial different

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This process reveals those characteristics of mechanical explanations that make them superior to elemental theories of chemical explanation, characteristics that have become an enduring feature of the scientific enterprise.

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An argument that the complexities of brain function can be understood hierarchically, in terms of different levels of abstraction, as silicon computing is.

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In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brainfrom the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the present timeGross attempts to answer the question of how the discipline of neuroscience evolved into its modern incarnation through the twists and turns of history.

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' 'Peter Raby's book follows a disparate crew of botanists, scientists and collectors, who tried to order the earthly paradise which unfolded around them. Entrepreneurs they may have been - many were dependent on selling their specimens to finance their trips-but they were also scrupulous and sensitive observers.

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From ancient Greece to the close of the second millennium, the keen scientific eye has been translated over and over into graceful and meaningful texts in which not only the world observed but the act of observation itself is set down for the common reader. By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozen works from the past three centuries.

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Caged in Our Own Signs: A Book About Semiotics is a primer of semiotics, intended for general readers as well as communication majors. This volume also provides the reader with semiotic methodology to analyze issues of postmodernism, of text semiotics, and of mass cultural semiotics.

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Caged in Our Own Signs: A Book About Semiotics is a primer of semiotics, intended for general readers as well as communication majors. This volume also provides the reader with semiotic methodology to analyze issues of postmodernism, of text semiotics, and of mass cultural semiotics.

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Offers an introduction to calculus of variations and optimal control theory, and is a self-contained resource for graduate students in engineering, applied mathematics, and related subjects. This book traces the historical development of the subject and features numerous exercises, notes and references at the end of each chapter.

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The description for this book, Calculus on Heisenberg Manifolds. (AM-119), will be forthcoming.

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"A mindhacker's guide to shifting into brain 3.0"--Cover.

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Filled with curious and strange facts and information about our fascinating bodies, there will be something here to interest everyone - and everybody. If you want to know if there is a limit to how many times the human body can almost die, the necessity of morning sickness, or if robots are likely to ever rule the earth, then this book is for you.