The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease, Paperback - Marc Lewis

Reducere. Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" ...

Through the vivid, true stories of five addicts, a neuroscientist explains how addiction happens in the brain, and what we can do to overcome it. T...

This book's Italian title, Dimenticare Darwin, means Forget Darwin, and its prologue bears the title Evolution is dead The author, Dr. Giuseppe Ser...

Reducere. Treating Addiction as a personal failing or weakness is stigmatizing and doesn't work-not for those living with it, or for their loved ones. Unders...

Reducere. DescriptionJust a short while back, I was dysfunctional. I needed a walker around the house. I couldn't bend. I could barely move. Short of my eigh...

Reducere. Joseph Caravella, MA LADC currently practices as an addiction therapist for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation at their campus in Saint Paul, Minne...

Reducere. "I miss the old Joey." Sophia's older brother Joey has changed. Sophia is confused and angry when he begins acting differently - missing family eve...

Reducere. "I miss the old Joey." Sophia's older brother Joey has changed. Sophia is confused and angry when he begins acting differently - missing family eve...

The equation "Mind = Machine" is false. This pocket lexicon of "neuromythology" shows why.Publisher: Imprint AcademicAuthor(s): Raymond TallisNumbe...

Adictia digitala. Boala a societatii postmoderne / The Digital Addiction. A Disease of the Post-Modern Society - Adina-Brindusa Baciu

Reducere. The globe is an image of the earth that was first promoted by the Greeks. However, ancient biblical records reveal that the image of the globe was ...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 30 color illustrations, 3 b-w photographs, 16 line illustrations, 10 tablesNumber of page...

The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour - Dennis C. Turner, Patrick Bateson

Reducere. Understand how your brain, which is the interface between you and are world, is dynamically sculpted throughout your life. As your brain changes, s...

Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, cl...

DescriptionWelcome to the biggest, fastest, deadliest science book you'll ever read. The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The ...

Waisted: The Biology of Body Fat outlines the fascinating, often misunderstood and sometimes controversial biology of fat, otherwise known as adipo...

Reducere. This textbook introduces the reader to some of the most common psychological disorders, from schizophrenia, depression and substance abuse to disor...

Reducere. Everything about our existence-movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth, and ultimately death-is governed by our cells. They are th...

This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at the role that rest plays in the quality of your life, offering a proven program to enhance your heal...

The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors' basic question is: 'How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical conce...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Contributor(s): Author: Mark L. WinstonAuthor: M. L. WinstonFrom ancient cave paintings of honey bee nests to modern science's richly diversified i...

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, U.S.Author(s): Michael J JoynerNumber of pages: 408Collection: Perspectives CshlPublication date: 2...

All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neu...

Presents evidence of the ecology and behavior of Great White Sharks. This volume begins with the evolution of the white shark and its relatives and...

Uses new research about the brain to explore how we can transcend our current physical and cultural limitations - Reveals that transcendence of cur...

How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development.

Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escape...

This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction. As well as presenting the case for seeing addiction as a b...

Reducere. 'Understanding Alcoholism as a Brain Disease' includes an in-depth explanation of how alcoholism works inside the brain; the stages of alcoholism i...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The Biology of Death ties together the many ways that death helps scientists understand life. In the book, science writer Gary C. Howard synthesize...

Tyrannosaurs are, by some margin, the most famous dinosaurs in the world. Popular among children and adults alike, it is the only dinosaur many peo...

All health care professionals involved in the care of children, well or sick, need an understanding of the biological processes underpinning child ...

Over 300, 000 people will die this year from obesity-related diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. That's 822 people every day. It's l...

An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack....

Why Not Me is a personal memoir and self help guide that chronicles the life journey of Jason Brader, CSCS. Jason is an entrepreneur, inventor, coa...

Reducere. Buried in many people and operating largely outside the realm of conscious thought are forces inclining us toward liberal or conservative political...

Introverted? This book introduces readers to all the ways in which a person can be "shy", "introverted" and "anxious". It explores the biological r...

Reducere. DescriptionA professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead...

This fun book about dog shows teaches the core curriculum topic of inheritance.

Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is a ...

Reducere. Do you ever doubt your faith in God because you never had that one defining "salvation moment" that other Christians talk about - you know the one ...

DescriptionFrom a single cell--a fertilized egg--comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg "kno...

A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the y...

An authority on Alzheimer's disease offers a history of past failures and a roadmap that points us in a new direction in our journey to a cure. For...

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, U.S.Author(s): Terri GrodzickerIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 328Collection: Cold S...

Reducere. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as "one of the best scientist/writers of our time, " a collectio...