Authors:Peter Weingart, Sandra D. Mitchell, Peter J. Richers
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: sciences, social, biology, nature, human
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0805821546
ISBN-13: 9780805821543

Representing a wide range of disciplines -- biology, sociology, anthropology, economics, human ethology, psychology, primatology, history, and philosophy of science -- the contributors to this book recently spent a complete academic year at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) discussing a plethora of new insights in reference to human cultural evolution. These scholars acted as a living experiment of "interdisciplinarity in vivo." The assumption of this experiment was that the scholars -- while working and residing at the ZiF -- would be united intellectually as well as socially, a

Authors:Robert Roach, Peter D. Wagner, Peter Hackett,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: medicine, biology, experimental, advances, circulation, hypoxia
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2007-12-26
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 0387754334
ISBN-13: 9780387754338

The hypoxia volumes will focus on cutting edge research at the interface of hypoxia and biomedicine. Hypoxia is a constant threat to the human body and its vital organs throughout life. There are many situations in which the threat is heightened in health and disease, but mechanisms have evolved to lessen its detrimental effects. The International Hypoxia Symposia was founded to enable scientists, clinicians, physiologists, immunologists, mountaineers and other interested individuals to share their experiences of the situations associated with oxygen lack and the adaptations that allow us to

Authors:Peter Machamer, Rick Grush, Peter McLaughlin,
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: phil, hist, scienc, konstanz, pitt, amp, method, neurosciences, theory
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-03-22
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0822941406
ISBN-13: 9780822941408

Theory and Method in the Neurosciences surveys the and problems. The essays explore basic questions about how to relate theories of neuroscience and cognition, the multilevel character of such theories, and their experimental bases. Philosophers and scientists (and some who are both) examine the topics of explanation and mechanisms, simulation and computation, imaging and animal models that raise questions about the forefront of research in cognitive neuroscience. Their work will stimulate new thinking in anyone interested in the mind or brain and in recent theories of their connections.

Author: Peter A. Hancock and James L. SzalmaPeter A. Hanc
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: defence, factors, human, stress, performance
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754670597
ISBN-13: 9780754670599

The world is a dangerous place. Many recent events have served to render it unfortunately less safe and there are many arenas of conflict and even combat across the world. Such situations are the quintessential expression of stress. You stand in imminent danger and live with the knowledge that you may be attacked, injured or even killed at any moment. How do people perform under these conditions? How do they keep a heightened level of vigilance when nothing may happen in their immediate location for weeks or even months? What happens when the bullets actually start flying? How is it you distin

Authors:Ian R. Hill, Fred Heimbach, Peter Leeuwangh, Peter Ma
Publisher: CRC-Press
Keywords: assessment, chemicals, hazard, tests, field, freshwater
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1994-06-30
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 0873719409
ISBN-13: 9780873719407

Freshwater field tests are an integral part of the process of hazard assessment of pesticides and other chemicals in the environment. This book brings together international experts on microcosms and mesocosms for a critical appraisal of theory and practice on the subject of freshwater field tests for hazard assessment. It is an authoritative and comprehensive summary of knowledge about freshwater field tests, with particular emphasis on their optimization for scientific and regulatory purposes. This valuable reference covers both lotic and lentic outdoor systems and addresses the choice of en

Authors:Peter Townsend, Peter Philimore, Alastair Beattie,
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: north, inequality, deprivation, health
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1988-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0709943512
ISBN-13: 9780709943518

This book presents new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in the North of England. Townsend et al relate this evidence to long-term national health trends and variations in material deprivation.

Authors:Peter W. Hochachka, Peter L. Lutz, Thomas J. Sick, My
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: adaptation, control, mechanisms, hypoxia, surviving
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 1993-03-24
List price: $309.95
ISBN-10: 0849342260
ISBN-13: 9780849342264

Surviving Hypoxia: Mechanisms of Control and Adaptation is a synthesis of findings and thoughts concerning hypoxia. The thermodynamics of hypoxia are discussed in detail, including acid-base balance and self-pollution resulting from the accumulation of anaerobic end-products. The book focuses on descriptions and discussions of common facets, contrasting solutions in a variety of physiological hypoxia defense strategies, including those shown by plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. Special treatment is given to the distinctive problems that hypoxia presents to vulnerable organs such as the k