The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
from Harper Perennial
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture -- including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband. Brilliantly written, The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.
Before You Were Born
by Jennifer Davis
from Workman Publishing Company
Books & DVDs Workman Publishing It's the mystery of mysteries-what's going on inside a pregnant woman's belly? That's what Jennifer Davis's older children wanted to know while she was expecting the younger. So to explain, she wrote BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, n
Asperger's Syndrome And Sexuality: From Adolescence Through Adulthood
by Isabelle Henault
from Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice
by Ronald M. Green
from Yale University Press
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility: Handbook for Clinicians (pocket sized)
by Dan I. Lebovic
from Scrub Hill Press
The latest addition to our Handbook for Clinicians Series. Same trim size as teh Ob/Gyn and Internal Medicine Handbooks.
From First Kicks to First Steps : Nurturing Your Baby's Development from Pregnancy Through the First Year of Life
by Alan Greene
from McGraw-Hill
Innovative ways parents can nurture their child's development even before birth
Most expectant parents can't wait to get to know the mysterious little person who will be arriving. Now parents can find out what's really going on in there and start nurturing their baby's development during pregnancy with the help of From First Kicks to First Steps.
Beautifully written by a pioneering pediatrician, this groundbreaking book focuses on the transition between pregnancy and the first year to help parents give their baby the very best start in life. Dr. Alan Greene answers such common parental concerns as:
- Do babies dream before birth?
- What can parents do during pregnancy to help their babies later in life?
- Can babies become better sleepers even before they're born?
- Does taking fluoride help or hurt?
- And much more!
Innovative ways parents can nurture their child's development even before birth Most expectant parents can't wait to get to know the mysterious little person who will be arriving. Now parents can find out what's really going on in there and start nurturing their baby's development during pregnancy with the help of "From First Kicks to First Steps. Beautifully written by a pioneering pediatrician, this groundbreaking book focuses on the transition between pregnancy and the first year to help parents give their baby the very best start in life. Dr. Alan Greene answers such common parental concerns as: Do babies dream before birth? What can parents do during pregnancy to help their babies later in life? Can babies become better sleepers even before they're born? Does taking fluoride help or hurt? And much more!
The G Spot: And Other Discoveries about Human Sexuality
by Beverly Whipple
from Holt Paperbacks
When it was originally published in 1982, The G Spot was the first book to prove the existence and define the location of the Gräfenberg spot, a patch of erectile tissue that can be felt through the front wall of the vagina, directly behind the pubic bone. In print continuously for twenty-two years, it has sold more than 1,000,000 copies to date internationall.
This first-ever trade paperback edition includes a new introduction by Dr. Hilda Hutcherson, author of What Your Mother Never Told Your about S-E-X, which brings the research in the book up-to-date and explains its continued relevance. Now a new generation of men and women can take advantage of the insights and practical suggestions of this classic work.
Human Aging: Biological Perspectives
by Augustine G. Digiovanna
from McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
With the growing size of the elderly population comes an increased interest in aging as a subject of research and study. Human Aging: Biological Perspectives is written for the one-quarter or one-semester introductory level course and is aimed at students with little or no science background. The main structure of the text follows a body systems approach. In addition to the introductory chapter and a chapter covering molecules, cells, and the theories of aging, each body system is covered in its own chapter.
Redesigning Humans: Choosing our genes, changing our future
by Gregory Stock
from Mariner Books
Will the genetic research that gave us the Flavr Savr tomato also give us the power to customize our children? Medical thinker Gregory Stock believes that this is precisely what's happening and that we'd better get used to it fast. Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future explores gender selection, gene therapy, germinal choice, and many more options available now or in the near future, but lays aside the hysteria common to such discussions.
Stock sees the cloning controversy as a distraction from issues of real importance, such as balancing offspring trait selection against eugenics. Writing with the clarity and precision of a philosopher, Stock engages his readers with thought exercises and real-life examples. While not a brainless cheerleader for big science, he believes that we can, and certainly will, use any means necessary to give our children an edge, even if it means profound changes for our species. Redesigning Humans offers the hope that these changes need not be catastrophic if we pay attention now. --Rob Lightner
A groundbreaking work, Redesigning Humans tackles the controversial subject of engineering the human germline -- the process of permanently altering the genetic code of an individual so that the changes are passed on to the offspring. Gregory Stock, an expert on the implications of recent advances in reproductive biology, has glimpsed the inevitable future of biomedical engineering. Within decades, Stock asserts, technological advances will bring meaningful changes to our offspring; this scientific revolution promises to fundamentally alter the human species. With recent findings presented in a new afterword, Stock's provocative assessment cuts through the debate to envision an age of radical biotechnological advancement and unprecedented human choice.
Conceptions & Misconceptions: The Informed Consumer's Guide Through the Maze of in Vitro Fertilization & Assisted Reproduction Techniques(Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition)
by Arthur L. Wisot
from Hartley and Marks Publishers
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