Physiology Books

Book SynopsisThe irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.Trade Review"There is much to enjoy about Mary Roach—her infectious aw for quirky science and its nerdy adherents, her one-liners... She is beloved, and justifiably so." -- Jon Ronson - New York Times Book Review"As engrossing as it is gross." -- Entertainment Weekly"Far and away her funniest and most sparkling book, bringing Ms. Roach’s love of weird science to material that could not have more everyday relevance. . . . Never has Ms. Roach’s affinity for the comedic and bizarre been put to better use. . . . “Gulp” is structured as a vastly entertaining pilgrimage down the digestive tract, with Ms. Roach as the wittiest, most valuable tour guide imaginable." -- Janet Maslin - New York Times"A delicious read and, dare I say it, a total gas." -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe"With the same eager curiosity that she previously brought to the subjects of cadavers, space, and sex, the author explores the digestive system, from mouth to colon." -- New Yorker"[A] merry foray into the digestive sciences….Inexorably draws the reader along with peristaltic waves of history and vividly described science." -- Brian Switek - Wall Street Journal"You’ll come away from this well-researched book with enough weird digestive trivia to make you the most interesting guest at a certain kind of cocktail party…Go ahead and put this one in your carry-on. You won’t regret it." -- Amy Stewart - Washington Post"A witty, woving romp of a book… Roach…is a thoroughly unflappable, utterly intrepid investigator of the icky." -- Chloe Schama - Smithsonian"Gulp is about revelling in the extraordinary complexities and magnificence of human digestion." -- The Economist"Relentlessly fun to read." -- Bee Wilson - The New Republic"Never before has the process of eating been so very interesting…. After digesting her book, you can’t help but think about what that really means." -- Micki Myers - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"One of my top criteria for pronouncing a book worthwhile is the number of times you snort helplessly with laughter and say, “Wow! Did you know that ... ” before your long-suffering spouse throws a book at you from across the room. My personal spouse says that, in this department, “Gulp” takes the cake." -- Adam Woog - Seattle Times"Letting this brilliantly mischievous writer, for whom no pun is ouch and no cow sacred, dip her pen into the font of all potty humor must have seemed even riskier than her previous excursions into corpses (Stiff), the afterlife (Spook), sex (Bonk) and outer space (Packing for Mars). But dip she did—at one point she put her whole arm into a cow’s belly—and came up with another quirkily informative pop-science entertainment in Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal." -- Jeffrey Burke - Bloomberg"Once again Roach boldly goes where no author has gone before, into the sciences of the taboo, the macabre, the icky, and the just plain weird. And she conveys it all with a perfect touch: warm, lucid, wry, sharing the unavoidable amusement without ever resorting to the cheap or the obvious. Yum!" -- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works and The Better Angels of Our Nature"As probing as an endoscopy, Gulp is quintessential Mary Roach: supremely wide-ranging, endlessly curious, always surprising, and, yes, gut-wrenchingly funny." -- Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

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Book SynopsisGerontologists, philosophers, and students will find Baars' discussion to be a powerful, perceptive conversation starter.Trade ReviewAny college-level collection strong in aging and social insights on the process will find this a thought-provoking discussion. Midwest Book Review This is a vision infused with hope and potential, and in this lies the art of living meaningfully. The last chapters in which Baars describes the rich possibilities of individual story and proposes an alternative idea of aging well are worth the trip. Choice Recognizing life's finitude, honoring one's own personal story, nurturing intergenerational relationships, and seeking to live wisely are among the important ingredients for living the art of aging. Simply raising these issues and helping the reader to understand their importance are reasons enough to encounter this intense yet highly intelligent book. -- E. Michael Brady Educational Gerontology Aging and the Art of Living revitalizes the origins of philosophy which began with the search for the good life... This well-written and clearly organized book weaves poetic insights with precise reflections on topics that include living in time, wisdom, and the meaning of aging. This book makes significant and unique contributions to gerontology by challenging assumptions, articulating alternative perspectives, and inspiring new possibilities for aging and living fully. -- Debra Sheets Canadian Journal on Aging This publication -- which contains an endless wealth of spurs to thought and engagement -- should initiate a long and important conversation in which we learn to treat and to experience ageing more critically, much more creatively and with greater enjoyment. -- Ricca Edmondson Ageing and Society Jan Baars is the premier philosopher of aging, working in Europe and the United States today. Actually, to call him a philosopher of aging is to diminish the range of his thought and his accomplishments. -- Thomas R. Cole The GerontologistTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Chronocratic Emperor Has No ClothesOverview1. Chronometric Regimes: The Life Course, Aging, and TimeIntroduction1.1. Historical Backgrounds of the Chronometric Life CourseA Biographical SandglassAge in Social LegislationLate Modern Systemic Worlds and Life Worlds1.2. Chronometric Life Courses: Beyond Standardization and De-standardizationThe Continuing Importance of Chronometric AgeChronometric Regimes1.3. Care and Its Chronometric RegimesChronometric Care and Its AccelerationTime-efficient Lives1.4. Chronometric Aging: Exactly ArbitraryIntrinsic Time and Intrinsic MalleabilityThe Heisenberg Principle of AgingConclusions2. Exclusion, Activism, and Eternal YouthIntroduction2.1. From Natural Passivity to Activating Activities for Older PeopleFrom "Idleness with Dignity" to Being as Being BusyStay Active: "Use It or Lose It"2.2. The Emergence of an Anti-aging Culture"Don't Call 'em Old, Call 'em Consumers!""Take Years Off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life"2.3. The Much-desired Long and Invulnerable Life: Magic and Magic TechnologyA Fundamental VulnerabilityConclusions3. A Passion for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of AgingIntroduction3.1. Early Greek Thought about the Life CourseSolon's Untraditional Views3.2. The Search for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of LifePlato's AcademyAristotle's LyceumThe Garden of EpicurusThe StoicsWisdom, Aging, and Old Age3.3. Cicero and the Stoic Art of Living in Old AgeCiceroCato Maior de Senectute: On Old AgeCicero's Defense of Old Age against Four ComplaintsA Statesman's View of Old AgeConclusions4. Modern Science, the Discovery of a Personal History,and Aging AuthenticallyIntroduction4.1. Aging in a World of Meaningful Repetition4.2. (Ir)reversible Time and the Senescing of OrganismsDoes Nature Repeat Itself Eternally?Nature Changes and Time Is IrreversibleSenescing, Irreversible Time, and the Organism4.3. The Idealization of Science and the Epistemological Reduction of Time4.4. The Struggle for a Fuller Experience of TimeAugustine: A Threefold PresentBergson: Time as CreativityHusserl: The Phenomenological Experience of TimeHeidegger: Authentic Temporal Being in the Face of DeathTime Is Lived in Constitutive Life WorldsConclusions5. Aging and Narrative IdentitiesIntroduction5.1. Embedding Aging in NarrativesNarratives and Narrative IdentityNarrative Integration as a "Good Life"Life Plans"Real Stories" and Textual Issues5.2. Modest Necessity of StoriesChanges, Themes, and PhasesStories: Intertwining the Past, the Present, and the FutureInstitutional Narrative PracticesNarratives if the Life World and the Systemic WorldConclusions6. Perspectives—Toward an Art of AgingIntroduction6.1. Interhuman Vulnerability and the Dignity of "Unsuccessful" AgingThe Vulnerability of the Interhuman ConditionAging and Increasing VulnerabilityThe Dignity of "Unsuccessful" AgingAutonomy and Structural Paternalism6.2. Toward an Art of Aging: Beyond Conventional WisdomOlder and Wiser?6.3. Toward an Art of Aging: Living in Different TimesA Multi-layered PresentKairos: A Sensitivity for Changing Temporal QualitiesActivism and ReceptivityMemories Have Their Own TimesActions Constitute TimeLife Events and Life's PeriodsThe Times of Life Are FiniteA Last Question about the Beginning of Time6.4. Toward an Art of Aging: Beyond Longer LivesAging as Finitization: A Deepening of Unique LivesUnique Lives: Empirical and EthicalContingent and Existential LimitationsWhy Do We Age? How Can Aging Be Meaningful?Is It Good to Live Longer?ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDivided into two volumes, the book begins with a pedagogical presentation of some of the basic theory, with chapters on biochemical reactions, diffusion, excitability, wave propagation and cellular homeostasis. The second, more extensive part discusses particular physiological systems, with chapters on calcium dynamics, bursting oscillations and secretion, cardiac cells, muscles, intercellular communication, the circulatory system, the immune system, wound healing, the respiratory system, the visual system, hormone physiology, renal physiology, digestion, the visual system and hearing.New chapters on Calcium Dynamics, Neuroendocrine Cells and Regulation of Cell Function have been included. Reviews from first edition:Keener and Sneyd''s Mathematical Physiology is the first comprehensive text of its kind that deals exclusively with the interplay between mathematics and physiology. Writing a book like this is an audacious act!-Society of MathematTrade ReviewFrom the reviews: “Probably the best book ever written on the subject of mathematical physiology … It contains numerous exercises, enough to keep even the most diligent student busy, and a comprehensive list of approximately 600 references … highly recommended to anybody interested in mathematical or theoretical physiology.” Mathematical Reviews “In addition to being good reading, excellent pedagogy, and appealing science, the exposition is lucid and clear, and there are many good problem sets to choose from … Highly recommended.” Journal of the Society of Mathematical Biology “Most of the chapters, especially those outined in the second part of the book, can constitute whole monographs by themselves, and Keener and Sneyd have attempted to cover some of the fundamental modeling concepts within the respective areas.” Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2000 “Both authors are seasoned experts in the field of mathematical physiology and particularly in the field of excitability, calcium dynamics and spiral waves. It directs students to become not merely skilled technicians in biological research but masters of the science.” SIAM, 2004 From the reviews of the second edition: "This massive new edition … offers an introduction to mathematical physiology that emphasizes work conducted by Keener (Univ. of Utah), Sneyd (Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand), and others over the past 20 years. It is designed as a course resource for beginning graduate students who have … some mathematical background. … Keener and Sneyd have made very reasonable choices in their subject selections. This work is an admirable resource for students with the appropriate prerequisites. Chapters include exercises … . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students." (P. Cull, Choice, Vol. 46 (10), June, 2009) "The texts provide a comprehensive summary of the important concepts in mathematical physiology. … For those actively working in the field of mathematical physiology … is a must have. The new edition includes updated descriptions, new models, and new figures adding to the breadth of the first edition. One of the most beneficial aspects … is the addition of about a decade’s worth of work and references (over 350!). … more advanced questions were added giving more flexibility when used as a course textbook." (Joe Latulippe, The Mathematical Association of America, July, 2009) “This second edition of Mathematical physiology, ten years after the first one … provides information on recent works in mathematical physiology. … It is a very interesting book dealing with the interdisciplinary field of mathematical physiology. … Mathematical physiology, with the consequent number of exercises given at the end of each chapter, could be used in particular for a full-year course in mathematical physiology. It is also suitable for researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics, bioengineering and physiology.” (Fabien Crauste, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2010 b)Table of ContentsPreface & Acknowledgments. I: Cellular Physiology. 1 Biochemical Reactions. 2 Cellular Homeostasis. 3 Membrane Ion Channels. 4 Passive Electrical Flow in Neurons. 5 Excitability. 6 Traveling Waves of Electrical Excitation. 7 Wave Propagation in Higher Dimensions. 8 Calcium Dynamics. 9 Intercellular Communication. 10 Neuroendocrine Cells. 11 Regulation of Cell Function.

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Book SynopsisThis book covers the fundamentals of biomechanics. Topics include bio solids, biofluids, stress, balance and equilibrium. Students are encouraged to contextualize principles and exercises within a “big picture” of biomechanics. This is an ideal book for undergraduate students with interests in biomedical engineering.Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 Stress, Strain, and Constitutive Relations.- 3 Equilibrium, Universal Solutions, and Inflation.- 4 Extension and Torsion.- 5 Beam Bending and Column Buckling.- 6 Some Nonlinear Problems.- 7 Stress, Motion, and Constitutive Relations.-8 Fundamental Balance Relations.-9 Some Exact Solutions.-10 Control Volume and Semi-empirical Method.-11 Coupled Solid–fluid Problems.-12 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisReforming science education/reforming physiology education.- What is the new paradigm and what is new about it?- What are the core concepts of physiology?- What does it mean to unpack a core concept?-  The unpacked core concept of homeostasis.- The unpacked core concept of flow down gradients.- The unpacked core concept of cell-cell communication.- Organizing an introductory physiology course based on core.- Teaching physiology using the new paradigm: three examples.- Using core concepts in physiology in designing learning resources.- Conceptual assessment of student learning.- Core concepts and the physiology curriculum.- Extending the paradigm.- Summing up.Table of ContentsReforming science education/reforming physiology education.- What is the new paradigm and what is new about it?- What are the core concepts of physiology?- What does it mean to “unpack” a core concept?- The “unpacked” core concept of homeostasis.- The “unpacked” core concept of flow down gradients.- The “unpacked” core concept of cell-cell communication.- Organizing an introductory physiology course based on core.- Teaching physiology using the new paradigm: three examples.- Using core concepts in physiology in designing learning resources.- Conceptual assessment of student learning.- Core concepts and the physiology curriculum.- Extending the paradigm.- Summing up.

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Book SynopsisThis is a photographic atlas of common animal bones, designed for use by the forensic scientist or archaeologist. This volume is the first to focus comparatively on both human and animal osteology. It features more than 300 illustrations of skeletons. Throughout, animal bones are photographed alongside the corresponding human bone, allowing the reader to observe size and shape variations.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "The goal is to provide the medico-legal community a resource for the comparison and discrimination of animal and human bone. As the first book of its kind, Comparative Skeletal Anatomy is a well-organized and useful contribution to the forensic literature. … a systematic and logical means of visually comparing the morphology and size of human bones to common animal counterparts. … is both a useful resource for archaeologists and medico-legal specialists, as well as a valuable training text for students of human anatomy and osteology." (Tracy L. Rogers, Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal, August, 2008)Table of ContentsTable of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Human vs Horse 3. Human vs Cow 4. Human vs Bear 5. Human vs Deer 6. Human vs Pig 7. Human vs Goat 8. Human vs Sheep 9. Human vs Dog 10. Human vs Raccoon 11. Human vs Opossum 12. Human vs Cat 13. Human vs Rabbit 14. Human vs Turkey 15. Human vs Duck 16. Human vs Chicken 17. Miscellaneous 18. Traces of Butchery and Bone Working

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