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Infant Brain Development by Hugo Lagercrantz
epub |eng | | Author:Hugo Lagercrantz

Pathological Considerations Psychiatric and developmental disorders may be caused by disruption of the functional connectivity [30]. Alternations have been demonstrated in conditions such as autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 22,2018 )
Lonely Planets by David Grinspoon
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Grinspoon

THE GOOD NEWS FOR MODERN MAN The recent discoveries of extrasolar planets are quite encouraging for our ultimate chances of finding extraterrestrial life. They confirm a mode of thinking that ...
( Category: Evolution March 22,2018 )
Return of the Sea Otter by Todd McLeish
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Todd McLeish

Chapter 8: Cucumbers and Geoducks PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, ALASKA AFTER ALASKA attained statehood in 1959, it became responsible for the small sea otter populations in the state, and from ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 22,2018 )
Elastic by Leonard Mlodinow
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow

7 The Origin of Insight When the Unimaginable Becomes the Self-Evident On December 21, 1941, two grim weeks after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt told his Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
( Category: Psychology March 22,2018 )
Ageing: A Very Short Introduction by Nancy A. Pachana
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-11-17 | Author:Nancy A. Pachana

Treatment of mental disorders in later life Generational influences can impact older adults in whether they choose to seek help from mental health services—older adults from earlier generations are often ...
( Category: Psychology March 22,2018 )
Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction by Tristram D. Wyatt
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-02-10 | Author:Tristram D. Wyatt

Honest signals Across the animal kingdom, signals within a species seem to be honest on the whole. This might seem surprising: what is to stop animals from boasting or deceiving ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 22,2018 )
An introduction to The Ocelot and Margay And Other Rare Wild Cats Including Caracal, Clouded Leopard, Black Footed Cat, Fishing Cat and Iberian Lynx by Colette Anderson
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-03 | Author:Colette Anderson [Anderson, Colette]

Clouded Leopard The Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) lives in the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains in Southeast Asia and China. The IUCN classified the species as vulnerable in 2008, with ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 22,2018 )
Quarks to Culture by Tyler Volk
epub |eng | | Author:Tyler Volk

MULTIPLE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE AND THE COMING TOGETHER OF MULTIPLE SPECIES Then came the origin of agriculture. I suggest that this event can be seen from a new angle using ...
( Category: Evolution March 22,2018 )
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
epub |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

ALLISON DUBOIS IS seated in a striped armchair in one of the four rooms that make up the Human Energy Systems Laboratory. (At the time I visited, the lab was ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality March 22,2018 )
How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do by Sharon Moalem
epub |eng | 2009-04-28 | Author:Sharon Moalem [Moalem, Sharon]

conditions in all three categories in this chapter. As medical science has become more sensitive to and h o w s e x w o r k s ❘ 1 ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling March 22,2018 )
The Cannabible by Jason King
epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Jason King [King, Jason]

In recent years, Canada, especially British Columbia, has become one of the world’s largest producers of “high-grade” marijuana. There is a tremendous variety of buds coming from Canada, ranging from ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design March 22,2018 )
Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic
epub |eng | 2018-03-16 | Author:Richard E. Cytowic

7 See with Your Ears About 40 percent of synesthetes “see with their ears,” meaning the activation of color, shape, and movement by sound. “Colored hearing” is somewhat of a ...
( Category: Medicine March 21,2018 )
BirdNote by BirdNote & Ellen Blackstone & Emily Poole
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:BirdNote & Ellen Blackstone & Emily Poole

Blakiston’s Fish Owl A SERIES OF DISTINCTIVE low hoots signals the presence of a sumo wrestler of a bird. It’s Blakiston’s Fish Owl—“Blakiston’s” because its existence was recorded by the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 21,2018 )
The Pleasure Shock by Lone Frank
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Lone Frank

* * * • • • I understood what they were saying, these two academics. But I had a hard time agreeing with their one-sided judgment. I asked myself whether ...
( Category: Americas March 21,2018 )
Poetry and Animals by Onno Oerlemans
epub |eng | | Author:Onno Oerlemans

One have I marked, the happiest guest In all this covert of the blest: Hail to Thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion, Thou, Linnet! In ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 20,2018 )

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