Sensory Perception Books

• Prions
  Mad Cow Disease
  Sleep Disorders
  Sleep Disorder Research
  Cows, Sheep, Pigs
  Insomnia Research
   
  

  The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

  For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their ...  > read more
• Language Acquisition
  Human Biology
  Hearing Impairment
  Child Development
  Communications
  Perception
   
  

  Anatomy and Physiology for Speech, Language, and Hearing

  Revised and updated with a vibrant new two-color interior design, this third edition of the best-selling Anatomy and Physiology of Speech, Language, and Hearing continues to make anatomy and ...  > read more
• Water
  Nature of Water
  World Development
  Drought
  Drought Research
  Resource Shortage
   
  

  The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink

  With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping ...  > read more
• Early Climate
  Climate
  Global Warming
  Ice Ages
  Environmental Policies
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

  Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. ...  > read more
• Wind Energy
  Renewable Energy
  Energy and the Environment
  Energy Issues
  Environmental Science
  Energy and Resources
   
  

  Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound

  This acidly funny account of the battle over an offshore wind farm is both a fascinating window on the business and politics of energy and a scathing portrait of the ruling class. When Jim Gordon ...  > read more
• Landslides
  Intelligence
  Floods
  Behavior
  Dementia
  Down Syndrome
   
  

  The Essentials of WJ III Cognitive Abilities Assessment

  Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WJ IIIâ„¢ COG The most widely used comprehensive assessment system-the ...  > read more
• Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Origin of Life
  Developmental Biology
  Healthy Aging
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

  "Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors," writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new ...  > read more
• Mars
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Missions
  Solar System
  Space Exploration
   
  

  Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet

  The first photographic tour of the surface of another planet has now been accomplished. Those who thrilled to the lunar beauty of Full Moon and the IMAX smash Roving Mars will marvel at this awesome, ...  > read more
• Forest
  Trees
  Biodiversity
  Botany
  Travel and Recreation
  World Development
   
  

  Remarkable Trees of the World

  "A stunning volume" (Time) and the most magnificent book on the world's trees published in years. The publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Now in a handsome ...  > read more
• Alternative Medicine
  Ancient Civilizations
  Anthropology
  Popular Culture
  Sports Science
  Nature
   
  

  The Arts of China (An Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Book)

  For the fourth edition of his much-heralded The Arts of China, last published in 1984, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic ...  > read more

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