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How the body works : the facts simply explained
Examines \"all the complex processes that keep our bodies alive and thriving, from the basic building blocks of the body--our cells--to skin, muscles, and bones and the ways in which our many parts work together. Learn about the senses, how we read faces and body language, nutrition and immunity, the brain, sleep, memory, dreams, and much more\"--Amazon.com.
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Goal-Directed Drinking Behaviors Can Be Modified Through Behavioral Mimicry
Purpose: This study tested whether behavioral mimicry can alter drinking behavior. It was hypothesized that participants would increase drinking behaviors given increased confederate drinking but not cup touching. Methods: Nineteen healthy adults (M[subscript age] = 20.32 years) completed 2 picture description tasks; during 1 task, a confederate frequently sipped water (\"complete\" drinking gesture), and during the other, the confederate touched her cup but did not drink (\"partial\" gesture). Outcome measures included number of drinks per minute, number of cup touches per minute, percentage of time spent drinking, and percentage of time spent touching the cup. Results: Participants spent more time drinking and had an increased drinking rate during the drinking condition versus the cup-touching condition. For a majority of participants, drinking rate increased during the drinking condition versus baseline. Drinking, but not cup touching, rate also increased given increased confederate cup touching for many. Conclusions: Mimicry likely contributes to social modeling of drinking behaviors. This effect appears more robust given a complete target gesture (full drink); however, a partial goal-directed drinking gesture may also yield a mimicked response. Beyond the theoretical implications, these results provide directions for research investigating more naturalistic mechanisms for increasing dietary intake in various patient populations (e.g., individuals with dysphagia).
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Crucial interventions : an illustrated treatise on the principles & practice of nineteenth-century surgery
The nineteenth century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. Crucial Interventions follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing from the very best examples of rare surgical textbooks with a focus on the extraordinary visual materials of the mid-nineteenth century. Unnerving and graphic, yet beautifully rendered, these fascinating illustrations include step-by-step surgical techniques paired with medical instruments and painted depictions of operations in progress. Arranged for the layman from head to toe, and accompanied by an authoritative, eloquent and inspiring narrative from medical historian Richard Barnett, author of 2014 bestseller The Sick Rose, Crucial Interventions is a unique and captivating book on one of the world's most mysterious and macabre professions, and promises to be another success.
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The complete human body : the definitive visual guide
\"Understand the human body as never before, from the smallest components of a cell to complex body systems. Explore human anatomy in incredible detail and clarity through virtually life-size 3-D illustrations and scans. Discover how the body works, how it changes from infancy to old age, and what can go wrong and why.\"--P. [4] of cover.
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The body and the brain: Neuroscience and the representation of anthropomorphs in palaeoart
Previous studies on palaeoart employing a neuroscientific perspective have focused largely on the representation of animals. Anthropomorphs are one of the most common subjects depicted in palaeoart worldwide, yet the understanding of this category of imagery has not benefited from such an approach. This paper demonstrates how an understanding of inherent aspects of human neurophysiology and visual perception may help to explain the derivation and persistence of anthropomorphs in rock art and portable art around the world, and contribute to explaining ways in which they are commonly portrayed. It considers the significance of recent neuroscientific data in understanding how the human body is processed and represented in the brain and the influences this has on its graphic representation.
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Human canvas
What does it mean to be human? In Human Canvas, Art Wolfe uses his exceptional photography and his background in fine-art painting to transform skin into an abstract landscape. Inspired by the body-painting traditions of indigenous peoples Wolfe has photographed worldwide, and particularly those in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, Wolfe set out to present his own take on this art form and explore concepts of universal beauty. Through the use of lines, patterns, textures, and unusual points of view, Wolfe abstracts the human form and creates a unique and captivating look of the human body as art. The result is an energised expression of both artistic mastery and cultural impact.
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The body and the brain: Neuroscience and the representation of anthropomorphs in palaeoart
Previous studies on palaeoart employing a neuroscientific perspective have focused largely on the representation of animals. Anthropomorphs are one of the most common subjects depicted in palaeoart worldwide, yet the understanding of this category of imagery has not benefited from such an approach. This paper demonstrates how an understanding of inherent aspects of human neurophysiology and visual perception may help to explain the derivation and persistence of anthropomorphs in rock art and portable art around the world, and contribute to explaining ways in which they are commonly portrayed. It considers the significance of recent neuroscientific data in understanding how the human body is processed and represented in the brain and the influences this has on its graphic representation.
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Wild about science
Fantastic facts about the scientific world. Uncover awe-inspiring science, from the earliest theories to the cells of the human body. Filled with fascination numbered facts, stunning photographs and fun cartoons, this amazing book is totally wild about science!
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Roy Oberg
Captain Roy Oberg smacked the 63-footVoyageurinto a growling September sea and decided he didn’t want to challenge the southwester. As the echoed pink and orange in the deceptively calm skies, glided back down the harbor to the refuge of Windigo Ranger Station. That day the full boatload of forty passengers would not make it to Grand Portage, Minnesota.
For Roy it was just another common incident in his long years of scurrying around the reefs and islands of Isle Royale. Since 1937, he’s been piloting passengers and cargo vessels. His face is as familiar to island residents as
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