The discovery by Francis Crick and James Watson of DNA - the very building blocks of life - has astounding implications for mankind's future. But with this discovery have come important ethical questions. This title offers an examination of these two scientists' lives, radical work and legacy.[...]

Andreas is a German post-grad who looks like Hitler. Rose is the fifth tallest woman in Britain. Their tumultuous, bizarre love affair plays out through a prisoner's correspondence with the heartbroken Alexandra. And as Andreas' peculiar tragedy unveils, Alexandra begins to find solitude in an uncan[...]

Covers neuroanatomical and brain atlasing techniques. This text introduces neuroanatomy by comparing features of the rat brain to the human. It also introduces students to key techniques and teaches them how to study and analyse the neuroanatomy of model systems and successfully relate their finding[...]

Shows the areas of the mouse brain in microscopic slides. This atlas collects systematic images of the mouse brain stained with a range of key chemical markers. It contains 350 sections of the mouse brain, stained serially with Nissl and six chemical markers (parvalbumin, calbindin, calretinin, tyro[...]

Incorporates findings on developmental gene expression and shows the boundaries of neuromeres in the diencephalon and brain stem. This book includes 161 coronal diagrams and accompanying photographic plates spaced at 120 m intervals; and 19 sagittal diagrams and accompanying photographic plates.[...]

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This completely revised edition of The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, the second most cited book in science, represents a dramatic update from the previous edition. Based on a single rat brain, this edition features an entirely new coronal set of tissue cut [...]

Disabilities, Culture and Identity is a succinct and accessible presentation of current research on disability, culture and identity. It is an ideal text for students and lecturers alike studying and working in the areas of Disability Studies and Social Policy. Disabilities, Culture and Identity pr[...]

ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferabl[...]

This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's novel set in claustraphobic provincial town, book eighteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was [...]

On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands[...]

This paperback reissue will replace the trade paperback edition (GB 102) which is now discontinued. Southern Populist leader Thomas E. Watson was a figure alternately eminent and notorious. Born before the Civil War, he lived through the turn of the century and past the close of the First World Wa[...]