Published November, 2015
By Shane O'Mara
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O'Mara's account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous.

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Published June, 2015
By Russell K. Schutt, Larry J. Seidman and Matcheri Keshavan, MD
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Human beings evolved in the company of others. Mutually reinforcing connections between brains, minds, and societies have profound implications for physical and emotional health. Social Neuroscience offers a comprehensive new framework for studying human brain development and human behavior in their social context.

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Published April, 2015
By James E. Strick
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Wilhelm Reich's experiments in the 1930s with cutting-edge light microscopy and time-lapse micro-cinematography were considered discredited, but not because of shoddy lab technique, as has been claimed. Scientific opposition to Reich's experiments, James Strick argues, grew out of resistance to his unorthodox sexual theories and Marxist leanings.

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Published February, 2015
By Valeria Finucci
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions.

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Published November, 2014
By Gordon L. Fain, Thomas O'Dell and Margery J. Fain
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Gordon Fain's Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons, Second Edition is intended for anyone who seeks to understand nerve cell function: undergraduate and graduate students in neuroscience, students of bioengineering and cognitive science, and practicing neuroscientists who want to deepen their knowledge of recent discoveries.

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Published June, 2014
By Laura Dawes
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Obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Laura Dawes traces changes in diagnosis, treatment, and popular conceptions of the most serious health problem facing American children today, and makes the case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective public health policy.

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Published May, 2014
By Commission on Chronic Illness
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Published May, 2014
By Richard P Strong, George C Shattuck and Joseph C Bequaert
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Published May, 2014
By Walter H Seegers
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Published May, 2014
By Katherine Ott
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