Explores the human mind and shows how our emotions and personality are the result of genes and environment. This book explains how memories are formed and lost, how the ever-changing brain is responsible for toddler tantrums and teenage angst, and reveals the truth behind extra-sensory perception as well as out-of-body experiences.
Explores the subject of sex, health, and sexuality. Designed as a guide, this book explains everything you want to know about conventional and unconventional sexual behaviour, and includes bold visuals. Ranging from G-spots to sex diets, it speaks about a subject at the emotional and spiritual hub of everyone's life.
In 2005, the children from the BBC's groundbreaking Child of Our Time television series reach an important milestone as they turn five years old. This book is about those critical first five years of a child's life; and covers the principal issues raised in the series and more.
Answering the questions about what makes an individual, Robert Winston explains that biology isn't just science and shows that social and emotional factors can also make a person what they are.
In vitro fertilisation has become big business. Drawing on personal and professional experience, this title offers an account of modern reproductive technology from a practitioner who has spent his professional life at the forefront of this most fascinating and emotive area of science.
How well do our instincts equip us for twenty-first century? This book takes us on a journey into the human mind. It takes a personal look at the relationship between science and religion and explores those very instincts that make us human.
From the tiniest microchip to the information superhighway, the modern world is dominated by and dependent upon science. This title examines the relationship between science and religion across time, beginning with the primitive worship of early ancestors and concluding with a vivid portrait of faith in the modern world.
Examines conception and pregnancy and all the potential surrounding problems. Based on the most up-to-date research, the author gives advice on topics such as how to increase the chances of conception, the causes of male and female infertility, miscarriage and late motherhood.
Takes a look at man's greatest discoveries and innovations and asks whether our dependence on science and technology has led us into a precarious situation which is doomed to become worse before it gets better? As well as tracing the history and fall-out of our very worst ideas, this book advocates the merits of scientific progress.
Argues that it is a basic human need to create and invent. This work takes a fresh look at man's greatest discoveries and innovations and asks whether our dependence on science and technology has led us into a precarious situation which is doomed to become worse before it gets better.
In UK, the average chance of conception is about 18 per cent per month. And in 98 per cent of cases, successful conception leads only to the birth of a single infant. This work looks at the scientific, social and ethical background of man's struggle to discover and control the secrets of reproduction.