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Roach explores how and why sexual arousal and orgasm is difficult, and presents what scientific efforts are being made to make the bedroom experience more satisfying.

"Packed with hands-on activities, real-life examples, step-by-step lessons, targeted practice exercises, and effective test-taking strategies, this eBook will provide you with all the tools you need to master essential biology skills in no time at all!" --

"Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets. In the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered by Brian Hare have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is...

Covers key concepts in biology, including reproduction, enzymes, and ecosystems. "A fantastic aid for coursework, homework, and studying for tests, this is the ultimate study guide to biology. From reproduction to respiration and from enzymes to ecosystems, every topic is fully illustrated to support the information, make the facts clear, and bring biology to life. For key ideas, “How it works” and “Look closer” boxes explain the theory...

"Look at all these stripes and spots! From cheetahs to zebras, honeybees to coral snakes, some animals have amazing markings in different colors, shapes, and sizes. Young readers will learn all about animals with stripes and spots and how these markings help them survive in this fun Pre-reader. Through text features such as the vocabulary tree and the wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to new words and concepts, helping them expand their understanding...

"The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all-- or so we think. [This book] offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how modern lifeforms evolved"--Amazon.com.

Using CGI and Fossil evidence, it demonstrates nature's survival of the fittest in action. This series illuminates unique and bizarre evolutionary journeys that have brought forth some of the world's most impressive animals.

Darwins Black Box helped to launch the Intelligent Design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. Today, with the movement stronger than ever, Michael J. Behe updates the book with an important new Afterword on the state of the debate. Time. Naming Darwins Black Box to the National Reviews list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the twentieth century, George Gilder wrote that it “overthrows...

A lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human shares the latest understandings about the birth of the universe and the evolution of the mind to create new mythologies connecting science to our existential questions.