Bioscience Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Biometrics

   Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

   By Joseph Pugliese

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Biology and Criminology

   The Biosocial Synthesis

   By Anthony Walsh

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
3. Education and Neuroscience

   Evidence, Theory and Practical Application

   Edited by Paul Howard-Jones

   This book brings together contributions from scientists and educators at the forefront of interdisciplinary research efforts involving neuroscience and education. It includes consideration of what we know about brain function that may be relevant to educational areas including reading,...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Past Human Migrations in East Asia

   Matching Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics

   Edited by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Roger Blench, Malcolm D. Ross, Ilia Peiros, Marie Lin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia

   The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the peopling of East Asia there exists widespread debate about the nature of evidence and the tools for correlating results from different disciplines....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Social Impact of Modern Biology

   By Fuller Watson

   Originally published in 1971. Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes, such as inheritance, grows, so do the possibilities of applying these results for good and evil, such as the treatment of disease, the control of...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. Evolution and Human Behaviour

   An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology

   By Alex Alland

   Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. Rejecting analogue models of biological evolution common in the social...

   Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Biomedicine as Culture

   Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

   Edited by Regula Valérie Burri, Joseph Dumit

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its...

   Published June 3rd 2010 by Routledge
8. Religious Perspectives on Bioethics

   Edited by Mark Cherry

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Published December 6th 2009 by Routledge
9. Nutrition and Football

   The FIFA/FMARC Consensus on Sports Nutrition

   Edited by Ron Maughan

   Nutrition and Football is a FIFA endorsed book which provides the first formal scientific consensus on players’ energy use fluid, and optimal nutritional requirements. Including: nutrition for pre-season, training, match play and in different climates analysis of the energy and metabolic...

   Published September 28th 2009 by Routledge