Below is a list of Frontiers eBooks published in September 2016. All Frontiers eBooks are free to download, share and distribute.

Science:

• How Fear and Stress Shape the Mind, hosted by  Luke R. Johnson

• Single Membrane Channels Formed by Connexins or Pannexins: Focus on the Nervous System, hosted by Juan Andrés Orellana

• Components of the Language-Ready Brain, hosted by Cedric Boeckx and Antonio Benítez-Burraco

• Frontiers of Sulfur Metabolism in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Response, hosted by Stanislav Kopriva, Dibyendu Talukdar, Hideki Takahashi, Rüdiger Hell, Agnieszka Sirko, Stanislaus F. D’ Souza and Tulika Talukdar

• Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities, hosted by Pablo Fernández-Berrocal and Purificación Checa

• Neural Signal Estimation in the Human Brain, hosted by Christopher W. Tyler, Clare Howarth and Lora T. Likova

• The Proteins of Plastid Nucleoids – Structure, Function and Regulation, hosted by Thomas Pfannschmidt and Jeannette Pfalz

• Neurophysiology in Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia, hosted by Davide Vito Moretti

• Auditory Efferent System: New Insights from Cortex to Cochlea, hosted by Paul H. Delano and Ana B. Elgoyhen

• Perception and Cognition: Interactions in the Ageing Brain, hosted by Harriet A. Allen and Katherine L. Roberts

• Anthropogenic Impacts on the Microbial Ecology and Function of Aquatic Environments, hosted by Maurizio Labbate, Justin R. Seymour, Federico Lauro and Mark V. Brown

• Better Together: A Joined-Up Psychological Approach to Health, Well-Being, and Rehabilitation, hosted by Dónal G. Fortune, Elaine L. Kinsella and Orla M. Muldoon

• Glycan Diversity in Fungi, Bacteria and Sea Organisms, hosted by Eliana Barreto-Bergter

• Ethylene’s Role in Plant Mineral Nutrition, hosted by Francisco Javier Romera, Aaron P. Smith and Rafael Pérez-Vicente

• Plant Single Cell Type Systems Biology, hosted by Marc Libault and Sixue Chen

• Antifungal Drug Discovery: New Theories and New Therapies, hosted by Chaminda Jayampath Seneviratne and Edvaldo Antonio Ribeiro Rosa

• Natural Diversity in the New Millennium, hosted by Joanna M. Cross, Chiarina Darrah, Nnadozie Oraguzie, Nourollah Ahmadi and Aleksandra Skirycz

• Unraveling Neuroprotective and Neurodegenerative Signals in Neurodegeneration, hosted by Irving E. Vega and Timothy J. Collier

• Genomics in Aquaculture to Better Understand Species Biology and Accelerate Genetic Progress, hosted by José Manuel Yáñez, Ross Houston and Scott Newman

• Alzheimer’s Disease and the Fornix, hosted by Kenichi Oishi and Constantine G. Lyketsos

• Color Vision Sensation and Perception, hosted by Marcelo Fernandes Costa

• In vivo Cell Biology of Cerebral Cortical Development and Its Related Neurological Disorders, hosted by Takeshi Kawauchi, Margareta Nikolić and Yoko Arai

• 50th Anniversary of Adult Neurogenesis: Olfaction, Hippocampus and Beyond, hosted by Alino Martinez-Marcos, José L.Trejo and Laura López-Mascaraque

• What Determines Social Behavior? Investigating the Role of Emotions, Self-Centered Motives, and Social Norms, hosted by Corrado Corradi-Dell’Acqua, Leonie Koban, Susanne Leiberg, Patrik Vuilleumier and Ernst Fehr

• Emotion and Behavior, hosted by Fritz Strack, Paul Pauli and Peter Weyers

• Why Vaccines to HIV, HCV and Malaria Have So Far Failed – Challenges to Developing Vaccines against Immunoregulating Pathogens, hosted by Shuo Li, Magdalena Plebanski, Peter Smooker and Eric J. Gowans

• Systems Biology of Transcription Regulation, hosted by Ekaterina Shelest, Edgar Wingender and Joerg Linde

• Microbial Ecology of Arid Terrestrial Systems, hosted by Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Don Cowan and Jean-Baptiste Ramond

• From Meaning of Working to Meaningful Lives: The Challenges of Expanding Decent Work, hosted by Annamaria Di Fabio and David L. Blustein

• What Can Neuroscience Learn from Contemplative Practices?, hosted by Zoran Josipovic and Bernard J. Baars

• Protein Solubility and Aggregation in Bacteria, hosted by Salvador Ventura

From a global perspective aquaculture is an activity related to food production with large potential for growth.

Health:

• NK Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapy, hosted by Francisco Borrego, Susana Larrucea, Rafael Solana and Raquel Tarazona

• Frontiers in Synaptic Plasticity: Dendritic Spines, Circuitries and Behavior, hosted by Alberto A. Rasia-Filho, Rochelle S. Cohen and Oliver von Bohlen und Halbach

• The Impact of Active and Passive Smoking upon Health and Neurocognitive Function, hosted by Thomas Heffernan

• Plastic Surgery for the Oncological Patient, hosted by Adrien Daigeler and Björn Behr

Tobacco smoking is a major risk factor for a number of chronic diseases, including a variety of cancers, lung disease and damage to the cardiovascular system.