Biology, Life Sciences

Want to read just one book about autism? Read this. Written by Temple Grandin, one of the world's most accomplished and well-known adults with auti...

Providing a new conceptual scaffold for further research in biology and cognition, this book introduces the new field of Cognitive Biology: a syste...

Theres nothing quite like a relationship with an aged peta dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets,...

Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition...

Throughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance yet as we see with increasing frequency they have...

Learn about the state of the art in building artificial membranes and synthetic biological devices, and in constructing mathematical models for the...

How better than to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin''s book on human evolution than by challenging his theory with an updated version which ins...

In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected new angles...

The lizard genus Anolis contains more species than any other genus of reptile, bird, or mammal. Caribbean members of this group have been intensive...

Being a mom is a tough job-but imagine doing it in the jungle or out on the safari, faced by the ravages of the elements, a scarcity of resources a...

There is no part of our bodies that fully rotatesbe it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet ther...