Biology, Life Sciences

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is...

During the past several years, it has become increasingly clear that carbohydrates, which can be targeted to specific diseases, represent a whole n...

Cells are the basis of all life in the universe. Our bodies are made up of billions of them: an incredibly complex society that governs everything...

Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals is a five-volume set that serves as a comprehensive, practical reference manual for herbalists, physici...

The habitats of most species have been fragmented by human actions, isolating small populations that consequently develop genetic problems. Million...

The Encyclopedia of Estuaries, part of Springer''s Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, provides a single, state-of-the-art, comprehensive refere...

Iain McCalmans brilliant history of the Great Barrier Reef, told in 12 extraordinary tales, charts its shifting status from labyrinth of terror to ...

Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of Western diseases lie in o...

Based on sequence analyses of many different genes, the past decade has provided us with a profound knowledge of fungal systematics and phylogeny. ...

In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much c...

Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals. Their study therefore incorporates a wide range of disciplines. This encyclopedi...

Formation of transmembrane pores is a very effective way of killing cells. It is thus not surprising that many bacterial and eukaryotic toxic agent...

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant...

As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrializ...

A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society Does altruism exist? Or i...

Astrobiology is the study of the origin and development of life on this and other planets. What fascinates people about astrobiology is that it see...