Biology, Life Sciences

In response to the general lack of information about zoo libraries, this book, first published in 1988, compiles a collection of descriptions of th...

Human beings evolved in a tribal environment. Over the millennia, our brains have become adept at fostering social networks that are the basis of g...

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity. This book explores ...

Originally published in 1960, The Future of Man is a chronicle of Professor Medwar’s Reith lectures of 1959. The book outlines his predictions abou...

This book provides an introduction into both computational models and experimental paradigms that are concerned with sensory cue integration both w...

This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but qu...

As our ability to acquire massive amounts of information about genome variation accelerates it is becoming increasingly clear that to make maximum ...

The Ecological Brain is the first book of its kind, using complexity science to integrate the seemingly disparate fields of ecological psychology a...

The aim of this book is to make available, to students and experts, a compendium of important articles covering (1) the development of single-artic...

Tender, plump, and tasty, the blue mussel (Mytiius edulis) is treasured in most of the world's cuisines but strangely ignored in North American coo...

Despite wide acceptance that the attributes of living creatures have appeared through a cumulative evolutionary process guided chiefly by natural s...

This heavily illustrated text teaches parasitology from a biological perspective. It combines classical descriptive biology of parasites with moder...

In this first integrated view, practically each of the world's leading experts has contributed to this one and only authoritative resource on the t...

A guide to applying the power of modern simulation tools to better drug design Biomolecular Simulations in Structure-based Drug Discovery offers...

The Second Edition of this bestseller brings together basic plant pathology methods published in diverse and often abstract publications. The Secon...

This edition of the popular text incorporates recent advances in neurobiology enabled by modern molecular biology techniques. Understanding how the...

This volume presents a timely and comprehensive overview of biological networks at all organization levels in the spirit of the complex systems app...

Originally published in 1971. Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes...

Why are leaves green and blood red? The answer lies with one family of pigments, the porphyrins and their relatives. These pigments are also respon...

Here is a uniquely modern approach to the study of physiological diversity that builds on the tradition established by C. Ladd Prosser's Comparativ...

Summarizing the emerging field of N-heterocyclic carbenes used in organocatalysis, this is an excellent overview of the synthesis and applications ...

Bacteria in Biology, Biotechnology and Medicine is a broadly based textbook of pure and applied bacteriology. Written in clear language, the up-to-...

The automated identification of biological objects or groups has been a dream among taxonomists and systematists for centuries. However, progress i...

Weeds affect everyone in the world by reducing crop yield and crop quality, delaying or interfering with harvesting, interfering with animal feedin...

`ames D. Watson looks back on his extraordinary and varied career -- from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago's South Side to the day he left ...

This book discusses the emergence of life, the development of the individual, and the study of the interaction between individuals and species. It ...

This book is an extended argument for abandoning the species rank. Instead, the author proposes that the rank of "species" be replaced by a plurali...

This volume is a collection of papers on various areas of current interest in mathematical biology, such as epidemic disease modeling, including th...

Carbohydrates offer a ready source of enantiomerically pure starting materials. They have been used for the imaginative synthesis of a wide range o...

Ecological Genetics addresses the fundamental problems of which of the many molecular markers should be used and how the resulting data should be a...

Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression--these and numerous additional topics are explored in this timely collectio...

This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about ...

From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people ...

Producing and rearing children are immensely important human activities. Procreation and Parenthood offers new and original essays by leading philo...

This book provides the basis for understanding the elastic properties of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA), the methods used to manipulate them (e.g. optica...