Biology, Life Sciences

How the World Flows acts like a microscope that pulls the reader into the barely noticeable, Lilliputian world of fluids at small scales--the micro...

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sou...

Writing scientific publications is a fundamental step in the research process. Furthermore, as science becomes more interdisciplinary and the numbe...

A Hands-On Approach to Teaching Introductory StatisticsExpanded with over 100 more pages, Introduction to Statistical Data Analysis for the Life Sc...

Has there ever been a more hated bird than the European starling? Let loose in New York City’s Central Park by a misguided aristocrat, the starling...

The Social Meaning of Modern Biology analyzes the cultural significance of recurring attempts since the time of Darwin to extract social and moral ...

In our fast-paced world of technology and conveniences, the biological origins of women's inequality can be forgotten. This book offers a richer un...

Genetic technologies have moved off the pages of science fiction and into our everyday lives. Internists now offer genetic testing for cancers and ...

Domestic animals are an integral component of human leisure experience and can enhance the physical, social, and mental wellbeing of humans. The in...

Discussing the role biosensors play in detecting and monitoring environmental substances, Biosensors and Environmental Health provides key facts th...

'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating th...

Covering state-of-the-art technologies and a broad range of practical applications, the Third Edition of Gene Biotechnology presents tools that res...

An engaging introduction to the ancient hawthorn tree and its varied roles in human history One of humankind’s oldest companions, the hawthorn tree...

Insects and plants, whether or not they coevolved, have intimate interrelationships. This book concisely yet thoroughly describes these phenomena. ...

DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel Prize. Everyone knows that Jame...

Essential Guide to Reading Biomedical Papers: Recognising and Interpreting Best Practice is an indispensable companion to the biomedical literature...

Humans first used carbon as chars from firewood in ritual paintings and primitive metallurgical processes. Natural forms of carbon have been known ...

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) describes the quantum dynamics of interacting electronic many-body systems formally exactly and in...

Written by researchers representing six countries and 28 institutions, this book highlights the development of the genus Populus as a model organis...

Genetic technologies have moved off the pages of science fiction and into our everyday lives. Internists now offer genetic testing for cancers and ...

This unique book officially defines microbiome statistics as a specific new field of statistics and addresses the statistical analysis of correlati...

In the last two decades there has been a flourishing research carried out jointly by economists, psychologists and neuroscientists. This meltdown o...

The Routledge Companion to Consumer Behavior Analysis provides a unique and eclectic combination of behavioral, cognitive and environmental perspec...

Plant Cells and Their Organelles provides a comprehensive overview of the structure and function of plant organelles. The text focuses on subcellul...

How can a graphic novel teach you to solve physics problems? By making the process more fun and more engaging for readers, this practical guide rea...

This book discusses the topic of the HLA antigen system. Chapters discuss topics such as; animal studies, the possible mechanisms of HLA and diseas...

This book is a guide specifically for Early Career Researchers on how to publish in the Biological Sciences, whether that be your first manuscript ...

Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organiz...

Even though an understanding of experimental design and statistics is central to modern biology, undergraduate and graduate students studying biolo...

In little more than a hundred years the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin has conquered the thinking world. No other body of ideas has enjoyed ...