Biology, Life Sciences

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...

All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on...

Evolutionary science is critical to an understanding of integrated human biology and is increasingly recognised as a core discipline by medical and...

Maths is a tool for representing and investigating the nature of the real world: it can simplify the huge complexity of natural processes, enabling...

Sturkie''s Avian Physiology is the classic comprehensive single volume on the physiology of domestic as well as wild birds. The Sixth Edition is th...

This book summarizes the synthesis, properties, characterization, and application of viral and antiviral nanomaterials by using interdisciplinary s...

First published in 1981: This volume talks about new research understandings of the function of the Pineal Gland which was thought to have no legit...

Published in 1984, this book explores craniosynostosis, providing a synthesis of diagnostic aspects and the therapeutic orientation derived from bo...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: A level Subject: Science / Biology First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 An ActiveBook is included wit...

History and Philosophy of Biology summarizes the major philosophical ideas that have attended the development of science in general and of biology ...

The Tree of Life presents the ultimate phylogenetic tree; featuring 44 chapters each authored by experts in their field, it provides for the first ...

Dunes is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the latest research in this active and fast-developing field. It discusses the shapes, size...

This famous book on botany was published for the first time in 1894 by Eduard Strasburger and his co-workers. The present edition is based on a tra...

Specifically intended for lab-based biomedical researchers, this practical guide shows how to design experiments that are reproducible, with low bi...

In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: that vegetation on the islands off the west coast ...

Laban''s The Mastery of Movement on the Stage, first published in 1950, quickly came to be accepted as the standard work on his conception of human...

Viruses are some of the simplest infectious agents on the planet, yet can cause severe and even life-threatening diseases in all forms of life - in...

Herpetology, Fourth Edition presents a functional understanding of amphibians and reptiles-what they do and how they do it, and how those attribute...