Life Sciences: General Issues

This innovative reference collects state-of-the-art procedures for the construction and design of nanoparticles and porous material while suggestin...

Thermodynamics is used increasingly in ecology to understand the system properties of ecosystems because it is a basic science that describes energ...

This book deals with chemosensory systems of fishes and covers the well known olfactory and the gustatory senses as well as the less popular solita...

Why should anyone be interested in studying motor skills? This book is based on the contrary belief that the determinants of motor skill and the co...

In January 1995, the first Complexity Seminar was held at the London School of Economics, in the UK. This was quite a momentous occasion as it prov...

In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favo...

This text discusses di-p-methane rearrangements via radical-cation intermediates, the photo-Fries rearrangement in organized media and of biologica...

Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In...

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics provides a comprehensive discussion of a wide range of neurocognitive an...

Do Animals have ideas? Do they experience pain like humans? Do they think about objects that they cannot see? About situations that have occurred i...

Quantum Mechanics II: Advanced Topics offers a comprehensive exploration of the state-of-the-art in various advanced topics of current research int...

Theory and research in aphasiology have typically concentrated on a limited population--right-handed adult monolinguals whose language uses an alph...

Winner of the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science books Powerful new research methods are providing fresh and vivid insights into the makeup of...

Describing Motion: The Physical World provides the quantitative description of a variety of physically important motions. Starting with simple exam...

Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropologytraces the interaction of evolutionary thought and anthropological theory from Herbert Spencer to the twenty-f...

The past decade has brought important new advances in the fields of genetics, behavioral genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, studies of la...

A discussion of fundamental characteristics, theories and applications for liquid-liquid colloidal dispersions. It profiles experimental and tradit...

Darwin's greatest accomplishment was to show how life might be explained as the result of natural selection. But does Darwin's theory mean that lif...

In The Resurgence of Evolutionary Biology Terry Hoy charts the intersection between political theory and the intellectual debate over human evoluti...

An examination of applications of electrochemical techniques to many organic and inorganic compounds that are either unstable or insoluble in water...

Are we still evolving? Scientists have grappled with this question since the time of Darwin. Now, in this provocative book, biologist Christopher W...

This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Filling a key gap, it emphasizes developmental change...

What a pity it would have been if biologists had refused to accept Darwin's theory of natural selection, which has been essential in helping biolog...

Consciousness seems to be an enigmatic phenomenon: it is difficult to imagine how our perceptions of the world and our inner thoughts, sensations a...

A revised and concise guide to the latest thoughts and findings on Tourette's Syndrome Edited by two of the leading international authorities on T...

This classic and bestselling landmark publication, originally published in 1965, examines the dynamic mechanisms, fundamental principles, and physi...

What a pity it would have been if biologists had refused to accept Darwin's theory of natural selection, which has been essential in helping biolog...

During the past decade a diverse group of disciplines have simultaneously intensified their attention upon the scientific study of emotion. This pr...

In this provocative work, noted social and economic theorist Graeme D. Snooks exposes fatal flaws in the foundations of the Darwinian theory of evo...

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark ta...

The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed...

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark ta...

Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel: Early Views of Inheritance explores early theories about the mechanisms of inheritance. Beginning w...

First published in 2003. In this concisely argued, short new book, well-known philosopher Naomi Zack explores the scientific and philosophical prob...

Since the original publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the center of the public conversatio...

Introducing Special Relativity provides an easy and rewarding way into special relativity for first and second year university students studying ph...

Ernst Mayr is perhaps the most distinguished biologist of the twentieth century, and Systematics and the Origin of Species may be one of his greate...

Working memory is the system responsible for the temporary maintenance and processing of information involved in most cognitive activities, and its...

Stochastic Communities presents a theory of biodiversity by analyzing the distribution of abundances among species in the context of a community. T...

This book was developed to help students and researchers in the fields of economics, finance, law and other social science areas to understand and ...

This volume provides an integrative review of the emerging and increasing use of network science techniques in cognitive psychology, first develope...

Is the everyday understanding of belief susceptible to scientific investigation? Belief is one of the most commonly used, yet unexplained terms in ...

First published in 2003. In this concisely argued, short new book, well-known philosopher Naomi Zack explores the scientific and philosophical prob...

Our abilities to learn and remember are at the core of consciousness, cognition, and identity, and are based on the fundamental brain capacity to e...

First published in 1935 (this edition in 1946), this short account of the science of embryology was the first book in English to provide a simple o...

A multi-author volume Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution examines the origin and early evolution of the backboned animals (vertebrates)-the...