Life Sciences: General Issues

Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted. Psychology Today Just 125,000 years ago, humanity was on...

A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory and practiceScale is one of the most important concepts in ecology, yet researc...

With the expansion of human settlements and the environmental changes brought on by human activity and pollutants, toxicology and risk assessment o...

A vintners blend of science, history, travel, and tantalizing drink recommendations. --Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken BotanistIn search of a my...

This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals and social behavior. The book is organized around a serie...

CITIZEN SCIENTIST is award-winning environmental journalist and author Mary Ellen Hannibal's story of becoming a citizen scientist - and finding mo...

Readers of Susan Cain's Quiet and Daniel Pink's When will appreciate this passionate investigation into creativity and the human brainfrom the pers...

th Thisvolumecontainsaselectionofthebestcontributionsdeliveredatthe6 - ternational Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics...

The 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS 2010) and the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing...

Franklin M. Harold's On Life reveals what science can tell us about the living world. All creatures, from bacteria and redwoods to garden snails a...

The 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS 2010) and the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing...

Over time the complex idea of species has evolved, yet its meaning is far from resolved. This comprehensive work is a fresh look at an idea central...

* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enab...

Most people believe there are degrees of moral status. They believe animals matter morally, but human beings matter significantly more than animals...

'A phenomenally important book' Lewis Dartnell, author of OriginsWhy do we live in families?Why do we help complete strangers?Why do we compare our...

This book gives new perspective on just whom activists must target to slow global warmingthat is, target those who are warming the globe deliberate...

Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Cricks 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every ad...

The never-before-told story of the horned rabbitthe myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific breakthrough it inspiredand how it became a cultura...

From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual...

This new edition of the Code of Medical Ethics is the culmination of an eight-year project to modernize the Codes ethical guidance for relevance, c...

Sequencing of the maize genome has opened up new opportunities in maize breeding, genetics and genomics research. This book highlights modern trend...