Life Sciences: General Issues

Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essen...

Understanding the symbiosis between plants and pathogenic microbes is at the core of effective disease management for crops and managed forests. At...

Understanding the symbiosis between plants and pathogenic microbes is at the core of effective disease management for crops and managed forests. At...

Australia and New Zealand are home to a remarkable and unique assemblage of flora and fauna. Sadly though, by virtue of their long isolation, and a...

Computing is revolutionizing the practice of biology. This book, which assumes no prior computing experience, provides students with the tools to w...

In recent years, a growing number of scientific careers have been brought down by scientists' failure to satisfactorily confront ethical challenges...

Coastal ecosystems are centres of high biological productivity, but their conservation is often threatened by numerous and complex environmental fa...

Coastal ecosystems are centres of high biological productivity, but their conservation is often threatened by numerous and complex environmental fa...

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, an...

Positive psychologists focus on ways that we can advance the lives of individuals and communities by studying the factors that increase positive ou...

Winner of Dog Writers Association of America's Dogwise Best Book AwardThis book focuses on the veterinarians responsibilities for managing the prob...

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He...

The increasing pressure upon clinicians to see more and more patients generates great concern as to how to offer a comprehensive and thorough diagn...

Designed to help those studying speech-language pathology, this highly useful workbook is both an introduction to the basic concepts and a teaching...

**Selected for Doodys Core Titles® 2024 in Neuroscience** MRI/DTI Atlas of the Human Brainstem in Transverse and Sagittal Planes presents a detail...

The human brain is a most remarkable organ, but how well do we really understand the way it works?What is a brain and what is the mind? Do you only...

Few things are as interesting to us as our own bodies and, by extension, our own identities. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in ...

The rhythm of life on Earth includes several strong themes contributed by Kingdom Fungi. So why are fungi ignored when theorists ponder the origin ...

The first volume in the new Cambridge Handbooks in Behavioral Genetics series, Behavioral Genetics of the Mouse provides baseline information on no...