Life Sciences: General Issues

This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unus...

Could the race to de-carbonize our energy systems be leading us closer to environmental disaster? Why did biology choose carbon, in a variety of c...

The brain is the bodys most vulnerable organ due to the defined roles of neurons within circuits. Neurons are vastly outnumbered by microglia, astr...

Neither cellular/molecular nor ecosystem processes can be fully understood without a detailed understanding of the biology of the whole organism. D...

Plants that Fight Cancer, Second Edition, is a compilation that reviews cancer treatment and research-based information on the plant kingdom as the...

In a world now forced to address the issues of sustainability, environmental impact, and the widespread pollution of land and oceans with manmade m...

The #1 selling wildlife management book for 40 years, now updated for the next generation of professionals and students.Since its original publicat...

Technische Innovationen der Fotografie erlaubten Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, Wildtiere nicht mehr nur als Kadaver und Beute oder in Studio und Geheg...

Music and dance can change our sense of time. Both rely on synchronizing our attention and actions with sounds and with other people, both involve ...

Music and dance can change our sense of time. Both rely on synchronizing our attention and actions with sounds and with other people, both involve ...

Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our spec...

Our experience of the world is driven by processes common to all animals: growth, survival, reproduction and death. Evolution and Human Behaviour e...

This research level text documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agend...

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of t...

Discover the incredible possibilities of the female brain in midlife, redefine the menopause and access your most vital, confident and wise phase y...

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing q...

This is a how to guide for a calculus-based introductory course in electricity and magnetism. Students taking the subject at an intermediate or adv...

Advaita Vedanta is one of the best-known schools of Indian philosophy, but much of its history--a history closely interwoven with that of medieval ...

Doubt is our product, a cigarette executive once observed, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds...

Beyond Interdisciplinarity examines the broadening meaning of core concept across academic disciplines and other forms of knowledge. In this book, ...