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PhysioEx 10.0: Laboratory Simulations in Physiology by Peter Zao
RRP: £54.31£48.49NOTE: Before purchasing, check with your instructor to ensure you select the correct ISBN. This ISBN is for the paperback PhysioEx Lab Manual and does NOT include access to the PhysioEx 10.0 website. The Lab Manual for PhysioEx (TM) 10.0 Laboratory... -
Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language by Stephen R. Anderson 9780300115253
£37.30Dr. Dolittle-and many students of animal communication-are wrong: animals cannot use language. This fascinating book explains why. Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many... -
Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom by Daphne J. Fairbairn 9780691141961
£29.89While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. And... -
Plant Survival: Adapting to a Hostile World by Brian Capon 9780881922875
RRP: £13.99£9.01Unlike animals that can run from danger or migrate to a more hospitable environment, plants must rely on adaptations that permit them to survive where they are. The mechanisms that plants employ to survive are explained and illustrated in this primer... -
How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality by Richard G. Bribiescas 9780691160634
RRP: £20.00£15.89While the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not been part of the conversation--until now. How Men Age is the first book to explore how natural selection has shaped male aging, how evolutionary... -
The Evolution of Organ Systems by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa 9780198566694
£82.40Systematics has developed rapidly during the past two decades. A multitude of new methods and contributions from a diversity of biological fields including molecular genetics and developmental biology have provided a wealth of phylogenetic hypotheses,... -
How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order by Joanna E. Lambert 9780226829753
RRP: £60.00£57.15Exploring everything from nutrients to food acquisition and research methods, a comprehensive synthesis of the study of diet and feeding in nonhuman primates. What do we mean when we say that a diet is nutritious? Why can some animals get all the... -
Atlas of the Anatomy of Dolphins and Whales by Bruno Cozzi 9780128024461
RRP: £118.00£111.78Atlas of the Anatomy of Dolphins and Whales is a detailed, fully illustrated atlas on the anatomy and morphology of toothed and whalebone whales. The book provides basic knowledge on anatomical structures, in particular, soft tissues, and functions as a... -
Lamarck's Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present by Peter Ward 9781632866158
RRP: £25.00£17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632866158Author Peter WardFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 558g -
Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution: Causes, Consequences, Controversies by David W. Pfennig
RRP: £71.99£62.05Phenotypic plasticity - the ability of an individual organism to alter its features in direct response to a change in its environment - is ubiquitous. Understanding how and why this phenomenon exists is crucial because it unites all levels of biological... -
Inequality: A Genetic History by Carles Lalueza-Fox 9780262547314
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547314Author Carles Lalueza-FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Marine Pollution by Christopher L. J. Frid 9780198726296
RRP: £55.00£51.79As a society, we use more than 100,000 different industrial compounds to promote health and treat disease, to grow food and to access clean water. While technological developments have improved our lives, most of these compounds end up in our oceans... -
International Wildlife Management: Conservation Challenges in a Changing World by John L. Koprowski 9781421432854
£65.73A call for wildlife conservationists to transcend the boundaries of locality, share best practices, and unite with a common voice to influence global policy.Habitat loss, disease management, predator-human conflict, illegal trade-these are among the many... -
An Introduction to Pain and its relation to Nervous System Disorders by Anna A. Battaglia 9781118455975
RRP: £53.95£47.24Introduction to Pain and its relation to Nervous System Disorders provides an accessible overview of the latest developments in the science underpinning pain research, including, but not limited to, the physiological, pathological and psychological... -
Programmable Planet: The Synthetic Biology Revolution by Ted Anton 9780231205108
RRP: £30.00£23.29A new science is reengineering the fabric of life. Synthetic biology offers bold new ways of manufacturing medicines, clothing, foods, fragrances, and fuels, often using microbe fermentation, much like brewing beer. The technology can help confront... -
Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals by Jonathan Balcombe 9780230107816
RRP: £13.99£9.70Do baboons have a sense of right and wrong? Can cats and dogs have their feelings hurt? Animal behavior expert Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that animals, once viewed only as mindless automatons, actually have rich sensory experiences and emotional... -
Ion Channels and Disease by Frances M. Ashcroft 9780120653102
RRP: £122.00£109.85Ion channels are membrane proteins that act as gated pathways for the movement of ions across cell membranes. They play essential roles in the physiology of all cells. In recent years, an ever-increasing number of human and animal diseases have been... -
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores 9781324065913
RRP: £15.99£12.90In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years... -
The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative by Robert A. Voeks
RRP: £39.00£32.79In the mysterious and pristine forests of the tropics, a wealth of ethnobotanical panaceas and shamanic knowledge promises cures for everything from cancer and AIDS to the common cold. To access such miracles, we need only to discover and protect these... -
The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
RRP: £24.00£23.03Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of the... -
Thriving with Microbes: The Unseen Intelligence Within and Around Us by Sputnik Futures 9781982172640
RRP: £24.99£14.13From the remarkable minds of Sputnik Futures, this visually engaging exploration of the microbes that surround us and how these unseen powerhouses are shaping our future is perfect for readers of I Contain Multitudes and 10% Human.Let's face it, microbes... -
Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile: Distribution, Conservation and Propagation: 2006 by Martin Gardner
RRP: £20.00£16.84This beautifully designed model account includes important new information which will not only be of great interest to botanists, conservationist and horticulturists but also to local people who are dependent on the diminishing natural habitats in... -
Marine Mammals: A Deep Dive into the World of Science by Dennis Brennecke
RRP: £44.99£40.58This highly-readable Open Access textbook provides basic background information about marine mammals and anthropogenic impacts on them. The book includes inspiring exercises for education school programs in natural sciences. The book also provides advice... -
Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New Ecological World Order by Richard J. Hobbs
RRP: £57.95£51.22Land conversion, climate change and species invasions are contributing to the widespread emergence of novel ecosystems, which demand a shift in how we think about traditional approaches to conservation, restoration and environmental management. They are... -
Succulent Flora of Southern Africa by Doreen Court 9781770075870
£23.19"Succulent Flora of Southern Africa", first published in 1981, has long served as an authoritative guide for academics and lay enthusiasts alike. This long-awaited third edition takes into account intervening taxonomic advances and the discovery and... -
Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins by John Gurche 9780300216844
£27.93How an artist draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this... -
Medical and Veterinary Entomology by Gary R. Mullen 9780128140437
RRP: £85.99£79.53The first and second editions of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, edited by Gary R. Mullen and Lance A. Durden, published in 2002 and 2009, respectively, have been highly praised and become widely used as a textbook for classroom instruction. This... -
Seashells: More Than a Home by Melissa Stewart
RRP: £15.99£11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580898102Author Melissa StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Publisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. -
Natural Selection in the Wild. (MPB-21), Volume 21 by John A. Endler 9780691083872
RRP: £88.00£68.75Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer still which discuss the problems of working with natural selection in the wild. These are the purposes of... -
A Dictionary of Genetics by Robert C. King 9780199766444
RRP: £76.00£70.22This eighth edition of A Dictionary of Genetics contains over 7,500 up-to-date and cross-referenced entries, including 540 that are newly written. The entries include the latest terminology, concepts, theories, and techniques, covering not only genetics... -
Soil and Water Chemistry: An Integrative Approach, Second Edition by Michael E. Essington 9781032098692
RRP: £45.99£40.13The second edition of a bestseller, Soil and Water Chemistry: An Integrative Approach maintains the balanced perspective that made the first edition a hugely popular textbook. The second edition includes new figures and tables, new chapters, and expanded... -
The Ecology of Everyday Things by Mark Everard
RRP: £19.99£11.67Nature is all around us, in the beautiful but also in the unappealing and functional, and from the awe-inspiring to the mundane. It is vital that we learn to see the agency of the natural world in all things that make our lives possible, comfortable and... -
The Wingsnappers: Lessons from an Exuberant Tropical Bird by Barney A. Schlinger 9780300269413
RRP: £30.00£29.25Birds, hormones, and extraordinary behavior: The story of the tiny but mighty golden-collared manakin of Panama This book is the story of a remarkable bird, the golden-collared manakin (Manacus vitellinus) of Panama. Males of this species perform one... -
Evolution and Medicine by Robert Perlman 9780199661725
£55.15Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary concepts help explain why we remain vulnerable to disease, how pathogens and cancer cells evolve, and how the diseases that affected our... -
Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology: The Evolvability of the Phenotype by Alessandro Minelli
RRP: £75.99£69.02Compared to animals, plants have been largely neglected in evolutionary developmental biology. Mainstream research has focused on developmental genetics, while a rich body of knowledge in comparative morphology is still to be exploited. No integrated... -
Bones: Structure and Mechanics by John D. Currey
RRP: £65.00£50.91This is a comprehensive and accessible overview of what is known about the structure and mechanics of bone, bones, and teeth. In it, John Currey incorporates critical new concepts and findings from the two decades of research since the publication of his... -
Animal Contests by Ian C. W. Hardy 9780521887106
RRP: £37.99£35.43Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant... -
Problem-Solving in Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management by James P. Gibbs
RRP: £45.95£41.11This set of exercises has been created expressly for students and teachers of conservation biology and wildlife management who want to have an impact beyond the classroom. The book presents a set of 32 exercises that are primarily new and greatly revised... -
The Comb Honey Book by Professor of Law Richard Taylor 9781908904188
RRP: £18.50£16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908904188Author Professor of Law Richard TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee BooksWeight(grams) 230g -
Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs by Luis M. Chiappe
RRP: £88.00£70.35Our knowledge of the origin and early evolution of birds has exploded in the past ten to fifteen years. In the 1990s alone, scientists became aware of approximately three times more species of early birds than were previously known, marking the first 85...