Life Sciences

The Anthropocene defines the here-and-now time period on Earth of indelible (and possibly irreversible) human disturbance to the natural world, from habitat destruction and mass extinction to global climate change. To ameliorate and repair the damage...

Orcas are the most profitable and controversial display animal in history, and since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on their plight. Yet no historical account has explored how we came to care...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781400Author Sherwin B. NulandFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564727299Author Linda G BartonFormat PaperbackImprint EdupressPublisher EdupressWeight(grams) 27gDimensions(mm) 127mm * 165mm * 13mm

The Book of Being Chimp is Adrian Cale's entertaining celebration of the chimpanzee. Written with fact-filled, often witty reverence and featuring 100 of the author's beautiful photographs, it is a fun and informative step-by-step guide to chimpanzee...

Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao is the essential guide for anyone traveling to those islands. It showcases the more than 280 species seen on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao and provides descriptions of and directions to the best places to bird, from the...

A novelist and a neuroscientist uncover the secrets of human memory.What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory?With playfulness and intelligence, Adventures in Memory answers these questions and more, offering an...

Why are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science. The answers to this question would allow humanity to make an enormous...

Anatomy & Physiology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and...

In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok re-examines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation-a pair of co-dependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human understanding. Drawing on a...

This concise overview of the fundamental concepts of cancer biology is ideal for those with little or no background in the field. A summary of global cancer patterns introduces students to the general principles of how cancers arise and the risk factors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830849260Author Sandra L. RichterFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 214gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF 2021'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple. It amounts to a substantive whole which offers a unitary...

Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a potentially critical part of this vital organ has been overlooked-until now. The Other Brain examines the growing importance of glia, which make up approximately 85 percent of the cells in the...

Think of deer and the image that pops into most American's minds is that of a white-tailed deer, the most common large mammal in North America. Most Europeans are more familiar with red deer. It may surprise many people to know that there are actually...

The eye is one of the most remarkable achievements of evolution, and has evolved up to 40 times in different parts of the animal kingdom. In humans, vision is the most important sense, and much of the brain is given over to the processing of visual...

How do plants, animals, and humans manage to survive and adapt to the urban environment? This book provides a comprehensive coverage of biological matters related to urban environments presenting both the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings, and...

Medicinal plants and plant-derived medicine are widely used in traditional cultures all over the world and they are becoming increasingly popular in modern society as natural alternatives to synthetic chemicals. As more and more natural remedies are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114567Author Linda Tellington-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 195mm...

Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume...

This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether...

Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book introduces us to genetics, cell biology and the...

This is without doubt the most comprehensive field guide to the orchids of Britain and Europe. Every one of the 216 species and 30 subspecies are described and illustrated with superb colour photographs. For each species there is a close up photograph of...

At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts an astonishing array of plants and animals-over half a million species! Ecotourists, birders, and biologists come from around the world, drawn by the likelihood of seeing more than three or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262034968Author Michael A. ArbibFormat HardbackPage Count 808Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 32mm

How did the dog become man's best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species.Dogs and humans have been inseparable for more than 40,000 years. The relationship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692997871Author Lance DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Lance DouglasPublisher Lance DouglasWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546089Author Marc WittmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature. First published in German in 1979, the book is now in...

Integrates biochemical, molecular, and cellular health and disease processes into one essential text! Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, and Genetics: An Integrated Textbook by Zeynep Gromley and Adam Gromley is the first to cover molecular...

Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members...

Developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (R)Trust experienced and best-selling authors to navigate the new syllabuses confidently with these coursebooks that implement inquiry-based and conceptually-focused teaching and learning.-...

Despite its prevalence, post-traumatic stress, PTSD, is often seen as an unbeatable lifelong mental disorder. Leading trauma doctors and neuroscientists now understand that the result of trauma is not a disorder, but rather a physical injury to the body...

Life is an enduring mystery. Yet, science tells us that living beings are merely sophisticated structures of lifeless molecules. If this view is correct, where do the seemingly purposeful motions of cells and organisms originate? In Life's Ratchet ,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943392025Author Inedia MusingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Book ShedPublisher Book ShedWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm

"These cats are like emissaries from the raw landscapes out West, probing the rest of the nation, showing us where patches of wildness remain, and bring a fuller dimension of wildness to them. It's as if they're testing to find out just what folks have...

From the moment when we first open our homes - and our hearts - to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122944Author David George HaskellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

Agricultural Nanobiotechnology: Biogenic Nanoparticles, Nanofertilizers and Nanoscale Biocontrol Agents presents the most up-to-date advances in nanotechnology to improve the agriculture and food industry with novel nanotools for the controlling of rapid...

'Pain is bad, right? In this fascinating book, Brock Bastian will convince you otherwise. Drawing on both vivid everyday examples and surprising laboratory findings, he shows how pain, suffering, and struggle give us pleasure, make us kinder, focus...