Biology

'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are?...

Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Biology This CfE Higher Biology Grade Booster is the essential guide to exam skills. It includes detailed advice on how to approach and answer the different types of question you will find in the exam and...

Winner of the Aventis Science Book Prize. 'A scientific detective story, a brilliant cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Gray's anatomy' J G Ballard, New Stateman Books of the Year'Fascinating' New Scientist'Wonderful' Nature- What is the connection...

Bold and provocative, Regenesis tells of recent advances that may soon yield endless supplies of renewable energy, increased longevity and the return of long-extinct species.", New Scientist In Regenesis , Harvard biologist George Church and science...

Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking.When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been...

Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us, discovering what it reveals about who we are. In Nepal, she meets girls...

The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology.For three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in...

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: Biology Suitable for the 2024 exams Complete coverage of...

Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for...

Mathematics for Biological Scientists is a new undergraduate textbook which covers the mathematics necessary for biology students to understand, interpret and discuss biological questions.The book's twelve chapters are organized into four themes. The...

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.About the AuthorKevin Kelly is Executive Editor of Wired, the new bible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127161Author Nicholas WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264g

Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: BiologyFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher Biology exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047098Author Steven N. AustadFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Australian Book Industry Awards, International Book of the Year 2016. Short-listed for British Book Industry Awards, Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016 (UK)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143108085Author Justin SonnenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Chemistry enables our eyes to detect the world around us; it determines whether something tastes sweet or sour; it helps genetic information pass accurately from one generation to the next. Ultimately, chemistry powers life itself. We don't need to dig...

Why does chocolate taste so good? Why do we seek 'the one'? How do traits such as intelligence, creativity and violence arise and what purpose do they serve? This book links these characteristics to the origins of life, showing that the conditions...

'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing, read this' Professor Andrew Briggs, University of OxfordWhen Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper...

Extraordinary in the diversity of their lifestyles, insect parasitoids have become extremely important study organisms in the field of population biology, and they are the most frequently used agents in the biological control of insect pests. This book...

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE 9-1 Subject: Combined Science: Trilogy Higher Suitable for the 2024 exams ...

Accurate interpretation of the organic acid chromatographs obtained from the gas chromatography/mass spectrometry requires a significant amount of practice. Pattern recognition is an important factor and a skill that is gained through time and effort. A...

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary...

A vast subject that includes a strange vocabulary and an apparent mass of facts, human anatomy can at first appear confusing and off-putting. But the basic construction of the human body - the skeleton, the organs of the chest and abdomen, the nervous...

'Will give pleasure to anyone interested in original thinking about the brain...Breathtakingly original' Financial Times The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created? In Self Comes to...

Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Human BiologyFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher Human Biology exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions...

Exam Board: WJEC, EduqasLevel: A-levelSubject: BiologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2017Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help your students target...

Whooping Cranes: Biology and Conservation covers one of the most endangered birds in North America, and the subject of intense research and highly visible conservation activity. The volume summarizes current biological information on Whooping Cranes and...

How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world's managed bee coloniesHumans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the...

Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond...

Collins Cambridge IGCSETM Co-ordinated Sciences Biology provides full coverage of all core and supplement Biology topics in the revised syllabus. Carefully developed features including questions, worked examples, key terms and more allow students to...

Target success in Science with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579550080Author Stephen WolframFormat HardbackPage Count 1197Imprint Wolfram Media IncPublisher Wolfram Media IncWeight(grams) 2526g

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe...

Praise for the first edition:... superb, beautifully written and organized work that takes an engineering approach to systems biology. Alon provides nicely written appendices to explain the basic mathematical and biological concepts clearly and...

For Biology GCSE and Science (Double Award) GCSEHigher tier Welsh language editionCreate confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.Our Student Workbooks build students' understanding, developing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514003879Author Dr. Paul BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Exam Board: WJEC, EduqasLevel: A-levelSubject: BiologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2017Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help your students target...

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...

Beginning with the discovery of genes on chromosomes and culminating with the unmasking of the most minute genetic mysteries, the twentieth century saw astounding and unprecedented progress in the science of biology. In an illustrious career that spanned...