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Why Aren't We Dead Yet?: The Curious Person's Guide to the Immune System by Idan Ben-Barak
RRP: £16.95£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534377Author Idan Ben-BarakFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 18mm -
Principles of Tropical Horticulture by David Midmore
RRP: £98.80£95.12Principles of Tropical Horticulture leads the reader through a background of environmental influences and plant physiology to an understanding of production and post-harvest systems, environmental adaptation techniques and marketing strategies. Focusing... -
Climate Change Impacts on Urban Pests by Partho Dhang
RRP: £87.10£83.54This book is the first resource to review the influence of climate change on urban and public pests such as mosquitoes, flies, ticks, and wood pests, with respect to population, distribution, disease, damage and control. It systematically addresses how... -
Microbiological Methods for Assessing Soil Quality by Jaap Bloem
RRP: £43.50£42.06This book provides a selection of microbiological methods which are applicable or already applied in regional or national soil quality monitoring programmes. An overview is given of approaches to monitoring, evaluating and managing soil quality (Part I),... -
Virus Diseases of Tropical and Subtropical Crops by James James
RRP: £54.90£52.67This book describes interactions of plant viruses with hosts and transmission vectors in an agricultural context. Starting with an overview of virus biology, economics and management, chapters then address economically significant plant diseases of... -
Professional Development in Biology: Strategies for Success by Letina Banks
RRP: £58.00£46.81Those entering a university often find themselves unprepared and lacking in the skills necessary to do well in this new environment. This book helps students to bridge the gap between their past learning experiences and the new expectations they face as... -
Conceptual Breakthroughs in The Evolutionary Biology of Aging by Kenneth R. Arnold
RRP: £93.99£84.18Conceptual Breakthroughs in the Evolutionary Biology of Aging continues the innovative Conceptual Breakthroughs series by providing a comprehensive outline of the major breakthroughs that built the evolutionary biology of aging as a leading scientific... -
First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development by John Tyler Bonner
RRP: £75.00£58.09The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much so that we risk losing sight of the underlying principles that apply to all development. To cut through... -
The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life by Claus Emmeche
RRP: £25.00£22.43What is life? Is it just the biologically familiar--birds, trees, snails, people--or is it an infinitely complex set of patterns that a computer could simulate? What role does intelligence play in separating the organic from the inorganic, the living... -
Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology: Integrating Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Approaches by Lee Alan Dugatkin
RRP: £82.00£64.56A key way that behavioral ecologists develop general theories of animal behavior is by studying one species or a closely related group of species--"model systems"--over a long period. This book brings together some of the field's most respected... -
The Wild Heart of India: Nature in the City, the Country, and the Wild by Dr. T.R. Shankar Raman
RRP: £21.99£20.33Wild-untamed, hostile, remote. Yet, wild can be gentle, welcoming, and inspiring too. This is the wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species... -
Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, Abridged edition by Laurence M. Klauber
RRP: £31.00£24.03This virtual encyclopedia of the rattlesnake became a natural history sensation when it was first published in 1956. The republication of the Second Edition, with a new foreword by Harry W. Greene, will give amateur and professional herpetologists alike... -
Molecular Biology of Cancer by Fiona Macdonald
RRP: £76.99£67.45Molecular Biology of Cancer has been extensively revised and covers heredity cancer, microarray technology and increased study of childhood cancers. It continues to provide a detailed overview of the process which lead to the development and... -
Laboratory Fish in Biomedical Research: Biology, Husbandry and Research Applications for Zebrafish, Medaka, Killifish, Swordtail Fish, Cavefish, Stickleback, Goldfish and Danionella Translucida by Livia d'Angelo
RRP: £125.00£111.88Fish, and particularly zebrafish, have become the fastest-growing segment of the research population. They offer several advantages, in terms of biology and technologies to apply, and thus are employed in numerous research fields. Laboratory Fish in... -
Sacred Bovines: The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions in Biology by Douglas Allchin
RRP: £37.99£27.80Some assumptions about biology are so deeply rooted in our thinking that they seem beyond question. These concepts - expressed in playful jargon - are our sacred bovines. With a light-hearted spirit, Douglas Allchin sets out to challenge many of these... -
How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care by Marjorie Jenkins
RRP: £118.00£106.32How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care enables primary care clinicians by providing a framework to understand differences and better care for patients in their practice. Each chapter covers a subspecialty in... -
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis (MPB-35) by Peter Turchin
RRP: £78.00£69.86Why do organisms become extremely abundant one year and then seem to disappear a few years later? Why do population outbreaks in particular species happen more or less regularly in certain locations, but only irregularly (or never at all) in other... -
The Essential Naturalist: Timeless Readings in Natural History by Michael H. Graham
RRP: £40.00£38.95Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, their practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But... -
Practical Handbook on the 3Rs in the Context of the Directive 2010/63/EU by Gianni Dal Negro
RRP: £131.00£117.70EU Directive 2010/63/EU is the European Union legislation that protects animals being used in research. EU Directive 2010/63/EU is the European Union (EU) legislation 'on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes' and is one of the most... -
Models in Ecosystem Science by Charles D. Canham
RRP: £75.00£67.64Quantitative models are crucial to almost every area of ecosystem science. They provide a logical structure that guides and informs empirical observations of ecosystem processes. They play a particularly crucial role in synthesizing and integrating our... -
Longevity: The Biology and Demography of Life Span by James R. Carey
RRP: £78.00£69.86Despite our deep interest in mortality, little is known about why some individuals live to middle age and others to extreme old age. Life span, mortality, and aging present some of the most profound mysteries in biology. In Longevity, James Carey draws... -
Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life by Phillip Thurtle
RRP: £23.99£19.19How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms As one of the most visual sciences, biology has an aesthetic dimension that lends force and persuasion to scientific arguments: how things are arranged on a page, how texts are... -
Parasitoid Population Biology by Michael E. Hochberg
RRP: £82.00£73.36Extraordinary 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... -
Pest Risk Modelling and Mapping for Invasive Alien Species by Robert C. Venette
RRP: £49.45£47.59Over the past century, the number of species that have been transported to areas outside their native range has increased steadily. New pests and pathogens place biological pressure on valuable resident species, but strict bans may conflict with trading... -
Management of Infertility: A Practical Approach by Antonio Simone Lagana
RRP: £127.00£113.25Management of Infertility: A Practical Approach offers an accurate and complete reference for the management of infertility and a robust step-by-step guide for assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs), including how to plan, design and organize a... -
Keith County Journal by John Janovy
RRP: £12.99£9.48To learn from nature, not about nature, was the imperative that took John Janovy Jr. and his students into the sandhills, marshes, grasslands, canyons, lakes, and streams of Keith County in western Nebraska. The biologist explores the web of... -
Respiratory Biology of Animals: evolutionary and functional morphology by Steven F. Perry
RRP: £48.99£39.89Oxygen uptake for metabolic energy demand and the elimination of the resulting carbon dioxide is one of the essential processes in all higher life forms; in the case of animals, everything from protozoans to insects and vertebrates including humans... -
Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality by David J. Linden
RRP: £25.00£18.28As a scientist, David Linden had devoted his career to understanding the brain processes and behaviors that are common to us all. That is, until a few years ago, when he found himself on OKCupid. Looking through that vast catalog of human difference, he... -
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER by Bill Bryson 9780552779913
RRP: £8.99£7.48#1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE _______'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and... -
Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems by Robert M. May
RRP: £70.00£54.30What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? In 1973, Robert May addressed these questions in this classic book. May investigated the mathematical... -
A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science by Rita Colwell
RRP: £17.99£10.23A "beautifully written" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how to... -
How Your Brain Works: Neuroscience Experiments for Everyone by Greg Gage
RRP: £25.00£15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544382Author Greg GageFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long 9780801896958
RRP: £57.50£51.57Fishes that walk, fishes that breathe air, fishes that look like-and are-monsters from the deep. These and many more strange creatures swim through The Rise of Fishes, John A. Long's richly illustrated tour of the past 500 million years. Long has... -
The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution by Annalisa Berta 9781421423258
RRP: £64.00£57.16Marine mammals have long captured the attention of humans. Ancient peoples etched seals and dolphins on the walls of Paleolithic caves; today, engineers develop microprocessors to track these denizens of the deep. This groundbreaking book from highly... -
Bird Census Techniques by C. J. Bibby 9780120958313
RRP: £72.00£65.22In this book there are entire chapters devoted to the most widely used bird counting techniques, and attempts to amalgamate other counting methodologies into major groups were made. Examples of the use of methods are provided wherever possible and the... -
Cambridge IGCSE (TM) Co-ordinated Sciences Biology Student's Book (Collins Cambridge IGCSE (TM)) by Sue Kearsey 9780008191573
£23.60Collins Cambridge IGCSE (R) Co-ordinated Sciences Biology provides full coverage of all core and extended topics in the new syllabus. Carefully developed features including Science in Context, questions, Science Links and more allowing students to build... -
Bodytalk: A World Guide to Gestures by Desmond Morris 9780224101394 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£6.98The first book to bring together the many different everyday gestures that are used all over the world. Desmond Morris has travelled to over 60 countries while making field studies of human body language, and made notes of hand gestures and facial... -
Bodytalk: A World Guide to Gestures by Desmond Morris
RRP: £18.99£13.61The first book to bring together the many different everyday gestures that are used all over the world. Desmond Morris has travelled to over 60 countries while making field studies of human body language, and made notes of hand gestures and facial... -
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Ernst Mayr 9780674364462
RRP: £40.95£33.83No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Western intellectual history as The Growth of Biological... -
Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology, Global Edition by Gerald Audesirk
RRP: £74.99£69.62For non-majors/mixed biology courses. An Inquiry Approach that engages students in critical thinking through the use of relatable case studies and more. With a proven and effective tradition of engaging readers with real-world applications, high-interest...