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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us by Ruth Kassinger
RRP: £16.99£9.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358299561Author Ruth KassingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *... -
Biology: The Dynamic Science by Beverly McMillan 9780357134894
£96.26This updated Fifth Edition of BIOLOGY: THE DYNAMIC SCIENCE is a readable and understandable foundation for introductory biology students. Clarity of presentation, thoughtful organization, a logical and seamless flow of topics within chapters, and... -
The Evolution of the Human Placenta by Michael L. Power 9781421406435
RRP: £59.00£51.86As the active interface of the most biologically intimate connection between two living organisms, a mother and her fetus, the placenta is crucial to human evolution and survival. Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin explore the more than 100 million years... -
AQA AS/A-level Year 2 Biology Student Guide: Topics 5 and 6 by Pauline Lowrie
£12.26Exam Board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: BiologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help your students target higher... -
Oxford International AQA Examinations: International A Level Biology by Susan Toole
£50.79The only textbook that completely covers the OxfordAQA International AS & A Level Biology specification (9610), for first teaching in September 2016. Written by experienced authors, the engaging, enquiry-based approach ensures a thorough... -
On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson 9780486671352
£42.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486671352Author D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1116Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature by Michael Land
RRP: £22.49£15.94Vision is the sense by which we and other animals obtain most of our information about the world around us. Darwin appreciated that at first sight it seems absurd that the human eye could have evolved by natural selection. But we now know far more about... -
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind by Professor John Coates
RRP: £19.00£11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123408Author John CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 139mm *... -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9781400052172
RRP: £30.00£18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2010 Indie Lit Award for NonFiction 2010 and Ambassador Book Award in American Studies 2011 and American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult... -
The Theory of Island Biogeography by Robert Helmer MacArthur
RRP: £70.00£54.30Biogeography was stuck in a "natural history phase" dominated by the collection of data, the young Princeton biologists Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson argued in 1967. In this book, the authors developed a general theory to explain the facts of... -
Principles of Animal Locomotion by R.McNeill Alexander
RRP: £78.00£60.77How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses... -
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker 9780525562641
RRP: £19.00£10.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780525562641Author Robert KolkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor... -
Secret Lives of Ants by Jae C. Choe 9781421404288
RRP: £33.00£29.52In the great naturalist tradition of E.O. Wilson, Jae Choe takes readers into a miniature world dominated by six-legged organisms. This is the world of the ant, an insect that humans, as well as most other life forms, depend upon for their very survival... -
Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB Prepared: Biology by Debora Primrose
RRP: £32.99£31.65IB Prepared resources are developed directly with the IB to provide the most up-to-date, authentic and authoritative guidance on DP assessment. IB Prepared: Biology combines a concise review of course content with strategic guidance, past paper material... -
Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know® by David W. Deamer
RRP: £12.99£9.09Our knowledge of our solar system has passed the point of no return. Increasingly, it seems possible that scientists will soon discover how life is created on habitable planets like Earth and Mars. Scientists have responded to a renewed public interest... -
Cambridge O Level Biology by D. G. Mackean
£34.71This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.Written by renowned expert authors, our updated resources enable the learner to effectively navigate through the content of the revised Cambridge O Level Biology (5090) syllabus... -
Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys by Rob Dunn
RRP: £10.99£9.59"If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book." -Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to... -
New Coordinated Science: Biology Students' Book: For Higher Tier by Brian Beckett
£43.24New Coordinated Science third edition contains the same clear presentation and straightforward approach that has mad previous editions so enduringly popular. Information is provided in manageable chunks and is reinforced by stimulating questions and... -
Critical Transitions in Nature and Society by Marten Scheffer
RRP: £58.00£45.58How do we explain the remarkably abrupt changes that sometimes occur in nature and society--and can we predict why and when they happen? This book offers a comprehensive introduction to critical transitions in complex systems--the radical changes that... -
The Optics of Life: A Biologist's Guide to Light in Nature by Sonke Johnsen 9780691139913
RRP: £50.00£45.15Optics--a field of physics focusing on the study of light--is also central to many areas of biology, including vision, ecology, botany, animal behavior, neurobiology, and molecular biology. The Optics of Life introduces the fundamentals of optics to... -
The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort 9780674011083
£29.56This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of the behavior of... -
The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us by Tom Ireland 9781529365252
RRP: £16.99£12.83CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY WATERSTONES AND THE TIMES'Superb ... This is luxury-class science writing'DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review'One of the best books of any genre that I've read in 2023, this superbly-written book ... will fascinate absolutely... -
Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide by Dylan Evans
RRP: £8.99£3.42In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs.Introducing Evolution provides a step-by-step guide to... -
Human-Wildlife Conflict Management: Prevention and Problem Solving by Russell F. Reidinger
RRP: £74.00£65.53The latest edition of this classic guide details how to understand and resolve a broad array of human-wildlife conflicts.This new edition of Human-Wildlife Conflict Management updates our understanding of the human dimensions, as well as biological and... -
Conservation: A people-centred approach by Francis Gilbert
RRP: £26.99£22.37Written primarily for 16-19 year old students, this primer aims to extend students' knowledge and inspire them to take their school-level learning further. It explores topics that aren't studied in depth as part of the A level curriculum (or equivalent),... -
What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous by George O. Poinar, Jr.
RRP: £25.00£19.99Millions of years ago in the Cretaceous period, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex--with its dagger-like teeth for tearing its prey to ribbons--was undoubtedly the fiercest carnivore to roam the Earth. Yet as What Bugged the Dinosaurs? reveals, T. rex was not... -
The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich by Sheila Faith Weiss
RRP: £30.00£29.65Under the swastika, German scientists descended into the moral abyss, perpetrating heinous medical crimes at Auschwitz and at euthanasia hospitals. But why did biomedical researchers accept such a bargain? The "Nazi Symbiosis" offers a nuanced account of... -
Primate Comparative Anatomy by Daniel L. Gebo
£72.57Why do orangutan arms closely resemble human arms? What is the advantage to primates of having long limbs? Why do primates have forward-facing eyes? Answers to questions such as these are usually revealed by comparative studies of primate anatomy. In... -
Honey Bee Pests, Predators and Diseases by Roger Morse 9780936028101
£34.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936028101Author Roger MorseFormat PaperbackPage Count 732Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee BooksWeight(grams) 170g -
Molecular Ecology by Joanna R. Freeland
RRP: £52.95£46.40A fully updated guide to the increasingly prevalent use of molecular data in ecological studies Molecular ecology is concerned with how molecular biology and population genetics may help us to better understand aspects of ecology and evolution including... -
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective by Paul A. Colinvaux 9780691178080
RRP: £15.99£12.21First published in 1979, Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare has established itself as a seminal work in ecology. Now with a new foreword by ecologist and writer Cristina Eisenberg, this penetrating study of ecosystems and animal populations is more relevant... -
Parasitology: An Integrated Approach, 2nd Edition by A Gunn
RRP: £58.95£52.06Parasitology Highly detailed textbook on parasites and parasite relationships The fully revised edition of Parasitology: An Integrated Approach holds true to its engaging and easy-to-read approach. It comprehensively covers the complex and dynamic... -
Secret Worlds: The extraordinary senses of animals by Martin Stevens 9780198813682
RRP: £9.99£8.52Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light on these secret worlds. Our senses of vision, smell, taste, hearing, and touch are essential for us to... -
Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions by Amina Khan 9781786492272 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.69Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through... -
Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions by Amina Khan 9781786492272
RRP: £12.99£8.56Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through... -
Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller 9780674012509
RRP: £30.95£24.42What do biologists want? If, unlike their counterparts in physics, biologists are generally wary of a grand, overarching theory, at what kinds of explanation do biologists aim? How will we know when we have "made sense" of life? Such questions, Evelyn... -
Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics by Odo Diekmann
RRP: £105.00£82.76Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book gives readers the necessary skills to correctly formulate and analyze mathematical models in infectious disease... -
Exotic Fruits and Nuts of the New World by Robert E. Paull
RRP: £54.90£52.67A major reference work on exotic and underutilised fruits and nuts of the New World. While many of these are well known in the local markets and in Spanish-language literature, they have rarely been brought to the attention of the wider English-speaking... -
A Primer of Molecular Population Genetics by Asher D. Cutter 9780198838951
RRP: £56.00£52.51What are the genomic signatures of adaptations in DNA? How often does natural selection dictate changes to DNA? How does the ebb and flow in the abundance of individuals over time get marked onto chromosomes to record genetic history? Molecular... -
Bonobo and Chimpanzee: The Lessons of Social Coexistence by Takeshi Furuichi
RRP: £32.99£30.04This book describes the similarities and differences between two species, bonobos and chimpanzees, based on the three decades the author has spent studying them in the wild, and shows how the contrasting nature of these two species is also reflected in...