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The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution by Sankar Chatterjee 9781421415901
£58.30A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in our understanding of the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual, a... -
A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth by Peter Ward
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608199105Author Peter WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 386g -
Do Animals Think? by Clive D. L. Wynne 9780691126364 [USED COPY]
RRP: £28.00£4.66Does your dog know when you've had a bad day? Can your cat tell that the coffee pot you left on might start a fire? Could a chimpanzee be trained to program your computer? In this provocative book, noted animal expert Clive Wynne debunks some commonly... -
Do Animals Think? by Clive D. L. Wynne 9780691126364
RRP: £28.00£21.80Does your dog know when you've had a bad day? Can your cat tell that the coffee pot you left on might start a fire? Could a chimpanzee be trained to program your computer? In this provocative book, noted animal expert Clive Wynne debunks some commonly... -
Basic Biology: An Introduction by Adam Purcell 9780473440145
RRP: £15.50£13.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473440145Author Adam PurcellFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Basic Biology LimitedPublisher Basic Biology LimitedWeight(grams) 181g -
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley 9780060556570
RRP: £19.99£9.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060556570Author Matt RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
From Geometry to Behavior: An Introduction to Spatial Cognition by Hanspeter A. Mallot 9780262547116
RRP: £62.00£42.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547116Author Hanspeter A. MallotFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Marvelous Microfossils: Creators, Timekeepers, Architects by Patrick De Wever 9781421436739
RRP: £51.50£46.41Training a powerful lens on the microscopic wonders of the universe, hundreds of photos, both exquisite and strange, accompany this startling expose of a secret world invisibly evolving around us for billions of years.Silver Winner of the 2021 IBPA... -
Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World - Second Edition by Steven Vogel 9780691155661
RRP: £92.00£73.41Why do you switch from walking to running at a specific speed? Why do tall trees rarely blow over in high winds? And why does a spore ejected into air at seventy miles per hour travel only a fraction of an inch? Comparative Biomechanics is the first and... -
Starving Cancer Cells: Evidence-Based Strategies to Slow Cancer Progression: A Selection of Readings for Health Services Providers by Robert Fried
RRP: £115.00£102.68Starving Cancer Cells: Evidence-Based Strategies to Slow Cancer Progression - A Selection of Readings for Health Services Providers presents an edited and annotated collection of recent medical journal publications and abstracts illustrating new... -
The Theory of Endobiogeny: Volume 2: Foundational Concepts for Treatment of Common Clinical Conditions by Kamyar M. Hedayat 9780128169087
RRP: £118.00£105.72The Theory of Endobiogeny Volume 2: Foundational Concepts for Treatments of Common Clinical Conditions addresses the core elements of the adaptation response to stressors: autonomic nervous system (ANS), corticotropic axis, immunity and digestive tract... -
A History of Biology by Michel Morange 9780691253923
RRP: £18.99£15.12A comprehensive history of the biological sciences from antiquity to the modern eraThis book presents a global history of the biological sciences from ancient times to today, providing needed perspective on the development of biological thought while... -
The Theory of Endobiogeny: Volume 1: Global Systems Thinking and Biological Modeling for Clinical Medicine by Kamyar M. Hedayat 9780128169032
RRP: £118.00£105.72The Theory of Endobiogeny Volume 1: Global Systems Thinking and Biological Modeling for Clinical Medicine offers researchers and clinicians a detailed introduction to the theory of Endobiogeny. The book presents a new approach to medicine that is at once... -
Biology of Fishes by Quentin Bone
RRP: £79.99£77.00The Third Edition of Biology of Fishes is chiefly about fish as remarkably efficient machines for coping with the many problems that life in water entails, and looks at many such special cases. Fishes form the largest group of vertebrates, with around... -
Collins CSEC Biology - CSEC Biology Workbook by Anne Tindale 9780008116019
RRP: £8.50£8.04This Biology Workbook for CSEC is a valuable activity book for CSEC Biology students. It covers all aspects of the Caribbean Examinations Council's Certificate of Secondary Education Biology syllabus. This book provides excellent practice for... -
For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist by Arthur Kornberg 9780674307766
RRP: £33.95£27.41In 1645 the Japanese samurai Musashi Miamoto wrote A Book of Five Rings, which described the attitudes necessary for individual success. Though he was a swordsman, his book was not limited to combat but addressed the much broader question of how to... -
Snakes of Central and Western Africa by Jean-Philippe Chippaux 9781421427195
RRP: £72.00£64.03The first-and only-authoritative guide to the snakes of Central and Western Africa.Nobody knows exactly how many snake species live in the biodiversity hotspots of Western and Central Africa. While field guides abound that make mammals, birds, and even... -
Gene Control by David S. Latchman
RRP: £86.99£84.16The new edition of Gene Control has been updated to include significant advances in the roles of the epigenome and regulatory RNAs in gene regulation. The chapter structure remains the same: the first part consists of pairs of chapters that explain the... -
The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals by Gerardo Ceballos 9781421417189
RRP: £25.00£21.18Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul R. Ehrlich serve as witnesses in this trial of human neglect, where the charge is the massive and escalating assault on living things. Nature is being annihilated, not only because of the human population... -
Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction by Steven F. Railsback 9780691136745
£39.52Agent-based modeling is a new technique for understanding how the dynamics of biological, social, and other complex systems arise from the characteristics and behaviors of the agents making up these systems. This innovative textbook gives students and... -
A Biologist Abroad by Rory Putman 9781849954716
RRP: £16.99£14.10A professional biologist with wide experience of working both in the UK and overseas, Rory Putman takes us with him on working trips to Iceland, East Africa, Nigeria and Indonesia, introducing us to the countries and their people, their natural history,... -
Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers by Robert L. Trivers 9780195130621
£51.27Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of... -
Life in the Dark: Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth by Dante Fenolio 9781421418636
RRP: £33.00£29.55Deep inside caves, at the bottoms of oceans and lakes, beneath the ground: these concealed habitats are absent of sunlight. This strange and fascinating world of complete darkness is not a solitary place-it is inhabited by millions of life forms. Yet... -
Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions by Amina Khan 9781786492296 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.21How can sea cucumbers, geckos and termites help us cure diseases, camouflage soldiers and even keep our buildings cool? Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... -
Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions by Amina Khan
RRP: £9.99£6.70How can sea cucumbers, geckos and termites help us cure diseases, camouflage soldiers and even keep our buildings cool? Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... -
Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings by Joy Hakim 9781529512212
RRP: £20.00£13.75"An engrossing chronicle for readers ages 12 and older" The Wall Street JournalHow did our scientific quest to understand life begin? From the earliest questioning about the origins of life to the first use of the word virus, this compelling and... -
Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds by Mohamed A. F. Noor 9780691177410
RRP: £20.00£15.89An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique civilizations. Throughout these remarkable space... -
Diatoms of the Channel Islands by Paul Chambers 9780901897978
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901897978Author Paul ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Societe JersiaisePublisher Societe JersiaiseWeight(grams) 145g -
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine 9780393355482
RRP: £12.99£10.96Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone and not part of culture. Drawing on evolutionary... -
Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists by Nicholas P. Money 9780195171587
RRP: £19.99£13.34Stinkhorns, puffballs, the "corpse finder, " deadly galerina, Satan's bolete, birch conks, black mold, the old man of the woods--this wonderful tour explores the mysterious world of mushrooms, molds and fungi lying unnoticed right at our feet... -
A Primer of Molecular Population Genetics by Asher D. Cutter 9780198838944
£113.32What 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... -
Have Bacteria Won? by Hugh Pennington 9780745690803
RRP: £9.99£8.95Today, we are far less likely to die from infection than at any other time in history, but still we worry about epidemics, the menace of antibiotic resistance and modern 'plagues' like Ebola. In this timely new book, eminent bacteriologist Hugh... -
Essential Biology by Justin Gerlach 9781008973985
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008973985Author Justin GerlachFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 127g -
A Means to an End: The biological basis of aging and death by William R. Clark 9780195153750
RRP: £27.49£19.99Why do we age? Is aging inevitable? Will advances in medical knowledge allow us to extend the human lifespan beyond its present limits? Because growing old has long been the one irreducible reality of human existence, these intriguing questions arise... -
Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps by Margaret Cargill
RRP: £27.95£24.65Writing Scientific Research Articles The new edition of the popular guide for novice and professional scientists alike, providing effective strategies and step-by-step advice for writing scientific papers for publicationFor scientists writing a research... -
Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum by Mary P. Winsor 9780226902159
RRP: £40.00£38.55Reading the Shape of Nature vividly recounts the turbulent early history of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the contrasting careers of its founder Louis Agassiz and his son Alexander. Through the story of this institution and the... -
Astounding Mushrooms by Jaroslav Maly
RRP: £16.95£12.26"Beautiful ... we're given a glimpse into the wild world of mushrooms that exists like another realm beneath our feet. With over one million species of mushrooms said to exist worldwide, this book shows us some of the world's most diverse.... There is... -
Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change by Bruce E. Wexler 9780262731935
£35.64Research shows that between birth and early adulthood the brain requires sensory stimulation to develop physically. The nature of the stimulation shapes the connections among neurons that create the neuronal networks necessary for thought and behavior... -
You Must Be Very Intelligent: The PhD Delusion by Karin Bodewits 9783319593203
RRP: £34.99£27.94You Must be Very Intelligent is the author's account of studying for a PhD in a modern, successful university. Part-memoir and part-expose, this book is highly entertaining and unusually revealing about the dubious morality and desperate behaviour which... -
Design and Analysis of Pragmatic Trials by Song Zhang 9780367627355
RRP: £91.99£79.80This book begins with an introduction of pragmatic cluster randomized trials (PCTs) and reviews various pragmatic issues that need to be addressed by statisticians at the design stage. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each type of PCT,...