Zoology

Oar Feet and Opal Teeth is about free-living copepods and the copepodologists who study them. Copepods are a subclass of the arthropod class Crustacea. They act as dominant herbivores and small predators in the planktonic ecosystems of oceans, estuaries,...

The facts of arthropod structure are presented in clear, easy-to-use fashion in this text by R. E. Snodgrass. Examples of each of the classes from trilobites to insects are given. Musculature and mechanism of legs, eyes, feeding apparatus, body, head,...

While social wasps, like hornets and yellow jackets, garner most of the publicity (most of it negative), the vast majority of wasp species, including digger wasps, spider wasps, and mud-daubers, are solitary. Elegant in appearance and distinctive in...

Primatology draws on theory and methods from diverse fields, including anatomy, anthropology, biology, ecology, medicine, psychology, veterinary sciences and zoology. The more than 500 species of primate range from tiny mouse lemurs to huge gorillas, and...

Metabolic Ecology Most of ecology is about metabolism, the ways that organisms use energy and materials. The energy requirements of individuals (their metabolic rates) vary predictably with their body size and temperature. Ecological interactions are...

This 1998 book describes the sampling and statistical methods used most often by behavioral ecologists and field biologists. Written by a biologist and two statisticians, it provides a rigorous discussion together with worked examples of statistical...

Again rapid advances in the brain sciences have made it necessary, after only a few years, to issue a revised edition of this text. All the chapters have been reviewed and brought up to date, and some have been largely rewritten. The major revision has...

Most people believe there are degrees of moral status. They believe animals matter morally, but human beings matter significantly more than animals. This belief, which is supported by important intuitions, fundamentally shapes our lives. It places us at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930665767Author L. J.V. CompagnoPage Count 608Imprint The Blackburn PressPublisher The Blackburn PressWeight(grams) 1364gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 254mm *...

Insect overwintering is a fascinating process involving many physiological, epidemiological, biochemical and behavioural changes. The study of the overwintering process can offer an insight into the development of insects, as well as help us to predict...

Bird Talk delves into new scientific developments to reveal the complexities of how birds make, learn, and use sound in a bewildering array of songs and calls. The beauty of birdsong is one of the joys of nature, and this book reveals how songs are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909488588Author Richard MuirheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint CFZ PressPublisher CFZ PressWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 21mm

Understanding the chimpanzee mind is akin to opening a window onto human consciousness. Many of our complex cognitive processes have origins that can be seen in the way that chimpanzees think, learn, and behave. "The Mind of the Chimpanzee" brings...

Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, "Watching Giants" opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses. Elin Kelsey's colorful first-person account, drawing from...

Quantitative Real-Time PCR: Methods and Protocols focuses on different applications of qPCR ranging from microbiological detections (both viral and bacterial) to pathological applications. Several chapters deal with quality issues which regard the...

Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its almost universal acclaim, wrong. Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka...

This is the Second Edition of a well-received book that reflects a fresh, integrated coverage of the concepts and scientific measurement of stress and welfare of animals including humans. This book explains the basic biological principles of coping with...

A Guide to Academia is a handbook for all those individuals thinking seriously about going to graduate school. Written by an author with extensive experience navigating the academic world, the book explains all the steps and potential bumps in the road...

Obligatory brood parasites are birds that reproduce by laying their eggs in the nests of other species. This book discusses the ecological and evolutionary aspects of this remarkable behavioural adaptation.Reviews"A useful summary of the natural history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909488601Author Jonathan DownesFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint CFZ PressPublisher CFZ PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278939Author Rebecca RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605206639Author Peter KropotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

An essential guide to this major contemporary issue, Consanguinity in Context is a uniquely comprehensive account of intra-familial marriage. Detailed information on past and present religious, social and legal practices and prohibitions is presented as...

The California Tortoiseshell, West Coast Lady, Red Admiral, and Golden Oak Hairstreak are just a few of the many butterfly species found in the floristically rich San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley regions. This guide, written for both beginning and...

The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives. Their relatively narrow geographic range (south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo) combined with the history of political instability in the region,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888391094Author Lori R. ArentFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416728053Author Jean-Claude ThibaultFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Lynx EdicionsPublisher Alada Books, S.L.

Blood-sucking insects transmit many of the most debilitating diseases to man including malaria, sleeping sickness, filariasis, dengue, typhus and plague. Additionally these insects cause major economic losses in agriculture by direct damage to livestock...

Living across Africa and the Caribbean, this widely dispersed primate population must adapt to different environmental challenges. How do members of the genus Chlorocebus live in desert-like conditions and in areas with freezing temperatures and snow in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739916404Author Garry Graig PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint FLAME BOOKSPublisher FLAME BOOKS

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898131137Author Thomas LupoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Fretwork PublishingPublisher Fretwork PublishingWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915014054Author Peter CheyneyFormat PaperbackImprint Dean Street PressPublisher Dean Street PressWeight(grams) 129g

Brand new for 2020, a fully updated third edition of Cool Camping Britain will hit the shelves in time for the start of the sunny camping season. Now expanded to feature 175 stunning campsites - many of which have never featured in the Cool Camping...

This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXIII / 1, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413494532Author Lewy Crosby LewyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 254g

This compelling and candid memoir by Mindy Weisel, an internationally acclaimed artist and author, traces her search to find beauty in her life, which began as a child born in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Person's Camp to parents who had survived the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561759Author Eamon McGuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Two tiny aliens are whizzing around in their spacecraft searching for new planets to explore when suddenly - squelch - they land right in Pippa's ear! Bravely, they set off to explore what they think is a new planet, but will it be the friendly place...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606930Author Uche OgbujiFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Ecologists have always believed, at least to a certain extent, that physiological mechanisms serve to underpin ecological patterns. However, their importance has traditionally been at best underestimated and at worst ignored, with physiological variation...