Biological category: 21163 books
Global Marine Biological Diversity
A Strategy For Building Conservation Into Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Global Marine Biological Diversity presents the mup-to-date information and view on the challenge of conserving the living sea and how that challenge can be met.
A Higher Form of Killing
The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A Higher Form of Killing opens with the first devastating battlefield use of lethal gas in World War I, and then investigates the stockpiling of biological weapons during World War II and in the decades afterward as well as the inhuman experiments con-ducted to test their effectiveness. This updated...
Life on a Young Planet
The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep...
by Boriana Marintcheva
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Harnessing the Power of Viruses explores the application of scientific knowledge about viruses and their lives to solve practical challenges and further advance molecular sciences, medicine and agriculture. The book contains virus-based tools and approaches in the fields of: i) DNA manipulations in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Many creatures use adhesive polymers and structures to attach to inert substrates, to each other, or to other organisms. This is the first major review that brings together research on many of the well-known biological adhesives dealing with bacteria, fungi, algae, and marine and terrestrial animals....
NADH: The Biological Hydrogen
The Secret of Our Life Energy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The most promising natural substance in our body is NADH, the biological form of hydrogen. It reacts with the oxygen present in every living cell, producing energy and water. The more energy it can produce the better it function, and the longer the cell, and the entire organism, lives. This book describes...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection...
by Christine Langhoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2002
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Biology - Ecology, grade: 1.1 (A), Oxford University (New College), 3 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Biological invasion happens when an organism, any sort of organism, arrives somewhere beyond its previous range. Nowadays, most invasions...
Microbial Factories
Biodiversity, Biopolymers, Bioactive Molecules: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This book highlights the efforts made by distinguished scientific researchers world-wide to meet two key challenges: i) the limited reserves of polluting fossil fuels, and ii) the ever-increasing amounts of waste being generated. These case studies have brought to the foreground certain innovative...
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics
Fingerprinting and Source Identification
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics: Fingerprinting and Source Identification, Second Edition, provides users with the latest information on the tools and methods that have become popular over the past ten years.
The book presents practitioners with the latest environmental...
Microbial Factories
Biofuels, Waste treatment: Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This book highlights the efforts made by distinguished scientific researchers world-wide to meet two key challenges: i) the limited reserves of polluting fossil fuels, and ii) the ever-increasing amounts of waste being generated. These case studies have brought to the foreground certain innovative...
Quantifying Life
A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter of all sizes, from subatomic particles to galaxies. In the past three decades, as advances in molecular biology have produced an avalanche of data, computational and mathematical techniques have also...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuro-Informatics is the first published book in one volume that explains together the basics and the state-of-the-art of two major science disciplines in their interaction and mutual relationship, namely: information sciences, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics. Bioinformatics...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
“Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems" is composed of a collection of papers received in response to an announcement that was widely distributed to academicians and practitioners in the broad area of computational biology and software tools. Also, selected authors of accepted...