Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Understandings of “nature” have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Temperate forests cover large areas of Europe and perform a number of important functions such as the regulation of energy and matter, production of wood and other resources, and conservation of biodiversity and habitats; they also have special signi?cance in social and cultural contexts. Initiated...
The Biological Mind
How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brains
To many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific fact. This blinds us to the physical realities...
by Michael Jessop, Terry Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
How a simple data module underlies all our thoughts and perceptions.
The biology of our brains is reasonably well understood through research and our knowledge of the laws of chemistry and ultimately physics. Our minds and our day-to-day experiences depend on the operation of the brain, yet...
Hormonal
The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones -- How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The hidden intelligence of hormones and their role in empowering women to succeed sexually, reproductively, and socially.
Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to get rid of boyfriends...
by Stephen R. Kellert, Scott McVay, Aaron Katcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is humanity's innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our developmas individuals...
Fundamentals of Microbiome Science
How Microbes Shape Animal Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is transforming the life sciences
This book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the fundamental principles of microbiome science, an exciting and fast-emerging new discipline that is reshaping...
Biophysics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Biophysics is the science of physical principles underlying all processes of life, including the dynamics and kinetics of biological systems.
This fully revised 2nd English edition is an introductory text that spans all steps of biological organization, from the molecular, to the organism level,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
* Principles of Cloning, Second Edition* is the fully revised edition of the authoritative book on the science of cloning. The book presents the basic biological mechanisms of how cloning works and progresses to discuss current and potential applications in basic biology, agriculture, biotechnology,...
Death
The Scientific Facts to Help Us Understand It Better
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Our love of life makes the inevitability of death very difficult to accept. Death is a comprehensive examination of that inevitable and universal human experience. To better our understanding of death--and so perhaps fear it less--the book explains the biological processes and the different causes...
The Nick of Time
Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse. Arguing that theories of temporality have significant and underappreciated relevance to the social dimensions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Gene duplication has long been believed to have played a major role in the rise of biological novelty through evolution of new function and gene expression patterns. The first book to examine gene duplication across all levels of biological organization, Evolution after Gene Duplication presents a...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Biological and biomedical studies have entered a new era over the past two decades thanks to the wide use of mathematical models and computational approaches. A booming of computational biology, which sheerly was a theoretician’s fantasy twenty years ago, has become a reality. Obsession with computational...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Systems biology is a relatively new biological study field that focuses on the systematic study of complex interactions in biological systems, thus using a new perspective (integration instead of reduction) to study them. Particularly from year 2000 onwards, the term is used widely in the biosciences,...