Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
by Yang Kuang, John D. Nagy, Steffen E. Eikenberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Introduction to Mathematical Oncology presents biologically well-motivated and mathematically tractable models that facilitate both a deep understanding of cancer biology and better cancer treatment designs. It covers the medical and biological background of the diseases, modeling issues, and existing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Surgery in Systemic Autoimmune Disease, Volume 15, describes the state-of-the-art of the use of surgery in treating the most common systemic autoimmune diseases (SADS). The volume consists of an introductory chapter concerning the impact of surgery on SADs, follow by eight chapters describing the...
Biomedical Signals and Sensors III
Linking Electric Biosignals and Biomedical Sensors
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2019
As the third volume in the author’s series on “Biomedical Signals and Sensors,” this book explains in a highly instructive way how electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields propagate and interact with biological tissues. The series provides a bridge between physiological mechanisms and theranostic...
Complex Biological Systems
Adaptation and Tolerance to Extreme Environments
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Global climate change is one of the most serious and pressing issues facing our planet. Rather than a “silver bullet” or a single study that solves it, the study of global climate change is like a beach, with each contribution a grain of sand, gathered together as a whole to create a big picture,...
Carbohydrate Chemistry: State of the Art and Challenges for Drug Development
An Overview on Structure, Biological Roles, Synthetic Methods and Application as Therapeutics
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The structural complexity and the synthetic challenges facing glycans have historically hampered efforts to study their multifaceted roles and the application of carbohydrates in drug development. However, in very recent years, new synthetic techniques flanked by the growing knowledge about carbohydrate...
The Double Helix
A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind.
By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry...
Big History
From the Big Bang to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
“This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped—and how they in turn shaped the world we know today.” —Publishers Weekly
This book offers “world history on a grand scale”—pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively...
Plastic
A Toxic Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
“This eloquent, elegant book thoughtfully plumbs the . . . consequences of our dependence on plastics” (The Boston Globe, A Best Nonfiction Book of 2011).
From pacemakers to disposable bags, plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair, we’re starting to realize...
by James D. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles...
by Aysha Divan, Janice Royds
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Molecular Biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. It is an expanding field in life sciences, and its applications are wide and growing. We can now harness the power of molecular biology to treat diseases, solve crimes, map human...
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This book explores the developments in important aspects of fungi related to the environment, industrial mycology, microbiology, biotechnology, and agriculture. It discusses at length both basic and applied aspects of fungi and provides up-to-date laboratory-based data.
Of the estimated three...
Light is Everywhere: Sources of Light and Its Uses (For Early Learners)
Nature Book for Kids - Earth Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Light awakens a child's curious self. But you can turn that mere curiosity into an enchanting educational experience through this fact-filled picture book. Explained meticulously in the pages of this book are the different light sources and what their uses are. The fun thing is, information is presented...
Popularizing Science
The Life and Work of JBS Haldane
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) is widely appreciated as one of the greatest and most influential British scientists of the 20th century, making significant contributions to genetics, physiology, biochemistry, biometry, cosmology, and other sciences. More remarkable, then, is the fact that Haldane had...