Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
by Dr. Georg Stehli
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
A world of pleasure, excitement and new knowledge awaits one who learns to use the microscope — a world in which table salt crystals appear as jewels, a drop of water swarms with life, a butterfly's wings reveal a cascade of multicolored particles. This book is for anyone who would like to enter that...
Le corps humain
Un guide pratique pour découvrir l'anatomie
Language: French
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Le corps humain sous toutes ses facettes !Découvrez le fonctionnement du corps humain : le squelette, les muscles, la circulation du sang, le système nerveux…Un ebook pratique et malin qui répondra rapidement à toutes vos questions sur ce sujet.Avec plus de 300 titres parus, la collection "Petit...
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.
Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818–1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous...
Anatomy and Embalming
A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to This Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book is the result of many years of contact with embalmers in training and in practice. We have included in this work a crystallization of essential information without which, the embalmer must be poorly equipped to carry out the many duties incident to his calling in a manner satisfactory to...
by James Rodger Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives on what people have understood,...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1869 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Malay Archipelago' is a work that chronicles the observations of Wallace during his time in Asia, and includes chapters on New Guinea, the Ke Islands,...
by Emmet Tobin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This concise book provides an introduction to Current Good Manufacturing Practices (aka cGMP). It introduces those who wish to work in regulated industries to GMP, highlighting key areas and practices. It is also a useful refresher for those with previous experience of cGMP. At less than 90 pages,...
by Pier A. de Groot
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
This two-volume reference serves as a handbook containing a wealth of information for all isotope chemists working in a wide range of disciplines including anthropology to ecology; drug detection methodology to toxicology; nutrition to food science; and the atmospheric sciences to geochemistry.
Complementing...
The Genome Factor
What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics revolution to paint a more complete picture of human social...
Talking Renewables
A Renewable Energy Primer for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Renewable energy (RE) is a subject of great interest today. It is one of the two main means for implementing climate change mitigation programmes, and presently the only perceived means for replacing the declining global fossil fuel reserves. It also helps fight poverty and assists in the global quest...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
In this handbook social science researchers who focus on sustainability present and discuss their findings, including empirical work, case studies, teaching and learning innovations, and applied projects. As such, the book offers a basis for the dissemination of information, ideas and experiences...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
This book explores the strong links between sustainability and the humanities, which go beyond the inclusion of social sciences in discussions on sustainability, and offers a holistic discussion on the intellectual and moral aspects of sustainable development. The contributions from researchers in...
Towards Green Campus Operations
Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development Initiatives at Universities
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Matters related to sustainable development, albeit global in nature, are best handled at the local level. This line of thinking is particularly true to the higher education context, where the design and implementation of sustainability initiatives on campuses can demonstrate how a given university...
Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries
A Critical Appraisal of Catches and Ecosystem Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The*Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries* is the first and only book to provide accurate, country-by-country fishery catch data. This groundbreaking information has been gathered from independsources by the world's foremfisheries experts. Edited by Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller of the Sea Around Us Project,...