Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
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...
A Short History of Planet Earth
Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"A splendid introduction to geology and paleontology for the lay reader. To compress Earth's history into a single, lucidly written volume is a major achievement."--Publishers Weekly, starred review.
"Few people have both the knowledge and the writing ability to capture such...
Darwin Devolves
The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator.
In his controversial bestseller Darwin’s...
Stem Cell Dialogues
A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Stem cells and the emerging field of regenerative medicine are at the frontiers of modern medicine. These areas of scientific inquiry suggest that in the future, damaged tissue and organs might be repaired through personalized cell therapy as easily as the body repairs itself, revolutionizing the...
Viewing the Future in the Past
Historical Ecology Applications to Environmental Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Viewing the Future in the Past is a collection of essays that represents a wide range of authors, loci, and subjects that together demonstrate the value and necessity of looking at environmental problems as a long-term process that involves humans as a causal factor. Editors H. Thomas Foster, II,...
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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 Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Suzana Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a...
Bones, Clones, and Biomes
The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet’s mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attributed partly to the striking diversity of Neotropical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book builds on existing work exploring succession, disturbance ecology, and the interface between geophysical and biological systems in the aftermath of the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens. The eruption was dramatic both in the spatial extent of impacts and the range of volcanic disturbance...
Rise of the Necrofauna
The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction from acclaimed documentarist and science writer Britt Wray.
A New Yorker “The Books We Loved in 2017” Selection
A Science News Favorite Book of 2017
A Sunday Times "Must Read"
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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...
Plant Biotechnology, Volume 1
Principles, Techniques, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This book, first of this new two-volume set, provides an informative tour of the basics of biotechnology to recent advances in biotechnology. Knowledge of new and fresh approaches is a prerequisite to solving plant biological problems, and to this end, the editors have brought together a group of...
by Genxi Li, Peng Miao
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Electrochemical Analysis of Proteins and Cells presents the remarkable progress made over the years in the electrochemical analysis of proteins and cells, due to the rapid development of protein electrochemistry together with related technologies such as surface modification, molecular recognition,...
by Maurice O Moss, Peter McClure, Martin R Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Food Microbiology by Adams and Moss has been a popular textbook since it was first published in 1995. Now in its fourth edition, Peter McClure joins the highly successful authorship in order to bring the book right up to date.
Maintaining its general structure and philosophy to encompass modern...