Biology category: 3817 books
by Mary Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Get your best grades with this exam-focused text that will guide you through the content and skills you need to prepare for the big day.
Manage your own revision with step-by-step support from experienced examiner and author Mary Jones. This guide also includes a Questions and Answers section with...
by Charles LeBuff
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Sea Turtles of Southwest Florida is a redesigned, revised, and retitled edition of The Loggerhead Turtle in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, which was originally published in 1990. This eBook edition has been completely updated, including the text and captions and numerous additional photographs and graphs...
Quarks to Culture
How We Came to Be
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Our world is nested, both physically and socially, and at each level we find innovations that are necessary for the next. Consider: atoms combine to form molecules, molecules combine to form single-celled organisms; when people come together, they build societies. Physics has gone far in mapping the...
The Wildlife Techniques Manual
Volume 1: Research. Volume 2: Management 2-vol. set
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Since its original publication in 1960, The Wildlife Techniques Manual has remained the cornerstone text for the professional wildlife biologist. Now fully revised and updated, this seventh edition promises to be the most comprehensive resource on wildlife biology, conservation, and management for...
Restless Creatures
The Story of Life in Ten Movements
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
From flying pterodactyls to walking primates, the story of life as told through the evolution of locomotion.
Most of us never think about how we get from one place to another. For most people, putting one foot in front of the other requires no thought at all. Yet the fact that we and other...
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...
by John Campton
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Reinforce students' understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with sample questions and answers will improve exam technique to achieve higher grades.
Written by examiners and teachers, Student Guides:
· Help students identify what they need to know with a concise summary...
by Mike Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
With My Revision Notes you can:
- Manage your own revision with step-by-step support from experienced teacher and former examiner Mike Boyle
- Apply biological terms accurately with the help of definitions and key words
- Plan and pace your revision with the revision planner
- Test understanding with...
Polar Bears
A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
The polar bear, king of the Arctic, is one of the world’s most recognizable animals. Images of the majestic beasts roaming across the ice cap, plunging into frigid waters, and playing with furry cubs have come to symbolize the beauty and grandeur of the Arctic. Andrew E. Derocher and Wayne Lynch...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Contrary to a generally held view that pearls are found by chance in oysters, almost all are now produced from farms. This book is a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the biology of pearl oysters, their anatomy, reproduction, genetics, diseases, etc. It considers how they are farmed from spawning...
Summary & Analysis of The Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life | A Guide to the Book by David Quammen
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2019
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The Tangled Tree is David Quammen's detailed, fascinating, and artful look into the history of evolutionary...
Structural Biomaterials
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2012
This is a thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded edition of a classic illustrated introduction to the structural materials in natural organisms and what we can learn from them to improve man-made technology--from nanotechnology to textiles to architecture. Julian Vincent's book has long been recognized...
Creation
How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
What is life?
Humans have been asking this question for thousands of years. But as technology has advanced and our understanding of biology has deepened, the answer has evolved. For decades, scientists have been exploring the limits of nature by modifying and manipulating DNA, cells and whole...