Biology category: 3817 books
The Odyssey of KP2
An Orphan Seal and a Marine Biologist's Fight to Save a Species
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
When a two day-old Hawaiian monk seal pup is attacked and abandoned by his mother on a beach in Kauai, environmental officials must decide if they should save the newborn animal or allow nature to take its course. But as a member of the most endangered marine mammal species in U.S. waters, Kauai Pup...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
We all know our eyes from our elbows but what are the duodenum, the basal ganglia, and the islets of Langerhans? Could you locate any of them, let alone say how they make you tick? For an instant, edifying diagnosis of your amazing self, inside and out, simply digest these 50 easy-to-swallow topics....
by Eran Hornstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This new volume in the Current topics in Developmental Biology series concentrates on MicroRNAs in Development. It includes chapters on such topics as miRNA networks in neuronal development, let-7 in development, and Hox networks and miRNA. With an international team of authors, this volume is a must-have...
What a Wonderful World
One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works. From economics to physics and biology to philosophy, Marcus Chown explains the complex forces that shape our universe.
Why do we breathe? What is money?...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Vital information about identification, prevention, control, and eradication of bed bugs, with authoritative information from the CDC, EPA, and NIH. Extensive material from EPA National Bed Bug Summit; CDC and EPA Control Statement; Top Ten Tips; practical information on getting rid of bed bugs; non-chemical control measures; biology.
by Nicholas P. Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The variety of the mycological world is far greater than most people imagine. Tens of thousands of fungal species have been described and many more are known only from the abundance of their genes in soil and water. Fungi are hugely important as agents of wood decay in forests, and, as parasites,...
by Michael J. Harvey, J. Scott Altenbach, Troy L. Best
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The only mammals capable of true flight, bats are among the world’s most fascinating creatures. This accessible guide to the forty-seven species of bats found in the United States and Canada captures and explains the amazing diversity of these marvels of evolution.
A wide variety of bat species...
Improbable Destinies
Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works
Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out...
by Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the centre of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated around this centre. Less than 250 years ago, they believed that the Universe was created essentially...
Skeptical
Show Me Evidence—Then I’Ll Believe
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
In Skeptical, author Bob Moores describes his atheistic/humanistic philosophy and traces its roots back to early childhood epiphanies where he first began to question certain axiological teachings. He argues against creationism and religious fundamentalism and defends scientific naturalism, critical...
Resurrection Science
Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
**A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 **
**A Christian Science Monitor Top Ten Book of September**
In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M. R. O'Connor explores the extreme...
Evolution
The View from the Cottage
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
With all the attention to creationism in the news these days, Jean-Pierre Rogel decided it was time to show how Darwin's concept of natural selection can be seen in everyday situations — from a summer cottage near a lake — with examples taken from familiar species such as loons, salmon and bears....
by John Tyler Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be explained by something other than natural selection.
With...
DARWIN'S REPLACEMENT
BRINGING THE GOD OF OUR NATIONS BACK TO OUR STUDENTS WITH A NEW BASIC SCIENCE
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
(In full color) A significant breakthrough for replacing Darwinisms as the taught cause of Life.
Through 31 years of research, a Vancouver-based organization has found the answer to the age-old question regarding the cause of life. The findings of Reality Research & Development Inc. show...