Biology category: 3817 books
by Pat Willmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise themselves;...
by William Bateson, Gregor Mendel
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Six years after Charles Darwin announced his theory of evolution to the world, Gregor Mendel began studying the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel's research led to his discovery of dominant and recessive traits and other facts of evolution, which he reported in his groundbreaking 1865 paper,...
by Nicoladie Tam
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
“Renal System” is a part of the college-level Principles of Biology course series and the Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the anatomy and physiology of the renal system, including the kidneys, nephrons, filtration...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Methods in Neurosciences, Volume 3: Quantitative and Qualitative Microscopy is a collection of papers that deals with microscopic techniques in statistical measures. This volume describes microscopy using sophisticated stains and dyes to advance observation of tests and experiments.
Section I describes...
Gene Jockeys
Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The biotech arena emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, when molecular biology, one of the fastest-moving areas of basic science in the twentieth century, met the business world. Gene Jockeys is a detailed study of the biotech projects that led to five of the first ten recombinant DNA drugs to be approved...
Exercise for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Treatment
From Molecular to Clinical, Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
The book provides an intensive overview on exercise for cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, from basic research to clinical practice. The volume firstly summarizes the acute and chronic response to exercise. Secondly, evidence for exercise as medicine for the heart based on clinical studies...
Beyond UFOs
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
The quest for extraterrestrial life doesn't happen only in science fiction. This book describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing new field that blends astronomy, biology, and geology to explore the possibility of life on other planets. Jeffrey...
North American Amphibians
Distribution and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Some 300 species of amphibians inhabit North America. The past two decades have seen an enormous growth in interest about amphibians and an increased intensity of scientific research into their fascinating biology and continent-wide distribution.
This atlas presents the spectacular diversity...
Penguins
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Flightless, iconic birds made even more famous by the 2005 film March of the Penguins, penguins conjure up images of caring parents, devoted couples, and tough survivors. In Penguins: The Animal Answer Guide, Gerald L. Kooyman and Wayne Lynch inform readers about all seventeen species, including the...
Hormones, Heredity, and Race
Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Early in the twentieth century, arguments about “nature” and “nurture” pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists—Paul Kammerer, Julius Tandler, and Eugen Steinach—who...
by Hal Whitehead, Luke Rendell
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples of the...
Healthy Soils, Sick Soils
Understanding the Nature of Humus and How It Functions in Farming Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Now available in English for the first time, this popular 1943 treatise on biology and biologically correct working of soil from the pen of the famous soil scientist Prof. Dr. Franz Sekera, carefully edited and expanded by his wife, scientist Margareth Sekera, over the years, has long been beloved...
American Catch
The Fight for Our Local Seafood
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
**INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS Book Award, Finalist 2014
"Greenberg’s breezy, engaging style weaves history, politics, environmental policy, and marine biology." --New Yorker**
From the acclaimed author of Four Fish and The Omega Principle, Paul Greenberg uncovers...
by BarCharts,Inc
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
This great study tool is a must for any student taking Biology. It contains the key information you need to be safe in the lab.