Biology category: 3817 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
As a result of the European Commission’s concern for the status of continental waters, and as a clear reflection of the notion of water as heritage to be conserved, in the year 2000 the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/CE) was enacted, its goal being to establish a framework to protect water and...
Lakes of the World with Google Earth
Understanding our Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Featuring satellite imagery from Google Earth, this guide provides a unique, highly visual tour of lakes across the globe, from the simple to the complex, the nearby to the remote. Clear text accompanies each image and identifies important aspects of each lake along with such information as its coordinates,...
Deer
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Think of deer and the image that pops into most American's minds is that of a white-tailed deer, the most common large mammal in North America. Most Europeans are more familiar with red deer. It may surprise many people to know that there are actually about 50 species of deer found throughout the...
Honeybee Hotel
The Waldorf Astoria's Rooftop Garden and the Heart of NYC
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The tale of Honeybee Hotel begins over one hundred years ago, with the Astor family and the birth of the iconic Manhattan landmark, the magnificent Waldorf Astoria. In those early days the posh art deco masterpiece had its own rooftop garden for guests to enjoy. Fast-forward to the turn of the twenty-first...
Bioprinting
Techniques and Risks for Regenerative Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Innovation is added value to a known process. Bioprinting: Techniques and Risks for Regenerative Medicine aims to stimulate a scientifically grounded, interdisciplinary, multiscale debate and exchange of ideas using the techniques described in the book. 3D printing and additive manufacturing evolved...
by Roger T. Hanlon, John B. Messenger
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
With their large brains, elaborate sense organs and complex behaviour, cephalopods are among the world's most highly evolved invertebrates. This second edition summarises the wealth of exciting new research data stemming from over five hundred papers published since the first volume appeared. It adopts...
Darwin’S Secret Sex Problem
Exposing Evolution’S Fatal Flaw—The Origin of Sex
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Darwins Secret Sex Problem What Darwin Ignored . . . For all his revolutionary insight into the fascinating processes of evolution so useful to current scientific research, health care, and technology, Darwin never seriously confronted the crucial, insurmountable gap in his grand theory between asexual...
Debunking Human Evolution Taught in Public Schools - Junior/Senior High Edition
A Guidebook for Christian Students, Parents, and Pastors
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
This book is essential for Christians attending public junior or senior high school. Most biology and world history classes in today’s public schools teach human evolution as fact, and only rarely mention creation possibilities outside of this theory, such as Biblical Creation. This book, written...
by Jorge Soberón, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Miguel Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrative...
by Clive Page, Christian Schudt, Gordon Dent
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1996
Non-selective inhibitors of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE), such as theophylline, have been used extensively since 1958. In the decade of the '70s, various PDE isoenzymes were defined which led to the development of the second generation of PDE inhibitors. Currently a variety of these new...
Textbook of Cell Signalling in Cancer
An Educational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
This book provides a simplified, yet comprehensive, overview of the signalling pathways operating between and inside cells, which will help younger oncologists find their way in the labyrinth of signalling pathways and in the multitude of signals and signal receptors, transducers and effectors that...
An Introduction To High Content Screening
Imaging Technology, Assay Development, and Data Analysis in Biology and Drug Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Using a collaborative and interdisciplinary author base with experience in the pharmaceutical industry and academia, this book is a practical resource for high content (HC) techniques.
• Instructs readers on the fundamentals of high content screening (HCS) techniques
• Focuses on practical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This volume examines all facets of the complex biology of Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies, which play an essential role in the pathophysiology of allergic diseases and immunity to parasites. It highlights the unique mechanisms involved in the regulation of IgE production at both the molecular and...
Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis
Strategic Metabolic Retreats
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The comparative physiology of seemingly disparate organisms often serves as a surprising pathway to biological enlightenment. How appropriate, then, that Robert Elsner sheds new light on the remarkable physiology of diving seals through comparison with members of our own species on quests toward enlightenment:...