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Simon & Schuster Children's Guide to Sea CreaturesAn indispensable guide to the marine world that will delight kids everywhere! Welcome to the world's oceans, where you'll find tiny plankton and mammoth blue whales, fierce hammerhead sharks and Antarctic penguins. Utilizing the format that has made this series a success, this reference...
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Insect life: Souvenirs of a naturalistInsect life: Souvenirs of a naturalistThis little volume introduces the work of a great French naturalist to the reader of English. Raumur, another Frenchman, is the greatest naturalist devoting himself to the observation of insects the world has yet seen. His six quarto volumesMmoires...
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The Principles of Biology, Volume 2 (of 2)The Principles of Biology, Volume 2 (of 2)The proof sheets of this volume, like those of the last volume, have been looked through by Dr. Hooker and Prof. Huxley; and I have, as before, to thank them for their valuable criticisms, and for the...
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Essays of a BiologistEssays of a BiologistA preface should be long, like one of Mr. Shaws, or short. I propose the latter. The essays here collected were written on very various occasions. This must excuse the considerable overlap that will be found among them. I have not...
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Chapters in the history of science, no. 1Greek Biology & Greek MedicineThis little book is an attempt to compress into a few pages an account of the general evolution of Greek biological and medical knowledge. The section on Aristotle appears here for the first time. The remaining sections are reprinted from...
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The philosophy of biologyThe philosophy of biologyIt has been suggested that some reference, of an apologetic nature, to the title of this book may be desirable, so I wish to point out that it can really be justified. Science, says Driesch, is the attempt to describe Givenness,...
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Death and resurrection from the point of view of the cell-theoryDeath and resurrection from the point of view of the cell-theoryJohan Gustaf Bjrklund was born the tenth of November, in the year 1846. His parents were farmers in very small circumstances. His father seems to have been endowed with a good business head and,...
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Biology and Its MakersBiology and Its Makers - With Portraits and Other Illustrations To MY GRADUATE STUDENTS Who have worked by my side in the Laboratory Inspired by the belief that those who seek shall find This account of the findings of some of The great men...
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The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2)The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2)The aim of this work is to set forth the general truths of Biology, as illustrative of, and as interpreted by, the laws of Evolution: the special truths being introduced only so far as is needful for...
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Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These AnimalsAnts and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These AnimalsWhen discussing the ant-mind, we must consider that these small animals, on the one hand, differ very widely from ourselves in organisation, but on the other hand, have come, through so-called...
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Animal Life and IntelligenceAnimal Life and Intelligence There are many books in our language which deal with Animal Intelligence in an anecdotal and conventionally popular manner. There are a few, notably those by Mr. Romanes and Mr. Mivart, which bring adequate knowledge and training to bear on...
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Understanding the atomRadioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised)The nature of life has excited the interest of human beings from the earliest times. Although it is still not known what life is, the characteristics that set living things apart from lifeless matter are well known. One feature common...
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Natural WondersNatural WondersNo small part of our fundamental knowledge concerning the world of nature has been put into shape for comprehension by children, time out of mind. The Swiss Family Robinson is half natural history, even if not always of an especially convincing kind; and...
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The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological PhilosophyThe Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological PhilosophyThe publication of the present work on The Wonders of Life has been occasioned by the success of The Riddle of the Universe, which I wrote five years ago. Within a few months of the...
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The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical ViewpointThe Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical ViewpointIt is generally admitted that the individual physiological processes, such as digestion, metabolism, the production of heat or of electricity, are of a purely physicochemical character; and it is also conceded that the functions of individual...
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Gifford lectures, 1907The Science and Philosophy of the OrganismThis work is not a text-book of theoretical biology; it is a systematic presentment of those biological topics which bear upon the true philosophy of nature. The book is written in a decidedly subjective manner, and it seems...
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Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964This summary of certain aspects of the space biology program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration brings together some results of NASA research and NASA-sponsored research under grants and contracts from 1958 through 1964. Closely related research even...
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A Civic Biology, Presented in ProblemsA Civic Biology, Presented in ProblemsA course in biology given to beginners in the secondary school should have certain aims. These aims must be determined to a degree, first, by the capabilities of the pupils, second, by their native interests, and, third, by the...
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Warum wir sterbenWarum wir sterbenIch habe das Problem des Todes in den Zusammenhngen, wie ich es in diesen Blttern bringe, zum ersten Mal vor etwa zwei Jahren in dem Feuilleton einer Tageszeitung behandelt. Eine hnliche wissenschaftliche Behandlung hat das Todesproblem in ausgezeichneter Weise durch Doflein erfahren....
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Fathers of BiologyFathers of BiologyIt is hoped that the account given, in the following pages, of the lives of five great naturalists may not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology. There...
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