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Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate ConservationFor far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate. And while science is important to our understanding of the impact we...
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Community EcologyCommunity ecology has undergone a transformation in recent years, from a discipline largely focused on processes occurring within a local area to a discipline encompassing a much richer domain of study, including the linkages between communities separated in space (metacommunity dynamics), niche and neutral...
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Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and EvolutionCarnivorous plants have fascinated botanists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, physiologists, developmental biologists, anatomists, horticulturalists, and the general public for centuries. Charles Darwin was the first scientist to demonstrate experimentally that some plants could actually attract, kill, digest, and absorb nutrients from insect prey; his book...
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The Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean HabitatsThe second edition of this widely cited textbook continues to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to cave and subterranean biology, describing this fascinating habitat and its biodiversity. It covers a range of biological processes including ecosystem function, evolution and adaptation, community ecology, biogeography,...
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Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in NatureVision is the sense by which we and other animals obtain most of our information about the world around us. Darwin appreciated that at first sight it seems absurd that the human eye could have evolved by natural selection. But we now know far...
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Moonstruck: How Lunar Cycles Affect LifeThroughout history, the influence of the full Moon on humans and animals has featured in folklore and myths. Yet it has become increasingly apparent that many organisms really are influenced indirectly, and in some cases directly, by the lunar cycle. Breeding behaviour among some...
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What Is Life?: Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic BiologyErwin Schrödinger's 1944 classic What Is Life? is a small book that occupies a large place among the great written works of the twentieth century. It is said that it helped launch the modern revolution in biology and genetics, and inspired a generation of...
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The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of LanguageWhen John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry published The Major Transitions in Evolution, it was seen as a major work in biology. Nature hailed it as a book of "grand and daunting sweep...A splendid and rewarding tour de force." And New Scientist wrote that...
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Fna: Volume 17: Magnoliophyta: Tetrachondraceae to OrbobanchaceaeFlora of North America North of Mexico Volume 17 - Magnoliophyta: Tetrachondraceae to Orobanchaceae - includes an introductory chapter on the phylogeny and classification of Lamiales with emphasis on Scrophulariaceae in the broad sense plus treatments prepared by 53 authors covering 952 species in...
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Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal about Our World--And OurselvesA brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature--and ourselves Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it's happening in the world around us, from wasps...
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Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis Of) Alien LifeAn engrossing and revelatory first look at the search for alien life--on Earth and beyond For the past twenty years, Peter Ward has been at the forefront of popular science writing, with books such as the influential and controversial Rare Earth. In Life as...
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and AnimalsPreviously published: London: J. Murray, 1890.Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 07/01/2009Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 7.86h x 5.02w x 0.99dISBN: 9780141439440Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorCharles Darwin a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. Born...
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Principles of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics: Fundamentals of Individualized NutritionPrinciples of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics: Fundamentals for Individualized Nutrition is the most comprehensive foundational text on the complex topics of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics. Edited by three leaders in the field with contributions from the most well-cited researchers conducting groundbreaking research in the field, the...
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Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and ReptilesThe fourth edition of the textbook Herpetology covers the basic biology of amphibians and reptiles, with updates in nearly every conceptual area. Not only does it serve as a solid foundation for modern herpetology courses, but it is also relevant to courses in ecology,...
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Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary GeniusDuring the 1940s Vladimir Nabokov was an acknowldged experts in Blues, a diverse group of Latin American butterflies. This book, which is part biography, explores the worldwide crisis in biodiversity and the place of butterflies in Nabokov's fiction.Author: Kurt JohnsonPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 03/19/2001Pages: 396Binding...
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Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed HistoryAn amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world.Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and the tides of earth-shattering events have been turned by a powerful, inscrutable force of nature: the...
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Nursery Earth: The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our WorldFrom the author of Monarchs of the Sea, a first-of-its-kind journey into the hidden world of baby animals--hailed as "a gobsmacking delight!" (Sy Montgomery, New York Times-bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus) It's time to pay attention to baby animals. From egg...
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C. Elegans1. Starting a C. elegans Research Laboratory: Practical Advice Anne C. Hart and Heather. L. Bennett 2. The Basics of Setting Up Successful Teaching Labs and Short-Term Projects with C. elegans Elizabeth E. Glater 3. Cryopreservation of C. elegans and Other Nematodes with Dimethyl...
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Archaea: Methods and ProtocolsThis volume provides an overview of well-established methods optimized for diverse archaeal model organisms and is a source of protocols facilitating access to the molecular and cellular biology characterization of these fascinating organisms. Chapters are divided into five parts detailing available genetic tools, molecular...
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Single-Domain Antibodies: Methods and ProtocolsPart I: Introduction to Single-Domain Antibodies 1. Nanobodies: From Serendipitous Discovery of Heavy Chain-Only Antibodies in Camelids to a Wide Range of Useful Applications Fangling Ji, Jun Ren, Cécile Vincke, Lingyun Jia, and Serge Muyldermans 2. Overview, Generation, and Significance of Variable New Antigen...
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