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Biomedical Engineering and Human Body SystemsBiomedical engineering is the fastest growing engineering field. From designing life-saving medical devices to high-performance athletic gear, these engineers improve people's lives every day. This book explores the creative ways biomedical engineers help diagnose, treat, and prevent problems found in human body systems. Real-life...
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Egg to ChickenHow does a chicken grow? Follow the journey through a chicken's life cycle, from the time the egg is laid, through hatching as a chick to becoming a fully grown hen.Author: Rachel TonkinPublisher: Crabtree ClassicsPublished: 07/31/2019Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.40h x 8.40w x...
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I Am a Living ThingThis wonderful new book explains in a simple way why people are living things. We need sunshine, air, water, and food. We grow and change. We need places to live. Young children will be amazed to learn that, as living things, they share many...
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Dna, Rna, and the Inheritance of TraitsWhy do people have certain traits and talents? We are all who we are because cells in our bodies grow and respond according to instructions from DNA molecules. RNA carries the DNA details from the cell nucleus to other parts of the cell. Engaging...
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The Grasslands: Discover This Wide Open BiomeYou can find vast oceans of grass on every continent except Antarctica, but with its amazing variety of plant and wildlife, grasslands are much more than grass and low-lying plants. This informative book invites readers to learn about the inner workings of this unique...
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What's Eating You?: Parasites--The Inside StoryThe subject is inherently fascinating to kids, who will find a good deal of information. . . .The artwork adds a welcome comic veneer. -- Booklist Mites and lice, fleas, ticks, and tapeworms -- most living creatures that have a habitat also are a...
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WormsA basic overview of the life cycle of a worm.Author: Robin NelsonPublisher: Lerner ClassroomPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.80h x 5.80w x 0.20dISBN: 9780761341109Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 127352 / WormsAbout the AuthorNelson, Robin: - Robin...
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SalamandersA basic overview of the life cycle of a salamander.Author: Robin NelsonPublisher: Lerner ClassroomPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.80h x 5.80w x 0.20dISBN: 9780761341086Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 127347 / SalamandersAbout the AuthorNelson, Robin: - Robin...
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DeerA basic overview of the life cycle of a deer.Author: Robin NelsonPublisher: Lerner ClassroomPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.80h x 5.80w x 0.10dISBN: 9780761341024Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.1Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 128550 / DeerAbout the AuthorNelson, Robin: - Robin...
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Double Helix: How an Image Sparked the Discovery of the Secret of LifeTo the untrained eye, Photo 51 was simply a grainy black and white image of dark marks scattered in a rough cross shape. But to the eye of a trained scientist, it was a clear portrait of a DNA fiber taken with X-rays. And...
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The Germ Lab: The Gruesome Story of Deadly DiseasesAn entertaining and comprehensive history of diseases, infections, plagues and pandemics for young readers. The Germ Lab features case histories of specific epidemics and pandemics, 'eyewitness' accounts from the rats, flies, ticks, and creepy-crawlies who spread the most deadly viruses, plus plenty of fascinating...
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BiologyFast Facts at Your Fingertips REA's Quick Access Study Charts contain all the information students, teachers, and professionals need in one handy reference. They provide quick, easy access to important facts. The charts contain commonly used mathematical formulas, historical facts, language conjugations, vocabulary and...
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Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other WorldsAn engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchise In Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique civilizations. Throughout these remarkable space adventures, does Star Trek reflect biology and evolution as we know it?...
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Population Ecology: First Principles - Second EditionThe essential introduction to population ecology--now expanded and fully updated Ecology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and habitat destruction becoming ever more prominent. At the same time, the science of ecology has advanced...
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Mathematics for the Life SciencesAn accessible undergraduate textbook on the essential math concepts used in the life sciences The life sciences deal with a vast array of problems at different spatial, temporal, and organizational scales. The mathematics necessary to describe, model, and analyze these problems is similarly diverse,...
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Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our FutureThe 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...
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Biodemography: An Introduction to Concepts and MethodsAn authoritative overview of the concepts and applications of biological demography This book provides a comprehensive introduction to biodemography, an exciting interdisciplinary field that unites the natural science of biology with the social science of human demography. Biodemography is an essential resource for demographers,...
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The Symbiotic HabitThroughout the natural world, organisms have responded to predators, inadequate resources, or inclement conditions by forming ongoing mutually beneficial partnerships--or symbioses--with different species. Symbiosis is the foundation for major evolutionary events, such as the emergence of eukaryotes and plant eating among vertebrates, and is...
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The Theory of Island BiogeographyBiogeography was stuck in a "natural history phase" dominated by the collection of data, the young Princeton biologists Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson argued in 1967. In this book, the authors developed a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography....
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Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an EvolutionistA collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historical Perspective. The book, Ernst Mayr notes in the Foreword, is an attempt "to strengthen the bridge between biology and philosophy, and...
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