Biological category: 21163 books
Nature Out of Place
Biological Invasions In The Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Though the forests are still green and the lakes full of water, an unending stream of invasions is changing many ecosystems around the world from productive, tightly integrated webs of native species to loose assemblages of stressed native species and aggressive invaders. The earth is becoming what...
Fearsome Fauna
A Field Guide to the Creatures That Live in You
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Hypochondriacs beware-- would you believe the nastiest creatures in the known universe live inside our bodies? Not content to just find a home and produce offspring in our internal space, parasites will drink our blood, eat our cells, and infest our muscles. There is very little that can be said in...
by Harry G. Brittain
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2001
Although the official compendia define a drug substance as to identity, purity, strength, and quality, they normally do not provide other physical or chemical data, nor do they list methods of synthesis or pathways of physical or biological degradation and metabolism. Such information is scattered throughout...
Environmental Solutions
Environmental Problems and the All-inclusive global, scientific, political, legal, economic, medical, and engineering bases to solve them
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
In our changing world, society demands more comprehensive and thoughtful solutions from environmental engineers, environmental consultants and scientists dealing with the degradation of our environment. Lead by Nelson Nemerow and Franklin Agardy, experts in business, academia, government and practice...
Cotton, Water, Salts and Soums
Economic and Ecological Restructuring in Khorezm, Uzbekistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin. In an interdisciplinary approach, natural and human sciences are combined to elucidate the challenges of economic transition that affect the use of land, water and biological...
by Daniel L. Everett
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
How Language Began revolutionizes our understanding of the one tool that has allowed us to become the "lords of the planet."
Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth?...
The Global Water System in the Anthropocene
Challenges for Science and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows...
The Inner Workings of Life
Vignettes in Systems Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Living systems are dynamic and extremely complex and their behaviour is often hard to predict by studying their individual parts. Systems biology promises to reveal and analyse these highly connected, regulated and adaptable systems, using mathematical modelling and computational analysis. This new...
Schizophrenia and Genetics
The End of an Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
We are approaching a period of crisis and reevaluation in the behavioral genetics and psychiatric genetics fields, as attempts to discover “genes for behavior” have, with possible rare exceptions, been unsuccessful. Schizophrenia is the most investigated psychiatric disorder, yet although there...
BioBuilder
Synthetic Biology in the Lab
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Today’s synthetic biologists are in the early stages of engineering living cells to help treat diseases, sense toxic compounds in the environment, and produce valuable drugs. With this manual, you can be part of it. Based on the BioBuilder curriculum, this valuable book provides open-access, modular,...
Mind Wars
Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One of the most important thinkers describes the literally mind-boggling possibilities that modern brain science could present for national security.” -LAWRENCE J. KORB, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense
Fascinating and frightening.” -Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The...
by Amin Elsersawi Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book is really helpful for someone who wants to start learning about genes and DNA. It is a well-written book describing all the introductory materials one would need to become current with genomes and genomics topics. It begins with an introduction to DNA and genes in chapter 1 and goes on from...
Yeast
Molecular and Cell Biology
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Yeast is one of the oldest domesticated organisms and has both industrial and domestic applications. In addition, it is very widely used as a eukaryotic model organism in biological research and has offered valuable knowledge of genetics and basic cellular processes. In fact, studies in yeast have...
Molecular Biomineralization
Aquatic Organisms Forming Extraordinary Materials
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
The concept of ‘biomineralization’ signifies mineralization processes that take place in close association with organic molecules or matrices. The awareness that mineral formation can be guided by organic molecules notably contributed to the understanding of the formation of the inorganic skeletons...