Biological category: 21163 books
by Teresa K. Attwood, Stephen R. Pettifer, David Thorne
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This innovative book provides a completely fresh exploration of bioinformatics, investigating its complex interrelationship with biology and computer science. It approaches bioinformatics from a unique perspective, highlighting interdisciplinary gaps that often trap the unwary.
The book considers...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
3D Multiscale Physiological Human aims to promote scientific exchange by bringing together overviews and examples of recent scientific and technological advancements across a wide range of research disciplines. As a result, the variety in methodologies and knowledge paradigms are contrasted, revealing...
Herding Hemingway's Cats
Understanding how our genes work
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few...
by Barry Barnes, John Dupré
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits—and warnings of the dangers—of genomics...
by Theodore Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Why do we age? Many believe that aging is the result of fundamental and unalterable limitations. We can try to treat highly age-related diseases like cancer and heart disease but nothing can be done about aging itself. Anti-aging medicine is impossible.
Others believe that we age because our...
The Extended Specimen
Emerging Frontiers in Collections-Based Ornithological Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The Extended Specimen highlights the research potential for ornithological specimens, and is meant to encourage ornithologists poised to initiate a renaissance in collections-based ornithological research. Contributors illustrate how collections and specimens are used in novel ways by adopting emerging...
Sex on the Brain
The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between...
Fungicide Resistance in Plant Pathogens
Principles and a Guide to Practical Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This volume offers a comprehensive coverage of the general principles and recent advances in fungicide resistance. It describes the development, mechanisms, monitoring, and management of resistance and covers the most important group of fungicides that have caused resistance on various crops. An historical...
Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections on His View of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work. A Harvard professor of paleontology, evolutionary biology, and the history of science, Gould provided major insights into our understanding of the...
Creativity
The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
What is the nature of human creativity? What are the brain processes behind its mystique? What are the evolutionary roots of creativity? How does culture help shape individual creativity? Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation by Elkhonon Goldberg is arguably the first ever book to address...
by Katarina T. Borer
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Advanced Exercise Endocrinology presents a comprehensive examination of the relationship between physical activity and hormone function. As the newest addition to Human Kinetics’ Advanced Exercise Physiology Series, this resource offers the most up-to-date information on the quickly advancing field...
by David Rifkind, Geraldine Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
This book presents the 24 discoveries in infectious diseases that have merited Nobel Prize recognition since the inception of the awards in 1901. Grouped according to biological groups rather than chronology, each discovery includes a biographical sketch of the laureate(s), a description of the research,...
Denial
Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea-a concept that runs counter to commonly-held notions about human evolution...
Boundaries
A New Way to Look at the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
More than twenty years ago, noted psychiatrist and dream researcher, Ernest Hartmann, developed the concept of 'boundaries' as a dimension of personality. With his new book, Boundaries: A New Way to Look at the World, Hartmann extends the boundaries concept beyond the individual and into the world...