Biological category: 21163 books
Camera Trapping
Wildlife Management and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon. The technology is advancing very quickly, providing unique opportunities for collecting new biological knowledge. In order for fellow camera trap researchers and managers to share their knowledge and experience, the...
Together, Closer
The Art and Science of Intimacy in Friendship, Love, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
**“Frazzetto uses psychology, neurology and biological information to explore the ways in which intimacy manifests in different types of relationships. He recounts the stories of eight relationships. . . . Each story puts intimacy and how we experience it on display.” —Concepción De León,...
by Dale Layman
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Say goodbye to dry presentations, grueling formulas, and abstract theory that would put Einstein to sleep--now there's an easier way to master chemistry, biology, trigonometry, and geometry. McGraw-Hill's Demystified Series teaches complex subjects in a unique, easy-to-absorb manner and is designed...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Learn About The Life Of Richard Dawkins And Modern Science In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!Brief Candle in the Dark: My life in Science is a greatly interesting book. From one who doesn't understand the deeper biological systems and natural selection, genetics...
Buddhist Biology
Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Many high-profile public intellectuals -- including "New Atheists" like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens -- have argued that religion and science are deeply antagonistic, representing two world views that are utterly incompatible. David Barash, a renowned biologist...
Rise of the Necrofauna
The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction from acclaimed documentarist and science writer Britt Wray.
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by Govind Singh Saharan, Naresh Mehta, Prabhu Dayal Meena
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
The book reviews key developments in downy mildew research, including the disease, its distribution, symptomatology, host range, yield losses, and disease assessment; the pathogen, its taxonomy, morphology, phylogeny, variability, sporulation, survival and perpetuation, spore germination, infection,...
by Manjit Singh Dhooria
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Acarology **- **the study of mites and ticks, is a subdiscipline of Zoology, and is many times considered in the field of Entomology (the study of insects). Mites and ticks are distributed throughout the world and inhabit almost every ecosystem (both terrestrial and aquatic) including grassland...
Insect Biology in The Future
VBW 80
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Insect Biology in the Future: ""VBW 80"" contains essays presented to Sir Vincent Wigglesworth during his 80th year. Wigglesworth is fairly designated as the founding father and remarkable leader of insect physiology. His papers and other works significantly contribute to this...
Snowbird
Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
At birdfeeders and in backyards across North America, the dark-eyed junco, or snowbird, can be found foraging for its next meal. With an estimated population of at least 630 million, juncos inhabit forests, parks, and even suburban habitats, making them one of the continent’s most abundant and easily...
by Mars Q
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Sons of Monkeys explores the controversial paradigm of multiple human species interacting in the past, present, and future. For the first time, it gives human history a working ecological model to explain the existence of such phenomena as war, genocide, and chronic poverty. This is NOT a revisit...
I, Mammal
The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Humans are mammals. Most of us appreciate that at some level. But what does it mean for us to have more in common with a horse and an elephant than we do with a parrot, snake or frog?
After a misdirected football left new father Liam Drew clutching a uniquely mammalian part of his anatomy,...
by Robert Andrew Foley, Roger Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Principles of Human Evolution presents an in-depth introduction to paleoanthropology and the study of human evolution. Focusing on the fundamentals of evolutionary theory and how these apply to ecological, molecular genetic, paleontological and archeological approaches to important questions in the...
What is Death?
A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
what is death?
A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Answering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we...