Biology category: 3817 books
Awesome Snake Science!
40 Activities for Learning About Snakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
From cobras and copperheads to pythons and boas, all types of snakes are covered in this book of 40 science experiments, art projects, and games that help budding herpetologists gain a greater appreciation for these slithering reptiles. Activities include making foldable fangs to learn how snakes’...
by Ike Morah
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The three characters in The Three Amigos Tammy, Timmy and Tommy happen to be part of the nature around us. Tammy the owl is a teacher, because as we all know, the owl is claimed to be wise. Timmy the fox is as sly as any fox could be, and believes that he is right, even when he is wrong. Tommy the frog...
Human Movement
How the Body Walks, Runs, Jumps, and Kicks
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Why do we walk on two legs? How do our muscles know how to work together when we dance? How does our brain work with our hands to sink a basketball? In Human Movement: How the Body Walks, Runs, Jumps, and Kicks, readers ages 12 to 15 learn the basic anatomy and physiology of the human body and discover...
by Michael Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Although we often search social and historical documents for clues to our past, biological “documents” perhaps hold the most important evidence of our heritage. The traits we inherit from our parents and pass on to our offspring are encoded in our genes and DNA and reveal much about both our origins...
Francis Crick and James Watson
And the Building Blocks of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
The names of James Watson and Francis Crick are bound together forever because the scientific discovery they made was truly a joint enterprise. As Edward Edelson reveals in this intriguing biography, Watson and Crick were the first to describe the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, the molecule...
Drinking Water
Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book takes a broad and eclectic view of the water that all humanity depends upon, probing its role in human life and in the history of our planet, as well as surveying the latest scientific understanding of purification techniques and standards for the protection of water quality.
The...
Purpose and Desire
What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism’s materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is—and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward.
Scott Turner contends....
Candid Creatures
How Camera Traps Reveal the Mysteries of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In Candid Creatures, the first major book to reveal the secret lives of animals through motion-sensitive game cameras, biologist Roland Kays has assembled over 600 remarkable photographs. Drawing from archives of millions of color and night-vision photographs collected by hundreds of researchers,...
by Michael Jessop, Terry Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
How a simple data module underlies all our thoughts and perceptions.
The biology of our brains is reasonably well understood through research and our knowledge of the laws of chemistry and ultimately physics. Our minds and our day-to-day experiences depend on the operation of the brain, yet...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Therapeutic applications within regenerative biomedicine has gained tremendous interest from a growing, multidisciplinary community of investigators in recent years, driven by the hope of finding cures for several diseases. Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy discusses cutting-edge science in the...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
The Body System Series: The Complete Body System Series and Their Functions Having trouble on Biology? Need to find out information about the organ systems and how they work?. This book contains the five different body systems,plus, three more body systems. This is an excellent book if you need,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
This compendium of research material on the role of oxidative stress in animal disease and morbidity examines both the general and the specific. Sourced from scientists, veterinarians, and members of the medical community from around the world, it includes chapters on our wider understanding of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This comprehensive volume is one of the first books to offer the reader detailed insight into sources of perinatal stem cells, their biology, and their potential for disease treatment. It examines the research and therapeutic applications of perinatal stem cells including the treatment of renal...
Freaks of Nature : And what they tell us about evolution and development
What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Two-legged goats conjoined twins 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead double-headed snakes and Laloo a man with a partially formed twin attached to his chest... In Freaks of Nature Mark S. Blumberg turns a scientist's eye on these unusual examples of humans and other...