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  • Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation

    Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action

    Edited by Ben Collen, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jonathan E. M. Baillie, Sarah M. Durant ...
    Series series Conservation Science and Practice
    As the impacts of anthropogenic activities increase in both magnitude and extent, biodiversity is coming under increasing pressure. Scientists and policy makers are frequently hampered by a lack of information on biological systems, particularly information relating to long-term trends. Such information is crucial to developing an understanding as to how biodiversity may respond to global ... Read more

    $84.00 USD

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  • Wild Hope

    On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

    by Andrew Balmford ...
    Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any good news about the environment? Yes, there is, answers Andrew Balmford in Wild Hope, and he offers several powerful stories of successful conservation ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Insects

    Structure and Function

    by R. F. Chapman ...
    The Insects has been the standard textbook in the field since the first edition published over forty years ago. Building on the strengths of Chapman's original text, this long-awaited 5th edition has been revised and expanded by a team of eminent insect physiologists, bringing it fully up-to-date for the molecular era. The chapters retain the successful structure of the earlier editions, focusing ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Run, Spot, Run

    The Ethics of Keeping Pets

    by Jessica Pierce ...
    "A thoughtful book" about how to ensure that the animals we love benefit from the relationship as much as we do ( Kirkus Reviews).We feel love for our companions, and happiness that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But sometimes we also feel guilt. When we see our cats gazing wistfully out the window, or watch a goldfish swim lazy circles in a bowl, we can't help but wonder: Are we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alternative Careers in Science

    Leaving the Ivory Tower

    Edited by Cynthia Robbins-Roth ...
    Many science students find themselves in the midst of graduate school or sitting at a lab bench, and realize that they hate lab work! Even worse is realizing that they may love science, but science (at least academic science) is not providing many job opportunities these days. What's a poor researcher to do !?This book gives first-hand descriptions of the evolution of a band of hardy scientists ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Fundamentals of Space Medicine

    by Gilles Clément ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Investigations in space have led to fundamental discoveries of the human body to the space environment. Gilles Clément has conducted extensive research in this field. This readable text presents the findings from the life science experiments conducted during and after space missions. About 1200 human space flights have been completed to date, including more than 500 astronauts from various ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts

    by O. S. Miettinen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book is organized so as to address in separate sections first the preparatory topics of medicine (clinical and epidemiological), science in general, and statistics (mathematical); then topics of epidemiological research proper; and, finally, topics of ‘meta-epidemiological’ clinical research. In those two main sections, a further grouping is based on the distraction between objects and methods ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Missing Lemur Link

    An Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour

    by Michael Huffman, Ivan Norscia, Elisabetta Palagi ...
    Series Book 74 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
    Lemurs share a common distant ancestor with humans. Following their own evolutionary pathway, lemurs provide the ideal model to shed light on the behavioural traits of primates including conflict management, communication strategies and society building and how these aspects of social living relate to those found in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative approach throughout, lemur ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Beyond Foraging and Collecting

    Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems

    Edited by Ben Fitzhugh, Junko Habu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    LEWIS R. BINFORD AND AMBER L. JOHNSON The organizers of this volume have brought together authors who have worked on local sequences, much as traditional archaeologists tended to do, however, with the modern goal of addressing evolutionary change in hunter-gatherer systems over long time spans. Given this ambitious goal they wisely chose to ask the authors to build their treatments around a focal ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Genetic Data Analysis for Plant and Animal Breeding

    by Fikret Isik, James Holland, Christian Maltecca ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book fills the gap between textbooks of quantitative genetic theory, and software manuals that provide details on analytical methods but little context or perspective on which methods may be most appropriate for a particular application. Accordingly this book is composed of two sections. The first section (Chapters 1 to 8) covers topics of classical phenotypic data analysis for prediction of ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Kaufman's Atlas of Mouse Development Supplement

    With Coronal Sections

    Edited by Richard Baldock, Jonathan Bard, Duncan Davidson, Gillian Morriss-Kay ...
    Kaufman's Atlas of Mouse Development: With Coronal Sections continues the stellar reputation of the original Atlas by providing updated, in-depth anatomical content and morphological views of organ systems.The publication offers written descriptions of the developmental origins of the organ systems alongside high-resolution images for needed visualization of developmental processes. Matt Kaufman ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Mathematical Ecology of Populations and Ecosystems

    by John Pastor ...
    MATHEMATICAL ECOLOGYPopulation ecologists study how births and deaths affect the dynamics of populations and communities, while ecosystem ecologists study how species control the flux of energy and materials through food webs and ecosystems. Although all these processes occur simultaneously in nature, the mathematical frameworks bridging the two disciplines have developed independently. ... Read more

    $75.00 USD