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  • Biodiversity and Human Health

    by Jensa Bell, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Michael Boyd, Mary Campbell, Eric Chivian, Paul Cox, Gordon Cragg, Andrew P. Dobson, Kate Duffy-Mazan, Robert Engelman, Paul Epstein, Alexandra Fairfield, John Grupenhoff, Dan Janzen, Catherine Laughlin, Tom Mays, Robert McCaleb, Katy Moran, David Newman, Charles Peters, Walter Reid, John Vandermeer, Anthony Artuso, Byron Bailey ...
    The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • Race to Save the Tropics

    Ecology And Economics For A Sustainable Future

    Edited by Robert Goodland ...
    Race to Save the Tropics documents the conflict between economic development and protection of biological diversity in tropical countries. ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

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  • Bird Sense

    What It's Like to Be a Bird

    by Tim Birkhead ...
    What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise?Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • The Moral Lives of Animals

    by Dale Peterson ...
    Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try toprotect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats,finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed torescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save anunrelated infant who has fallen into a watery moat.Theexamples above and many others, argues Dale Peterson, show that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sexual Selections

    What We Can and Can’t Learn about Sex from Animals

    by Marlene Zuk ...
    Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once thought to be monogamous actually have chicks that are fathered outside the primary breeding pair. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Book of Scary Creatures on the Planet

    Animal Encyclopedia for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Animal Books
    Think of the scariest creatures and you might probably find them within the pages of this book. Understand that the purpose of this book is not to scare you; it's actually to educate you that even the scariest creatures are useful to the environment too. Go ahead and grab a copy of this picture book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution

    by Martin Stevens ...
    Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment. Consequently, they have evolved a staggering array of sensory organs that are fundamental to survival and reproduction and shape much of their evolution and behaviour. Sensory ecology deals with how animals acquire, process ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Social Dog

    Behavior and Cognition

    by Juliane Kaminski, Sarah Marshall-Pescini ...
    Dogs have become the subject of increasing scientific study over the past two decades, chiefly due to their development of specialized social skills, seemingly a result of selection pressures during domestication to help them adapt to the human environment. The Social Dog: Behaviour and Cognition includes chapters from leading researchers in the fields of social cognition and behavior, ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • A Guide to Academia

    Getting into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs, and a Research Job

    by Prosanta Chakrabarty ...
    A Guide to Academia is a handbook for all those individuals thinking seriously about going to graduate school. Written by an author with extensive experience navigating the academic world, the book explains all the steps and potential bumps in the road that a student might encounter as they take the plunge into academia. Each chapter begins with a section called the "hard truth," which will help ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals

    Edited by William F. Perrin, Bernd Würsig, J.G.M. Thewissen ...
    This thorough revision of the classic Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals brings this authoritative book right up-to-date. Articles describe every species in detail, based on the very latest taxonomy, and a host of biological, ecological and sociological aspects relating to marine mammals. The latest information on the biology, ecology, anatomy, behavior and interactions with man is provided by a cast ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals

    The Great Game of Life

    by Henry R. Hermann ...
    Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals: The Great Game of Life examines human nature and the influence of evolution, genetics, chemistry, nurture, and the sociopolitical environment as a way of understanding how and why humans behave in aggressive and dominant ways. The book walks us through aggression in other social species, compares and contrasts human behavior to other animals, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Eurasian Beaver

    by Roisin Campbell-Palmer, Derek Gow, Robert Needham, Simon Jones, Frank Rosell ...
    The Eurasian beaver was near extinction at the start of the twentieth century, hunted across Europe for its fur, meat and castoreum. But now the beaver is on the brink of a comeback, with wild beaver populations, licensed and unlicensed, emerging all over Britain.As a keystone species, the beaver plays a vital role in the creation of sustainable wetland habitats through its damming activities, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD