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  • Semiotics of Animals in Culture

    Zoosemiotics 2.0

    Edited by Gianfranco Marrone, Dario Mangano ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following the old admonition of Montaigne: it is not that animals do not talk, it is us who do not understand them.Recent research in the field of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time

    My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals

    by Richard Conniff ...
    "Hilariously informative…This book will remind you why you always wanted to be a naturalist." —OutsideIn this thrilling foray into the animal kingdom, Richard Conniff takes readers on an adventure-packed journey as he courts the most dangerous animals and lives to tell the tale. He lets African wild dogs sniff his neck to test the idea that they are vicious man-eaters, sticks his hand in a fire ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Adaptive Behavior and Learning

    by J. E. R. Staddon ...
    Every day at about 4:30, Jazz, a Hungarian Vizsla dog, leaps up on the sofa and looks out for his owner who always comes home at 5:00. He doesn't need an internal clock because he has an acute sense of smell that allows him to measure how long his master has been absent. Explaining complex behavior in simple ways, this book is a fascinating exploration of the evolution, development and processes ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Story of Rats

    Their impact on us, and our impact on them

    by S Anthony Barnett ...
    'Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud.'An English Member of ParliamentAre rats still a threat to our health and food? Do they think? Is it true that wild rats sometimes die, unwounded, from social stress? Can studies of rat societies tell us anything useful about our own social lives?Love them or loathe them, everyone has a rat ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reconstructive Surgery and Wound Management of the Dog and Cat

    by Jolle Kirpensteijn, Gert ter Haar ...
    In this concise and practical volume the authors describe and illustrate step by step all currently available reconstructive surgical techniques. The book covers both dogs and cats with skin defects caused by injury or tumor resection and the reader is given the widest possible range of treatment options for dealing with individual cases.After desc ... Read more

    $244.99 USD

  • Beastly Questions

    Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues

    by Naomi Sykes ...
    Zooarchaeology, or the study of ancient animals, is a frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. This is bizarre given that the archaeological record is composed largely of debris from human–animal relationships (be they in the form of animal bones, individual artifacts or entire landscapes) and that many disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, and geography, recognise human–animal ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents

    Edited by Mark A. Suckow, Karla A. Stevens, Ronald P. Wilson ...
    Series series American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
    The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents is a single volume, comprehensive book sanctioned by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM), covering the rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, gerbil and other rodents often used in research. This well-illustrated reference won a 2012 PROSE Award for Best Single Volume Reference in Science from the Association of American ... Read more

    $177.29 USD

  • Marine Ecological Processes

    by Ivan Valiela ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The oceans represent a vast, complex and poorly understood ecosystem. Marine Ecological Processes is a modern review and synthesis of marine ecology that provides the reader with a lucid introduction to the intellectual concepts, approaches, and methods of this evolving discipline. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book focuses on the processes controlling marine ecosystems, communities, and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Neurosciences - From Molecule to Behavior: a university textbook

    Edited by Pierre-Marie Lledo, C. Giovanni Galizia ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Neurosciences – a comprehensive approachThis textbook covers neuroscience from cellular and molecular mechanisms to behavior and cognitive processing. We also address evolution of the nervous system, computational neuroscience, the history of neuroscience as a discipline and neurophilosophy – to name but a few. The book provides the newest state-of-the-art knowledge about neuroscience from across ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Australian Water Mites

    A Guide to Families and Genera

    by MS Harvey ...
    Series Book 4 - Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy Series
    Water mites are a dominant feature of the fauna of all freshwater ecosystems. Over 400 species in 87 genera and 22 families have been recorded in Australia. This book consists of illustrated keys to each family and genus. There are sections on cladistic analysis and classification, biogeographic affinities of the Australian fauna, general biology and morphology. ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Distribution Ecology

    From Individual Habitat Use to Species Biogeographical Range

    by Marcelo Hernán Cassini ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together a set of approaches to the study of individual-species ecology based on the analysis of spatial variations of abundance. Distribution ecology assumes that ecological phenomena can be understood when analyzing the extrinsic (environmental) or intrinsic (physiological constraints, population mechanisms) that correlate with this spatial variation. Ecological processes depend ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Evacuation Modeling Trends

    Edited by Arturo Cuesta, Orlando Abreu, Daniel Alvear ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents an overview of modeling definitions and concepts, theory on human behavior and human performance data, available tools and simulation approaches, model development, and application and validation methods. It considers the data and research efforts needed to develop and incorporate functions for the different parameters into comprehensive escape and evacuation simulations, with a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD