Oxford University Press, 2024. — 398 p. Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from...
DK, 2021. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-0744027389. You don’t have to be a scientist to find this beginner’s biology book fascinating! What is life? Why do bees dance? How do animals know their mothers? Who discovered germs? Discover the living world, and how it interacts with the environment, and stand in awe of the most interesting biology facts, theories, and discoveries. The Biology...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introduction). — ISBN: 978-0-19-878622-1, 978-0-19-108954-1. Up to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the mind as unapproachable scientifically. This began to change with the devising of methods to try...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 244 p. Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes readers on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the...
London: Profile Books in association with Wellcome Collection, 2019. — 192 p. The inside story of the making of you. The Making of You is the inside story of one of nature's greatest marvels: the creation of a new human, from first cell to first breath. This is pop science, not a parenting manual, and it almost certainly contains things you didn't know on almost every page. Did...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 206 p. This classically styled, chilling murder mystery about an expedition under the ice of Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa, backed up by the latest scientific findings on this icy satellite. The science fiction premise explores real possibilities of exploring other bodies in the Solar System, including probing their possible astrobiology. Now that the...
Quarto Publishing, 2012. — 171 p. — ISBN10: 1782403892, 13 978-1782403890. 30-Second Biology tackles the vital science of life, dissecting the 50 most thought-provoking theories of our ecosystem and ourselves. At a time when discoveries in DNA allow us to feel more connected than ever to the natural world, this is the fastest route to an understanding of the tree of life....
Grove Press, 2013. — 256 p. Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential scientists, credited with discovering more species than Darwin. In Among the Islands Flannery recounts a series of expeditions he made at the dawn of his career to the strange tropical islands of the South Pacific, a great arc stretching nearly 4,000 miles from the postcard perfection of Polynesia...
Oxford University Press, 2009. - 427 p. Written with the non-scientist in mind, this book employs the molecule and its interactions to explain the characteristics of living organisms in terms of the underlying chemistry of life. Following introductory chapters on the fundamentals of life, attention then turns to small molecules such as hormones and neurotransmitters and...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 682 p. From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human encounters with nature have long sparked wonder, curiosity and delight. Written by leading scholars, this richly illustrated volume offers a lively introduction to the history of natural history, from the sixteenth century to the present day....
New York: Springer, 2019. — 178 p. The permutation of basic atoms — nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and phosphorus — into the biomolecules DNA and RNA, subsequently evolved in cells and brains, defining the origin of life and intelligence, remains unexplained. Equally the origin of the genetic information and the intertwined nature of ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ involved in...
The Dial Press, 2010. — 352 p. How does a tiny box jellyfish, with no brain and little control over where it goes in the water, manage to kill a full-grown man? What harm have hippos been known to inflict on humans, and why? What makes our closest cousin, the chimpanzee, the most dangerous of all apes to encounter in the wild? In this elegantly illustrated, often darkly funny...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 369 p. Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own...
MJF Books, 1999. — 274 p. Here is a concise, thorough, and fully illustrated guide to the tracks, signs, and habits of North America's most common species of wildlife. Readers learn the secrets of a master tracker, assembling a clear picture from tracks, scat, and other signs. Was it a dog or a wolf? Fox or coyote? Did it pass by yesterday or an hour ago? And readers also learn...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. — 240 p. A photograph of an animal long-gone evokes a feeling of loss more than a painting ever can. Often tinted sepia or black-and-white, these images were mainly taken in zoos or wildlife parks, and in a handful of cases featured the last known individual of the species. There are some familiar examples, such as Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon,...
ISI Distributed Titles, 2008. — 418 p. — ISBN: 9780980021301. The Design of Life, written by two leading intelligent design theorists, offers the clearest, most comprehensive treatment of intelligent design on the market, with answers to Darwinists’ objections drawn unrelentingly from the recent science literature.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. — 480 p. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s,...
NY: Sterling, 2015. — 528 p. — (Sterling Milestones). — ISBN: 978-1-4549-1533-1. From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoek's microscopic world, to GMO crops, The Biology Book presents 250 landmarks in the most widely studied scientific field. Brief, engaging, and colorfully illustrated synopses introduce readers to every major subdiscipline, including cell theory, genetics,...
MIT Press, 2014. — 247 p. — ISBN: 978-0-262-01977-4 An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels. Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological...
Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2018. — 273 p. How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms As one of the most visual sciences, biology has an aesthetic dimension that lends force and persuasion to scientific arguments: how things are arranged on a page, how texts are interspersed with images, and how images are composed reflect deep-seated beliefs about how...
NY.: Mentor - New American Library, 1961.— 200 p. In this brilliant synthesis of scientific discovery throughout the ages, Isaac Asimov answers these vital questions. He begins with Genesis and its intuitive description of creation and proceeds through the trial-and-error experimental findings concerning regeneration, evolution, and inheritance. The structure of the cell itself...
Southwater, 2016. — 132 p. — ISBN10: 184038574X, 13 978-1840385748. A photographic A-Z guide to edible wild mushrooms, with 300 photographs and cooking suggestions throughout.
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started creating the support structures that are now critical to most living forms, providing...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 245 p. Preface v Why So Complex? Fit for What? Intelligent Life Bodily Intelligence Evolution of Development Intelligent Eye and Brain From Neurons to Cognition Cognitive Functions Social Intelligence ntelligent Humans
London: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd, 2016. — 164 p. This is an easy-to-use identification guide to 280 species of wildlife most commonly found in the gardens of Britain, Ireland, and other parts of Northern Europe. The guide includes sections on birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, butterflies, moths and other insects, spiders, trees and shrubs, wildflowers , and fungi....
Chantilly: The Teaching Company, 2018. — 372 p. Water: The Source of Life Ocean Currents and Why They Matter The Origin and Diversity of Ocean Life Beaches, Estuaries, and Coral Reefs Life in Polar and Deepwater Environments Phytoplankton and Other Autotrophs Invertebrate Life in the Ocean An Overview of Marine Vertebrates Fish: The First Vertebrates Marine Megavertebrates and...
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2013. — 738 p. The Facts of Life Scientific ThinkingYour best pathway to understanding the world ChemistryRaw materials and fuel for our bodies CellsThe smallest part of you EnergyFrom the sun to you in just two steps Genetics, Evolution, and Behavior DNA, Gene Expression, and BiotechnologyWhat is the code, and how is it harnessed?...
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2013. — 738 p. The Facts of Life Scientific ThinkingYour best pathway to understanding the world ChemistryRaw materials and fuel for our bodies CellsThe smallest part of you EnergyFrom the sun to you in just two steps Genetics, Evolution, and Behavior DNA, Gene Expression, and BiotechnologyWhat is the code, and how is it harnessed?...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 533 p. Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual’s entire genetic code — promising, in some cases, facts about that individual’s ancestry that may have remained otherwise lost. Such services draw on and contribute to the...
University Of Chicago Press, 2018. — 258 p. — ISBN10: 022644046X, 13 978-0226440460. In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology...
Świat Książki, 1997. — 225 s. — ISBN: 8372272123. W tej książce znajdziesz następujące tematy: Morza i wybrzeża- zagrożone obszary Europy. Przestrzeń i wspólnota życiowa specyficznego świata planktonu. Rośliny i zwierzęta morskie. Niezwykły instynkt ptaków morskich.
Świat Książki, 1999. — 113 s. — ISBN: 8372271739. Typowe krajobrazy środkowej Europy to pola, łąki i miedze. Obszary te stanowią naturalne środowisko dla wielu gatunków roślin i zwierząt. Ten Leksykon ukazuje złożone problemy ekologiczne, związane z ta ogromną przestrzenią, jaką są wszelkiego rodzaju użytki rolne, pola i miedze.
Świat Książki, 1997. — 138 s. — ISBN: 8371294417. W Leksykonie uwzględniono około 400 gatunków ryb słodkowodnych występujących w Europie. Solidna, fachowa i polecenia godna książka. Omawiana książka rozpoczyna się krótkim wstępem. Potem następują opisy gatunków. Większość gatunków jest zobrazowana na kolorowym i szczegółowym rysunku. Opis gatunku zawiera informacje o jego...
Warszawa: Świat Książki, 1998. — 147 s. — ISBN: 8371296568. Jeziora i stawy, strumienie i rzeki, bagna, trzęsawiska i łąki stanowią bogatą w słodką wodę przestrzeń życiową. Leksykon pt. "Tereny wilgotne" przybliża ten mało znany, niezwykły świat zwierząt i roślin, który tworzy powiązany wzajemnie system ekologiczny. Autor, prof. dr Josef Reichholf, jest wybitnym uczonym, który...
Wydano przez Play.pl. — 150 s. — Bez szczegółów o wydaniu. Plik pochodzi z Internetu i jest pięknie ilustrowanym leksykonem różnych rodzajów grzybów (jadalnych i trujących).
Maker Media, 2012. — 378 p. — ISBN13: 978-1449396596. Experience the magic of biology in your own home lab. This hands-on introduction includes more than 30 educational (and fun) experiments that help you explore this fascinating field on your own. Perfect for middle- and high-school students and DIY enthusiasts, this full-color guide teaches you the basics of biology lab work...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2001. — 304 p. Since it was founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History has stood as one of the world's greatest repositories of scientific information and investigation. This delightful book takes us behind the exhibits and shows us some of the great researchers and fabulous objects from the Museum's past and present, including: * the famous...
Forge Books, 2007. — 320 p. In this landmark work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism. Meldrum reports on the work of a team of experts from a...
Thames & Hudson, 2015. — 368 p. The thrilling stories of the three pioneering English naturalists’ explorations and discoveries in the world’s richest ecosystem. One hundred and fifty years ago, the young naturalists Alfred Wallace, Henry Walter Bates, and Richard Spruce were on a journey. Their destination, Amazonia - the world’s largest tropical forest with the greatest river...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 412 p. First published in 1863, this is a first-hand account of Henry Walter Bates' eleven-year expedition to the river Amazon in 1848, during which he discovered some eight thousand species unknown to the natural sciences. Written in the first person, it records the astonishing range of natural life in the regions traversed by the Amazon and...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 273 p. — ISBN10: 0252081463. — ISBN13: 978-0252081460. From grassland fairy circles to alpine nano-shrooms, the Rocky Mountain region invites mushroom hunters to range though a mycological nirvana. Accessible and scientifically up-to-date, The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat is the definitive reference for uncovering...
ASM Press, 2016. — 310 p. — ISBN10: 1555819591. — ISBN13: 978-1555819590. With more than 1,000 posts and 2 million views, the esteemed blog Small Things Considered has been sparking the imagination of microbiologists for an entire decade. Throughout the years, Elio Schaechter and his team of dedicated bloggers have shared exciting, unexpected, and unusual stories from the...
New York, Oxford University Press Inc., 2009, 297 p. In essence, this book is intended as an introduction to several key ideas in ecology and evolution. However, it introduces readers to these subjects not in the traditional way, but through posing a range of fundamental questions, and discussing the plausibility of solutions that have been offered. These questions lead our...
Dallas: BenBella Books, 2011 — 300 p., ISBN: 1935618539 The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech before we can even walk, and can seamlessly absorb enormous amounts of information simply by...
Harper Perennial, 2012. — 288 p. Finalist for 2013 Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionWinner of the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award Winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature.A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forestIn this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. — 181 p. — ISBN: 0262019779 Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances in such technologies as X-ray diffraction and gel...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 230 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-43159-8 This classically styled, chilling murder mystery about an expedition under the ice of Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa, backed up by the latest scientific findings on this icy satellite. The science fiction premise explores real possibilities of exploring other bodies in the Solar System, including probing their possible...
L.: Harvard University Press, 2016. - 353 p. Like all cellular organisms, humans run on electricity. Slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking - nearly everything we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers a comprehensive overview of animal electricity, examining its physiological mechanisms as...
Harvard University Press, 1984, 2003. — 168 p. — ISBN: 0-674-07441-6. Bernhardsdorp The Superorganism The Time Machine The Bird of Paradise The Poetic Species The Serpent The Right Place The Conversation Ethic Surinam Reading Notes
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 312 p. Deep inside caves, at the bottoms of oceans and lakes, beneath the ground: these concealed habitats are absent of sunlight. This strange and fascinating world of complete darkness is not a solitary place — it is inhabited by millions of life forms. Yet most humans — creatures of daylight — have never seen any of them. Until now. In...
Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. — 351 p. This book is a unique synthesis of the latest findings in the quantum physics and chemistry of water that will tell you why it is so remarkably fit for life. It offers a novel panoramic perspective of cell biology based on water as "means, medium, and message" of life. This book is a sequel to The Rainbow and The Worm, The Physics of...
S.l.: National Geographic, 2009. — 320 p. — ISBN: 2-84582-191-3. Réalisé avec la collaboration de plus de 150 scientifiques travaillant dans toutes les régions du globe, cet ouvrage passe en revue les plantes et les animaux les plus surprenants et les plus intrigants de la planète. Livre qui nous plonge dans l'univers merveilleux de la nature.En effet, au file des pages le...
New York&London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. — 222 p What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical signals constantly traveling through our bodies, driving our thoughts, our movements, and even the beating...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 264 p. Hunter and Hunted is a fascinating account of the intricate relationships between predators and humans. Written by one of the world's best known naturalists, Hans Kruuk, it is both about his life-long passion for meat-eaters as diverse as otters and wolves, tigers and hyaenas, and a scientific exploration of what carnivores mean to...
Chelsea House Publications, 2008. — 410 p. From the ocean depths to river rapids, fascinating aquatic life can be found in all climates and settings. Geared toward young students, the fresh, new "Exploring the World of Aquatic Life" set is packed with information, naturalistic artwork, helpful maps, and stunning full-color photography intended to illustrate key life-science...
Sterling, 2015. — 528 p. Series: Sterling Milestones From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoek's microscopic world, to GMO crops, The Biology Book presents 250 landmarks in the most widely studied scientific field. Brief, engaging, and colorfully illustrated synopses introduce readers to every major subdiscipline, including cell theory, genetics, evolution, physiology,...
Second edition. — University of Chicago Press, 1988. — 152 p. — ISBN: 0226997014 This book is designed to help biologists who must create their own illustrations and artists who are confronted with unfamiliar biological subjects. The author, an experienced biological illustrator, gives practical instructions and advice on the consideration of size and of printing processes,...
Little, Brown and Company, 1986. — 320 p. This book is based on a series of programmes made for BBC Television, It and they are sequels to an earlier series and book entitled Life on Earth. That project attempted to describe the way in which animals and plants developed on this planet over the past three thousand million years and traced the rise of different groups of animals...
3rd. edition, McGraw-Hill Companies, 2003. 806 p. ISBN13: 9780072347203 The Living World is often considered a student favorite. George Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do". The Living World focuses on concepts rather than...
Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2010. — 258 p. Whether the natural world is at your doorstep, in the heart of a concrete jungle, by the sea, on top of a mountain, or in a cabin in the woods, The Practical Naturalist gets readers outdoors and shows how to experience the wonders of the world, and shows what is living in each habitat. Inspirational, informative, and educational, The...
7th edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2011. — 880 p. The Living World is often considered a student favorite. George Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do". The Living World focuses on concepts rather than terminology and technical...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2012. — 89 p. Life comes in all shapes and forms, and living entities dwell in all types of habitats. There are seven characteristics that all life forms share-the ability to move, to sense, to respire, to consume nutrition, to grow, to reproduce, and to excrete waste matter. Complete with annotated illustrations that clarify complex...
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