Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity
A unified introduction to the multidisciplinary science of conservation biology. Combines theory with applied and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and environmental economics, ethics, law, and...
This substantially revised edition discusses the Competition Act, 2002, and subsequent amendments to it, in 2007 and 2009.
This textbook introduces students to the diversity of human sexual expression and the diversity of perspectives from which sexuality can be viewed, from biology and medicine, evolutionary theory, to cognitive...
Designed for students, scientists and engineers interested in learning about the core ideas of vision science, this volume brings together the broad range of data and theory accumulated in this...
The articles in this collection are taken from the pages of American Scientist, an interdisciplinary magazine of science published since 1913 by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Founded in...
This new, fully revised and expanded edition of Ionic Channels of Excitable Membranes includes new chapters on fast chemical synapses, modulation through G protein coupled receptors and second messenger systems,...
Nearly all the chemical elements that make up living things are mineral elements, the ultimate source of which is rock weathered into soil. In the thoroughly revised Second Edition of...
This primer is divided into five chapters, focusing on: biological diversity and its value; the threats to biological diversity; conservation at the population and species levels; protecting and managing habitats...
The development of the immune systems: cellular mechanisms of immune response; The humoral antibodies; Mediators and effectors of immunity; Pathogenetic mechanisms involving immunologic factors; Clinical applications of immunology in prophylaxis...
The Self, Yours, Mine, Or Ours?: A Dialectic View
From the ancient Polynesians who struck out across the vast Pacific in dug-out canoes with only the stars to guide them, to the Victorian missionaries and adventurers who opened the...
This text acquaints the student with the diverse methods used in the social, psychological and behavioural sciences. The scientific question at hand affects the researcher's choice of methods, and this...
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William Faulkner, the Novelist as Short Story Writer: A Study of William Faulkner's Short Fiction
This title informs readers at all levels about the growing canon of cognitive neuroscience, and makes clear the challenges that remain to be solved by the next generation.
From Neuron to Brain: A Cellular Approach to the Function of the Nervous System
From Neuron to Brain, Fourth Edition describes how nerve cells go about their business of transmitting signals, how the signals are put together, and how, out of this integration, higher...
Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-ecological Perspective
Immunodeficiency in Man and Animals