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Biology, life sciences
Paperback. How to Be a Quantitative Ecologist is comprised of two equal parts on mathematics and statistics with emphasis on quantitative skills. A major component of this guide is computer implementation techniques, accompanied by computer practicals using the language R. Num Pages: 490 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PBT; PBW; PSAF; RB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 490
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470699799
- ISBN
- 9780470699799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.27
€ 57.27
Hardcover. Throughout his career, Donald Pfaff has demonstrated that by choosing problems and methods with care, biologists can study the molecular mechanisms of brains more complex than those of fruit flies, snails, and roundworms. He offers a close-up, conversational perspective on a 50-year quest to understand how behavior is regulated in vertebrates. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674660311
- ISBN
- 9780674660311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.11
€ 47.99
€ 40.11
Paperback. How is it that we can think highly abstract thoughts, seemingly fully detached from the actual, physical reality? This book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to embodied cognitive science, addressing the question of how the mind comes into being while actively interacting with and learning from the environment by means of the body Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: GTR; HPM; JMR; PSAN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 267 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 966.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198739692
- ISBN
- 9780198739692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.23
€ 94.23
Paperback. Presents important ecological concepts through animal parables. This book tells the stories of particular birds and mammals - the packrat, ivory-billed woodpecker, penguin, dingo, European rabbit, and others - and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or explosions of species populations. Num Pages: 240 pages, 48 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PSVS; RNC; RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300122701
- ISBN
- 9780300122701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.61
€ 46.61
Paperback. On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. The author traces the history of these verdant organisms, which many would call plants, from their ancient beginnings to the diversity of green life that inhabits the Earth today. Num Pages: 576 pages, 121 halftones, 31 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: PST; RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 173 x 29. Weight in Grams: 846.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069777
- ISBN
- 9780226069777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.03
€ 51.99
€ 40.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, 537 colour illustrations, 37 colour illustrations, 500 colour line drawings. BIC Classification: PSBC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 275 x 213 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1050.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815344469
- ISBN
- 9780815344469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.16
€ 100.16
Paperback. Offers research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. This book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. The knowledge calls into question concepts and practices firmly entrenched in our education system. Num Pages: 384 pages, index. BIC Classification: JNC; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Publisher
- National Academies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Expanded ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780309070362
- ISBN
- 9780309070362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 44.97
€ 53.99
€ 44.97
Paperback. Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition. Num Pages: 388 pages, 42 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: PSVS; PSVW79. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620. Inside the Mind of Another Species. 388 pages, 42 halftones, 4 tables. Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: PSVS; PSVW79. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 24. Weight: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226102467
- ISBN
- 9780226102467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.41
€ 40.99
€ 31.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 line illus. BIC Classification: MBNH; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 244 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160634
- ISBN
- 9780691160634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.43
€ 26.99
€ 20.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: PSC; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811736220
- ISBN
- 9780811736220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.15
€ 17.99
€ 15.15
Paperback. Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book suggests that different areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; GTR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415765
- ISBN
- 9781421415765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.37
€ 35.99
€ 30.37
Paperback. Stories from noteworthy evangelical Christians who honour the authority of the Bible, but who also agree with what science says about the cosmos, our planet and the life that so abundantly fills it. Editor(s): Stump, J. B.; Applegate, Kathryn. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRCM; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Lion Hudson Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857217875
- ISBN
- 9780857217875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
€ 16.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Losos, Jonathan B.; Lenski, Richard E. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 line illus. 10 tables. BIC Classification: PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691170398
- ISBN
- 9780691170398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. Offers the possibility to become permanently less stress-prone, to break bad habits, to improve our collaboration. Relaying the story of his own transformational experience as well as including the stories of others who try to describe an event that is truly indescribable, the author brings a paradigm for deep and lasting change. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRLK; PDZ; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Hay House UK Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781807071
- ISBN
- 9781781807071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.57
€ 19.57
Paperback. A cutting-edge exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridley's The Red Queen and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JMC; JMM; JMR; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753814178
- ISBN
- 9780753814178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Scientists have long cautioned against attributing familiar emotions to animals, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. The author focuses on the specific case of grief, and relates story after story - from field sites, farms, and homes - of animals mourning lost companions, mates, or friends. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: PSVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226155203
- ISBN
- 9780226155203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.38
€ 19.99
€ 17.38
Paperback. Charles Darwin's experiences in the Galapagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fixed but diversified from their ancestors over many generations. This book explains what we have learned about the origin and evolution of new species. Series: Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology. Num Pages: 224 pages, 120 color illus. 46 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSEG; PDZ; PSAJ; PSVW6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149998
- ISBN
- 9780691149998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.89
€ 42.99
€ 30.89
Paperback. Focuses on the behavior of host-plant selection by plant-feeding insects. This book describes the patterns of host use, the chemical features of plants that determine host selection, the physiology of insect sensory systems, and the insect behaviors, with an emphasis on mechanisms. It is aimed at undergraduates, graduates, and agriculturists. Series: Contemporary Topics in Entomology. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSVT7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780412031311
- ISBN
- 9780412031311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 244.35
€ 244.35
Hardback. This exploration of the culture and genetic manipulation of primary fungal pathogens, as well as interactions in model systems, includes detailed, lab-ready techniques as well as the key tips and implementation advice necessary to achieve successful results. Editor(s): Brand, Alexandra C.; MacCallum, Donna M. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology. Num Pages: 613 pages, 67 black & white illustrations, 37 colour illustrations, 28 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: MBGL; MMF; PSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1339.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2012
- Number of pages
- 613
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617795381
- ISBN
- 9781617795381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 248.09
€ 248.09
Paperback. Editor(s): Vergunst, Annette C.; O'Callaghan, David. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology. Num Pages: 377 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 49 colour illustrations, 13 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: MJCJ; PSGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. Weight in Grams: 721.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 377
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493944590
- ISBN
- 9781493944590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 157.67
€ 157.67
Hardback. Editor(s): Vergunst, Annette C.; O'Callaghan, David. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology. Num Pages: 377 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 49 colour illustrations, 13 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: PSGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 966.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 377
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493912605
- ISBN
- 9781493912605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.42
€ 191.42
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138731172
- ISBN
- 9781138731172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.47
€ 43.47
Hardback. Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research. Topics covered include the horticulture of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamentals. Editor(s): Janick, Jules. Series: Horticultural Reviews. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: PST; TVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 884.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781119281245
- ISBN
- 9781119281245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 245.98
€ 245.98
Hardcover. Horticultural Reviews is an ongoing series presenting state-of-the-art review articles on research in the production of commercial horticultural crops: vegetables, fruits, nuts, and ornamental plants of commercial importance. Series: Horticultural Reviews. Num Pages: 400 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: PST; TVS; WMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- Volume 27
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471387909
- ISBN
- 9780471387909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 392.29
€ 392.29