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Human biology
paperback. How can something as complex as a human body create itself from a single fertilized egg? Drawing on ideas from physics and network theory as well as genetics and embryology, Jamie Davies describes the fascinating picture emerging from the latest research, in which complexity builds up through 'adaptive self-organization'. Num Pages: 320 pages, Approximately 86 black and white line illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199673544
- ISBN
- 9780199673544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.24
€ 17.99
€ 14.24
Hardback. A ground-breaking, practical, and, above all, positive vision of life in twenty-first-century Canada. Editor(s): Robinson, John Bridger. Series: Sustainability & the Environment. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PSX; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774805629
- ISBN
- 9780774805629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.47
€ 101.47
Paperback. An account by Michael Werner where he describes how he stopped eating in 2001 and has survived well without food ever since. Werner also describes in detail how and why he came to give up food, and what his life is like without it. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: MBNH3; PSB; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Clairview Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905570058
- ISBN
- 9781905570058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
![Frances Ashcroft - Life at the Extremes: [The Science of Survival] - 9780006551256 - V9780006551256](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9780006551256.jpg "Frances Ashcroft - Life at the Extremes: [The Science of Survival] - 9780006551256 - V9780006551256")
Paperback. The debut of a female Steve Jones - likeable, literate, lucid and laconic. A sprightly, lavishly illustrated book on the science of human survival. Num Pages: 352 pages, 80 b/w illus, With index. BIC Classification: MFG; MMR; PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006551256
- ISBN
- 9780006551256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.58
€ 13.00
€ 12.58
Paperback. This monograph presents a new view of locomotor development - the processes involved in acquiring adaptive mobility. It reports a longitudinal investigation of infants' ability to adapt movements to variations in the terrain and to changes in their physical capabilities. Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Num Pages: 164 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JMC; MJW; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631224563
- ISBN
- 9780631224563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.57
€ 74.57
Paperback. Presents an analogy for the way the human mind has evolved. Arguing against a whole tradition that praises our human minds as the most perfect result of evolution, this book shows how imperfect and ill-adapted our brains really are. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571236527
- ISBN
- 9780571236527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.53
€ 13.00
€ 11.53
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ranzato, Elia. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Number of pages
- 134
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626187986
- ISBN
- 9781626187986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.00€ 115.47
€ 168.00
€ 115.47
paperback. Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides a detailed account of how local conceptions of imperial cosmopolitanism shaped the city's identity in a newly formed state. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; HBJD; JHM; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780802095633
- ISBN
- 9780802095633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.32
€ 42.99
€ 38.32
Hardback. This book explores how the study of isolated and migrant populations can help us to understand disease etiology and the ongoing evolution of Mankind. Editor(s): Roberts, Derek F.; Fujiki, N. (Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Genetics, Fukui Medical School, Japan); Torizuka, K. Series: Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 81 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521419123
- ISBN
- 9780521419123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.23
€ 163.23
Paperback. From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSPS; JHM; PDZ; PSX; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330526104
- ISBN
- 9780330526104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.80
€ 13.00
€ 11.80
Paperback. This text is aimed at those students and research workers who have some knowledge of immunology, but are curious about the advances, opportunities and challenges in comparative work. It answers questions about the similarities between different orders, classes, phyla and kingdoms. Editor(s): Turner, R. J., Ph.D. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MJCM; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 191 x 14. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471944003
- ISBN
- 9780471944003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 235.36
€ 235.36
Paperback. Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Editor(s): Schramm, Katharina; Skinner, David; Rottenburg, Richard. Series: Studies of the BioSocial Society. Num Pages: 226 pages, 4 tables and figures. BIC Classification: JHMP; PDR; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 167 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782386827
- ISBN
- 9781782386827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.32
€ 21.32
Paperback. This work looks at the hominid species that lived and flourished for around one million years before and, in some cases, after the evolution of modern humans some 200,000 years ago. It also investigates how, when, where and why the modern human species appeared and in due course became dominant. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631205289
- ISBN
- 9780631205289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.34
€ 58.34
Paperback. Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. Num Pages: 272 pages, (16-page colour plate section), With index. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSX; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008125080
- ISBN
- 9780008125080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.41
€ 13.00
€ 11.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; PDZ; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571223039
- ISBN
- 9780571223039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.01
€ 17.99
€ 13.01
Paperback. Human Population Genetics will provide an introduction to mathematical population genetics, along with relevant examples from human (and some non-human primate) populations, and will also present concepts and methods of population genetics that are specific to the study of human populations. Series: Foundation of Human Biology. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PSAK; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 177 x 16. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470464670
- ISBN
- 9780470464670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 89.64
€ 89.64
Hardback. This book is about the microbes that live in us and are essential for us to live and presents a research-level review of the current understanding of human microbiomes, the functions that they bring to the host, how we can model them, their role in health and disease and the methods used to explore them. Editor(s): Marchesi, Julian K. Series: Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MMFM; PSG; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 251 x 18. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- CABI Publishing United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780640495
- ISBN
- 9781780640495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.45
€ 119.45
Paperback. This fourth edition of the best-selling textbook, Human Genetics and Genomics, clearly explains the key principles needed by medical and health sciences students, from the basis of molecular genetics, to clinical applications used in the treatment of both rare and common conditions. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MFN; PSAK; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 270 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470654477
- ISBN
- 9780470654477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.11
€ 62.11
Paperback. Readable, clear text and hundreds of original anatomical drawings are accompanied by a series of text boxes discussing anatomical methods and ocular surgery, as well as historical 'vignettes', which illustrate how we have come to understand the eye as we do. Num Pages: 766 pages, 575 illustrations. BIC Classification: PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 272 x 203 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1846.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Sinauer Associates Incorporated
- Number of pages
- 766
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878936441
- ISBN
- 9780878936441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 250.31
€ 250.31
Paperback. The readership for this book has historically been the upper-undergraduate/graduate level. Professors who wish to bring in more on human evolution, which has increasingly become an important topic in evolutionary biology, genetics and developmental biology courses, will assign this book. Num Pages: 288 pages, 235. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 219 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1004.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 5th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405103787
- ISBN
- 9781405103787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.03
€ 71.03