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Life sciences: general issues

Paperback. Originally published in 1979, "The Darwinian Revolution" was a comprehensive synthesis of the history of evolutionary thought. For this edition, Michael Ruse has written an afterword that takes into account the research published since his book's first appearance. Num Pages: 362 pages, 12 halftones, 28 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226731698
ISBN
9780226731698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Hardback. The definitive work on the philosophical nature and impact of the theories of Charles Darwin, written by a well-known authority on the history and philosophy of Darwinism. Series: Blackwell Great Minds. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405149129
ISBN
9781405149129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.51

Hardcover. The most authoritative cognitive neuroscience text is also the most accessible. Editor(s): Gazzaniga, Michael S.; Mangun, George R. Num Pages: 1128 pages, 87 color illus., 183 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JMM; JMR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 221 x 47. Weight in Grams: 2804.
Publisher
A Bradford Book
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
fifth edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262027779
ISBN
9780262027779
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 225.79
€ 215.49

Hardcover. Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all: what is consciousness? Linking consciousness with social intelligence, Graziano discusses the science, the philosophy, and the implications. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMR; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199928644
ISBN
9780199928644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.23

Paperback. Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? This title shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment. Num Pages: 263 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JMRM; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
263
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224865
ISBN
9780520224865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.01

Paperback. The Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume III reviews the origins, onset, course, and outcome of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The text illustrates new developments in conceptual models and research methodology. Editor(s): Ritsner, Michael. Num Pages: 478 pages, 17 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JMM; MJN; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 730.
Publisher
Springer
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400798724
ISBN
9789400798724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 276.41

Hardback. Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his peers as a man of formidable mind and outsized personality. In this biography, Michael Shermer aims to rescue him from the history's sidelines. Num Pages: 448 pages, numerous halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 814.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195148305
ISBN
9780195148305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.06

Paperback. Our origins as a slave species and the Anunnaki legacy in our DNA. Num Pages: 576 pages, 104 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFH; PSAJ; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 29. Weight in Grams: 936.
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591431510
ISBN
9781591431510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.58

Hardback. What is it like 'on the inside' for nonhuman animals? Do they feel anything? Most people happily accept that dogs, for example, share many experiences and feelings with us. But what about simpler creatures? Fish? Honeybees? Crabs? Turning to the artificial realm, what about robots? This book presents answers to these questions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JM; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190278014
ISBN
9780190278014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 40.72

Paperback. If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. This title argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 b/w illustrations, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: PD; PSAF; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285200
ISBN
9780520285200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

paperback. Series: The Receptors. Num Pages: 516 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Humana United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461288503
ISBN
9781461288503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 242.72

Paperback. A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that we now can envision our biological predecessors - not the first, but nearly the first, living beings on Earth. This title is about these vanished forebears, sketching them in the distant past just as their workings first began to resemble our own. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 line illustrations. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSAK1; PSB; PSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060715
ISBN
9780674060715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.62

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JHMC; PSAK; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168748
ISBN
9780231168748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.84

Hardback. How Darwin's theory of evolution drove generations of zoologists to search for the first evolved nervous systems in simple organisms. Num Pages: 388 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
McGill-Queen´s University Press Canada
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780773545717
ISBN
9780773545717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.44

Paperback. Explaining how the principles of population dynamics and ecosystem functioning can be merged, this title addresses key issues in the study of biodiversity and ecosystems, such as functional complementarity, food webs, stability and complexity, material cycling, and metacommunities. Series: Monographs in Population Biology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 halftones. 54 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: PSAF; RNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122700
ISBN
9780691122700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.92
€ 53.40

Hardback. This book analyzes our theoretical and empirical understanding of the sense of agency for consciousness, self-consciousness and action. It examines the relationship between action and its conscious control in both normal and pathological cases such as autism. Editor(s): Balconi, Michela. Num Pages: 207 pages, 25 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JMM; MMH; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Verlag Italy
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9788847015869
ISBN
9788847015869
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.65

Paperback. Series: Springerbriefs in Public Health / Springerbriefs in Public Health Ethics. Num Pages: 111 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
111
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319122021
ISBN
9783319122021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.73

Hardback. From rice to lotus leaves to dragonfly wings, this book explores a variety of natural surfaces, their scientific characteristics, and their unique engineering potential, demonstrating that engineering applications can be found in unexpected places. Editor(s): Lee, Michelle. Num Pages: 163 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, 58 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAF; TBN; TGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319031248
ISBN
9783319031248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. Ecologists are increasingly tackling difficult issues like global change, loss of biodiversity and sustainability of ecosystem services. These and related questions are enormously challenging, requiring unprecedented multidisciplinary collaboration and rapid synthesis of large amounts of diverse data into information and ultimately knowledge. Editor(s): Michener, W. K.; Brunt, James W. Series: Ecological Methods & Concepts S. Num Pages: 192 pages, 48. BIC Classification: GPS; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780632052318
ISBN
9780632052318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 134.92

Paperback. Recording memories, mind reading, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis - no longer are these feats of the mind solely the province of overheated science fiction. The author takes us on a tour of the top laboratories around the world to meet the scientists who are already revolutionising the way we think about the brain. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: GTR; PDZ; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141975870
ISBN
9780141975870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. When we talk about biomolecular sequencing, it is the relatively recent Human Genome Project that comes to mind. However, sequencing has a longer and more complex history which begins in the 1940s and is presented for the first time in this book. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 260 pages, 46 black & white illustrations, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBTB; MBX; PDX; PSAK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137543325
ISBN
9781137543325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.39

Paperback. Editor(s): Wheeler, Miguel N.; Johnston, Bradley R. Num Pages: 95 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PSBT; TDCH; TVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
95
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629480435
ISBN
9781629480435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 116.45
€ 80.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Ludwig, Mike. Num Pages: 348 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 551.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Birkhauser Boston Inc United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461498384
ISBN
9781461498384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 187.97

Hardcover. Num Pages: 584 pages, 183 b&w illus. BIC Classification: PSAN; UFM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 25. .
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262035828
ISBN
9780262035828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.68
€ 61.53

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