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Life sciences: general issues
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Life sciences: general issues
Paperback. Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JMC; JMR; PBB; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199753871
- ISBN
- 9780199753871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.71
€ 53.71
Paperback. In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote "I think" and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PSAF; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 8. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 7th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470674826
- ISBN
- 9780470674826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.05
€ 84.05
Paperback. A journey through the history, biology, and culture of the misunderstood cormorant Num Pages: 360 pages, 21 illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: PSAF; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611686999
- ISBN
- 9781611686999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.14
€ 31.99
€ 25.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JMM; MMZR; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925228779
- ISBN
- 9781925228779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. Contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. This book includes detailed comparative anatomy, evolutionary legacies, and the breakthrough theories of eminent scientists. Num Pages: 576 pages, 1000 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: PSAJ; WNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 253 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1808.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500291733
- ISBN
- 9780500291733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.55
€ 26.99
€ 25.55
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Elsevier Health Sciences
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781416062226
- ISBN
- 9781416062226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.93
€ 50.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: PSAK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634632546
- ISBN
- 9781634632546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 242.56€ 181.85
€ 242.56
€ 181.85
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198739913
- ISBN
- 9780198739913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 85.77
€ 85.77
Paperback. The presenter of the BBC's The Incredible Human Journey takes us on a tour around our bodies and into the past to uncover the evolutionary secrets hidden in all of us. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Heron Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848664791
- ISBN
- 9781848664791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: JMM; PSAK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 213. .
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608467273
- ISBN
- 9781608467273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.93
€ 30.99
€ 25.93
Hardback. Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau's creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. This book explores Thoreau's deep connections to trees: his keen perception of them, the joy they gave him, the poetry he saw in them, his philosophical view of them, and how they fed his soul. Num Pages: 248 pages, 102 b/w images. BIC Classification: DQ; PSAF; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520294042
- ISBN
- 9780520294042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.55
€ 27.99
€ 21.55
Paperback. Zooplankton are critical to the vitality of estuaries and coastal waters. This edition takes on a tour of the miniature universe of zooplankton, including early developmental stages of familiar and diverse shrimps, crabs, and fishes. It details the behavior, morphology, and coloration of these tiny aquatic animals. Illustrator(s): Fylling, Marni. Num Pages: 472 pages, 140, 110 black & white plates, 30 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QSA; PSAF; PSVS; PSVT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421406183
- ISBN
- 9781421406183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.87
€ 68.87
Paperback. This updated second edition includes material on interfacing R with other computer languages such as C. It reflects the increasing availability of molecular and genetic databases which allow biologists to pursue new issues such as molecular evolution patterns. Series: Use R!. Num Pages: 386 pages, 89 black & white illustrations, 18 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PBT; PSAJ; PSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461417422
- ISBN
- 9781461417422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 162.04
€ 162.04
Paperback. Builds an argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth. Regarding evolution's complex achievements as peaks on a metaphorical mountain, this book reveals the ways in which the theory of natural selection can precisely explain the beautiful, bizarre and seemingly 'designed' complexity of living things. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141026176
- ISBN
- 9780141026176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.53
€ 17.99
€ 13.53
Hardcover. A review of methods for analyzing fMRI data, with mathematical outlines of how each works. Num Pages: 198 pages, 29 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. BIC Classification: PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 174 x 15. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521868266
- ISBN
- 9780521868266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.83
€ 117.83
Hardback. Groping around a familiar room in the dark, relearning to read after a brain injury, navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar: all are expressions of vicariance when the brain substitutes one process or function for another. Alain Berthoz shows that this capacity allows humans to think creatively in an increasingly complex world. Translator(s): Weiss, Giselle. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: JMAQ; JMR; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088955
- ISBN
- 9780674088955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Paperback. Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being. Illustrator(s): Van Loon, Borin. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- SKU
- KTG0012761
- ISBN
- 9781840466362
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour of entire organisms, how they interact and how changes in biological diversity affect the planet's ecological balance. The author explores these and whole range of pertinent issues. Editor(s): Davey, John. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZM; PSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Serpents Tail
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846682056
- ISBN
- 9781846682056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.74
€ 15.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Gives us an account of the fundamental unit of heredity - and a vision of both humanity's past and future. In this book, the story begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk stumbles on the idea of a "Unit of heredity". It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: JFMG; PDR; PDX; PDZ; PSAK; TCBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099584575
- ISBN
- 9780099584575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Sean Carroll explores how evolution has shaped nature's wondrous complexity and diversity, from insects to octopuses, from mice to men. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAJ; PSAK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849160483
- ISBN
- 9781849160483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48