Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la vida: cuestiones generales

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  • The Behaviour and Social Life of Honeybees
    Ronald Ribbands
    This book is a comprehensive review, designed to meet the needs of SCIENTISTS, BEEKEEPERS, AND ALL READERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE NATURAL HISTORY OF INSECTS. It is written in everyday English, without scientific jargon. The author particularly emphasises the most recent researches, including surprising results which have hitherto only been described in scientific journals. I...
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    47,46 €

  • School Choice and School Governance
    J. Herbst
    For over 200 years, legislators, educators, and public-minded citizens have debated how to govern public schools. This book reviews these debates and discusses racial integration, ethnicity, social class, vouchers, charter, magnet and private schools in the United States, the former German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. ...
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    48,15 €

  • Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East
    R. Shechter
    The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey (earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries. It studies the consumption of homes and domesticity as changing processes in space and time. It further foregrounds research into the impact of economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations on t...
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    48,12 €

  • The Evolution of American Women’s Studies
    A. Ginsberg
    This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women’s studies scholars, focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first introduction in the University setting to the present day. ...
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    48,02 €

  • U.S. Organic Dairy Politics
    B. Scholten
    Based on a decade of study, this book provides a scholarly overview of organic dairy politics, showing how politics, policy, and protest both inside and outside of agriculture can determine a future of pastoral landscapes resembling an earlier time in the western world or, alternatively, one made of dystopian ruralities. ...
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    47,74 €

  • America’s National Park System
    Lary M Dilsaver / Lary M. Dilsaver / Lary MDilsaver
    Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America's national park system. The extensive collection of documents illustrates the system's creation, development, and management. ...
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    82,36 €

  • The College 'Y'
    D. Setran
    Please note this is a ’Palgrave to Order’ title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. In this groundbreaking history of the YMCA, David Setran details its critical role on American campuses, exploring how this popular organization worked to strengthen the Protestant piety of American collegians throug...
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    47,68 €

  • Retrograde Evolution During Major Extinction Crises
    Jean Guex
    This book is the first of its kind, providing in-depth analysis of the retrograde evolution occurring during major extinction periods. The text offers a non-strictly adaptative explanation of repetition of phyla after the major extinctions, utilizing a study of seven phylogenetically distinct groups. This opens a new experimental field in evolutionary biology with the possibili...
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    67,98 €

  • Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands
    Wetlands are among the world’s most valuable and most threatened habitats, and in these crucially important ecosystems, the invertebrate fauna holds a focal position. Most of the biological diversity in wetlands is found within resident invertebrate assemblages, and those invertebrates are the primary trophic link between lower plants and higher vertebrates (e.g. amphibians, fi...
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    271,38 €

  • Animal Athletes
    Duncan J Irschick
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    67,87 €

  • Post-transcriptional Mechanisms in Endocrine Regulation
    This book examines how post-transcriptional mechanisms control endocrine function. This includes newly identified regulatory mechanisms involved in hormone biosynthesis, control of hormone receptors and the outputs of hormone mediated signal transduction. Chapters address endocrine hormones including protein peptide/peptide, steroid, and non-steroidal hormones. The impacts of t...
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    47,53 €

  • Patho-Epigenetics of Infectious Disease
    Epigenetic modification of cellular genomes is a fascinating means of regulating tissue- and cell type-specific gene expression in all developmental stages of the life of an organism. Carefully orchestrated processes, such as DNA methylation and a plenitude of specific histone modifications secure the faithful transmission of gene expression patterns to progeny cells. Upon chro...
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    49,14 €

  • Bats in the Anthropocene
    This book focuses on central themes related to the conservation of bats. It details their response to land-use change and management practices, intensified urbanization and roost disturbance and loss. Increasing interactions between humans and bats as a result of hunting, disease relationships, occupation of human dwellings, and conflict over fruit crops are explored in depth. ...
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    46,30 €

  • The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega
    Aung Si
    This book covers the ethnobiology and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Solega people of southern India. Solega TEK is shown to be a complex, inter-related network of detailed observations of natural phenomena, well-reasoned and often highly accurate theorizing, as well as a belief system, derived from cultural norms, regarding the relationships between humans and o...
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    47,95 €

  • Organic Farming for Sustainable Agriculture
    Dilip Nandwani
    Focusing on organic farming, this book presents peer-reviewed contributions from leading international academics and researchers in the field of organic agriculture, plant ecosystems, sustainable horticulture and related areas of biodiversity science. It includes case studies and reviews on organic agriculture, horticulture and pest management, use of microorganisms, composting...
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    245,81 €

  • CENTRE The Truth about Everything
    Brian F. Taylor / Brian FTaylor
    CENTRE is a book about investigation which offers a new discovery in touch with the Source of being, the Oneness of all life. As a result of a spiritual awakening, the author came to see that all beings have this luminous Centre at the centre of their beings and are, for the most part, unaware of its significance or even its existence. The truth is revealed about what is inside...
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    11,74 €

  • Rethinking the History of American Education
    This collection of original essays examines the history of American education as it has developed as a field since the 1970s and moves into a post-revisionist era and looks forward to possible new directions for the future. Contributors take a comprehensive approach, beginning with colonial education and spanning to modern day, while also looking at various aspects of education...
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    47,77 €

  • Bioluminescence
    This book review series presents current trends in modern biotechnology. The aim is to cover all aspects of this interdisciplinary technology where knowledge, methods and expertise are required from chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, chemical engineering and computer science. Volumes are organized topically and provide a comprehensive discussion of developments in...
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    269,90 €

  • Grand Celebration
    In 1990, scientists began working together on one of the largest biological research projectsever proposed. The project proposed to sequence the three billion nucleotides in the humangenome. The Human Genome Project took 13 years and was completed in April 2003, at acost of approximately three billion dollars. It was a major scientific achievement that foreverchanged the unders...
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    74,87 €

  • Grand Celebration
    In 1990, scientists began working together on one of the largest biological research projectsever proposed. The project proposed to sequence the three billion nucleotides in the humangenome. The Human Genome Project took 13 years and was completed in April 2003, at acost of approximately three billion dollars. It was a major scientific achievement that foreverchanged the unders...
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    74,83 €

  • Grand Celebration
    In 1990, scientists began working together on one of the largest biological research projectsever proposed. The project proposed to sequence the three billion nucleotides in the humangenome. The Human Genome Project took 13 years and was completed in April 2003, at acost of approximately three billion dollars. It was a major scientific achievement that foreverchanged the unders...
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    74,85 €

  • Cybernetics, Second Edition
    Norbert Wiener
    CYBERNETICS, in its authoritative and final Second Edition, is now available in a modern and highly legible presentation - not just a 'facsimile edition' (photocopy) of the printing as are cheap recreations. Instead, the Quid Pro Books edition is a contemporary but affordable printing rsther thsn a generic reprint. [NOTE: Only the Quid Pro edition offers these features, even if...
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    31,57 €

  • 22 Generations
    Warren Hays
    Modern societies are packed full of inventions and useful ideas that have accumulated over hundreds of generations. That's what built up the modern world we live in. We humans, among the millions of species of life, are the only one that thinks up innovative ideas and carries out the complex actions to make them real. What drives us to forever change our world this way? 22 ...
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    21,22 €

  • Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists
    Benjamin Leutner / Martin Wegmann / Stefan Dech
    This book will allow ecologists to get started with the application of remote sensing and to understand its potential and limitations. Using practical examples, the book covers all necessary steps from planning field campaigns to deriving ecologically relevant information through remote sensing and modelling of species distributions. ...
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    68,84 €

  • Seaweed Phylogeography
    The book provides an overview ofresearch on the remarkable diversity, adaptive genetic differentiation, andevolutionary complexity of intertidal macroalgae species. Through incorporatingmolecular data, ecological niche and model-based phylogeographic inference,this book presents the latest findings and hypotheses on the spatialdistribution and evolution of seaweeds in the conte...
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    209,09 €

  • Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists
    Benjamin Leutner / Martin Wegmann / Stefan Dech
    This book will allow ecologists to get started with the application of remote sensing and to understand its potential and limitations. Using practical examples, the book covers all necessary steps from planning field campaigns to deriving ecologically relevant information through remote sensing and modelling of species distributions. ...
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    113,08 €

  • Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems of the Western US
    Invasions by exotic grasses, particularly annuals, rank among the most extensive and intensive ways that humans are contributing to the transformation of the earth’s surface. The problem is particularly notable with a suite of exotic grasses in the Bromus genus in the arid and semiarid regions that dominate the western United States, which extend from the dry basins near the Si...
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    209,34 €

  • Evolution’s Captain
    Peter Nichols
    This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle .This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, precipitated his employment of a young naturalist named Charles Darwin, ...
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    15,19 €

  • Applying Pharmacogenomics in Therapeutics
    This book covers the principles, practice, and potential of pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, employing patient case profiles to illustrate key concepts and clinical applications. Featuring contributions from well-established pharmacologists/scientists, this authoritative text depicts the use of genetic biomarkers in drug discovery and development, laboratory medicine...
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    308,32 €

  • BIOLOGY OF MANGROVES 3E BOHS P
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    81,63 €