Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la vida: cuestiones generales

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  • Genetic Priorities for Conservation of Native Honey Bees
    Dorian Pritchard
    Like Dorian, I started beekeeping in the 1970s. I joined BIBBA (which then stood for the British Isles Bee Breeders’ Association) and became a committee member. I was privileged to be asked to compile the book The Honeybees of the British Isles from the articles and papers left by BIBBA’s Director Beowulf Cooper after his untimely death in 1982.After a scientific training Beowu...
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    47,77 €

  • On the Riddle of Life
    Bohang Chen
    This book presents a historico-logical study of vitalism. It begins by uncovering previously unknown doctrines of vitalism from the history of science-encompassing biological, physical, and social sciences-and then subjects these doctrines to a thorough logical analysis. Through this process, the book offers a unified conceptual framework to understand the major doctrines of vi...
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    167,01 €

  • Recent Advances and Challenges in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
    Yong-Ku Kim
    This book reviews all aspects of major depressive disorder (MDD), casting light on its neurobiological underpinnings and describing the most recent advances in management. The book is divided into four sections, the first of which discusses MDD from a network science perspective, highlighting the alterations in functional and structural connectivity and presenting insights achi...
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    343,67 €

  • Management of Migraine Pain
    The book delves into the multifaceted world of migraine pain, offering a profound understanding of its underlying pathophysiology and presenting established treatment strategies for its effective management. It discusses the intricate world of migraine pain, offering valuable insights into its diverse aspects. Starting with an exploration of migraine’s epidemiology and etiology...
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    326,23 €

  • Biodiversity and Conservation
    Dr. Thangapandiyan Shanmugam
    This book provides a comprehensive exploration of biodiversity, beginning with an Introduction to Biodiversity that defines its various forms-genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity-and highlights its significance to the health of ecosystems and human survival. It then delves into the Threats to Biodiversity, discussing critical global issues such as habitat destruction, poll...
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    74,48 €

  • Understanding the Nature‒Nurture Debate
    Eric Turkheimer
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    23,62 €

  • Microbiomes and Emerging Applications
    This book covers a range of important topics on metagenomics, microbiomes and their emerging applications, including microbiota transplantation and its health implications. It also discusses microbiome composition and development in humans. ...
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    83,01 €

  • WAYS OF COMPREHENDING
    ATHANASSIOS FOKAS
    To comprehend the world around us, we first have to decipher how our brains work. This book outlines a new approach to knowledge and comprehension based on the elucidation of several basic neuronal mechanisms. It explores the crucial fact that unconscious processes and conscious experiences form a continuum and, importantly, introduces the concept of metarepresentations. This f...
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    169,80 €

  • WAYS OF COMPREHENDING
    ATHANASSIOS FOKAS
    To comprehend the world around us, we first have to decipher how our brains work. This book outlines a new approach to knowledge and comprehension based on the elucidation of several basic neuronal mechanisms. It explores the crucial fact that unconscious processes and conscious experiences form a continuum and, importantly, introduces the concept of metarepresentations. This f...
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    48,19 €

  • Influence of temperature on Caiman crocodilus yacare in the Pantanal
    Rafaela Danielli Nicola
    The book discusses the influence of temperature on the incubation of marsh caiman (Caiman crocodilus yacare) eggs in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul, Miranda and Abobral sub-regions. This species has a temperature-dependent sex determination mechanism (TSD). Using thermometers installed at different depths in a forest nest, we found that the temperature inside the chamber wa...
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    49,58 €

  • Hypnosis, Psychosis and the Consciousness Conundrum
    Peter Naish
    Have you ever wondered how your brain works, how it makes sense of what you hear and see? Many people do, but then shrug their shoulders and simply get on with using their brain. That’s sad; they are missing such a lot! This book is full of fascinating facts and details about the senses, and also covers what happens when things ’go wrong’, such as when someone hypnotised sees t...
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    22,71 €

  • Regenerative Tourism
    Saortua Marbun
    *'Beyond Sustainability: Regenerative Tourism for a Thriving Planet'* introduces an innovative approach to tourism that aims to restore and regenerate ecosystems, communities, and economies impacted by travel. Moving beyond traditional sustainability, regenerative tourism offers a holistic, multi-stakeholder model incorporating ecological restoration, community empowerment, eth...
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    143,16 €

  • Eco-services & Carbon Sequestration potential of Pune’s green spaces
    Dnyanesh Mahajan / Vijayalaxmi Shinde
    The study focuses on the carbon pool analysis and various phytosociological parameters from biodiversity perspective. More emphasis has been given on the potential of urban and hill vegetation as a carbon sink. The phytosociological data was used to determine homogeneity/heterogeneity of the vegetation stand. The soil organic carbon was estimated as it is a significant carbon s...
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    112,98 €

  • Hospital waste
    G.L Abu Youcef
    Hospital waste management is a crucial issue for University Hospitals (CHU), where patient health and respect for the environment must coexist. This book, Hospital Waste: Towards Sustainable Management in University Hospitals, offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges and solutions associated with waste management in these establishments. In 20 chapters, it covers the diffe...
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    54,51 €

  • Problems and impacts of effluent from the Pharmakina company
    MUHERUKI PALUKU
    The water available to humans, and also to the rest of the ecosystem, represents less than the total volume of fresh water on earth. The quality of the part available and potentially usable by man has continued to deteriorate and sometimes in an irreversible manner. The generating capacity is exceeded because of our increasingly significant liquid, solid or gaseous toxic discha...
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    75,44 €

  • Clean Energy Transition-via-Biomass Resource Utilization
    This book highlights clean energy transition via sustainable utilization of biomass resources, viz. forestry, agriculture, agroforestry, grassland, and seaweeds to climate change mitigation.Bioresources have tremendous potential to mitigate global warming. Also, biomass is expected to play a multifunctional role including food production, source of energy and fodder, biodiversi...
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    234,97 €

  • Baboon Perspectives on Early Human Ancestors
    Glenn E. King
    Baboon Perspectives on Early Human Ancestors brings together the most recent information on the behavior and ecology of Papio baboons and early hominins. Building on a long tradition and integrating recent developments, it discusses the ways that baboon behavior can enhance our understanding of our early ancestors. This approach augments interpretation of the archeological reco...
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    110,73 €

  • LIFE ON EARTH-LIKE PLANETS
    GERALD E MARSH
    From its ancient Greek roots to Lovelock’s groundbreaking 1979 book, the concept of Gaia has evolved to depict Earth as a single, intricate organism sustaining life through the interplay of its organic and inorganic elements. From the Hadean epoch, where life’s emergence radically transformed our planet, to the present, Earth stands as our sole model for understanding life’s po...
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    95,16 €

  • QGIS for Ecologists
    Stephanie Miles
    If you don’t know where to start or how to use QGIS, this is the practical guide for you. Simple, step-by-step instructions and practical exercises make it easy and fun. ...
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    112,66 €

  • QGIS for Ecologists
    Stephanie Miles
    If you don’t know where to start or how to use QGIS, this is the practical guide for you. Simple, step-by-step instructions and practical exercises make it easy and fun. ...
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    69,75 €

  • MAHAFALE GRASSROOTS COMMUNITIES AND THE CONSERVATION OF FOREST RESOURCES
    Parson Rambinizandry
    The aim of this study is to assess the scope and limits of the Gélose law and the GCF decree, using management transfers established on the outskirts of a protected area in the drought-dominated zone. In this context, the Mahafale plateau, home to Tsimanampesotse National Park, was chosen to test three hypotheses concerning 25 management transfers: (i) the level of participatio...
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    123,49 €

  • Urban environmental quality in the municipality of Teresina - PI
    Joécio Santos Sousa / Paulo Borges da Cunha
    The city is an urban space in a constant process of morphological, structural, social, economic, cultural and environmental transformation, and it is these transformations that cause changes in the composition of the physical, political and organisational space of cities. Environmental quality, for example, is directly linked to a population’s quality of life, and it manifests ...
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    50,79 €

  • Introduction to Molecular Genetics
    Mussavir ul Nisha / Shahid Ahmad Shergojry
    The Multiple-Choice Question Bank of Animal Breeding and Genetics is an invaluable resource for students aiming to excel in their studies and competitive examinations. Here are the key utilities of this comprehensive question bank: 1. Comprehensive Coverage- Extensive Range of Topics: The question bank covers a wide array of topics in both animal breeding and genetics, ensuring...
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    54,63 €

  • Identification of phenotypic and molecular markers for obesity
    Daniel Liarte / Davi Lima / Juliana de Carvalho Passos
    In clinical practice, the distinction between genetic and dietary obesity is often not clear-cut, probably due to the lack of an accessible, low-cost genetic test. Due to the complexity and severity of obesity, it is necessary to know the aetiological factors in order to direct patients towards appropriate treatment. With this in mind, the aim of this study was to identify phen...
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    49,45 €

  • Information gaps for the conservation of terrestrial biodiversity
    João Carvalho / José Lyavila
    The lacunas system was designed to provide a dynamic tool for ecologists, biologists and conservationists to analyze the ’status of online knowledge’ about species of the flora of the Northeast Region of Southern Africa, namely Mozambique (Moz); Malawi (Mw) and Tanzania (Tz), easily identifying the IUCN Red List categories and criteria and their geographical distributions, thus...
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    55,40 €

  • The Theory of Evolution is Insane
    Danny Erhardt
    The Creation / Evolution debate is over. Evolution lost. It is so stupid, idiotic, asinine, laughable, ridiculous, absurd and scientifically impossible according to the LAWS of science and all of the facts and evidence that it is literally insane. (Just read this book and you will see.) We’ve all been lied to. And the liars unfortunately control 95% of the national medi...
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    24,79 €

  • On the Origin of Species
    Charles Darwin
    This groundbreaking work introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection, revolutionizing the biological sciences. Darwin meticulously argues that species evolve over time through a process of adaptation to their environments, driven by survival pressures. Based on years of research and observations, particularly during his voyage on the HMS Beagle, this book fundamenta...
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    26,74 €

  • On the Origin of Species
    Charles Darwin
    This groundbreaking work introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection, revolutionizing the biological sciences. Darwin meticulously argues that species evolve over time through a process of adaptation to their environments, driven by survival pressures. Based on years of research and observations, particularly during his voyage on the HMS Beagle, this book fundamenta...
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    36,93 €

  • Reading Ruse
    Michael Ruse
    Philosopher of science Michael Ruse is an influential and provocative voice in current debates on biology, religion, and ethics. This collection brings into one volume representative samples of the broad range of Ruse’s oeuvre, as represented in his academic books, mainly from post-2000. Ruse’s writings in this period are gathered under seven headings, each with five readings: ...
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    66,86 €

  • The effect of solar activity in marine ecosystems
    Valentin Bryantsev
    The monograph presents the experience of multi-year forecasting (a year or more in advance) of fish catch success and the state of marine ecosystems in some areas of the World Ocean. The methodology is based on the revealed statistically reliable relationships of fish catches and ecosystem elements with solar activity (Wolf number) and climatic fluctuations, which are indirectl...
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    31,26 €