Life Sciences - Biology
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Introduction to Light Microscopy: Tips and Tricks for Beginners
$44.99 Add to cartThis book offers a beginner’s guide to using light microscopes. It begins with a brief introduction to the physics of optics, which will give the reader a basic grasp of the behaviors of light. In tur
- Author: Lawlor, Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 12 2019
- ISBN10: 303005392X
- Language: English
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C?mo Funciona El Cuerpo Humano (How the Body Works): Gu?a Gr?fica de Nuestro Organismo
$27.99 Add to cartC?mo funciona el cuerpo humano explora los maravillosos procesos que ocurren dentro de nuestro propio cuerpo, normalmente, sin que nos demos cuenta de ello.
Por qu? nos mareamos o sentimos mariposas- Series: DK How Stuff Works
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1465478795
- Language: Spanish
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Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
$15.99 Add to cartFollowing in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world’s leading scientists examines how “pure science” is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assump… [more below]
- Author: Lewontin, Richard C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 13 1993
- ISBN10: 0060975199
- Language: English
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On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition
$65.00 Read moreIn this classic of biology and modern science, Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948), one of the most distinguished scientists of the modern era, sets forth his seminal “theory of transformation”
- Series: Dover Books on Biology
- Author: Thompson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: June 23 1992
- ISBN10: 0486671356
- Language: English
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Biological Motion: A History of Life
$33.00 Add to cartA captivating exploration of the changing definitions of life in biology
Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize- Author: Wellmann, Janina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1942130813
- Language: English
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Adventures with a Microscope
$14.95 Read moreWith a simple microscope and this book, you can embark on 59 wonderful adventures in the natural world — make discoveries about the structures of numerous microscopic animals; find out what everyday … [more below]
- Author: Headstrom, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0486234711
- Language: English
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The Cartoon Guide to Biology
$23.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Larry Gonick and Davidson College biology professor David Wessner comes this comprehensive and humorous cartoon guide to topics in biology
Did you faint when your
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0062398652
- Language: English
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Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life
$15.99 Read moreOne of the world’s leading scientists on aging delivers a revealing and enjoyable account of what ageing is and how we can tackle its more serious side effects.
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY S… [more below]- Author: Kenny, Rose Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1788705068
- Language: English
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
$16.98 Add to cartMitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are f… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Landmark Science
- Author: Lane, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0198831900
- Language: English
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Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old
$19.00 Add to cart“A fascinating look at how scientists are working to help doctors treat the aging process itself, helping us all to lead longer, healthier lives.” –Sanjay Gupta, MD
Aging–not cancer, not heart disea- Author: Steele, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0525566317
- Language: English
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The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters – With a New Q&A with the Author
$0.00 Read moreNow the subject of an Emmy Award-winning film the New York Times calls “spellbinding”
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish- Author: Carroll, Sean B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07, 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175683
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
$19.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as “one of the best scientist/writers of our time,” a collection of sharply observed, uproariously funny essays on t- Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0684838915
- Language: English
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Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate
$19.99 Read morePssssst! Did you know plants can talk?
It’s true! Plants use the colors of their flowers to communicate with animals. But why animals? Because they help plants make seeds by moving pollen from one flo
- Author: Levine, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1541519280
- Language: English
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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
$22.00 Add to cart2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist
“Science book of the year”—The Guardian
One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018
One of Publishers Weekly‘s Top Ten Books of 2018
One- Author: Zimmer, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1101984619
- Language: English
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
$19.00 Add to cart“Enriching” —Publisher’s Weekly
In the tradition of Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani’s The Social Instinct is a profound and engagi
“Excellent and illuminating”–Wall Street Journal- Author: Raihani, Nichola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250262836
- Language: English
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Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
$19.99 Read moreFor readers of Giulia Enders’ Gut and Bill Bryson’s The Body, a surprising, witty and sparkling exploration of the teeming microbiome of possibility in human feces from microbiologist and science jour… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Bryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1538720019
- Language: English
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Cells, 2nd edition
$37.43 Add to cartA complete curriculum about the anatomy and physiology of (animal) cells designed for ages 10 to 16. The first half of the book is a 100-page student section with ten chapters that are written in a li
- Author: McHenry, Ellen Johnston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1737476347
- Language: English
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
$16.99 Add to cart“No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this underappreciated group its due.” — Elizabeth Kolbert
Say “algae” and most people think of pond- Author: Kassinger, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 035829956X
- Language: English
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Microbe Hunters
$18.99 Add to cart“It manages to delight, and frequently to entrance, old and new readers and] continues to engage our hearts and minds today with an indescribably brand of affectionate sympathy.”–F. Gonzalez-Crussi,
- Author: de Kruif, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28, 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027771
- Language: English
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
$29.99 Add to cartNational Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 … [more below]
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164360
- Language: English
