‘Biology’ Category




The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Every January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year—a grand, expensive, and occasionally vicious 365-day marathon of birdwatching. For three men in particular, 1998 would become a grueling battle for a new North American birding record. Bouncing from coast ...

Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple (Edition 4)

Friday, August 19th, 2011

A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from AIDS to "flesh-eating bacteria" to ebola, mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, etc. Excellent Board review. List Price: $ 32.95 Price: [wpramaprice asin="094078081X"] [wpramareviews asin="094078081X"] Related posts: Tailor-Made Bride, A Made in America Simple Italian ...

Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry & eBook

Saturday, August 13th, 2011

In the Fifth Edition, authors Dave Nelson and Mike Cox combine the best of the   laboratory and best of the classroom, introducing exciting new developments while communicating basic principles through a variety of new learning tools—from new in-text worked examples and data analysis problems to the breakthrough eBook, which seamlessly ...

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Friday, July 15th, 2011

ISBN13: 9780393315707Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! "The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years."--E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction.Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with ...

Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . ” Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in ...

Guns, Germs & Steel : The Fates of Human Societies

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for shaping the modern world. Societies that had a ...

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?  In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway ...

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, an eminent neurologist offers unprecedented insight into the evolution of the uniquely human brain.V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field-so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets ...