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  • Forest Entomology

    A Global Perspective

    by William Ciesla ...
    Insects are the most abundant and diverse organisms that inhabit our planet and are found in all the world’s forest ecosystems. Many feed and/or breed on parts of trees. Some perform important functions, such as pollination or break-down of dead vegetation. Others weaken, deform or kill trees, and compete with humans for the many goods and services that trees and forests provide. Forest Entomology ... Read more

    $134.99 CAD

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  • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

    by Frans de Waal ...
    A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The AtlanticHailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them)

    From Honeybee Democracy

    by Thomas D. Seeley ...
    Series series Princeton Shorts
    Studies of animal behavior have often been invoked to help explain and even guide human behavior. Think of Pavlov and his dogs or Goodall and her chimps. But, as these examples indicate, the tendency has been to focus on "higher," more cognitively developed, and thus, it is thought, more intelligent creatures than mindless, robotic insects. Not so! Learn here how honeybees work together to form a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Bugs In The System

    Insects And Their Impact On Human Affairs

    by May Berenbaum ...
    An introduction to insect physiology, genetics and behaviour which looks at the interaction between humans and insects, and explores both the positive and negative aspects of the relationship. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Insects of Ireland

    by Stephen McCormack, Eugenie Regan, Chris Shields ...
    Over 11,000 species of insects occur in Ireland but most are very small and escape notice. Identifying them accurately can be difficult or impossible. This comprehensive compact guide to over 120 of Ireland's most popular insects includes all Irish species of butterflies, bumblebees, dragonflies, ladybirds, grasshoppers and shield bugs. All are illustrated in colour with clear descriptions ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Industrial Entomology

    Edited by Omkar ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is a compilation of writings focused on conventional and unconventional insect products. Some of these products are commercials successes, while others are waiting to be launched and are the potential produce of the future. In addition to the well known products honey, mulberry silk, and lac, the book primarily concentrates on silk producing insects other than the mulberry silkworm, ... Read more

    $282.99 CAD

  • Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography

    by Richard E. Thomson, William J. Emery ...
    Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, Third Edition is a practical reference to established and modern data analysis techniques in earth and ocean sciences. Its five major sections address data acquisition and recording, data processing and presentation, statistical methods and error handling, analysis of spatial data fields, and time series analysis methods. The revised Third Edition ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Termites and Sustainable Management

    Volume 1 - Biology, Social Behaviour and Economic Importance

    Edited by Md. Aslam Khan, Wasim Ahmad ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This Volume comprises 12 chapters in an attempt to bring available information on biology, social behavour and economic importance of termites. Chapters in this book dealing with termites identification provide a review on most updated information of their systematics. Ecologically, termites interact with living and non-living surroundings and deliver a wide range of behaviors. In a separate ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Fish Physiology: Homeostasis and Toxicology of Essential Metals

    by Chris M. Wood, Colin Brauner, Anthony P. Farrell ...
    Series Book 31 - Fish Physiology
    Homeostasis and Toxicology of Essential Metals synthesizes the explosion of new information on the molecular, cellular, and organismal handling of metals in fish in the past 15 years. These elements are no longer viewed by fish physiologists as "heavy metals" that kill fish by suffocation, but rather as interesting moieties that enter and leave fish by specific pathways, which are subject to ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Green Information Technology

    A Sustainable Approach

    by Mohammad Dastbaz, Colin Pattinson, Babak Akhgar ...
    We are living in the era of "Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with "Big Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized computing infrastructures (data centres) currently use 7 giga watts of electricity during peak loads. This translates ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Flying Insects and Robots

    Edited by Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Charlie Ellington ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engineers developing intelligent flying robots or micro air vehicles (MAVs). The insights we gain when synthesizing bioinspired systems can in turn ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate

    Sustainability and Economic Perspectives

    by Kevin J. Noone, Robert J. Diaz, Ussif Rashid Sumaila ...
    Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate summarizes the current state of several threats to the global oceans. What distinguishes this book most from previous works is that this book begins with a holistic, global-scale focus for the first several chapters and then provides an example of how this approach can be applied on a regional scale, for the Pacific region. Previous works usually ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD