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Political Species

The Evolution and Diversity of Private Organizations in Politics

by Karsten Ronit ...

Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
In Political Species, Karsten Ronit expertly argues that evolutionary biology can provide important sources of inspiration for analyzing the proliferation of private actors/organizations in domestic and global politics. Focusing on the evolution of a diversity of such private actors/organizations in politics, Ronit emphasizes that individuals are affected by and contribute to societal, cultural, ... Read more

$91.99 CAD

In Political Species, Karsten Ronit expertly argues that evolutionary biology can provide important sources of inspiration for analyzing the proliferation of private actors/organizations in domestic and global politics. Focusing on the evolution of a diversity of such private actors/organizations in politics, Ronit emphasizes that individuals are affected by and contribute to societal, cultural,
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Foresight

by Marcos Eberlin ...

Learn about jumping insects with real gears, and the ingenious technology behind a power-punching shrimp. Enter the strange world of carnivorous plants. And check out a microscopic protein machine in a bird's eye that may work as a GPS device by harnessing quantum entanglement. Join renowned Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin as he uncovers a myriad of artful solutions to major engineering ... Read more

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Learn about jumping insects with real gears, and the ingenious technology behind a power-punching shrimp. Enter the strange world of carnivorous plants. And check out a microscopic protein machine in a bird's eye that may work as a GPS device by harnessing quantum entanglement. Join renowned Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin as he uncovers a myriad of artful solutions to major engineering
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Dominance Behavior

An Evolutive and Comparative Perspective

by Jorge A. Colombo ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book approaches two behavioral domains involved with human nature and actions related to dominance, an ancient animal, survival-linked, behavioral drive anchored in basal neural brain circuits. These domains result in latent or manifest conflicts among components of human animal nature and cultural profiles.The first domain refers to evolutive animal behavioral inertias that affect the basic ... Read more

$167.99 CAD

This book approaches two behavioral domains involved with human nature and actions related to dominance, an ancient animal, survival-linked, behavioral drive anchored in basal neural brain circuits. These domains result in latent or manifest conflicts among components of human animal nature and cultural profiles.The first domain refers to evolutive animal behavioral inertias that affect the basic
... Read more
Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory

Edited by Nathan Goodale, William Andrefsky, Jr ...

Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, and used stone tools. Evolutionary theory has great potential to fill this gap. This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary ... Read more

$122.99 CAD

Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, and used stone tools. Evolutionary theory has great potential to fill this gap. This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary
... Read more
Herbert Spencer: Collected Writings

by Herbert Spencer ...

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of the age, the prophet of evolution at a time when the idea had gripped the popular imagination. Until recently Spencer's posthumous reputation rested almost excusively on his social and political thought, which has itself frequently been subject to serious misrepresentation. But historians of ideas now ... Read more

$219.99 CAD

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of the age, the prophet of evolution at a time when the idea had gripped the popular imagination. Until recently Spencer's posthumous reputation rested almost excusively on his social and political thought, which has itself frequently been subject to serious misrepresentation. But historians of ideas now
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Comeuppance

Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction

by William Flesch ...

With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller and Wayne C. Booth on the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh.Fiction, Flesch contends, gives us ... Read more

$45.99 CAD

With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller and Wayne C. Booth on the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh.Fiction, Flesch contends, gives us
... Read more
Bacterial Diversity in Sustainable Agriculture

Edited by Dinesh K. Maheshwari ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
The earth’s biodiversity is a degree of ecosystem health which is vital to ecology and environmental sustainability. The microbial world is the largest unexplored reservoir. The agro-ecosystem enriched with rhizosphere implicit abundant and species-rich component of microbial diversity. Its global exploration designs a worldwide framework for agricultural sustainability adjoining benefits in its ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

The earth’s biodiversity is a degree of ecosystem health which is vital to ecology and environmental sustainability. The microbial world is the largest unexplored reservoir. The agro-ecosystem enriched with rhizosphere implicit abundant and species-rich component of microbial diversity. Its global exploration designs a worldwide framework for agricultural sustainability adjoining benefits in its
... Read more
Improving GIS-based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis

by Jeffrey K. Keller, Charles R. Smith ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for the investigation of species-habitat relationships and the development of wildlife management and conservation programs. However, the relative ease of data manipulation and analysis using GIS, associated landscape metrics packages, and sophisticated statistical tests may sometimes cause investigators to overlook important species ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for the investigation of species-habitat relationships and the development of wildlife management and conservation programs. However, the relative ease of data manipulation and analysis using GIS, associated landscape metrics packages, and sophisticated statistical tests may sometimes cause investigators to overlook important species
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The Reign of Christ the King

In Both Public and Private Life

by Michael Davies ...

Proves that Christ, being God, has an absolute right to reign in our social and political lives, as well as in our personal lives. This book is easy to read and important for our times, in which secularism and pluralism reign supreme. Provocative on every page! ... Read more

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Proves that Christ, being God, has an absolute right to reign in our social and political lives, as well as in our personal lives. This book is easy to read and important for our times, in which secularism and pluralism reign supreme. Provocative on every page!
... Read more
The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism

Coevolution and Paleoparasitological Techniques

Edited by Kenneth De Baets, John Warren Huntley ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes. The book deploys a broad and comprehensive approach, aimed at understanding the origins and developments of various ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes. The book deploys a broad and comprehensive approach, aimed at understanding the origins and developments of various
... Read more
Invisible Empire

The Natural History of Viruses

by Pranay Lal ...

Viruses are the world's most abundant life form, and now, when humanity is in the midst of a close encounter with their immense power, perhaps the most feared. But do we understand viruses? Possibly the most enigmatic of living things, they are sometimes not considered a life form at all. Everything about them is extreme, including the reactions they evoke. However, for every truism about viruses, ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Viruses are the world's most abundant life form, and now, when humanity is in the midst of a close encounter with their immense power, perhaps the most feared. But do we understand viruses? Possibly the most enigmatic of living things, they are sometimes not considered a life form at all. Everything about them is extreme, including the reactions they evoke. However, for every truism about viruses,
... Read more
Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior

by Eric Alden Smith ...

Series series Foundations of Human Behavior
""à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies."" --American Journal of Human Biology ""This excellent book can serve both as a text¼book and as a scholarly reference."" --American Scientist ... Read more

$98.99 CAD

""à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies."" --American Journal of Human Biology ""This excellent book can serve both as a text¼book and as a scholarly reference."" --American Scientist
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Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

by Bennett Zon ...

This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the ... Read more

$146.99 CAD

This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the
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Global Diversity and Ecological Function of Parasites of Euphausiids

by Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez, So Kawaguchi, José Raúl Morales-Ávila ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume critically reviews all previously published work of parasites that interact with krill (order Euphausiacea) updating misconceptions and summarizing the diversity of epibionts, ectoparasites, mesoparasites and endoparasites that interact with these crustaceans. As far as we know, there is a lack of books about parasites of marine crustaceans not targeted to fisheries and aquaculture. ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

This volume critically reviews all previously published work of parasites that interact with krill (order Euphausiacea) updating misconceptions and summarizing the diversity of epibionts, ectoparasites, mesoparasites and endoparasites that interact with these crustaceans. As far as we know, there is a lack of books about parasites of marine crustaceans not targeted to fisheries and aquaculture.
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The Hobbit Trap

How New Species Are Invented

by Maciej Henneberg, Robert B Eckhardt, John Schofield ...

When scientists found the remains of a tiny hominid on an Indonesian in 2004, they claimed they found a totally new species of human ancestor (homo floresiensis), and called it a Hobbit. Film crews rolled in and the little creature took the world by storm, but a group of prominent scientists, including Maciej Henneberg and Robert Eckhardt, smelled a rat. They refuted the data—the size and shape of ... Read more

$85.99 CAD

When scientists found the remains of a tiny hominid on an Indonesian in 2004, they claimed they found a totally new species of human ancestor (homo floresiensis), and called it a Hobbit. Film crews rolled in and the little creature took the world by storm, but a group of prominent scientists, including Maciej Henneberg and Robert Eckhardt, smelled a rat. They refuted the data—the size and shape of
... Read more
Life and Evolution

Latin American Essays on the History and Philosophy of Biology

Edited by Lorenzo Baravalle, Luciana Zaterka ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin America to the history and philosophy of biology, but since many local authors prefer to write in Spanish or in Portuguese, their ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin America to the history and philosophy of biology, but since many local authors prefer to write in Spanish or in Portuguese, their
... Read more
Morphogenesis, Environmental Stress and Reverse Evolution

Edited by Jean Guex, John S. Torday, William B. Miller Jr. ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
It is widely acknowledged that life has adapted to its environment, but the precise mechanism remains unknown since Natural Selection, Descent with Modification and Survival of the Fittest are metaphors that cannot be scientifically tested. In this unique text, invertebrate and vertebrate biologists illuminate the effects of physiologic stress on epigenetic responses in the process of evolutionary ... Read more

$256.99 CAD

It is widely acknowledged that life has adapted to its environment, but the precise mechanism remains unknown since Natural Selection, Descent with Modification and Survival of the Fittest are metaphors that cannot be scientifically tested. In this unique text, invertebrate and vertebrate biologists illuminate the effects of physiologic stress on epigenetic responses in the process of evolutionary
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Arvelighed og moral

En undersøgelse

by Karl Gjellerup ...

Karl Gjellerups prisvindende afhandling ”Arvelighed og moral” behandler nogle af det sene 1800-tals mest omdiskuterede teorier, heriblandt Charles Darwins evolutionsteori. I lighed med Herbert Spencer og Francis Galton forsvarer Karl Gjellerup en deterministisk, evolutionær og naturalistisk tilgang til moral, der udviser forfatterens store håb for, at fremtidige generationer kan udvikle sig i ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

Karl Gjellerups prisvindende afhandling ”Arvelighed og moral” behandler nogle af det sene 1800-tals mest omdiskuterede teorier, heriblandt Charles Darwins evolutionsteori. I lighed med Herbert Spencer og Francis Galton forsvarer Karl Gjellerup en deterministisk, evolutionær og naturalistisk tilgang til moral, der udviser forfatterens store håb for, at fremtidige generationer kan udvikle sig i
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Spheres of Perception

Morality In A Post Technocratic Society

by Theodore Holtzhausen ...

Our economic system is over-stimulated by the information age. Interconnection aids and abets companies earning trillions and their swift rise to global dominance. The 24-hour wired world has led to increased volatility; negative information, and even an accidental computer glitch can crash the market and create panic. Health, the environment, the welfare of society are pushed to the far edge of ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

Our economic system is over-stimulated by the information age. Interconnection aids and abets companies earning trillions and their swift rise to global dominance. The 24-hour wired world has led to increased volatility; negative information, and even an accidental computer glitch can crash the market and create panic. Health, the environment, the welfare of society are pushed to the far edge of
... Read more
Biodiversity and Chemotaxonomy

Edited by Kishan Gopal Ramawat ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Plant classifications are based on morphological characters and it is difficult, particularly in small plants and grasses, to identify these below generic level on the basis of these characters using a dissecting microscope. Plant species have intra- and inter-specific variation in secondary metabolites which can be utilized as marker compounds for identification and classification of plants. ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

Plant classifications are based on morphological characters and it is difficult, particularly in small plants and grasses, to identify these below generic level on the basis of these characters using a dissecting microscope. Plant species have intra- and inter-specific variation in secondary metabolites which can be utilized as marker compounds for identification and classification of plants.
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從南方古猿到智人：基因組╳遺傳學╳演化論╳分子鐘，對生命不斷的探索，使「演化」成為生命科學體系的思想脈絡

by 張超，趙奐，林祖榮 ...

人類總是抱持一種「化繁為簡」的執著，總希望找到一條「一以貫之」的思想去探索生命的真誠性，在不斷地嘗試後，最終將生命的各種問題集中成了三個問題：生命從哪裡來？生命到哪裡去？生命運行過程的基本規律是怎樣的？◎人類生物學演化的問題太多？那只好求助化石了！◎我就是想知道「南方古猿」和我到底有沒有關係？◎如何讓普通物質組成的生命永恆不滅？自我複製！◎小麥和大豆的自花授粉就相當於自己和自己結婚？▎從「性」的發展史聊演化──地球的各種生命可謂是「不忘初心」！性的出現幫生命從單打獨鬥的個體發展成為團隊合作的團體；讓生命從逝者如斯的過客發展成了生機勃勃的永恆；使生命從自然選擇的被動體發展成了適應環境的主宰者……可以說如果沒有生殖過程、沒有性的產生，地... ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

人類總是抱持一種「化繁為簡」的執著，總希望找到一條「一以貫之」的思想去探索生命的真誠性，在不斷地嘗試後，最終將生命的各種問題集中成了三個問題：生命從哪裡來？生命到哪裡去？生命運行過程的基本規律是怎樣的？◎人類生物學演化的問題太多？那只好求助化石了！◎我就是想知道「南方古猿」和我到底有沒有關係？◎如何讓普通物質組成的生命永恆不滅？自我複製！◎小麥和大豆的自花授粉就相當於自己和自己結婚？▎從「性」的發展史聊演化──地球的各種生命可謂是「不忘初心」！性的出現幫生命從單打獨鬥的個體發展成為團隊合作的團體；讓生命從逝者如斯的過客發展成了生機勃勃的永恆；使生命從自然選擇的被動體發展成了適應環境的主宰者……可以說如果沒有生殖過程、沒有性的產生，地...
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Agnihotri - I Custodi del Fuoco

Il Sentiero di Guarigione del Guerriero del Fuoco

by Massimo Rodolfi ...

Per guarire gli altri bisogna guarire se stessi. Ecco il Sentiero…A te che stai cercando il Sentiero che porta al tuo cuore, finalmente l’hai trovato. Riposa un momento, prima della battaglia finale, ascolta il dolce e tremendo silenzio dell’alba che viene. Già si vede il chiarore che annuncia il possente rombo del Fuoco, all’erta Cavaliere, ciò che devi sconfiggere è dentro di te. Trovato che ... Read more

$11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Per guarire gli altri bisogna guarire se stessi. Ecco il Sentiero…A te che stai cercando il Sentiero che porta al tuo cuore, finalmente l’hai trovato. Riposa un momento, prima della battaglia finale, ascolta il dolce e tremendo silenzio dell’alba che viene. Già si vede il chiarore che annuncia il possente rombo del Fuoco, all’erta Cavaliere, ciò che devi sconfiggere è dentro di te. Trovato che
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On the Origin of Humankind

by Ilya Gladkih ...

How could evolution have created the human body so perfectly? This was the question that inspired my journey of exploration—a journey I assumed would lead me to reaffirm the theory of evolution. But as I measured and compared the human body to engineered products, what I discovered was completely unexpected. Analyzing systems like the cardiovascular network and structures like teeth, I began to ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

How could evolution have created the human body so perfectly? This was the question that inspired my journey of exploration—a journey I assumed would lead me to reaffirm the theory of evolution. But as I measured and compared the human body to engineered products, what I discovered was completely unexpected. Analyzing systems like the cardiovascular network and structures like teeth, I began to
... Read more
Diversity and Geography of Cultivated Plants

Edited by Karl Hammer, Miguel Ángel Esquivel Pérez, Chunlin Long ...

This book presents information on cultivated plants located within 12 different regions throughout the world. The content introduces cultural evolution and species richness in cultivated plants, considering domestication assessments, which make it possible to obtain a deeper insight into the diversity of these plants.Cultivated plants are evolutionary connected to man, human action for nature and ... Read more

$620.99 CAD

This book presents information on cultivated plants located within 12 different regions throughout the world. The content introduces cultural evolution and species richness in cultivated plants, considering domestication assessments, which make it possible to obtain a deeper insight into the diversity of these plants.Cultivated plants are evolutionary connected to man, human action for nature and
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