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Identification and Control of Common Weeds: Volume 1

by Zhenghao Xu, Guoning Zhou ...

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds. In addition to essential information, each chapter includes photos for a specific type of weed to show its morphology in different growth periods, such as seedling, root, flower, fruit, and mature plant. The book also discusses control measures, including agricultural, chemical, physical, biological, and comprehensive methods. The Volume1 ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds. In addition to essential information, each chapter includes photos for a specific type of weed to show its morphology in different growth periods, such as seedling, root, flower, fruit, and mature plant. The book also discusses control measures, including agricultural, chemical, physical, biological, and comprehensive methods. The Volume1
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Palaeobiology of Giant Flightless Birds

by Eric Buffetaut, Delphine Angst ...

The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches have been used to study them, with sometimes contradictory results. This book summarizes the ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches have been used to study them, with sometimes contradictory results. This book summarizes the
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Climate - Vegetation:

Afro-Asian Mediterranean and Red Sea Coastal Lands

by M.A. Zahran ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Deserts are unique ecosystems with their own biotic and abiotic components, and are often rich in renewable natural resources, the appropriate management of which can contribute significantly to the sustainable management of desert regions for the welfare of the people.Yet while there are many books on the flora of the countries fringing the important desert countries of the Mediterranean and Red ... Read more

$256.99 CAD

Deserts are unique ecosystems with their own biotic and abiotic components, and are often rich in renewable natural resources, the appropriate management of which can contribute significantly to the sustainable management of desert regions for the welfare of the people.Yet while there are many books on the flora of the countries fringing the important desert countries of the Mediterranean and Red
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Darwinism - An Exposition Of The Theory Of Natural Selection - With Some Of Its Applications

by Alfred Russel Wallace ...

This volume contains Alfred Russel Wallace's 1889 book, "Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of Its Applications". It is a fascinating exploration of biological evolution by the co-discoverer of the natural selection principle. It constitutes a defence of the theory against scientific criticisms, and is one of the most cited of Wallace's writings. This volume will ... Read more

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This volume contains Alfred Russel Wallace's 1889 book, "Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of Its Applications". It is a fascinating exploration of biological evolution by the co-discoverer of the natural selection principle. It constitutes a defence of the theory against scientific criticisms, and is one of the most cited of Wallace's writings. This volume will
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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Brazil

Edited by Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena, Denise Dias da Cruz ...

Series series Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of ... Read more

$359.99 CAD

Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of
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High School Biology

Questions & Explanations for Organismal Biology

by Sterling Education ...

Thousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Master high school organismal biology with questions and detailed explanations.This book provides practice questions covering organismal biology topics for comprehensive high school biology preparation. The detailed explanations describe why one answer is correct and why another attractive choice is wrong. They provide comprehensive ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

Thousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Master high school organismal biology with questions and detailed explanations.This book provides practice questions covering organismal biology topics for comprehensive high school biology preparation. The detailed explanations describe why one answer is correct and why another attractive choice is wrong. They provide comprehensive
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Making of the World

Sapiens' Journey From Wilderness to Civilization

by Mahbub H. Khan ...

Humanity was once scattered into small-sized, nomadic groups that barely knew each other. Each lived inside its bubble of myths and beliefs. The notion of one single community, related by a common origin and similar aspirations—the world—began to evolve along with the founding of early civilizations. It was an auspicious development that has changed not only the way we live but also how we think. ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

Humanity was once scattered into small-sized, nomadic groups that barely knew each other. Each lived inside its bubble of myths and beliefs. The notion of one single community, related by a common origin and similar aspirations—the world—began to evolve along with the founding of early civilizations. It was an auspicious development that has changed not only the way we live but also how we think.
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Exuberant Life

An Evolutionary Approach to Conservation in Galápagos

by William H. Durham ...

The terrestrial organisms of the Galápagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else. At the edge of a uniquely rich mid-ocean upwelling, their world is also free of mammalian predators and competitors, allowing them to live unbothered, exuberant lives. With its giant tortoises, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, and forests of giant daisies, there's no question that this is a ... Read more

$52.99 CAD

The terrestrial organisms of the Galápagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else. At the edge of a uniquely rich mid-ocean upwelling, their world is also free of mammalian predators and competitors, allowing them to live unbothered, exuberant lives. With its giant tortoises, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, and forests of giant daisies, there's no question that this is a
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Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology

Edited by Michael J. O'Brien, Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren ...

Series Book 22 - Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the nearly ubiquitous use of stone tools by humans and their ancestors, the study of lithic technology offers ... Read more

$51.99 CAD

Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the nearly ubiquitous use of stone tools by humans and their ancestors, the study of lithic technology offers
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Behavioral Ecology of Neotropical Birds

Edited by Juan Carlos Reboreda, Vanina Dafne Fiorini, Diego Tomás Tuero ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book covers central aspects of behavioral ecology, including sexual selection, social and genetic mating systems, cooperative breeding, brood parasitism, brood reduction, migration, personalities and communication. Over the past several years, Neotropical bird species from temperate to tropical latitudes of South America have been extensively studied, yielding valuable insights into the ... Read more

$167.99 CAD

This book covers central aspects of behavioral ecology, including sexual selection, social and genetic mating systems, cooperative breeding, brood parasitism, brood reduction, migration, personalities and communication. Over the past several years, Neotropical bird species from temperate to tropical latitudes of South America have been extensively studied, yielding valuable insights into the
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Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution

The Origin of Species and the Static Worldview

by Richard G. Delisle ...

Series Book 1 - Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development
This book offers a thorough reanalysis of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which for many people represents the work that alone gave rise to evolutionism. Of course, scholars today know better than that. Yet, few resist the temptation of turning to the Origin in order to support it or reject it in light of their own work. Apparently, Darwin fills the mythical role of a founding figure that must ... Read more

$141.99 CAD

This book offers a thorough reanalysis of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which for many people represents the work that alone gave rise to evolutionism. Of course, scholars today know better than that. Yet, few resist the temptation of turning to the Origin in order to support it or reject it in light of their own work. Apparently, Darwin fills the mythical role of a founding figure that must
... Read more
Heads, Jaws, and Muscles

Anatomical, Functional, and Developmental Diversity in Chordate Evolution

Edited by Janine M. Ziermann, Raul E. Diaz Jr, Rui Diogo ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
The vertebrate head is the most complex part of the animal body and its diversity in nature reflects a variety of life styles, feeding modes, and ecological adaptations. This book will take you on a journey to discover the origin and diversification of the head, which evolved from a seemingly headless chordate ancestor. Despite their structural diversity, heads develop in a highly conserved ... Read more

$128.99 CAD

The vertebrate head is the most complex part of the animal body and its diversity in nature reflects a variety of life styles, feeding modes, and ecological adaptations. This book will take you on a journey to discover the origin and diversification of the head, which evolved from a seemingly headless chordate ancestor. Despite their structural diversity, heads develop in a highly conserved
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Rediscovering Darwin

The Rest of Darwin's Theory and Why We Need It Today

by David Loye ...

Hailed as a breakthrough in 12 pages of pre-publication reviews by leading evolutionary thinkers, this new book has been rushed into print for impact in the wake of both the honoring and the dishonoring of Darwin’s 209th birthday on February 12.Rediscovering Darwin: The Rest of Darwin’s Theory and Why We Need it Today weaves three gripping stories into a compelling single account. First a new ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

Hailed as a breakthrough in 12 pages of pre-publication reviews by leading evolutionary thinkers, this new book has been rushed into print for impact in the wake of both the honoring and the dishonoring of Darwin’s 209th birthday on February 12.Rediscovering Darwin: The Rest of Darwin’s Theory and Why We Need it Today weaves three gripping stories into a compelling single account. First a new
... Read more
The Evolution of Consciousness

The Origins of the Way We Think

by Robert Ornstein ...

Series series Psychology of Conscious Evolution Trilogy
A provocative look at how the human mind evolved, and what this means for our future. What is the mind? How is it that, like the proverbial fish that knows so little about the surrounding water, we know so little about something that controls every aspect of our individual and collective lives? Passionate, entertaining and provocative, The Evolution of Consciousness presents a fundamental ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

A provocative look at how the human mind evolved, and what this means for our future. What is the mind? How is it that, like the proverbial fish that knows so little about the surrounding water, we know so little about something that controls every aspect of our individual and collective lives? Passionate, entertaining and provocative, The Evolution of Consciousness presents a fundamental
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Vertebrate Evolution

From Origins to Dinosaurs and Beyond

by Donald R. Prothero ...

The first vertebrate animals appear in the fossil record over 520 million years ago. These lineages diversified and eventually crept ashore leading to further evolutionary divergence and the appearance of the familiar charismatic vertebrates of today. From the tiniest fishes, diminutive salamanders, and miniaturized lizards to gargantuan dinosaurs, enormous brontotheres, and immense whales, ... Read more

$129.99 CAD

The first vertebrate animals appear in the fossil record over 520 million years ago. These lineages diversified and eventually crept ashore leading to further evolutionary divergence and the appearance of the familiar charismatic vertebrates of today. From the tiniest fishes, diminutive salamanders, and miniaturized lizards to gargantuan dinosaurs, enormous brontotheres, and immense whales,
... Read more
How Did Humans Evolve? A Concise Overview.

by Dr. Hakim. K. Saboowala ...

How Did Humans Evolve?A Concise Overview.All of us know what evolution is and how it generally works, but how much do we know about how we evolved?The story of human evolution isn’t one that’s taught in much detail, yet it’s one of the most important because it’s our story.It also offers valuable insight into how our bodies and minds were formed, and how we changed to become the most... ... Read more

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How Did Humans Evolve?A Concise Overview.All of us know what evolution is and how it generally works, but how much do we know about how we evolved?The story of human evolution isn’t one that’s taught in much detail, yet it’s one of the most important because it’s our story.It also offers valuable insight into how our bodies and minds were formed, and how we changed to become the most...
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Molecular Geometry of Body Pattern in Birds

by Antonio Lima-de-Faria ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
After having read this book you will never see birds in the same way again.The unexpected patterns displayed by a bird’s body have been seen as bizarre events that demanded little attention or were described as ‘amazing curiosities’.None of these surprising features seem to be fortuitous. They appear to be an integral part of a rigid order and a coherent geometry, which is directed by simple gene ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

After having read this book you will never see birds in the same way again.The unexpected patterns displayed by a bird’s body have been seen as bizarre events that demanded little attention or were described as ‘amazing curiosities’.None of these surprising features seem to be fortuitous. They appear to be an integral part of a rigid order and a coherent geometry, which is directed by simple gene
... Read more
Multicellular Animals

Volume III: Order in Nature - System Made by Man

Translated by Richard Dunmur ...

by Peter Ax ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
$179.99 CAD
Origin and Evolution of New Gene Functions

Edited by Manyuan Long ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Although interest in evolutionary novelties can be that these different mechanisms cooperate in the mak traced back to the time of Darwin, the appreciation ing of new genes. In the second phase of new gene evolution, conventional models of new gene evolution, and systematical experimental pursuit of the origin and evolution of new gene functions did not appear for example by gene duplication, held ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

Although interest in evolutionary novelties can be that these different mechanisms cooperate in the mak traced back to the time of Darwin, the appreciation ing of new genes. In the second phase of new gene evolution, conventional models of new gene evolution, and systematical experimental pursuit of the origin and evolution of new gene functions did not appear for example by gene duplication, held
... Read more
Man the Hunter

by Richard Borshay Lee, Irven DeVore ...

Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent, fi liation, residence, ... Read more

$87.99 CAD

Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent, fi liation, residence,
... Read more
Science of Origins: Evolution vs. Design Evidence - What Wins?

by Daffyd Bee, D.W. Ball ...

What if everything you've been told about evolution isn't the full story?For decades, Darwin's theory of evolution has been presented as settled science—beyond question, beyond challenge. But what if the evidence tells a different story?In The Evolution Myth: Why It Fails as Science and Functions as Religion, you'll take a thought-provoking journey into one of the most controversial debates of our ... Read more

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What if everything you've been told about evolution isn't the full story?For decades, Darwin's theory of evolution has been presented as settled science—beyond question, beyond challenge. But what if the evidence tells a different story?In The Evolution Myth: Why It Fails as Science and Functions as Religion, you'll take a thought-provoking journey into one of the most controversial debates of our
... Read more
Brachiopods

Edited by Howard Brunton, L. Robin M. Cocks, Sarah L Long ...

Series series Systematics Association Special Volumes
The growth history of a brachiopod is entombed in its shell, but research on fossil and living brachiopods has generated unanswered questions about these marine invertebrates. Several contributors to Brachiopods Past and Present comment on their differing structures and morphological detail. They use these as examples of ontogenetic and evolutionar ... Read more

$437.99 CAD

The growth history of a brachiopod is entombed in its shell, but research on fossil and living brachiopods has generated unanswered questions about these marine invertebrates. Several contributors to Brachiopods Past and Present comment on their differing structures and morphological detail. They use these as examples of ontogenetic and evolutionar
... Read more
Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence During China’s Cultural Revolution

by Yang Lijun ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese. This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the state, competing sectarian interests, and other complex factors intertwined to produce various forms of collective violence that ... Read more

$192.99 CAD

This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese. This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the state, competing sectarian interests, and other complex factors intertwined to produce various forms of collective violence that
... Read more
Virtual Paleontology

Tomographic Techniques For Studying Fossil Echinoderms

by Jennifer E. Bauer, Imran A. Rahman ...

Series series Elements of Paleontology
Imaging and visualizing fossils in three dimensions with tomography is a powerful approach in paleontology. Here, the authors introduce select destructive and non-destructive tomographic techniques that are routinely applied to fossils and review how this work has improved our understanding of the anatomy, function, taphonomy, and phylogeny of fossil echinoderms. Building on this, this Element ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

Imaging and visualizing fossils in three dimensions with tomography is a powerful approach in paleontology. Here, the authors introduce select destructive and non-destructive tomographic techniques that are routinely applied to fossils and review how this work has improved our understanding of the anatomy, function, taphonomy, and phylogeny of fossil echinoderms. Building on this, this Element
... Read more

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