Zoology category: 2375 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Vertebrate invasive species are important ecologically, socially, and scientifically throughout much of the globe. However, the interdiction and options for management of invasive species are driven by localized regulation at the country or even state level and thus the management of species must...
Action Control
From Cognition to Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"It is not thought as such that can move anything, but thought which is for the sake of something and is practical." This discerning insight, which dates back more than 2000years to Aristotle, seems to have been ignored by most psycholo gists. For more than 40years theories of human action...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book describes experimental animal models that mimic common human ocular diseases: herpetic keratitis, cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, uveitis, retinitis pigmentosa, Graves’ disease, and intraocular tumors. In conjunction, these models reflect the...
Biodiversity in Agriculture
Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
The introduction of plant and animal agriculture represents one of the most important milestones in human evolution. It contributed to the development of cities, alphabets, new technologies, and ultimately to civilizations, but it has also presented a threat to both human health and the environment....
Bones and Identity
Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with questions of identity through culinary references, livestock husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide geographic expanse between Greece in the West...
Peripheral Dopaminergic Receptors
Proceedings of the Satellite Symposium of the 7th International Congress of Pharmacology, Strasbourg, 24-25 July 1978
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Peripheral Dopaminergic Receptors contains the proceedings of the Satellite Symposium of the 7th International Congress of Pharmacology held in Strasbourg, France, on July 24-25, 1978. The papers explore advances that have been made in understanding peripheral dopaminergic receptors and cover topics...
Skin
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are....
by Jean Louis Guénet, Fernando Benavides, Jean-Jacques Panthier
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
This book, written by experienced geneticists, covers topics ranging from the natural history of the mouse species, its handling and reproduction in the laboratory, and its classical genetics and cytogenetics, to modern issues including the analysis of the transcriptome, the parental imprinting and...
by John F. Ready
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1997
A practical book with a variety of uses, this book can help applications engineers spark problem-solving techniques through the use of lasers. Industrial Application of Lasers, Second Edition takes the reader through laser fundamentals, unusual properties of laser light, types of practical lasers...
Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II
Phenotypic and Endophenotypic Presentations
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
A few disorders have some of the same symptoms as schizophrenia including schizoaffective disorders, schizophreniform disorder, schizotypal and schizoid personality disorders, delusional disorder, and autism (schizophrenia spectrum disorders). Since the 2000 there has been significant progress in...
Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume III
Therapeutic Approaches, Comorbidity, and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
A few disorders have some of the same symptoms as schizophrenia including schizoaffective disorders, schizophreniform disorder, schizotypal and schizoid personality disorders, delusional disorder, and autism (schizophrenia spectrum disorders). Since the 2000 there has been significant progress in...
by R. Lee Lyman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America illuminates the researcher and his lasting contribution to a field that has largely ignored him in its history. The few brief histories of North American zooarchaeology suggest that Paul W. Parmalee, John E. Guilday, Elizabeth...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This authoritative guide enables accurate identification of the common components of the inshore benthic invertebrates of the British Isles and adjacent European coasts, as well as a substantial proportion of fish species. This new edition builds upon the strengths of the earlier work and is thoroughly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
How does behaviour affect biological invasions? Can it explain why some animals are such successful invaders? With contributions from experts in the field, and covering a broad range of animals, this book examines the role of behaviour in biological invasions from the point of view of both invaders...