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“rafe sagarin”

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  • Learning From the Octopus

    How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease

    by Rafe Sagarin ...
    Despite the billions of dollars we've poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe remains unchanged: add another step to airport security, another meter to the levee wall. This approach has proved totally ineffective: reacting to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Observation and Ecology

    Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World

    by Rafe Sagarin, Anbal Pauchard ...
    The need to understand and address large-scale environmental problems that are difficult to study in controlled environments—issues ranging from climate change to overfishing to invasive species—is driving the field of ecology in new and important directions. Observation and Ecology documents that transformation, exploring how scientists and researchers are expanding their methodological toolbox ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being

    Evolution and the Making of Us

    by Alice Roberts ...
    'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins'A masterful account of why our bodies are the way they are . . . this book really shines . . . Roberts's lightness of touch is joyous, and celebratory' Observer'Witty, personal and above all informed by passion and deep knowledge, this is the story of you, not just ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Lectures on Evolution

    by Thomas Huxley ...
    Lectures on Evolution was reported on extensively in newspapers, particularly because in addition to presenting evidence supporing the theory of evolution, it also argued that the scheme of creation in Milton (and therefore in Moses) was false. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Blood and Its Third Element

    by Antoine Bechamp ...
    What Dr. Béchamp is describing is a foundational concept. According to his experiments and observations, these tiny particles he named 'microzymas' have an active role in sustaining and also in terminating life. Using the syllable '-zyme' (now also used in the word 'enzyme') to indicate this principle of causing ‘fermentation’ (activity) Béchamp searched for and found the same particles and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Boundaries

    A New Way to Look at the World

    by Ernest Hartmann M.D. ...
    More than twenty years ago, noted psychiatrist and dream researcher, Ernest Hartmann, developed the concept of 'boundaries' as a dimension of personality. With his new book, Boundaries: A New Way to Look at the World, Hartmann extends the boundaries concept beyond the individual and into the world at large.How do boundaries affect our dreams, and is there a biological connection?How do boundaries ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Life's Blueprint

    The Science and Art of Embryo Creation

    by Benny Shilo ...
    In the span of just three decades, scientific understanding of the formation of embryos has undergone a major revolution. The implications of these new research findings have an immediate bearing on human health and future therapies, yet most nonscientists remain quite unaware of the exciting news.   In this engaging book, a distinguished geneticist offers a clear, jargon-free overview of the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Neuroscience Basics

    A Guide to the Brain's Involvement in Everyday Activities

    by Jennifer L. Larimore ...
    Neuroscience Basics: A Guide to the Brain's Involvement in Everyday Activities examines how our brain works in everyday activities like sleeping, eating, love, and exercise. Many want to better understand how the brain works, but the terminology and jargon of books can be overwhelming. The book covers the basics taught in an introductory neurobiology course designed for anyone new to the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution

    by Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg ...
    Over millions of years in the fossil record, hominin teeth preserve a high-fidelity record of their own growth, development, wear, chemistry and pathology. They yield insights into human evolution that are difficult, if not impossible, to achieve through other sources of fossil or archaeological data. Integrating dental findings with current debates and issues in palaeoanthropology, this book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Role of Biotechnology in Improvement of Livestock

    Animal Health and Biotechnology

    Edited by Muhammad Abubakar, Oguz Kul, Ali Saeed ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book examines how biotechnology can improve livestock breeding and farming, and thereby also animal products. In the first chapters the reader will discover which techniques and approaches are currently used to improve animal breeding, animal health and the value of animal products. Particular attention is given to reproduction techniques, animal nutrition and livestock vaccines that not only ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Consciousness

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Susan Blackmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 6

    Deuterostomia

    Edited by Andreas Wanninger ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet concise overview of both classical and recent literature, supplemented by numerous color illustrations ... Read more

    $49.49 USD