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  • Forests, Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

    by Denis Loustau ...
    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    The results presented in this book summarize the main findings of the CARBOFOR project, which brought together 52 scientists from 14 research units to investigate the effects of future climate on the carbon cycle, the productivity and vulnerability of French forests. This book explains the current forest carbon cycle in temperate and Mediterranean climates, including the dynamics of soil carbon ... Read more

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  • The Serengeti Rules

    The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author

    by Sean B. Carroll ...
    Now the subject of an Emmy Award–winning film the New York Times calls "spellbinding"How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the ... Read more

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  • What Is a Dog?

    by Raymond Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger ...
    "An informative, well-written book on the evolution of all canids, including the wild types (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dingoes)…Recommended."— ChoiceOf the world's dogs, fewer than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are four times as many dogs who are their own masters—neighborhood dogs, ... Read more

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  • The Well-Dressed Ape

    A Natural History of Ourselves

    by Hannah Holmes ...
    The 'Well-Dressed Ape', aka Homo sapiens, is a strange mammal. It mates remarkably often and with unprecedented affection. With comparable enthusiasm, it will eat to the point of undermining its own health - unlike any other animal in the wild. The human marks its territory with doors, fences and garden gnomes, yet if it becomes too isolated it becomes depressed. It thinks of itself as complex, ... Read more

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  • The Science of Fitness

    Power, Performance, and Endurance

    by Greg LeMond, Mark Hom ...
    The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance clearly explains the vital connection between diet and exercise in the human body. With this knowledge, you can use the right exercise and nutrition to obtain a higher quality life, prevent disease, and slow the aging process. Authored in a straightforward style and with color images throughout, this book explores the cellular science ... Read more

    19,81 €

  • Python Programming for Biology

    Bioinformatics and Beyond

    by Tim J. Stevens, Wayne Boucher ...
    Do you have a biological question that could be readily answered by computational techniques, but little experience in programming? Do you want to learn more about the core techniques used in computational biology and bioinformatics? Written in an accessible style, this guide provides a foundation for both newcomers to computer programming and those interested in learning more about computational ... Read more

    62,95 €

  • A Man From Planet Earth

    A Scientific Novel

    by Giancarlo Genta ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Sometime in the not-too-distant future ... unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity to control the technology explosion before triggering their own extinction.While this policy is ... Read more

    19,07 €

  • Basics of Bioinformatics

    Lecture Notes of the Graduate Summer School on Bioinformatics of China

    Edited by Rui Jiang, Xuegong Zhang, Michael Q. Zhang ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book outlines 11 courses and 15 research topics in bioinformatics, based on curriculums and talks in a graduate summer school on bioinformatics that was held in Tsinghua University. The courses include: Basics for Bioinformatics, Basic Statistics for Bioinformatics, Topics in Computational Genomics, Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics, Algorithms in Computational Biology, Multivariate ... Read more

    104,93 €

  • Pursuit of the Universal

    12th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2016, Paris, France, June 27 - July 1, 2016, Proceedings

    Edited by Arnold Beckmann, Laurent Bienvenu, Nataša Jonoska ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2016, held in Paris, France, in June/July 2016.The 18 revised full papers and 19 invited papers and invited extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The conference CiE 2016 has six special sessions – two sessions, cryptography and information theory and symbolic ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • Fomenting Resistance To Tyrannosaurs

    by Robin and the Honey Badger ...
    LATERAL THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF EVER MORE INTERESTING STORIES FROM BIOLOGY. Robin and the Honey Badger's mission is to re-charge biology with originality for you, the non-specialist reader. Here we interview dinobacter, a bacterium that could have made all the difference to the ability of Triceratops to defend itself from tyrannosaurs. For, if there was a premium on keratin in a world of thick ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Ecology of Threatened Semi-Arid Wetlands

    Long-Term Research in Las Tablas de Daimiel

    Edited by Salvador Sánchez-Carrillo, David G. Angeler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Playing a critical role in both influencing climate change and mitigating its impacts, the world’s diverse wetlands have become one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems as unsustainable land-use practices coupled with irrational use of water have already resulted in large-scale wetlands loss and degradation. To develop sound management and conservation schemes to assure wetlands ... Read more

    133,55 €

  • Computational Methods for Three-Dimensional Microscopy Reconstruction

    Edited by Gabor T. Herman, Joachim Frank ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Approaches to the recovery of three-dimensional information on a biological object, which are often formulated or implemented initially in an intuitive way, are concisely described here based on physical models of the object and the image-formation process. Both three-dimensional electron microscopy and X-ray tomography can be captured in the same mathematical framework, leading to closely-related ... Read more

    85,85 €