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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $17.61
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lynn Margulis::Dorion Sagan
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 570
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Publication Date: 2000-08-31
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Reading Level: 303
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Description: Half a century ago, before the discovery of DNA, the Austrian physicist and philosopher Erwin Schrödinger inspired a generation of scientists by rephrasing the fascinating philosophical question: What is life? Using their expansive understanding of recent science to wonderful effect, acclaimed authors Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan revisit this timeless question in a fast-moving, wide-ranging narrative that combines rigorous science with philosophy, history, and poetry. The authors move deftly across a dazzling array of topics--from the dynamics of the bacterial realm, to the connection between sex and death, to theories of spirit and matter. They delve into the origins of life, offering the startling suggestion that life--not just human life--is free to act and has played an unexpectedly large part in its own evolution. Transcending the various formal concepts of life, this captivating book offers a unique overview of life's history, essences, and future.
Supplementing the text are stunning illustrations that range from the smallest known organism (Mycoplasma bacteria) to the largest (the biosphere itself). Creatures both strange and familiar enhance the pages of What Is Life? Their existence prompts readers to reconsider preconceptions not only about life but also about their own part in it.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.94
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Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nancy F. Castaldo
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Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.34
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Publication Date: 2003-06-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: This title is intended for ages 6 to 9 years. North America boasts a surprising number of rainforests, including El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, Olympic National Forest in Washington State, Chugah and Tongass National Forests in Alaska, and the forests in Hawaii, which are home to an enormous variety of plants and animals. "Rainforests: An Activity Guide" takes kids through the common layers of the rainforest, from the forest floor to above the enclosed canopy. Their journey continues through the different types of rainforests as they are introduced to plants, animals, and people around the world, including those from the temperate rainforests of North America to the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. Rainforest-inspired activities include making a West African yam festival gourd rattle, building a model of an Alaskan totem pole, and creating a Javanese Wayang-kuilt, or shadow puppet. Kids are encouraged to make a difference and become active supporters of the rainforests no matter where they live.
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Price: $80.00
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Sale: $48.55
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: R. Scott Hawley::Michelle Y. Walker
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 576.5072
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Publication Date: 2003-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Advanced Genetic Analysis brings a state-of-the-art, exciting new approach to genetic analysis. Focusing on the underlying principles of modern genetic analysis, this book provides the 'how' and 'why' of the essential analytical tools needed. The author's vibrant, accessible style provides an easy guide to difficult genetic concepts, from mutation and gene function to gene mapping and chromosome segregation. Throughout, a balanced range of model organisms and timely examples are used to illustrate the theoretical basics.
- Basic principles - Focuses students attention on the 'how' and 'why' of the essential analytical tools.
- Vibrant, accessible style provides an easy guide through difficult genetic concepts and techniques.
- Text boxes highlight key questions and timely examples.
- Boxes of key information in each chapter, chapter summaries and extensive references - prompt the student to synthesise and reinforce the chapter material.
- Special reference section addressing a range of model organisms to help provide a particularly relevant context for students' research interests.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $2.98
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Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Brenda Maddox
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Publisher: HarperCollins
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 572.8092
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Publication Date: 2002-10-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: In March 1953, Maurice Wilkins of King's College, London, announced the departure of his obstructive colleague Rosalind Franklin to rival Cavendish Laboratory scientist Francis Crick. But it was too late. Franklin's unpublished data and crucial photograph of DNA had already been seen by her competitors at the Cambridge University lab. With the aid of these, plus their own knowledge, Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the molecule that genes are composed of -- DNA, the secret of life. Five years later, at the age of thirty-seven, after more brilliant research under J. D. Bernal at Birkbeck College, Rosalind died of ovarian cancer. In 1962, Wilkins, Crick and Watson were awarded the Nobel Prize for their elucidation of DNA's structure. Franklin's part was forgotten until she was caricatured in Watson's book The Double Helix. In this full and balanced biography, Brenda Maddox has been given unique access to Franklin's personal correspondence and has interviewed all the principal scientists involved, including Crick, Watson and Wilkins. This is a powerful story, told by one of the finest biographers, of a remarkably single-minded, forthright and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.
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Price: $96.95
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Sale: $63.99
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Manufacturer: Sinauer Associates
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Douglas J. Futuyma
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Publisher: Sinauer Associates
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Edition: 3 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 576.8
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Publication Date: 1997-12
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Reading Level: 763
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Description: Previous editions of Evolutionary Biology, widely used and translated into five other languages, were praised for their broad scope, synthetic overview, and even-handed treatment of controversial topics. The Third Edition, while maintaining these features, reflects the ever greater breadth and depth of evolutionary science by providing expanded treatment of many topics and by emphasizing the new intellectual and molecular perspectives that have revolutionized evolutionary studies in the last decade. Equally significant, the book has been made more accessible to student readers by a more expansive style of presentation, by a completely new two-color art program (and a full-color portfolio), and by extended examples that convey not only the evidence for hypotheses, but also the ways in which evolutionary hypotheses are framed and tested. After introducing the historical, ecological, and genetic foundations of evolutionary study, the text progresses from the history of evolution as inferred from phylogeny and paleobiology, through the genetic mechanisms of evolutionary change and speciation, to the large, challenging themes of macroevolution, the evolution of diversity, and human evolution. Topics that were treated only sparingly in previous editionsóform and function, coevolution, the evolution of life histories, the evolution of behavior, and the evolution of genetic systemsónow receive full-chapter coverage. Abundant cross-referencing emphasizes the unity and coherence of evolutionary biology, highlighted text and a glossary provide easy access to definitions of technical terms, and an extensive bibliography provides interested readers with an entry into most of the topics embraced by evolutionary biology. Reflecting its theme that evolution both draws on and illuminates all the biological sciences, Evolutionary Biology is the most comprehensive textbook in its field.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $6.62
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Muir
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Publisher: Mariner Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.76092
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Publication Date: 1998-08-26
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness, as well as the towns and people, of the South immediately after the Civil War.
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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $3.00
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Brand: Dover Publications, Inc.
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dr. Georg Stehli
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 578
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Publication Date: 1970-06-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: In nontechnical language and with 199 photographs and drawings, the author clearly explains how a microscope works and what kind to use; preparation and examination of specimens, and much more. |
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Price: $47.00
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Sale: $37.60
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Manufacturer: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Micklos::Greg A. Freyer
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Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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Edition: 2 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 572.86
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Publication Date: 2003-01-08
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Reading Level: 500
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Description: This is the second edition of a highly successful textbook (over 50,000 copies sold) in which a highly illustrated, narrative text is combined with easy–to–use thoroughly reliable laboratory protocols. It contains a fully up–to–date collection of 12 rigorously tested and reliable lab experiments in molecular biology, developed at the internationally renowned Dolan DNA Learning Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which culminate in the construction and cloning of a recombinant DNA molecule. Proven through more than 10 years’ of teaching at research and nonresearch colleges and universities, junior colleges, community colleges, and advanced biology programs in high school, this book has been successfully integrated into introductory biology, general biology, genetics, microbiology, cell biology, molecular genetics, and molecular biology courses. The first eight chapters have been completely revised, extensively rewritten, and updated. The new coverage extends to the completion of the draft sequence of the human genome and the enormous impact these and other sequence data are having on medicine, research, and our view of human evolution. All sections on the concepts and techniques of molecular biology have been updated to reflect the current state of laboratory research. The laboratory experiments cover basic techniques of gene isolation and analysis, honed by over 10 years of classroom use to be thoroughly reliable, even in the hands of teachers and students with no prior experience. Extensive prelab notes at the beginning of each experiment explain how to schedule and prepare, while flow charts and icons make the protocols easy to follow. As in the first edition of this book, the laboratory course is completely supported by quality–assured products from the Carolina Biological Supply Company, from bulk reagents, to useable reagent systems, to single–use kits, thus satisfying a broad range of teaching applications.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $14.94
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Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Brian Swimme
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Dewey Decimal Number: 576.8
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Publication Date: 1998-10-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Every step you take in A Walk Through Time moves you millions of years forward in Earth's history. Inspired by the idea of a one-mile stroll through the evolution of life, Sidney Liebes recruited some terrific writers and artists to create a traveling museum exhibit; A Walk Through Time summarizes the experience in book form, with the help of fascinating photos and intelligent, enjoyable text. The most profound realization along this temporal journey is just how small a part human history plays in the big time line. In the museum exhibit, where one foot equals one million years, human presence takes up all of one-thousandth of an inch; in the book's time line, we merit barely a speck. Our tiniest living fellows--the bacteria and blue-green algae, the amazing arthropods, the merging microbes--are the real stars of the show. Readers are treated to intriguing views of bizarre organisms like tardigrades, velvet worms, and lichens ("Taking everything we know about algae and fungi, we still never would have predicted the outcome of their synergy"), along with the microbes that once ruled the earth. Only at the very end of the line, long after the development of sexual reproduction, after the great Cretaceous extinction, after the development of flight and fur, will you find humans. Taking this walk is a great lesson in perspective, a cautionary tale about hubris and longevity that every human should read. --Therese Littleton
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $2.95
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Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.73
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Publication Date: 2002-12-02
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: In THE RURAL LIFE, the hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. Here, Verlyn Klinkenborg reveals the beauty of the American landscape, not from a scenic overlook, but through a screened-in porch or from the window of a pickup driving down an empty highway in the teeth of an approaching storm. Klinkenborg brings reports of rural life back to us, his readers, with writing as vivid as high noon on a summer day or as dreamy as a dusk lit by fireflies. Composed in sections corresponding to the months of the year, The Rural Life highlights the pleasures and hardships, the reveries and stillness, that each season offers to the willing observer. Whether he writes of a small farm in upstate New York, a high pasture deep within the Rocky Mountains, or the bricked edge of a city shuddering in the wake of a "sudden Tuesday," Klinkenborg bears witness to nature's play in language as simple, unsentimental, and direct as life itself.
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