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Human Genes and Genomes: Science, Health, Society by Leon Rosenberg Publisher Comments In the nearly 60 years since Watson and Crick proposed the double helical structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, waves of discoveries have made genetics the most thrilling field in the sciences. The study of genes and genomics today explores all... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price: $96.20 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Nature's Compass by James L. Gould Publisher Comments We know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Betrayed by Nature: The War on Cancer by Robin Hesketh Publisher Comments Despite the medical advances of the last century, cancer kills over half-a-million people every year in the United States. Yet despite the tenacity of this universal scourge, the science behind the disease remains a mystery to many people. In Betrayed by... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby Publisher Comments Working on the beliefs of Peruvian Indians, the author embarks on a scientific quest that takes him from the Amazonian rain forest to the libraries of Europe in hopes of proving that DNA can conduct knowledge. Reprint.... (read more) Your price: $5.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals by Sharon Levy Publisher Comments Discusses the mass extinction of megafauna during the Pleistocene era and what could have caused the event, and looks at the descendants of megafauna living on the Earth today.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $18.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R by Emmanuel Paradis Publisher Comments The increasing availability of molecular and genetic databases coupled with the growing power of computers gives biologists opportunities to address new issues, such as the patterns of molecular evolution, and re-assess old ones, such as the role of... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $62.51 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson Publisher Comments By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only twenty-four, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Evolution by Donald R. Prothero Publisher Comments Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing... (read more) Your price: $23.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane Publisher Comments Explores the changing ideas of the wild in Great Britain and Ireland, from the cliffs of Cape Wrath and the storm-beaches of Norfolk to the saltmarshes and estuaries of Essex and the moors of Rannoch and the Pennines.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals by Jonathan Balcombe Publisher Comments For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today, that's all changing. New scientific studies of animal behavior reveal perceptions, intelligences,... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Human Genetics: The Basics by Ricki Lewis Publisher Comments Human genetics has blossomed from an obscure branch of biological science and occasional explanation for exceedingly rare disorders to a field all its own that affects everyone. This book introduces the key questions and issues.... (read more) Your price: $19.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall Publisher Comments 50,000 years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Bacterial Genomes: Physical Structure and Analysis by Frans J. De Bruijn Publisher Comments A wide range of microbiologists, molecular biologists, and molecular evolutionary biologists will find this new volume of singular interest. It summarizes the present knowledge about the structure and stability of microbial genomes, and reviews the... (read more) List Price $239.00 Your price: $230.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mechanisms of Angiogenesis by Matthias Clauss Publisher Comments The induction of blood vessel growth as part of an adaptive process can be either exaggerated, such as in tumors, or too slow, as in ischemic diseases of heart and brain. Therefore it is an interesting target for medical intervention. This volume... (read more) List Price $169.00 Your price: $162.66 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory by Alan Robert Templeton Publisher Comments An elegant introduction to population genetics Written in the context of new molecular techniques for genetic analysis, Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory takes a modern approach to population genetics, incorporating today's molecular... (read more) Your price: $119.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Capillary Electrophoresis of Carbohydrates: From Monosaccharides to Complex Polysaccharides by Nicola Volpi Publisher Comments Simple carbohydrates, complex oligosaccharides and polysaccharides all belong to a class of ubiquitous (macro)molecules that exhibit a wide range of biological functions, and the recent advent of enhanced enzymatic, chemical and analytical tools used to... (read more) List Price $209.00 Your price: $201.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Microbiology of Fruits and Vegetables by Gerald M. Sapers Publisher Comments Microbiology of Fruits and Vegetables presents a holistic view of the problem of produce contamination that examines both pre-harvest and post-harvest sources and practices. It addresses a number of topical issues relating to the microbiological quality... (read more) Your price: $247.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Genome Visualization by Classic Methods in Light Microscopy by J. M. Exbrayat Publisher Comments Visualization of nucleic acids has become indispensable to studying cells, tissues, and organisms. Certain techniques even permit quantification of DNA and/or RNA distribution in tissues, but few current analytical books cover the numerous methods for... (read more) Your price: $179.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Progress in Chemokine Research by W. P. Linkes Publisher Comments Chemokines are the cytokines that may activate or chemoattract leukocytes. Each chemokine contains 65 ~ 120 amino acids, with molecular weight of 8-10 kD. Their receptors belong to G-protein-coupled receptors. Inflammatory chemokines are released from a... (read more) List Price $129.00 Your price: $119.32 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Lentiviral Vector Systems for Gene Transfer by Gary L. Buchschacher Publisher Comments The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs), in particular HIV-1, are the causative agent responsible for the current worldwide epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). A major effort has thus been underway over the past two decades to... (read more) List Price $179.00 Your price: $172.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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