• Preface. To the Student. Part I: THE ORGANIZATION OF LIFE.
• 1. A View of Life.
• 2. Atoms and Molecules: The Chemical Basis of Life.
• 3. The Chemistry of Life: Organic Compounds.
• 4. Organization of the Cell.
• 5. Biological Membranes.
• 6. Cell Communication. Part II: ENERGY TRANSFER THROUGH LIVING SYSTEMS.
• 7. Energy and Metabolism.
• 8. How Cells Make ATP: Energy-Releasing Pathways.
• 9. Photosynthesis: Capturing Light Energy. Part III: THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE: GENETICS.
• 10. Chromosomes, Mitosis, and Meiosis.
• 11. The Basic Principles of Heredity.
• 12. DNA: The Carrier of Genetic Information.
• 13. Gene Expression.
• 14. Gene Regulation.
• 15. DNA Technology and Genomics.
• 16. Human Genetics and the Human Genome.
• 17. Developmental Genetics. Part IV: THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE: EVOLUTION.
• 18. Introduction to Darwinian Evolution.
• 19. Evolutionary Change in Populations.
• 20. Speciation and Macroevolution.
• 21. The Origin and Evolutionary History of Life.
• 22. The Evolution of Primates. Part V: THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE.
• 23. Understanding Diversity: Systematics.
• 24. Viruses and Subviral Agents.
• 25. Bacteria and Archaea.
• 26. Protists.
• 27. Seedless Plants.
• 28. Seed Plants.
• 29. The Fungi.
• 30. An Introduction to Animal Diversity.
• 31. Sponges, Cnidarians, Ctenophores, and Protostomes.
• 32. The Deuterostomes. Part VI: STRUCTURE AND LIFE PROCESSES IN PLANTS.
• 33. Plant Structure, Growth, and Development.
• 34. Leaf Structure and Function.
• 35. Stem Structure and Transport.
• 36. Roots and Mineral Nutrition.
• 37. Reproduction in Flowering Plants.
• 38. Plant Developmental Responses to External and Internal Signals. Part VII: STRUCTURE AND LIFE PROCESSES IN ANIMALS.
• 39. Animal Structure and Function: An Introduction.
• 40. Protection, Support, and Movement.
• 41. Neural Signaling.
• 42. Neural Regulation.
• 43. Sensory Systems.
• 44. Internal Transport.
• 45. The Immune System: Internal Defense.
• 46. Gas Exchange.
• 47. Processing Food and Nutrition.
• 48. Osmoregulation and Disposal of Metabolic Wastes.
• 49. Endocrine Regulation.
• 50. Reproduction.
• 51. Animal Development.
• 52. Animal Behavior. Part VIII: THE INTERACTIONS OF LIFE: ECOLOGY.
• 53. Introduction to Ecology: Population Ecology.
• 54. Community Ecology.
• 55. Ecosystems and the Biosphere.
• 56. Ecology and the Geography of Life.
• 57. Biological Diversity and Conservation Biology. APPENDICES (Available online in MindTap and as PDFs on request). A: Periodic Table of the Elements. B: Classification of Organisms. C: Understanding Biological Terms. D: Abbreviations. E: Answers to Test Your Understanding, Checkpoint, Key Point, and Key Experiment Questions. Glossary. Index.
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Solomon, Martin, Martin and Berg's BIOLOGY--often described as the best majors' text for learning Biology--is also a complete teaching program. The integrated, inquiry-based learning system guides students through every chapter, starting with key concepts at the beginning of each chapter and learning objectives for each section. End-of-section Checkpoint questions encourage students to review key points before moving on. A chapter summary further reinforces learning objectives, followed by an opportunity for students to test their understanding. The eleventh edition offers expanded integration of the text's five guiding themes of Biology--the evolution of life, the transmission of biological information, the flow of energy through living systems, interactions among biological systems and the inter-relationship of structure and function. Available with MindTap Biology, the platform that gives instructors complete control of their course and powers students from memorization to mastery.
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• 1. Invitation to Biology. UNIT
• 1: PRINCIPLES OF CELLULAR LIFE.
• 2. Life's Chemical Basis.
• 3. Molecules of Life.
• 4. Cell Structure.
• 5. Ground Rules of Metabolism.
• 6. Where it Starts: Photosynthesis.
• 7. How Cells Release Chemical Energy. UNIT II: GENETICS.
• 8. DNA Structure and Function.
• 9. From DNA to Protein.
• 10. Control of Gene Expression.
• 11. How Cells Reproduce.
• 12. Meiosis and Sexual Reproduction.
• 13. Observing Patterns in Inherited Traits.
• 14. Chromosomes and Human Inheritance.
• 15. Studying and Manipulating Genomes. UNIT III: PRINCIPLES OF EVOLUTION.
• 16. Evidence of Evolution.
• 17. Processes of Evolution.
• 18. Organizing Information about Species.
• 19. Life's Origin and Early Evolution. UNIT IV: EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY.
• 20. Viruses, Bacteria, and Archaea.
• 21. Protists: The Simplest Eukaryotes.
• 22. The Land Plants.
• 23. Fungi.
• 24. Animal Evolution: The Invertebrates.
• 25. Animal Evolution: The Chordates.
• 26. Human Evolution. UNIT V: HOW PLANTS WORK.
• 27. Plant Tissues.
• 28. Plant Nutrition and Transport.
• 29. Life Cycles of Flowering Plants.
• 30. Communication Strategies in Plants. UNIT VI: HOW ANIMALS WORK.
• 31. Animal Tissues and Organ Systems.
• 32. Neural Control.
• 33. Sensory Perception.
• 34. Endocrine Control.
• 35. Structural Support and Movement.
• 36. Circulation.
• 37. Immunity.
• 38. Respiration.
• 39. Digestion and Nutrition.
• 40. Maintaining the Internal Environment.
• 41. Animal Reproductive System.
• 42. Animal Development.
• 43. Animal Behavior. UNIT VII: PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY.
• 44. Population Ecology.
• 45. Community Ecology.
• 46. Ecosystems.
• 47. The Biosphere.
• 48. Human Impacts on the Biosphere.
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BIOLOGY: THE UNITY AND DIVERSITY OF LIFE, 15th Edition, reveals the biological world in wondrous detail. Its multitude of eye-catching photos and images will keep you fascinated, while helpful text features help you master the material. Chapter-opening Core Concepts enable you to focus on the topics that matter most in every chapter. Each section within a chapter begins with clear Learning Objectives, and section-ending Take Home Messages reinforce these key concepts. Other invaluable features include a running glossary, case studies, self-test questions and data-analysis problems. Available with MindTap Biology, the online program that powers you from memorization to mastery. BIOLOGY: THE UNITY AND DIVERSITY OF LIFE puts the living world of biology under a microscope for you to analyze, understand and enjoy!.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781337408332 20180306

• The molecular basis of heredity, variation, and evolution
• Transmission genetics
• Cell division and chromosome heredity
• Gene interaction
• Genetic linkage and mapping in eukaryotes
• Genetic analysis and mapping in bacteria and bacteriophages
• DNA structure and replication
• Molecular biology of transcription and RNA processing
• The molecular biology of translation
• Eukaryotic -chromosome abnormalities and molecular organization
• Gene mutation, DNA repair, and homologous recombination
• Regulation of gene expression in bacteria and bacteriophage
• Regulation of gene -expression in eukaryotes
• Analysis of gene function by forward genetics and reverse genetics
• Recombinant DNA technology and its applications
• Genomics : genetics from a whole-genome perspective
• Organellar inheritance and the evolution of organellar genomes
• Developmental genetics
• Genetic analysis of -quantitative traits
• Population genetics and evolution at the population, species, and molecular levels.

Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes is a resource uniquely suited for learning and applying genetics to our world. Its DNA first presentation frames the discussion of genetics in modern terms, which provides the user the context to then understand its Mendelian history. Genetics continues to treat transmission genetics, molecular genetics, and evolutionary genetics as fully integrated subjects and provides students with an unprecedented understanding of the basic process of gene transmission, mutation, expression, and regulation. A new unit structure with self-contained chapters provides the flexibility to fit any course design, whether it be Mendel-early, Chromosome-early, or a Genome-first approach. The dynamism of genetics is also perfectly captured, as coverage of technological advances is woven together with ethical controversies. Problem-solving is a core element to this experimental discipline, and the ninth edition of Genetics is unparalleled in the tools it provides to unlock this fascinating subject. This rich resource allows students copious opportunities to practice and learn by using the clearly-presented mathematical concepts and exercises and chapter problems that encourage students to analyze and apply new skills.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781284122930 20180129

Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and molluscs. Disappointed with the work of established artists, Lister decided to teach his daughters, Susanna and Anna, how to illustrate the specimens he studied. The sisters became so skilled at this that Lister entrusted them with his great work, 'Historiae Conchyliorum', assembled between 1685 and 1692. This first comprehensive study of conchology consisted of over 1,000 copperplates of shells and molluscs collected from around the world. 'Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters' reconstructs the creation of this masterwork, from the identification of the original shells to the drawings themselves, and from the engraved copperplates to the draft prints and final books. Susanna and Anna portrayed the shells not only as curious and beautiful objects, but also as specimens of natural history rendered with sensitivity and keen scientific empiricism. Beautiful in their own right, these illustrations and engravings reveal the early techniques behind scientific illustration together with the often unnoticed role of women in the scientific revolution.
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• Unit I. Fundamentals of biology
• 1. The basic structure of science
• The methods of science
• Biology as a science
• The significance of evolution
• Organization of life
• 2. The chemistry of life : an inorganic perspective
• Atoms, molecules, and chemical bonding
• Chemical reactions and the concept of equilibrium
• Colligative properties of solutions
• The laws of thermodynamics
• The special case of water
• Maintaining stable pH in living systems
• 3. The chemistry of life : the organic level
• Carbohydrates
• Proteins
• Structure and functions of lipids
• The chemical basis of living systems
• Unit II. Biology of the cell
• 4. The cellular organization of life
• The cell doctrine
• Cellular organization
• Cellular organelles
• Plant and animal cells : tissue organization
• Cell size and its constraints
• Movement into and out of the cell
• 5. Energy transformations
• Energy and life
• Thermodynamics
• Cell metabolism
• Bioenergetics
• 6. Photosynthesis
• The light reaction
• The dark reaction (Calvin-Benson Cycle)
• Photorespiration
• The C4 pathway
• Structure and function in the chloroplast
• Unit III. Genetics and inheritance
• 7. The nature of the gene
• The concept of information processing in the cell
• The search for the chemical bases of inheritance
• Encoding information : the language of the gene
• Processing the information : protein synthesis
• Reproduction of information : DNA replication
• Modification of information : mutation
• Genetic engineering
• 8. Cell reproduction
• Cell cycles and life cycles
• The chromosomes as packaged genes
• Mitosis
• Meiosis
• A possible mechanism for crossing over
• Sexual reproduction and genetic variability
• 9. The mechanism of inheritance
• Pre-Mendelian concepts
• Mendel's Laws
• Linkage
• Mapping the chromosomes
• Sex linkage
• Variations in gene expression
• Chromosomes and gene expression
• Treating genetic diseases
• 10. Control mechanisms in genetics
• The Operon Hypothesis
• Cistron, recon, and muton
• Gene regulation in eukaryotes
• Cancer as a genetic aberration
• 11. Embryology
• Animal development
• Human development
• Plant development
• Control of differentiation
• Major contributions to the field of embryology
• 12. Animal reproduction
• An evolutionary survey
• Male reproductive system in humans
• Female reproductive system in humans
• Sexual response in humans
• Contraception
• Sexual preference
• Sexual dysfunction
• Unit IV. Plant biology
• 13. Basic structure and function in vascular plants
• Plant nutrition
• Movement of water and minerals in xylem
• Movement of food through the phloem
• 14. Interactions of vascular plants with their environment
• Tropisms
• Plant hormones
• Photoperiodism
• Plant diseases.

• Unit V. Animal biology
• 15. Homeostasis : regulation of physiological functions
• Feedback control
• Regulation of temperature
• Regulation of blood sugar
• 16. Animal nutrition and the digestive system
• Food procurement
• Digestion and absorption
• The vertebrate liver
• Diet and health
• Special case of the vitamins
• Obesity and eating disorders
• Deficiency diseases
• 17. The excretory system
• Excretion in invertebrates
• Structure of the vertebrate kidney
• Functioning of the vertebrate kidney
• Human kidney function
• Homeostatic function of the kidney
• Accessory excretory structures
• 18. The circulatory system
• Comparative cardiovascular systems of vertebrates
• The human heart
• Arteries, veins, and capillaries
• Control of blood pressure
• Constituents of blood and lymph
• Osmoregulation
• 19. Immunology
• The human immune systems
• The immune response
• Hybridomas
• AIDS
• Human blood groups
• 20. The respiratory system
• Mechanisms of external respiration
• Mammalian respiration
• regulation of breathing
• Exchange of O2 and CO2 in the blood
• 21. Hormones and the endocrine system
• Early endocrine systems
• Vertebrate endocrine systems
• Mode of action of hormones
• 22. The nervous system
• Phylogenetic development of the nervous system
• The neuron as the functional unit of nervous activity
• The neural impulse
• The synapse
• Reflex arc
• Receptors and effectors
• Special sense organs
• Brain and spinal cord
• Autonomic nervous system
• 23. The musculoskeletal system: support and movement
• Invertebrate support systems
• The vertebrate endoskeleton
• Anatomy and physiology of vertebrate muscle
• 24. Animal behavior
• What is behavior?
• Components of behavior
• Cyclic behavior patterns
• Sexual behavior
• Social organization
• Modes of communication
• Biological determinism and behavior
• Unit VI. Evolution and ecology
• 25. Evolution : the process
• Abrief history of the concept of change in organisms
• The notion of a gene pool : Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
• Natural selection : a modern synthesis
• Punctuated equilibrium
• Molecular biology of evolutionary change
• Control of gene pools
• Speciation
• Microevolution versus macroevolution
• 26. Ecology
• Anatomy of an ecosystem
• Types of ecosystems
• Stability and ecological succession
• Biomass and species dispersal
• Upsetting the stability of an ecosystem
• 27. Origin of life
• The Oparin Hypothesis
• Heterotroph to autotroph
• Origin of cells
• Unit VII. Biological diversity
• 28. The kingdom Monera (the prokaryotes)
• Archaebacteria and eubacteria
• The significance and origin of organelles
• Bacteria, the ecosphere, and human interactions
• 29. The kingdom Protista
• Protozoans
• Algal protists
• Fungilike protists
• 30. The kingdom Fungi
• Basic structure of fungi
• Divisions of fungi
• Reproductive strategies of the fungi
• Fungi as friends and foes
• 31. The kingdom Plantae
• Bryophytes and the challenge of a terrestrial environment
• The vascular plants
• Seed plants
• Economic importance of plants
• The Green Revolution
• 32. The kingdom Animalia
• Subkingdom parazoa : the sponges
• Radiata : cnidaria and ctenophora
• Bilateria : deuterostomes and protostomes
• Acoelomates
• Pseudocoelomates : rotifera and nematoda
• Protostome coelomates
• Deuterostome coelomates
• 33. The primates
• Primate lineages
• Primate characteristics
• Humankind and its destiny
• Misconceptions of the evolutionary relationship between humans and apes.

Provides an overview of the fundamentals of biology, covering cells, genetics, plant and animal biology, ecology, and biological diversity, and featuring practice problems with step-by-step solutions.

• Bird-watching with the Taliban
• The snow leopard start-up
• Afghanistan's biological silk road
• The ordinary extraordinary life in Kabul
• The forgotten peoples on the roof of the world
• The Buddhas of Band-e-Amir
• Vampires in the land of light
• The search for the last Afghan cheetah
• Adventures in conservation diplomacy
• Back in the CCCP
• The snow leopard comforter
• Epilogue: the snow leopard project.

• Life in the Habitable Zone (John D Barrow)-- From Clay to the Code of Life (Hyman Hartman)-- Stepping Up to Life (Jack W Szostak)-- When Cells Get Creative (Giulia Rancati and Norman Pavelka)-- Finding Strength in Numbers (Detlev Arendt)-- There and Back Again (Per Ahlberg)-- Conquest of the Land and Sea (Byrappa Venkatesh)-- A Salute to Our Placoderm Pioneers (John A Long)-- Warming Up to Mammals (Harris Lewin)-- All in the Family (Francis Thackeray)-- Lessons From Our Inner Neanderthal (Svante Paabo)-- Wired for Intelligence (Terrence Sejnowski)-- Getting Smart About Learning (Atsushi Iriki)-- More Than Just Small Talk (Tecumseh Fitch)-- The Logic of Cultural Evolution (Roland Fletcher)-- Going with the (Information) Flow (Sander van der Leeuw)-- Lingo with a Life of Its Own (N J Enfield)-- How We Became Modern (W Brian Arthur)-- The Creative Destruction of Evolution (Stefan Thurner)-- The Challenge of the Anthropocene (J Stephen Lansing)-- Difficult Questions in Evolution (Eoers Szathmary)-- An Evolving View on Evolution (Gerd B. Muller)-- The Humble View from Inside Evolution (Helga Nowotny)-- Epilogue (Sydney Brenner).
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Humans now wield a greater influence on the planet than any other species in history, and human-developed technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence stand poised to overtake biological evolution. Just how did we arrive at this unique moment in human history, 14 billion years after the birth of the universe Sydney Brenner's 10-on-10: The Chronicles of Evolution brings together 24 prominent scientists and thinkers to trace the story of evolution through ten logarithmic scales of time. Through expert insights, this unique volume considers how humans found our place in the cosmos, and imagines what lies ahead.Published by Wildtype Books and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co.
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Practical and easy to use, Writing in the Biological Sciences: A Comprehensive Resource for Scientific Communication, Third Edition, presents students with all of the techniques and information they need to communicate their scientific ideas, insights, and discoveries. Angelika H. Hofmann introduces students to the underlying principles and guidelines of professional scientific writing and then teaches them how to apply these methods when composing essential forms of scientific writing and communication. Ideal as a free-standing textbook for courses on writing in the biological sciences or as reference guide in laboratories, this indispensable handbook gives students the tools they need to succeed in their undergraduate science careers and beyond.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780190852191 20180828

• Introduction
• Part I. Food Webs: Complexity and Stability
• 1. Food webs versus interaction networks: principles, pitfalls, and persepectives
• 2. What kind of interaction- type diversity matters for community stability
• 3. Symmetry, asymmetry, and beyond: the crucial role of interaction strength in the complexity-stability debate
• 4. Ecologically effective population sizes and functional extinction of species in ecosystems
• 5. Merging antagonistic and mutualistic bipartite webs: a first step to integrate interaction diversity into network approaches
• 6. Toward multiplex ecological networks: accounting for multiple interaction types to understand community structure and dynamics
• 7. Unpacking resilience in food webs: an emergent property or a sum of the parts?
• Part II. Food Webs: From Traits to Ecosystem Functioning
• 8. Integrating food-web and trait-based ecology to investigate biomass-trait feedbacks
• 9. Including the life cycle in food webs
• 10. Importance of trait-related flexibility for food-web dynamics and the maintenance of biodiversity
• 11. Ecological succession investigated through food-web flow networks
• 12. Statistical approaches for inferring and predicting food-web architecture
• 13. Global metawebs of spide predation highlight consequences of land-use change for terrestrial predator-prey networks
• 14. Ecological networks in managed ecosystems: connecting structure to services
• 15. Trait-based and process-oriented modeling in ecological network dynamics
• 16. Empirical methods of identifying and quantifying trophic interactions for constructing soil food-web models
• Part III. Food Webs and Environmental Sustainability
• 17. Integrating species interaction networks and biogeography
• 18. Food-web dynamics when divergent life-history strategies respond to environmental variation differently: a fisheries ecology perspective
• 19. Rare but important: perturbations to uncommon species can have a large impact on the structure of ecological communities
• 20. Food-web simulations: stochastic variability and systems-based conservation
• 21. An individual-based simulation model to link population, community, and metacommunity dynamics
• 22. Structural instability of food webs and food-web models and their implications for management
• 23. Linking ecology and epidemiology: the case of infected resource
• Index.