Biology, life sciences

This book provides the first comprehensive coverage of the dragonflies and damselflies of the Delmarva Peninsula.

First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study.

First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study.

'Your world will be larger for reading this book' CHLOE DALTON author of Raising Hare'The most persistent feeling, and one that Martins conveys beautifully, is one of awe at the sheer diversity and inventiveness of the living world' GUARDIANWelcome to the hidden, squirming world of parasites - some of the most misunderstood, and most important, creatures with whom we share the Earth.

This book provides the first comprehensive coverage of the dragonflies and damselflies of the Delmarva Peninsula.

Free Imagination argues that the brain's capacity to imagine is the fundamental basis of human Free Will.

Now in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works.

Gardeners of today take for granted the many varieties of geraniums, narcissi, marigolds, roses, and other beloved flowers for their gardens.

The Ecology of Kalimantan is a comprehensive ecological survey of one of Indonesia's largest and most diverse islands.

This volume explores the intersection of animal protection and economic law within the European Union, offering a bold new framework for safeguarding sentient beings.

This book reviews recent advances in drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease, focusing on major targets and approaches.

The essential guide to getting the most out of birding in your local area.

Did you know that ferrets often fart right next to their own heads?

This accessible guide expertly distils the fundamentals of genetic science through digestible text, full-colour diagrams and useful infographics.

Free Imagination argues that the brain's capacity to imagine is the fundamental basis of human Free Will.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICOB 2026, held in Honululu, Hawaii, USA, during March 23–March 25, 2026.

The essential guide to getting the most out of birding in your local area.

Cognition-Based Biology (CBB) is a radical restructuring of biological and evolutionary development as a comprehensive alternative narrative to 20th century Neo-Darwinism and its critical deficiencies.

This volume explores the intersection of animal protection and economic law within the European Union, offering a bold new framework for safeguarding sentient beings.

Myasthenia gravis treatment has seen remarkable progress, with FDA approval of a first-in-class drug targeting autoimmunity.

Proteomics is a well-established discipline, within which sample treatment has emerged as a rapidly evolving and strategic sub-area.

Although the sense of smell is often taken for granted, approximately 20% of the population experiences some degree of olfactory dysfunction, ranging from partial impairment (hyposmia) to complete loss (anosmia).

Proteomics is a well-established discipline, within which sample treatment has emerged as a rapidly evolving and strategic sub-area.

This book reviews recent advances in drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease, focusing on major targets and approaches.

This book considers the concept of time after the shift from genetics to phylogenetics.

This book considers the concept of time after the shift from genetics to phylogenetics.

This book offers a scholarly audience a new key to Gilbert Simondon's encyclopaedic philosophy.

This book offers a scholarly audience a new key to Gilbert Simondon's encyclopaedic philosophy.

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible exploration of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the field of Genomics and personalized medicine.

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible exploration of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the field of Genomics and personalized medicine.

This books focuses specifically on an “applied economics” of landscapes.

This books focuses specifically on an “applied economics” of landscapes.

Although the sense of smell is often taken for granted, approximately 20% of the population experiences some degree of olfactory dysfunction, ranging from partial impairment (hyposmia) to complete loss (anosmia).

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) was first reported in the biomedical literature as a toxicant/pollutant and for decades it remained an agent solely of  toxicological interest.

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) was first reported in the biomedical literature as a toxicant/pollutant and for decades it remained an agent solely of  toxicological interest.

The 8th International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2026, held as part of the 28th HCI International Conference, HCII 2026, took place in Montreal, QC, Canada, during July 2026.

Cognition-Based Biology (CBB) is a radical restructuring of biological and evolutionary development as a comprehensive alternative narrative to 20th century Neo-Darwinism and its critical deficiencies.

The brain regulates the processes essential to life, gives rise to thoughts and feelings, and is at the very core of who we are.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICOB 2026, held in Honululu, Hawaii, USA, during March 23–March 25, 2026.

Modern drone warfare may not seem revolutionary in its technology—but the way it’s used has changed everything.

Get the Summary of New Scientist's Machines that Think in 20 minutes.

Get the Summary of Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Roger Highfield's The Dance of Life in 20 minutes.

Addressing ecologists, legislators, lawyers, and industrialists alike, Ruth Patrick asks what has been accomplished with the millions of dollars spent on upgrading our surface waters.

Get the Summary of Jamil Zaki's Hope for Cynics in 20 minutes.

Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys--all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey.

Get the Summary of Jenny Kleeman's Sex Robots and Vegan Meat in 20 minutes.

From the time the public learned of DDT's dramatic containment of a typhus epidemic in Naples during World War II to the ban on DDT by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1972, this is the story of the controversial pesticide and its part in the rise of the environmental movement.

Here are the recent investigations of several distinguished biologists originally presented at the Fourteenth Symposium of the Society for the Study of Development and Growth.

This volume presents an overview of current accomplishments and future directions in ecological theory.

This volume sets out the basic applied mathematical and numerical methods of chaotic dynamics and illustrates the wide range of phenomena, inside and outside the laboratory, that can be treated as chaotic processes.