Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations. David E. Alexander's fascination with the many animals and plants that have harnessed the air is evident in Nature's Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight, a detailed account of our current scientific understanding of the..... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations, tables. Every day, biologists in parkas, raincoats, and rubber boots go into the field to capture and mark a variety of animal species. Back in the office, statisticians create analytical models for the field biologists' data. But..... More

London: SAGE Publications, 2014. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. This book provides clear and intuitive explanations of the most important migration concepts as used in classrooms, among policymakers, and in popular and academic discourse. Arguing that there is a clear need for a better public understanding of migration, it seeks to..... More

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. This book is a study of the..... More

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996. Small quarto, tables, fine copy in dustwrapper. Motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music and countless daily tasks. The nervous system can learn new motor behaviours through experience and practice - this is motor learning. This text presents research on the..... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Octavo, line drawings , fine copy in dustwrapper. Slime molds are very different from other organisms; they feed as individual amoebae before coming together to form a multicellular organism that has a remarkable ability to move and orient itself in its environment. This book shows..... More

New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing, 2014, Octavo, tect illustrations, owner's irritatingly large signature on two pages, laminated boards. More

Wollombi: Exisle Publishing, 2011. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This entertaining book deals with an endlessly fascinating subject in a new, unique way. Humans have always had an ambivalent relationship with deadly animals. For most people they arouse fears and even phobias, yet perhaps the real risks are not..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1947. reprint). Octavo, photographs. A tribute to Thompson who is best remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, which led the way for the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns and body structures are formed in plants and animals..... More

Yale University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Increasingly absorbed in recent years by advances in our understanding of the origin of life, evolutionary history, and the advent of humankind, eminent biologist Christian de Duve of late has also pondered deeply the future of life on this planet..... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs and black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, black and white photographs, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The discovery of an entirely new group of organisms, Archaea, sparked a conceptual revolution in our understanding of the evolution of life, and Patrick Forterre was and still is at the vanguard of this..... More