Biological Sciences

* What Is A Bioprocess Engineer?  PART 2 The Basics Of Biology : An Engineer's Perspective * An Overview Of Biological Basics * Enzymes * How Cells Work * Major Metabolic Pathways * How Cells Grow * Stoichiometry Of Microbial Growth And Product Formation * How Cellular Information Is Altered... More

Advertised as "the book that gets you results," "Cracking the SAT"--from the world's best test-prep company--offers proven techniques for scoring higher.The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Biology E/M Subject Test is very different from earning straight A's in school. We don't try to te... More

According to conventional wisdom, our genes and lifestyles are the most important causes of the most deadly ailments of our time. Conventional wisdom may be wrong. In this controversial book, the eminent biologist Paul W. Ewald offers some startling arguments: -Germs appear to be at the root of hear... More

Table of Contents1. Introduction- Exploring Life. UNIT ONE- THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE. 2. The Chemical Context of Life. 3. Water and the Fitness of the Environment. 4. Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life. 5. The Structure and Function of Macromolecules. UNIT TWO- THE CELL. 6. A Tour of the Cell. ... More

This title integrates basic science with clinical practice and also [revised case studies to help readers to take a problem-based approach treatment. Urology Handbook provides the simple but authoritative guidance medical students need to get them through the urology sections of their training. Thro... More

Sequence similarity is a powerful tool for discovering biological function. Just as the ancient Greeks used comparative anatomy to understand the human body and linguists used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, today we can use comparative sequence analysis to understand genomes. BL... More

The world is losing species and biodiversity at a rate unprecedented in history. The causes go deep, and the losses are driven by a complex array of social, economic, political and biological factors at different levels. Immediate causes, such as overharvesting, pollution and habitat change, have be... More

Animals without Backbones. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts: animals without backbones are called invertebrates invertebrates are classified by their body characteristics most kinds of invertebrates live in the ocean invertebrates have developed ... More

For hands-on activities involving parts of a plant, trees, flowers, and seeds that connect science with real life, choose Plants. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts: a plant is a living thing, plants have many parts, each part of a plant has a spec... More

The human brain has been studied for millennia, but in the past decades huge advances have occurred in neurology that have allowed scientists to reassess what we really know about the least understood part of the human body. We can now observe the activity of the brain as it performs different funct... More