Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry
Authors: Morris Hein, Scott Pattison and Susan Arena
Edition: Tenth
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 1,120
Price: £151.00
ISBN: 9780470598801
Recognising that maths and science can be daunting subjects, the authors aim to emphasise the importance of understanding why and how chemical principles relate to our lives and, for students, their future careers. Exercises are provided to help develop the skill of problem solving in biochemistry.
Tropical Ecosystems and Ecological Concepts
Author: Patrick L. Osborne
Edition: Second
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 212
Price: £35.00
ISBN: 9780521177344
The second edition of this textbook has a greater focus on climate change and aims to offer a comprehensive look at the aquatic and terrestrial tropical biomes whose rich biodiversity is threatened by factors such as deforestation, land degradation and ocean acidification. Case studies provide a framework around which ecological concepts and applied ecological topics are presented.
Bioinformatics for Biologists
Editors: Pavel Pevzner and Ron Shamir
Edition: First
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 392
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781107648876
This book for life science students and researchers focuses on computational ideas, thus avoiding technical explanations about running bioinformatics programs or searching databases. Self-contained chapters introduce basic computational methods in bioinformatics, along with the biological problems that each method is intended to solve.
Solid Biomechanics
Author: Roland Ennos
Edition: First
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 264
Price: £44.95
ISBN: 9780691135502
The mechanical adaptations that link living organisms, enabling them to survive in a hostile world, are introduced. Roland Ennos also looks at practical and historical aspects of the subject, investigating how the mechanics of organisms could be applied to other engineering scenarios.
Insect Ecology: Behavior, Populations and Communities
Authors: P.W. Price, R.F. Denno, M.D. Eubanks, D.L. Finke and I. Kaplan
Edition: First
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 816
Price: £42.99
ISBN: 9780521542609
This introductory text couples concepts with examples and practical applications. Via sections structured around key topics, it explores cutting-edge ideas in the field, including behavioural ecology, food webs and species interaction. Each chapter ends with a summary, questions and discussion topics.
Ecology and Conservation of Fishes
Author: Harold M. Tyus
Edition: First
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
Pages: 573
Price: £49.99
ISBN: 9781439858547
Intended as a stand-alone text, Harold Tyus’ book aims to give comprehensive and systematic coverage of aquatic systems. An overview of the ecology, evolution and diversity of fishes is followed by a look at freshwater, estuarine and marine ecosystems, factors affecting the distribution of fishes and adaptations in response to ecosystem constraints. It ends with four chapters on applied ecology issues including management, conservation, biodiversity crises and climate change.
Concepts of Genetics with MasteringGeneticsTM
Authors: William Klug, Michael Cummings, Charlotte Spencer and Michael Palladino
Edition: Tenth international
Publisher: Pearson Education
Pages: 876
Price: £49.99
ISBN: 9780321795779
Aiming to offer enhanced problem-solving guidance in this latest edition, the authors emphasise the fundamental ideas of genetics and focus on key ideas. Animations, tutorials, homework assignments with automatic grading and adaptive tutoring are supplied online at MasteringGenetics.com, and each chapter concludes with problems and discussion questions. “Extra spicy problems” - based on data derived from the primary literature of genetics - are intended to stretch students’ abilities.
Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
Authors: Gerard J. Tortora and Bryan H. Derrickson
Edition: Thirteenth
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 1,536
Price: £49.99 and £37.49
ISBN: 9780470929186 and 97811180066 (e-book)
Five major sections in the main text cover organisation of the human body, principles of support and movement, control systems of the human body, maintenance of the human body and continuity. This is supplemented by additional material via WileyPLUS, a research-based online environment that integrates resources including the entire digital version of the text, along with tools for promoting individual initiative and achieving personal study goals. In this 13th edition, tissue micrographs are replaced by crystal-clear photomicrographs, illustrations have been revised throughout, the Clinical Connections sections updated, and chapters on the axial and appendicular skeletons and cranial nerve added.
Biochemistry
Authors: Donald Voet and Judith G. Voet
Edition: Fourth
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 1,520
Price: £49.99 and £31.66
ISBN: 9780470570951 and 0914106 (e-book)
Billed by its publishers as the “gold standard” in the field, this fourth edition has been comprehensively revised by the authors, who are co-editors-in-chief of the journal Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. It contains more than 3,000 figures presenting classical and contemporary concepts, experiments and techniques. Student resources include animated figures, bioinformatics exercises, case studies, guided explorations with narration and computer graphics, and exercises comprising 55 three-dimensional images of selected proteins and nucleic acids that can be manipulated by users.
Integrated Molecular Evolution
Author: Scott Orland Rogers
Edition: First
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
Pages: 391
Price: £63.99
ISBN: 9781439819951
Scott Orland Rogers brings together the fields of molecular evolution, phylogenetics, genomics and related topics critical to understanding evolutionary processes, in a bid to facilitate student comprehension and allow collection of all the concepts, principles and nuances of these processes. The book covers the traditional fields of evolution, genetics and molecular biology, as well as emerging fields such as bioinformatics and genomics.
Henderson’s Dictionary of Biology
Author: Eleanor Lawrence
Edition: Fifteenth
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings/Pearson Education
Pages: 776
Price: £15.99
ISBN: 9781408234303
Now in its 15th edition, this dictionary is intended to serve as an essential reference for students, teachers and researchers in the biological sciences. This latest update contains revisions to many existing definitions, as well as new terms from a range of fields such as bioinformatics, proteomics and genomics. Appendices include a geological timescale and the etymology of common word elements in biology.
Dynamics of Biological Systems
Author: Michael Small
Edition: First
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
Pages: 284
Price: £49.99
ISBN: 9781439853368
University of South Australia academic Michael Small presents the computational and mathematical platform from which to understand the underlying processes of biological systems and phenomena ranging from the firing of cortical neurons to the spatial diffusion of disease epidemics. The classroom-based text introduces computational methods for simulating spatial diffusion processes and mathematical tools for dealing with systems of non-linear ordinary and partial differential equations, offering insight into the dynamics of temporal and spatial biological systems, including artificial electrical defibrillation, pandemics, flocking behaviour and the interaction of autonomous agents, and hierarchical and structured network topologies.
Animal Nutrition
Authors: Peter McDonald et al.
Edition: Seventh
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings/Pearson Education
Pages: 712
Price: £51.99
ISBN: 9781408204238
The latest edition of this introduction to the science and practice of animal nutrition has been reorganised, taking recent legislation into account and providing up-to-date figures and suggestions for further reading.
Core Maths for the Biosciences
Author: Martin B. Reed
Edition: First
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 608
Price: £29.99
ISBN: 9780199216345
This self-contained text introduces the mathematical concepts that bioscience students must master. Starting from fundamental concepts of arithmetic and algebra, it aims to offer clear explanations and biological examples throughout, as it progresses towards the most sophisticated mathematical tools in use by biologists today: differential equations, dynamical systems and chaos theory.
