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Nicola Davies and Jenni Desmond's second collaboration: a spellbinding tour of the world's oceans and an important rallying cry. We humans mostly live on land – so, we think that land is the most im……続きを見る

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of ……続きを見る

Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black boxーa collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes. Passengers get bum……続きを見る

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As climate change accelerates, our window for action is closing. To stay within the "Anthropocene" - an epoch in which humankind as the dom……続きを見る

Synthetic biology is one of the 21st century's fastest growing fields of research, as important for technology as for basic science. Building on traditional genetic engineering, which was restricted……続きを見る

While sheep production has an important place in many farming systems across the world, sheep products face an increasingly competitive market. In addition to traditional concerns about product qual……続きを見る

Discover the fundamentals of selecting and testing textiles in the apparel industry. Covering 80+ fibres and fabrics, Angela Davies explains how designers, technologists and buyers can effectively t……続きを見る

George Stephenson is the ultimate selfmade man: born in the pit village of Wylam, near Newcastle, and skipping any education to start work, his inventions would change the very nature of the world. ……続きを見る

In "The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk," G. Christopher Davies intricately weaves together a rich tapestry of natural history, local lore, and detailed navigational guidance.……続きを見る

Mechanisms of Morphogenesis, Third Edition offers a bottom-up discussion of mechanisms of cell and tissue morphogenesis in a diverse array of organisms, including prokaryotes, animals, plants and fu……続きを見る

Aerodynamics Principles for Air Transport Pilots provides a thorough understanding of the forces acting on an aircraft across a range of speeds and their effects on the aircraft's performance, inclu……続きを見る

The Celtic Year is your year-long companion to the magic and mystery of the Celts. As you follow along with the Wheel of the Year, you will discover the traditions, beliefs and rituals of these anci……続きを見る

With large bright eyes and silent flight, the owl is a master of mystery. A bird of superstition and super-intelligence, its gifts are manifold, hidden beneath a sheath of feathers, just as the owl ……続きを見る

The Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies’s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind of God. Here he tackles all the "big questions," including t……続きを見る

Kidney Development and Regeneration, Volume 163 provides an up-to-date account of kidney development, congenital disease and regeneration. It has an emphasis on areas of the field that have been mov……続きを見る

Did you know that it's considered a sin to harm a robin? Or that seagulls were once thought to be the souls of dead sailors? And do you know what happens if you listen to a blackbird’s song on May D……続きを見る

The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more tha……続きを見る

Muslims in the Russian Army is the first comprehensive account of the tsarist army’s relationship to Muslim soldiers in late imperial Russia. When Russia mobilized her army in the summer of 1914 mor……続きを見る

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Physiology is the science of life, and sets out to understand how living things work and what makes them distinct from the non-living. It consi……続きを見る

The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlo……続きを見る

The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds' inner workings. It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlightening……続きを見る

The most comprehensive guide to African raptors ever published. Due to its large land mass and impressive variety of habitats, Africa has the most diverse range of raptors of any continent – with al……続きを見る

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife pot……続きを見る

The pebbles used in ancient abacuses gave their name to the calculus, which today is a fundamental tool in business, economics, engineering and the sciences. This introductory book takes readers gen……続きを見る

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time o……続きを見る

This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evap……続きを見る

Look to the skies and discover what lays beyond the stars! Space technology is any technology used to explore beyond Earth. This includes rockets, spacecraft, rovers, shuttles, and much more. This s……続きを見る

This concise text explores the interactions between pathogens and the immune system. Taking a disease-based approach, it explains how micro-organisms adapted to growth in human hosts can evade the i……続きを見る

Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world……続きを見る

This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the health, environmental, and engineering aspects of the management of rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban Drainage ……続きを見る