#textbook #college #collegetextbook #biology 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

Science

Unlocking Medical Terminology serves as a key to discovering a new language, in a fun, eye-catching, yet scientifically precise way.  This easy to navigate book is designed to be used as a text to support lectures, or as an independent workbook.  To help readers learn the meanings, correct spelling, pronunciation, and other factors of each medical term, the book contains numerous exercises, tips, and colorful figures for learning and practicing. The flexibility of its application is made possible by the book's text-like format combined with its self-guided, exercise-driven learning program. Wingerd uses a stair-step approach that mirrors the way that many people learn.  Instead of assuming you will absorb volumes of information in one step, this book presents topics in smaller pieces.  Self-quizzes give you the opportunity to master the information before you build upon it in the next section.  This approach allows you to work at your own pace and ensures success. Some new features include:

 * New Art Program with a very visual presentation of Anatomy and Physiology.
 * Case Studies and Medical Reports have been added to give students real world context.
 * More exercises throughout to help students refine word building skills.
 * New See & Say approach to pronunciation, helping students say the medical terms correctly.

Unlocking Medical Terminology

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Elizabeth A. Fenn

Book was used for a few weeks for a class and then kept in storage. Minor signs of age, bottom of book got dabbed by a black marker

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

The Great Smallpox Epidemic Of 1775-82

Recreates one of the most overlooked chapters in American history--the smallpox epidemic that coincided with the Revolutionary War--tracing its influence on colonial life and the course of the war.

Pox Americana

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#sciencefiction #fiction #thriller #sciencefictionfantasy #evolution #speculativefiction #fantasy #biology #hardsciencefiction

Connecticut

Darwin's Radio #1 Series

A virus hunter at the Epidemic Intelligence Service has discovered that a long-dormant virus encoded in human DNA is about to re-awaken, with terrifying consequences for any woman about to have a child. Reprint.

Darwin's Radio

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Joseph Chilton Pearce

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Blueprint of the Human Spirit

Uses new research about the brain to explore how we can transcend our current physical and cultural limitations • Reveals that transcendence of current modes of existence requires the dynamic interaction of our fourth and fifth brains (intellect and intelligence) • Explores the idea that Jesus, Lao-tzu, and other great beings in history are models of nature’s possibility and our ability to achieve transcendence • 17,000 sold in hardcover since April 2002 Why do we seem stuck in a culture of violence and injustice? How is it that we can recognize the transcendent ideal represented by figures such as Jesus, Lao-tzu, and many others who have walked among us and yet not seem to reach the same state? In The Biology of Transcendence Joseph Chilton Pearce examines the current biological understanding of our neural organization to address how we can go beyond the limitations and constraints of our current capacities of body and mind--how we can transcend. Recent research in the neurosciences and neurocardiology identifies the four neural centers of our brain and indicates that a fifth such center is located in the heart. This research reveals that the evolutionary structure of our brain and its dynamic interactions with our heart are designed by nature to reach beyond our current evolutionary capacities. We are quite literally, made to transcend. Pearce explores how this “biological imperative” drives our life into ever-greater realms of being--even as the “cultural imperative” of social conformity and behavior counters this genetic heritage, blocks our transcendent capacities, and breeds violence in all its forms. The conflict between religion and spirit is an important part of this struggle. But each of us may overthrow these cultural imperatives to reach “unconflicted behavior,” wherein heart and mind-brain resonate in synchronicity, opening us to levels of possibility beyond the ordinary.

The Biology of Transcendence

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Doug Mackay-Hope

Jeremy Wade

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Astonishing Truth about Our Aquatic Cousins

An exploration into the untold lives of 50 of the most compelling fish living in our oceans and waterways.

The Secret Life of Fish

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

My Journey into the Heart of Madagascar

Chasing Lemurs 

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Melanie Peffer

How the science of life matters to everyday life

Biology as explained through the lens of how we experience it as part of our daily lives. Written for a trade audience.

Biology Everywhere

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Richard Dawkins

30th Anniversary Edition--With a New Introduction by the Author

An ethologist shows man to be a gene machine whose world is one of savage competition and deceit.

The Selfish Gene

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#bio #biology #pearson #masteringbiology #studentaccesskit

California

Online Media Materials, Student Access Kit

DaA Spektrum die vierte englische Ausgabe A1/4bersetzt und mit Hilfe zahlreicher deutschsprachiger Dozenten dieses Biologie-Lehrbuch A1/4berarbeitet hat, garantiert, daA dieses Buch jeden Biologie-Studenten als zuverlAssigen, gewichtigen Begleiter durch das Studium fA1/4hren kann. MerksAtze und Fragen zur Selbst-Kontrolle erleichtern neben dem klaren, selbsterklArenden Text mit prAzisem Glossar das Selbst-Studium und die PrA1/4fungsvorbereitungen. Die didaktisch anschaulichen, vierfarbigen Illustrationen und die gut A1/4berschaubare Gliederung der Texte ermAglichen dem Biologie-Lehrer wie auch dem Biologie-Dozenten die gezielte Vorbereitung auf Unterricht und Vorlesungen. Das Lehrbuch "Biologie" veranschaulicht die komplette Biologie mit all ihren TeilfAchern - Biochemie, Zellbiologie, Genetik, Evolution, BiodiversitAt, Botanik, Zoologie und A-kologie - farbig und lebendig. Renommierte Wissenschaftler erzAhlen von ihrem Weg zum Forscher, in Boxen erfAhrt der Leser, welche Methoden den wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen zugrundeliegen. Biologie bleibt so nicht das Verinnerlichen von Fakten, sondern eine lebendige Wissenschaft mit Zukunftsperspektive.

Mastering Biology

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Some minor highlighting in the introductory sections of the textbook 

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Minnesota

Second Edition

Biology: Concepts & Connections

#educational #paperback #nonfiction #biology #science  

Regents Exams and Answers: Biology

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South Carolina

A "survival guide" for biology class This book helps teens to discern the chronic bias towards belief in evolution that permeates today s three most popular high school biology textbooks. Virtually every chapter in each of the secular textbooks contains implied or explicit references to evolutionary beliefs, which are misrepresented as irrefutable facts. However, in Evolution Exposed these misrepresentations are cross-referenced with online articles and publications that provide both scientific and biblical answers. Key terms are defined, articles are summarized and false ideas are refuted. Evolution Exposed is thoroughly indexed by topic so anyone can use it as a reference. Christian students are equipped and inspired to recognize and respectfully challenge evolutionary indoctrination (in class, research papers, and normal interactions outside of school). Using tables, web links, charts and illustrations, documented facts that counter evolutionary teaching in a powerful and organized fashion are synchronized with each textbook s sequence."

Evolution Exposed

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Eldra P. Solomon

Some writing/highlighting but overall good condition 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Biology

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Sean B. Carroll

Wisconsin

Dna and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

DNA, the genetic blueprint of all creatures, is a stunningly rich and detailed record of evolution. Every change or new trait, from the gaudy colors of tropical birds to our color vision with which we admire them, is due to changes in DNA that leave a record and can be traced. Just as importantly, the DNA evidence has revealed several profound surprises about how evolution actually works.

Making of the Fittest

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#science #evolution #richarddawkins #biology #theselfishgene 

A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.

The Ancestor's Tale

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Michigan

The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, is part of theBarnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. On December 27, 1831, the young naturalist Charles Darwin left Plymouth Harbor aboard the HMS Beagle. For the next five years, he conducted research on plants and animals from around the globe, amassing a body of evidence that would culminate in one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind--the theory of evolution. Darwin presented his stunning insights in a landmark book that forever altered the way human beings view themselves and the world they live in. In The Origin of Species, he convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution: that existing animals and plants cannot have appeared separately but must have slowly transformed from ancestral creatures. Most important, the book fully explains the mechanism that effects such a transformation: natural selection, the idea that made evolution scientifically intelligible for the first time. One of the few revolutionary works of science that is engrossingly readable, The Origin of Species not only launched the science of modern biology but also has influenced virtually all subsequent literary, philosophical, and religious thinking. George Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor of English Literature at Rutgers University, has written extensively about Darwin and the relation of science and literature, particularly in Darwin and the Novelists. He is the author of many related books, including The Realistic Imagination, Dying to Know, and his birdwatching memoirs, Lifebirds.

The Origin of Species

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This resource offers a study plan and practice questions for each chapter to help students prepare for exams.

Discover Biology

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A bit of wear on the jacket corners, but the book is in excellent shape #hardcover #dna #biology #genome #reference 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The sequencing of the human genome has been hailed as the most ground breaking scientific event of the new century. It offers the exciting prospect of fresh insights into our collective history, our shared identity and our individuality, and opens up important possibilities for the identification, treatment and prevention of disease. Not since Crick and Watson's seminal paper on the structure of DNA has a scientific publication been greeted with so much public expectation for a new understanding of the basis of life itself. In this illustrated account, written and compiled by Carina Dennis and Richard Gallagher of Nature, the genome project is made accessible for a general readership. It offers an introduction to the basic biology and techniques, a guide to the main players and events in the history of genetic science, and a range of viewpoints on its impact and reception around the world, in addition to the full text of the research paper itself.

The Human Genome

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Phillip E. Pack

CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you're in high school or medical school, CliffsQuickReview Anatomy and Physiology can help you understand how your body is built and the different functions it performs. This guide introduces each topic, defines key terms, and carefully walks you through each sample problem step-by-step. In no time, you'll be ready to tackle other concepts in this book such as Cell division Organization of the skeletal system Nervous system organization Hormones Immune system and other body defenses Reproductive system CliffsQuickReview Anatomy and Physiology acts as a supplement to your textbook and to classroom lectures. Use this reference in any way that fits your personal style for study and review — you decide what works best with your needs. Here are just a few ways you can search for topics: Use the free Pocket Guide full of essential information Get a glimpse of what you'll gain from a chapter by reading through the Chapter Check-In at the beginning of each chapter Use the Chapter Checkout at the end of each chapter to gauge your grasp of the important information you need to know Test your knowledge more completely in the CQR Review and look for additional sources of information in the CQR Resource Center Use the glossary to find key terms fast. With titles available for all the most popular high school and college courses, CliffsQuickReview guides are a comprehensive resource that can help you get the best possible grades.

CliffsQuickReview Anatomy and Physiology

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Kansas

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human.

Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves--hearts, blood, brains--are built from these compartments. Hooke christened them "cells".

The discovery of cells--and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem--announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID pneumonia--all could be reconceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies.

In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. He seduces you with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling. Told in six parts, laced with Mukherjee's own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate--a masterpiece.

The Song of the Cell

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Encounters with animals coupled with philosophy and musings on the origins of our intellects#nonfiction #hardcover #biology

Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness In his acclaimed 2016 book Other Minds, the philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus—the closest thing to an intelligent alien on earth, as he put it. In Metazoa, Godfrey-Smith expands his inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution of subjective awareness with the assistance of the far flung species he has met undersea. Combining vivid animal encounters with philosophical reflections and the latest news from biology, Metazoa reveals that even in our hi-tech, AI-driven times, there is no understanding minds without understanding nerves, muscles, and our active bodies. The result is a story as rich and vibrant as life itself, one that explains the mystery of animal consciousness in accessible and riveting prose.

Metazoa

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New York Times bestselling author Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures.

Join them as they encounter the animal kingdom in its stunning beauty, astonishing variety, and imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but loveable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of Zaire, the rare birds of Mauritius island in the Indian Ocean. Hilarious and poignant--as only Douglas Adams can be--Last Chance to See is an entertaining and arresting odyssey through the Earth's magnificent wildlife galaxy.
 
Praise for Last Chance to See
 
"Lively, sharply satirical, brilliantly written . . . shows how human care can undo what human carelessness has wrought."--The Atlantic

"These authors don't hesitate to present the alarming facts: More than 1,000 species of animals (and plants) become extinct every year. . . . Perhaps Adams and Carwardine, with their witty science, will help prevent such misadventures in the future."--Boston Sunday Herald
 
"Very funny and moving . . . The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams's] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them live."--The Washington Post Book World
 
"[Adams] invites us to enter into a conspiracy of laughter and caring."--Los Angeles Times
 
"Amusing . . . thought-provoking . . . Its details on the heroic efforts being made to save these animals are inspirational."--The New York Times Book Review

Last Chance to See

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Robert B. Jackson

Neil A. Campbell

Michael L. Cain

Peter V. Minorsky

Lisa A. Urry

Steven A. Wasserman

Campbell Biology

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Edward O. Wilson

This classic by the distinguished Harvard entomologist tells how life on earth evolved and became diverse, and now, how diversity and life are endangered by us, truly. While Wilson contributed a great deal to environmental ethics by calling for the preservation of whole ecosystems rather than individual species, his environmentalism appears too anthropocentric: "We should judge every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity." And: "Signals abound that the loss of life's diversity endangers not just the body but the spirit." This reprint of the 1992 Belknap Press publication contains a new foreword. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Unlocking Medical Terminology

Elizabeth A. Fenn

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Darwin's Radio

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Doug Mackay-Hope; Jeremy Wade

The Secret Life of Fish

Keriann Mcgoogan

Chasing Lemurs

Melanie Peffer

Biology Everywhere

Richard Dawkins

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Making of the Fittest

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M. L. Cain

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Phillip E. Pack

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Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Edward O. Wilson

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