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One of a series intended for GCSE, Scottish Standard Grade syllabuses and TVEI, this book concerns medical research. It questions how medical research has helped in combating infectious disease and improved the quality of life. The book attempts to answer these questions and tackles the ethical implications of each topic. More than 10 copies are available at #2.99 each. ... Read more

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Intended for GCSE, Scottish Standard Grade syllabuses and AS General Studies, this series encourages students to increase their understanding and explore their attitude to a wide range of topics. This book on brewing technology supplies the facts needed to investigate the topic further. Practical activities and discussion questions allow students to learn for themselves about beer, the brewing process and quality control. 10+ copies at #2.99. ... Read more

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This series provides a mix of information, illustration and activities for students with teacher's notes accompanying class sets. This volume considers the reasons for drinking and the effects on the body and behaviour. ... Read more

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This series provides a mix of information, illustration and activities for students with teacher's notes accompanying class sets. What is cancer? How is money given to research spent? The latest developments in the fight against the disease are described here. ... Read more

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This series provides a mix of information, illustration and activities for students with teacher's notes accompanying class sets. This volume considers the risks of drinking and driving and the effects of alcohol on the body. ... Read more

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The Cambridge IGCSE Biology Teacher's Resource CD-ROM supports the content of the Cambridge IGCSE Biology Coursebook and Workbook. It contains: lesson plans; answers to the questions in the Coursebook; answers to exercises in the Workbook; student worksheets; and answers for the worksheeets. ... Read more

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Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo extreme cycles; others never cycle. In Consumer-Resource Dynamics, William Murdoch, Cherie Briggs, and Roger Nisbet use these and numerous other biological examples to lay the groundwork for a unifying theory applicable to predator-prey, parasitoid-host, and other consumer-resource interactions. Throughout, the focus is on how the properties of real organisms affect population dynamics.

The core of the book synthesizes and extends the authors' own models involving insect parasitoids and their hosts, and explores in depth how consumer species compete for a dynamic resource. The emerging general consumer-resource theory accounts for how consumers respond to differences among individuals in the resource population. From here the authors move to other models of consumer-resource dynamics and population dynamics in general. Consideration of empirical examples, key concepts, and a necessary review of simple models is followed by examination of spatial processes affecting dynamics, and of implications for biological control of pest organisms. The book establishes the coherence and broad applicability of consumer-resource theory and connects it to single-species dynamics. It closes by stressing the theory's value as a hierarchy of models that allows both generality and testability in the field. ... Read more

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As one of the most quantitative of ecological subdisciplines,resource competition is an important, central area of ecology.Recently research into this area has increased dramatically andresource competition models have become more complex. Thecharacterisation of this phenomenon is therefore the aim of thisbook. Resource Competition seeks to identify the unifying principlesemerging from experimental and theoretical approaches as well as thedifferences between organisms, illustrating that greater knowledge ofresource competition will benefit human and environmental welfare.This book will serve as an indispensable guide to ecologists,evolutionary biologists and environmental managers, and all thoseinterested in resource competition as an emerging discipline. ... Read more

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In wildlife, fisheries, forestry, and range management departments around the country, natural resource scientists and their students advance understanding of the natural world largely through the collection and analysis of data. These students learn how to acquire data in the field and analyze them using modeling and other statistical methods.

What they do not learn, contends author Fred S. Guthery, is what science means as an intellectual pursuit and where natural resource science fits in the scientific tradition. He argues that without education about the nature and philosophy of science, the wildlife field has become enamored with its methodologies at the expense of gaining real knowledge, leading to what some have characterized as "a crisis in how wildlife science is pursued." With A Primer on Natural Resource Science, Guthery intends to put learning about the nature of science into the natural resource scientist's university curriculum.

In the first part of the book, "Perspectives," Guthery describes the principles of the scientific endeavor, discussing the nature of reasoning, of facts, of creativity and critical thinking. In the second part, "Practice," he presents the "mechanics" of science, explaining the roles of experiment, observation, models, and statistics. He also demystifies the essential activity of publishing, telling students and researchers why they must do it and how to do it successfully.

Throughout the book, Guthery uses his long experience and the body of his own research to relate the philosophical underpinnings of science to the realities of field biology. By providing real-life examples in the practice of natural resource science, Guthery offers practical, occasionally painful, and sometimes humorous lessons on the human urge to know about nature through science. ... Read more

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Interesting concepts and ideas
A pretty good book overall bringing up some good potential flaws with natural resource research and some good ideas to consider. The book seems to be more targeted towards academic faculty illustrating what the author believes to be ingenious ideas unabashedly delivered, but could be read and understood by m.s. students especially towards the end of their schooling. Natural resource professionals would likely benefit from the authors points about the ridiculousness of some practices and lack of common sense in favor of often rigid restrictions, especially in regards to publishing. Would recommend.

Great book!
Everything they didn't teach you in undergrad. For anyone in natural resource sciences or those just interested in the philosophy of science this book is a great foundation.If you are in the field of natural resource science your education is not complete until you have read this book. ... Read more

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Collaborative research in bioinformatics and systems biology is a key element of modern biology and health research. This book highlights and provides access to many of the methods, environments, results and resources involved, including integral laboratory data generation and experimentation and clinical activities. Collaborative projects embody a research paradigm that connects many of the top scientists, institutions, their resources and research worldwide, resulting in first-class contributions to bioinformatics and systems biology. Central themes include describing processes and results in collaborative research projects using computational biology and providing a guide for researchers to access them.

The book is also a practical guide on how science is managed. It shows how collaborative researchers are putting results together in a way accessible to the entire biomedical community.

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Cecie Starr is the most successful author in non-majors biology because of her clear and engaging writing, trend-setting art, and unparalleled student and instructor media. Now in her brief NEW text, Starr creates in fewer than 500 pages a friendly, issues-oriented book with enormous instructional power. Integrating visuals from the book and accompanying media, Starr supports student mastery throughout and encourages students to make judgments about biology-related issues just as they will as citizens, voters, parents, employees, and consumers. While this brief book omits physiology coverage, it covers all other topics. The pedagogical focal points of each chapter are "Read Me First!" diagrams that introduce concepts before students read the longer text discussions. These visual previews, featuring annotated art presented in clearly numbered steps, make the subsequent text discussions more accessible. To solidify understanding, a narrated animation of each diagram appears on the free Student CD-ROM. "The Big Picture" on every chapter-opening page is a visual overview of the chapter's key concepts and is enhanced by a fully narrated, "mini-lecture" movie on the CD-ROM. The free Student CD-ROM provides access to BiologyNow, a powerful diagnostic learning tool that helps students assess their unique study needs through pretests and personalized learning plans.An "Impacts and Issues" opens each chapter focusing students on a key biology-related societal issue. Revisited throughout the chapter, this unfolding case study illustrates the chapter's biological concepts. Each chapter's "How Would You Vote?" feature asks students to consider biology-related news topics, gather and evaluate pro/con information, apply knowledge, then cast a vote on the Web. Students can see how peers in their state and across the nation voted. For additional facts and perspectives on each side of the issue, instructors can assign readings from the online Opposing Viewpoints ... Read more

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Six contributors explore the role of governments in accelerating the rate of forest destruction by providing direct and indirect subsidies to support what would otherwise be non-commercial logging operations.Without these financial incentives, most timber operations in the tropics would cease.In a series of country-by-country investigations, including examples from the developed and developing worlds, this book documents the government policies that are leading to the misuse of forest resources.Each is written by an authority on the county, and each contains descriptive, analytical and empirical material on key policies and their effects.The final country analysis focuses on the United States, where the consequences of the subsidized timber sales by the US Forest Service from most of the national forests are discussed.The book concludes with an overview of the impact of forest policies and the role of bilateral and multilateral agencies in their formulation.By directing attention toward the political dimension involved in forest clearance, this book will provide a clearer insight into the basic reasons why forests continue to be destroyed despite the outcry raised by conservationists. ... Read more

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Despite many well intentioned policies and changes to management practices, the world's natural resources continue to decline. The roles and interplay between science and policy in the regional broadacre agriculture landscape are examined here, offering readers a thorough understanding of the complex interactions that occur across spatial scales to produce the regional-scale impacts. The fundamental causes of resource degradation, social decline and environmental pollution are addressed, examining the cross-scale drivers from the individual farm level to the global level of commodity systems. Broadacre agriculture is a common land use throughout all continents of the world and is driven by the same type of dynamics, and this case study of the Western Australia agricultural region can be used to clearly demonstrate the principles for other agricultural systems. Aimed at academics, ranging from researchers through to policy analysts, this book will inspire innovation and action in sustainable natural resource management. ... Read more

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The adaptation of herbivore behavior to seasonal and locational variations in vegetation quantity and quality is inadequately modelled by conventional methods. Norman Owen-Smith innovatively links the principles of adaptive behavior to their consequences for population dynamics and community ecology, through the application of a metaphysiological modeling approach. The main focus is on large mammalian herbivores occupying seasonally variable environments such as those characterized by African savannas, but applications to temperate zone ungulates are also included. Issues of habitat suitability, species coexistence, and population stability or instability are similarly investigated. ... Read more

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Fertility in animals directly reflects access to scarce resources, such as food and territory. In humans, the situation is more complex. Patterns of breast feeding, contraception and ideas about age of marriage and desired family size all affect fertility. This book explores the relation among these factors and access to scarce resources, via income, education and other forms of status. ... Read more

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This new photocopiable pack forms part of a series of resources to teach and study How Science Works in biology, a core QCA requirement of the new specifications. Each pack in the series is relevant to all new specifications and presents around 20 up-to-date and relevant topics using worksheets with resources, exercises and questions. The exercises are designed to develop a range of HSW skills and make students aware of the impact of science on their daily lives and on society as a whole. Each topic comes with teacher's notes, comprising lesson plans, answers to questions and suggestions for further discussion. The content of each pack is also available in pdf format on an accompanying free CD. ... Read more

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Students worksheets, teacher lesson plans, and other resources to complement Holt Biology textbook. ... Read more

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This new photocopiable pack forms part of a series of resources to teach and study How Science Works in biology, a core QCA requirement of the new specifications. Each pack in the series is relevant to all new specifications and presents around 20 up-to-date and relevant topics using worksheets with resources, exercises and questions. The exercises are designed to develop a range of HSW skills and make students aware of the impact of science on their daily lives and on society as a whole. Each topic comes with teacher's notes, comprising lesson plans, answers to questions and suggestions for further discussion. The content of each pack is also available in pdf format on an accompanying free CD. ... Read more