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Why do you switch from walking to running at a specific speed Why do tall trees rarely blow over in high winds And why does a spore ejected into air at seventy miles per hour travel only a fraction of an inch Comparative Biomechanics is the first and only textbook that takes a comprehensive look at the mechanical aspects of life--covering animal

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Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity. This title identifies 53 valid species of the southeastern United States and the Caribbean, a region that supports a diverse but taxonomically challenging group of Conus.

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Provides an introduction to the life and work of Darwin. This book offers a description of Darwin's family life, privileged childhood, and education. It describes his five-year voyage on the Beagle, during which he collected specimens to send back to England. It places his ideas in context with those of other philosophical and scientific thinkers.

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Includes excerpts and quotes from the writings of Darwin.

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Offers an introduction that presents Darwin's theory. This title includes excerpts from Darwin's correspondence, commenting on the work in question, and its significance, impact, and reception.

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Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. This title recounts the scientific adventures of a special group of intrepid individuals who investigate these outbreaks around the world and figure out how to stop them.

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This book provides the mathematical foundations for the analysis of a class of degenerate elliptic operators defined on manifolds with corners, which arise in a variety of applications such as population genetics, mathematical finance, and economics. The results discussed in this book prove the uniqueness of the solution to the Martingale problem a

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Offers an introduction to the field of developmental neuroscience, a discipline concerned with the mechanisms by which complex nervous systems emerge during embryonic growth. Beginning with a presentation of methods for studying neural development, this book provides an overview of human development, followed by an introduction to animal models.

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Dragonflies and damselflies are large, stunningly beautiful insects, as readily observable as birds and butterflies. This title makes identifying them easy and every species is illustrated with full-color photographs and a distribution map, and structural features are illustrated where they aid in-hand identification.

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Plants and animals interact with each other and their surroundings, and these interactions--with all their complexity and contingency--control where species can survive and reproduce. In this comprehensive and groundbreaking introduction to the emerging field of ecological mechanics, Mark Denny explains how the principles of physics and engineering

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This is the first book to cover England's rare and threatened mosses and liverworts, collectively known as bryophytes. As a group, they are the most ancient land plants and occupy a unique position in the colonization of the Earth by plant life. However, many are at risk from habitat loss, pollution, climate change, and other factors. Britain is on

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Evolutionary Community Ecology develops a unified framework for understanding the structure of ecological communities and the dynamics of natural selection that shape the evolution of the species inhabiting them. All species engage in interactions with many other species, and these interactions regulate their abundance, define their trajectories of

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Takes ecocriticism into new areas that include collaboration across the environmental humanities and into the cultural studies of the human response to the environment. -- .

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This package applies the interactive identification and information retrieval program INTKEY to 563 world-level, DELTA descriptions of the families of angiosperms. The CD-ROM carries MS-DOS files containing the program and the data, along with 680 line drawings from early works.

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Members of these two families should be familiar to anyone who has walked into the Australian bush. The biology and anatomy of the flowers, including their usual pollination mechanism, are described, as well as the diverse species making up these distinctly Australian families.