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  • Virus Structure

    by Robert W. Horne ...
    Virus Structure describes the physical characteristics of isolated viruses that represent typical structural groups, with particular reference to those features analyzed with the aid of the electron microscope. For descriptive purposes, the book has been divided into sections starting with the small icosahedral viruses and leading to the larger and more sophisticated structures, regardless of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Blind Watchmaker

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

    The New Science of Evo Devo

    by Sean B. Carroll ...
    “A beautiful and very important book.”—Lewis Wolpert, American ScientistFor over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo—Evolutionary Developmental Biology—is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1

    by Alfred Russel Wallace ...
    My readers will naturally ask why I have delayed writing this book for six years after my return; and I feel bound to give them full satisfaction on this point. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Game Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ken Binmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Games are everywhere: Drivers manoeuvring in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm negotiating next year's wage is playing a bargaining game. The opposing candidates in an election are playing a political game. The supermarket's price for corn flakes is decided by playing an economic game. Game theory is about how to play ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Expanding Circle

    Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

    by Peter Singer ...
    What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism?In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Probably Approximately Correct

    Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World

    by Leslie Valiant ...
    From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that nature follows patterns -- such as the law of gravity -- our everyday lives are beyond what known science can predict. We nevertheless muddle through even in the absence of theories of how to act. But ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Population Wars

    A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence

    by Greg Graffin ...
    The evolution lecturer and front man for the punk band Bad Religion discusses how the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray.Population Wars is a paradigm-shifting look at why humans behave the way they do and the ancient history that explains that behavior. In this eye-opening book, Greg Graffin points to where the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Origins of Life

    From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language

    by John Maynard Smith, Eors Szathmary ...
    Living organisms are astonishingly complex. And the more we know about them - their biochemistry, their anatomy, their behaviour - the more astonishing are the detailed adaptations that we discover. How could this complexity have arisen? Most of us are familiar with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. The idea behind it being that, in nature, those individuals best able to survive ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Schaum's Outline of Genetics, Fifth Edition

    by Susan Elrod, William Stansfield ...
    Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's.More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Why the Wheel Is Round

    Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

    by Steven Vogel ...
    "A brilliant history of technology. . . . full of wonders of nature, human invention, history" and more ( Wall Street Journal).There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates—be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel—a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our physical form ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of Eden

    The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy

    by David P. Barash ...
    In this changing world of what is socially and politically "correct," polygamy is perhaps the last great taboo. Over the last thousand years, monogamy - at least in name - has been the default setting for coupledom and procreation in the Western world. And yet, throughout history, there have been inklings that "one-man, one-woman" is an uncomfortable institution for human beings. The consistently ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD