The Aquatic World of Penguins

David G Ainley, Rory P Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Centuries ago, when penguins were first encountered by European explorers, they were not thought to be birds but rather a fish-like relative. Subseque... Lees meer

Rhinos of the World

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• This book represents the culmination of more than four years of work by many rhino experts, primarily from Africa, Asia, the United States, and Europe... Lees meer

The Equids

• Paperback | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• The narrative of the progression of the 'horse family' through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and ... Lees meer

Light-Arthropod Interactions

Serge Berthier, Bernd Schöllhorn

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Terrestrial arthropods (insects, spiders, etc.) dominate the world in numbers and extreme diversity. This book presents the combined views of a physic... Lees meer

The Equids

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• The narrative of the progression of the 'horse family' through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and ... Lees meer

Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• This book provides a comprehensive overview of the patterns of biodiversity in various neotropical ecosystems, as well as a discussion on their histor... Lees meer

Flowers in Amber

George Poinar

• E-book | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• While much attention has been given to animal life in amber, the remains of a variety of plants, including angiosperm flowers, also exist in fossilize... Lees meer

Hidden Pathways to Extinction

Giovanni Strona

• Paperback | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the fundamental roles that ecological interactions play in extinction processes, b... Lees meer

Unraveling the Voynich Codex

Jules Janick, Arthur O Tucker

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Unraveling the Voynich Codex reviews the historical, botanical, zoological, and iconographic evidence related to the Voynich Codex, one of the most en... Lees meer

Soul Mate Biology

Gregor Majdic

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Love, one of the most profound of human emotions, love that accompanies us from puberty to old age, love that follows us from ancient times to modern,... Lees meer

History of Rabies in the Americas: From the Pre-Columbian to the Present, Volume II

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Rabies is one of the oldest known pathogens, is incurable, and has the highest fatality rate of all infectious diseases. The Americas is the only regi... Lees meer

Soul Mate Biology

Gregor Majdic

• Paperback | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Love, one of the most profound of human emotions, love that accompanies us from puberty to old age, love that follows us from ancient times to modern,... Lees meer

Social Strategies of Carnivorous Mammalian Predators

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• The book offers a comparative look at the social strategies of five carnivorous social predators (four terrestrial and one marine) that make them succ... Lees meer

History of Rabies in the Americas: From the Pre-Columbian to the Present, Volume I

• Paperback | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Rabies is one of the oldest known pathogens, is incurable, and has the highest fatality rate of all infectious diseases. The Americas is the only regi... Lees meer

Ecological Physiology of Daily Torpor and Hibernation

Fritz Geiser

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• This book provides an in-depth overview on the functional ecology of daily torpor and hibernation in endothermic mammals and birds. The reader is well... Lees meer

50 Years of Bat Research

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• With more than 1,400 species, bats are an incredibly diverse and successful group of mammals that can serve as model systems for many unique evolution... Lees meer

Plants on Plants - The Biology of Vascular Epiphytes

Gerhard Zotz

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• This book critically reviews advances in our understanding of the biology of vascular epiphytes since Andreas Schimper's 1888 seminal work. It address... Lees meer

Choosing Sexes

Kristen J Navara

• Paperback | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Summarizes the latest studies on sexdetermination in vertebrates​ Maximizes readers insights into how animals and humans can adjust the sexes of offsp... Lees meer

Caterpillars in the Middle

• Paperback | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Caterpillars are excellent model organisms for understanding how multiple selective forces shape the ecology and evolution of insects, and organisms i... Lees meer

Caterpillars in the Middle

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Caterpillars are excellent model organisms for understanding how multiple selective forces shape the ecology and evolution of insects, and organisms i... Lees meer

Plants on Plants - The Biology of Vascular Epiphytes

Gerhard Zotz

• Paperback | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• This book critically reviews advances in our understanding of the biology of vascular epiphytes since Andreas Schimper's 1888 seminal work. It address... Lees meer

Tapirs of the World

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• This beautifully illustrated book is the first comprehensive work ever published on all four tapir species worldwide, filling a gap in the scientific ... Lees meer

Avian Brood Parasitism

• Paperback | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Brood parasitism has become one of the most flourishing areas of research in evolutionary ecology and one of the best model systems for investigating ... Lees meer

Development Strategies and Biodiversity

• Hardcover | Engels | Fascinating Life Sciences
• Part 1 - Evolutionary meaning of development: how and why early life experience generates diversity (1) Trans-generational inheritance of early life e... Lees meer