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Biology

  1. Coalescent Theory: An Introduction

    Coalescent Theory: An Introduction

    • Wakeley, John

    Regular Price: $59.95

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    Coalescent theory provides the foundation for molecular population genetics and genomics. It is the conceptual framework for studies of DNA sequence variation within species, and is the source of essential tools for making inferences about mutation, recombination, population structure and natural selection from DNA sequence data.

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  2. Conservation Science: Balancing the Needs of People and Nature

    Conservation Science: Balancing the Needs of People and Nature

    • Kareiva, Peter
    • Marvier, Michelle

    Regular Price: $90.00

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    Conservation Science is the first textbook to teach the scientific foundations of conservation while highlighting strategies to better connect its practice with the needs and priorities of a growing human population. Learn More
  3. Elements of Evolutionary Genetics

    Elements of Evolutionary Genetics

    • Charlesworth, Brian
    • Charlesworth, Deborah

    Regular Price: $80.00

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    Elements of Evolutionary Genetics shows readers how models of the genetic processes involved in evolution are made (including natural selection, migration, mutation, and genetic drift in finite populations), and how the models are used to interpret classical and molecular genetic data.

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  4. Evolution: Making Sense of Life

    Evolution: Making Sense of Life

    • Zimmer, Carl
    • Emlen, Douglas J.

    Regular Price: $115.00

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    Evolution: Making Sense of Life is a new kind of evolution textbook for biology majors. With compelling prose and beautiful illustrations, it captures the excitement and relevance of evolutionary biology in the twenty-first century.

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  5. In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field

    In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field

    • Losos, Jonathan

    Regular Price: $30.00

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    In the Light of Evolution is a collection of essays by leading scientists, and includes essays by science writer Carl Zimmer, historian Janet Browne, and a foreword by journalist David Quammen. Learn More
  6. Speciation in Birds

    Speciation in Birds

    • Price, Trevor

    Regular Price: $59.95

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    Trevor Price, a University of Chicago professor and leading expert in the field on bird speciation, has written the most authoritative and modern synthesis on the subject to date.

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  7. The Analysis of Biological Data

    The Analysis of Biological Data

    • Whitlock, Michael
    • Schluter, Dolph

    Regular Price: $99.50

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    The Analysis of Biological Data is a new approach to teaching introductory statistics to biology students. Learn More
  8. Birds of Wyoming

    The Birds of Wyoming

    • Faulkner, Douglas

    Regular Price: $45.00

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    Birds of Wyoming is the first comprehensive guide since 1939 to the status and distribution of Wyoming's avifauna.

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  9. The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity

    The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity

    • Erwin, Douglas
    • Valentine, James

    Regular Price: $60.00

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    In The Cambrian Explosion, Erwin and Valentine synthesize research from many fields to explain why there was such remarkable novelty of animal forms. 

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  10. The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution

    The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution

    • Zimmer, Carl

    Regular Price: $59.95

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    The Tangled Bank is the first textbook about evolution intended for the general reader. Zimmer, an award-winning science writer, takes readers on a fascinating journey into the latest discoveries about evolution. Learn More
  11. Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology

    Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology

    • Baum, David
    • Smith, Stacey

    Regular Price: $75.00

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    Tree Thinking is a textbook intended to introduce phylogenetic biology, a major element of modern systematics, to biology students, teachers, and scientists from other disciplines.

    

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    Evolution, Development, and the Predictable Genome

    • Stern, David L.

    Regular Price: $45.00

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    Stern sets out to draw evolutionary biology and developmental biology together by cutting through the differences that divide the disciplines and by revealing their deeper similarities. Learn More

 

Chemistry

  1. Organic Chemistry Study Guide and Solutions, Fifth Edition

    Organic Chemistry Study Guide and Solutions, Fifth Edition

    • Loudon, Marc

    Regular Price: $62.50

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    This book accompanies Loudon's Organic Chemistry.

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  2. Organic Chemistry

    Organic Chemistry, Fifth Edition

    • Loudon, Marc

    Regular Price: $125.00

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    Loudon's Organic Chemistry is known for its clear writing, high standard of accuracy, and creative problems. The fifth edition contains 1,668 problems—many of them new and taken directly from the scientific literature. 

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  3. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins

    Posttranslational Modification of Proteins

    • Walsh, Christopher

    Regular Price: $98.00

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    The number of protein isoforms in proteomes can be two to three orders of magnitude higher than the number of genes in the genomes. This is in large part due to posttranslational modifications of proteins that provide covalent alterations to protein backbones and side chains that increase proteome complexities. 

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  4. The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways

    The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways

    • McMurry, John
    • Begley, Tadhg

    Regular Price: $99.50

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    The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways provides an accurate treatment of the major biochemical pathways from the perspective of mechanistic organic chemistry.

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Engineering

  1. Intro. to Fourier Optics

    Introduction to Fourier Optics, Third Edition

    • Goodman, Joseph W.

    Regular Price: $98.50

    Special Price: $78.80

    Fourier analysis is a ubiquitous tool that has found application to diverse areas of physics and engineering. This book deals with its applications in optics, and in particular with its applications to diffraction, imaging, optical data processing, holography and optical communications.

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  2. Introduction to Optical Microscopy

    Introduction to Optical Microscopy

    • Mertz, Jerome

    Regular Price: $99.50

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    Introduction to Optical Microscopy provides a rigorous and comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of optical microscopy. 

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  3. Speckle Phenomena in Optics

    Speckle Phenomena in Optics

    • Goodman, Joseph W.

    Regular Price: $98.50

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    Speckle Phenomena in Optics provides a comprehensive discussion of the statistical properties of speckle, as well as detailed coverage of its role in applications. 

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Neuroscience

  1. Memory

    Memory: From Mind to Molecules

    • Squire, Larry R.
    • Kandel, Eric R.

    Regular Price: $59.95

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    Combining insights from both cognitive neuroscience and molecular biology, two of the world's leading experts address memory from molecules and cells to brain systems and cognition.

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  2. The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach

    The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach

    • Koch, Christof

    Regular Price: $45.00

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    Consciousness is the major unsolved problem in biology. How do the elemental feelings and sensations making up conscious experience, the redness of red and painfulness of pain, arise from the concerted actions of nerve cells and their associated synaptic and molecular processes? 

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Popular Science

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    Math for Life: Crucial Ideas You Didn't Learn in School

    • Bennett, Jeffrey

    Regular Price: $25.00

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    In Math for Life, award-winning author Jeffrey Bennett simply and clearly explains the key ideas of quantitative reasoning and applies them to important societal issues such as the the national debt crisis, student loans, viable energy alternatives to fossil fuels, redistricting and political polarization, and many more.

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  2. Uncle Phil and the Atomic Bomb

    Uncle Phil and the Atomic Bomb

    • Abelson, John
    • Abelson, Philip H.

    Regular Price: $25.00

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    A riveting, untold story of a determined, brilliant, and highly creative scientist working against the odds at a crucial time in American history.

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