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Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics

By Philip R. Reilly, Interleukin Genetics and Tufts University School of Medicine

© 2000 • 339 pp., illus., indexes, references
Paperback • £10.00 • ISBN 978-087969649-8

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Addiction

Edited By R. Christopher Pierce, University of Pennsylvania; Paul J. Kenny, The Scripps Research Institute

© 2013 • 368 pp., illus (30 4C and 25 B&W), index
Hardcover • £85 • ISBN 978-1-936113-47-7

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Adult Neurogenesis
(Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Series 52)

Edited By Fred H. Gage, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California; Gerd Kempermann, Center for Regenerative Therapies, Dresden, Germany; Hongjun Song, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

© 2008 • 673 pp., illus, index
Hardcover • £85.00 • ISBN 978-087969784-6

The idea that the adult brain of mammals can generate new neurons has only recently been accepted by the scientific community, and research in this exciting area is now in full swing. Bringing together leading researchers in the field of adult neurogenesis, the 30 chapters in this monograph provide a valuable overview of this emerging field and lay the groundwork for future studies. Adult Neurogenesis includes discussions on neural stem cell biology; methods and models for studying adult neurogenesis; physiological and molecular processes and their control; related neurological diseases; and comparisons of neurogenesis in humans, birds, fish, and invertebrates. It will be of interest to all researchers in neurobiology as well as those in the medical field, as it has implications for understanding depression, epilepsy, and other psychiatric disorders.

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Ageless Quest: One Scientist's Search for the Genes That Prolong Youth

By Lenny Guarente, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

© 2003 • 154 pp., illus., index
Hardcover • £3.00 £0.75 • ISBN 978-087969652-8

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An Illustrated Chinese-English Guide for Biomedical Scientists

By James M. Samet; Weidong Wu; Yuh–Chin T. Huang; Xinchao Wang

© 2004 • 115 pp., illus., illustrations index
Hardcover • £6.00 £3.00 • ISBN 978-087969701-3

The Illustrated Chinese–English Guide for Biomedical Scientists is intended to build confidence in the use of English scientific language.  The book lists terms that are in common use in science laboratories, translated into both simplified and complex Chinese. It also contains illustrations of equipment, labeled in both languages.

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An Illustrated Chinese-English Guide for Biomedical Scientists

By James M. Samet; Weidong Wu; Yuh–Chin T. Huang; Xinchao Wang

© 2004 • 115 pp., illus., illustrations index
Paperback • £16.00 • ISBN 978-087969648-1

The Illustrated Chinese–English Guide for Biomedical Scientists is intended to build confidence in the use of English scientific language.  The book lists terms that are in common use in science laboratories, translated into both simplified and complex Chinese. It also contains illustrations of equipment, labeled in both languages.

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An Introduction to Animal Behavior: An Integrative Approach

By Michael J. Ryan, The University of Texas at Austin; Walter Wilczynski, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta

© 2011 • 258 pp., illus. (88 color, 3 b/w), index
Paperback • £29.00 • ISBN 978-0-879698-58-4

The study of animal behavior is one of the most integrative endeavors in biology—it encompasses how the behavior is acquired, how it works, why it has come to work as it does, and how it influences the behaving animal and the animals around it. In Animal Behavior: An Integrative Approach, Michael J. Ryan and Walter Wilczynski address the interrelationship of these aspects of animal behavior, which Nikolaas Tinbergen codified in his “four questions” as causation, ontogeny, survival value, and evolution. In light of these questions, the authors first review some of the basic concepts of ultimate and proximate aspects of behavior. They make the argument that integrating different levels of analysis is critical for deriving a correct interpretation of behavior. In subsequent chapters, they review topics such as foraging, orientation and migration, sex differences, mate choice, social bonding, cooperation, conflict, and aggression. The authors integrate information from molecular genomics through neuroscience, endocrinology, development, and learning to evolutionary genetics, selection, constraints, and phylogenetics to provide a concise but comprehensive look at current topics in animal behavior. This book provides a well-thought-out and integrated introduction to the complexity of animal behavior that should appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scientists in other fields in need of a succinct review of the field.

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An Introduction to Animal Behavior: An Integrative Approach

By Michael J. Ryan, The University of Texas at Austin; Walter Wilczynski, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta

© 2011 • 258 pp., illus. (88 color, 3 b/w), index
Hardcover • £51.00 • ISBN 978-1-936113-18-7

The study of animal behavior is one of the most integrative endeavors in biology—it encompasses how the behavior is acquired, how it works, why it has come to work as it does, and how it influences the behaving animal and the animals around it. In Animal Behavior: An Integrative Approach, Michael J. Ryan and Walter Wilczynski address the interrelationship of these aspects of animal behavior, which Nikolaas Tinbergen codified in his “four questions” as causation, ontogeny, survival value, and evolution. In light of these questions, the authors first review some of the basic concepts of ultimate and proximate aspects of behavior. They make the argument that integrating different levels of analysis is critical for deriving a correct interpretation of behavior. In subsequent chapters, they review topics such as foraging, orientation and migration, sex differences, mate choice, social bonding, cooperation, conflict, and aggression. The authors integrate information from molecular genomics through neuroscience, endocrinology, development, and learning to evolutionary genetics, selection, constraints, and phylogenetics to provide a concise but comprehensive look at current topics in animal behavior. This book provides a well-thought-out and integrated introduction to the complexity of animal behavior that should appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scientists in other fields in need of a succinct review of the field.

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An Introduction to Nervous Systems

By Ralph J. Greenspan, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California

© 2007 • 172 pp., illus., bibliography, glossary, index
Paperback • £29.00 £14.50 • ISBN 978-087969821-8

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An Introduction to Nervous Systems

By Ralph J. Greenspan, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California

© 2007 • 172 pp., illus., bibliography, glossary, index
Hardcover • £42.00 £21.00 • ISBN 978-087969757-0