In Planta Sapiens, Paco Calvo, a leading figure in the philosophy of plant signaling and behavior, offers an entirely new perspective on plants' worlds, showing for the first time how we can use tools developed to study animal cognition in a quest to understand plant intelligence.

In this book, Nicolas Mathevon explores the mysteries of animal sound. He describes how animals use sound, how bioacoustics works, and poses the question of whether or not these vocalizations amount to language.

Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. This book tells the remarkable story of Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan’s expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued.

In Animals in the World, renowned Aristotle scholar Pierre Pellegrin attempts to demonstrate that Aristotle, by proposing an original version of natural perfection, opposes the whole of the Greek tradition.

Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues: the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, the essences of biological individuals, and whether race is biologically “real.”

This textbook introduces both the procedural methods and the hidden premises of biostatistical analysis.

This book prepares the philosophical ground for comparisons of welfare across species. Besides offering different views about capacity for welfare across species, it also discusses animal capacities, moral status, harm of death, whether bringing additional well-off individuals into existence is a good thing, and practical implications of these topics for counting and comparing the welfare of animals of different species.

This volume explores and challenges the assumption that behavioral proclivities and pathologies are directly traceable to experience. An interdisciplinary collection, it uses historical, cultural and clinical perspectives to challenge the longstanding notion of identity as the product of a life-narrative.

Tracing acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar’s movements across the American West, this stirring collection of essays brings the avian world richly to life. Kumar's perspective is not that of a list keeper, counting and cataloguing species. Rather, for Kumar, birds "become a portal to a more vivid, enchanted world."

This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues.

Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution develops the idea that major evolutionary transitions involved new levels of informational closure that moved beyond looser partnerships. Jacobus Boomsma argues that the major transitions required maximal kinship in simple ancestors, not conflict reduction in already elaborate societies.

This book argues that ecological systems are complex in a rather special way: they are causally heterogeneous. Not only are they made up of many interacting parts, but their behavior is variable across space or time. The author presents an updated philosophical account with an optimistic outlook of the methods and status of ecological research.

This book demonstrates that a holistic approach to the bio-economy is essential if it is to achieve its full potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits.

Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, philosopher John Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.

Flowers of Lhasa is a stark and urgent tale of four young women thrown into the seedy underbelly of a sacred city undergoing rapid change. We read of their encounters with wealthy, callous, and often violent men, their struggles to stay afloat and to support their impoverished families, and the hopes and dreams they still cherish despite it all. Tsering Yangkyi's novel paints a vivid portrait of Lhasa, Tibet's cultural and religious capital.

After nearly 60 years, with descriptions of more than 270 species and almost 200 illustrations, Textbook of Dendrology continues to remain a top resource for taxonomic and silvicultural information on North American trees. In this new edition, the text has been updated and expanded to provide current information on tree sizes, damaging diseases and insect pest, economic uses, and silvics.

This book examines Immanuel Kant's influence on biology in the British Isles by proposing that his influence owes to misunderstandings of his philosophy. Andrew Jones exposes the incompatibility between transcendental realism and scientific naturalism and charts how Kant, despite denying biology the status of a proper science, influenced various aspects of the scientific method.

This book is an analysis and discussion of some of the ethical implications of immune system interventions like immunizations, pharmacological and genomic.

This book presents the results of studies on selected problems of bioinformatics and information retrieval. It provides a practical course in computational data analysis suitable for students or researchers with no previous exposure to computer programming, and describes in detail the theoretical basis for statistical analysis techniques used.

In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost and new, original writing in praise of the natural world. The Language of Trees considers our relationship with literature and landscape, resulting in an astonishing fusion of storytelling and art and a deeply beautiful celebration of trees through the ages.

Nature is rife with cheating. Possums feign death to cheat predators, amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors, even genes and cells cheat. This book explores the evolution of cheating in the natural world, revealing how dishonesty has given rise to wondrous diversity.

In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how the history of how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster.

In this accessible analysis, a philosopher and a science educator look at biological theory and society through a synthesis of mechanistic and organicist points of view to best understand the complexity of life and biological systems. The New Biology argues for the validity of holistic treatments from the perspectives of philosophy, history, and biology and outlines the largely unrecognized undercurrent of organicism that has persisted.

This book examines the beneficial roles of nitric oxide in growth and stress tolerance regulation through its involvement in tolerance mechanisms.

This volume covers environmental stress conditions and the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). It provides comprehensive insights into ROS biology in plants, with a focus on plant growth and development, plant defense responses, and plant acclimation to challenging environments.

This book is about the meaning and purpose of philosophy as a way of responding to the ecological emergency, which includes climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, habitat destruction, and all the associated economic and social impacts that fragment, and threaten to create collapse, among the systems that created and sustain us.

In Planta Sapiens, Paco Calvo, a leading figure in the philosophy of plant signaling and behavior, offers an entirely new perspective on plants' worlds, showing for the first time how we can use tools developed to study animal cognition in a quest to understand plant intelligence.

In this book, Ally Day offers a compelling critique of neoliberal medical practices in the U.S. by coupling an analysis of HIV memoir with a critical examination of narrative medicine practice. Using insights from feminist disability studies and crip theory, Day argues that stories of illness and disability operate within a political economy of stigma, which she defines as the formal and informal circulation of personal illness and disability narratives that benefits some while hindering others.

Structure and Function presents a new analysis of structuralist and functionalist biology, emphasizing the importance of integratable explanatory strategies.

This book presents the world's top predators as you have never seen them before. Blending gorgeous photos and illustrations with spellbinding storytelling, it is packed with the latest facts about these fearsome but often misunderstood animals. Along the way, the authors share informative and entertaining anecdotes from their decades in the field learning about predators and reveal hard truths about the role humans continue to play in their fate.

Identifies in a full-color guide more than 300 species of conifer and broadleaf trees found in the upper United States (Virginia to northern California) and Canada.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental aspects of microbial biofilms, their existence in nature, their significance, and the different clinical and environmental problems associated with them.

In this book, Nicolas Mathevon explores the mysteries of animal sound. He describes how animals use sound, how bioacoustics works, and poses the question of whether or not these vocalizations amount to language.

Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. This book tells the remarkable story of Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan’s expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued.

In The Wise Hours, Miriam Darlington watches and listens to the natural world and to the rhythms of her home and family, inviting readers to discover the wonders of owls alongside her while rewilding our imagination with the mystery, fragility, and magnificence of all creatures.