Recent years have seen several fascinating Australian autobiographies and there are, of course, a number of excellent general texts on today's environmental problems, though few of them focus on the Australian scene. What Graham Chittleborough has done in masterly fashion is to combine the two genres and garnish the whole with piquant experiences of Australian politics and bureaucracy. This is a striking account both of his life as an ecologist and of what the lives of our grandchildren may prove to be unless we mend our environmental ways. His focus is Australia but his reach is global and there are few parts of the world and few environmental problems left unvisited. No mere cassandra, he proposes remedies as well as sounds warnings, and with it all he is as entertaining as he is instructive.

The debut of a female Steve Jones - likeable, literate, lucid and laconic. A sprightly, lavishly illustrated book on the science of human survival.

The twelfth edition of this classic dictionary, first published eighty years ago, has been updated throughout, rewritten for clarity and reorganised to make it even easier to use.* over 23,000 entries* comprehensive coverage of all major fields in biology * includes acronyms and abbreviations, now included in the main text for easier access* includes new terms that have come into use since the last edition, e.g. aptamer, archaeon, bioinformatics, DNA vaccine, genomics, proteomics, quasi-species, xenotransplantation* improved coverage of ecology and updated classification tables* extra diagrams and chemical formula incorporated in the main textHenderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms continues to provide an essential reference for students of any of the biological sciences and for teachers and researchers.Eleanor Lawrence is a freelance science writer and editor, and co-author of the Longman Dictionary of Environmental Science.

De Nobel-prijswinnaar voor scheikunde 1967 past de metafoor van het spel als combinatie van toeval en regels toe op allerlei verschijnselen.

Overzicht van actueel wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar twee- en meerlingen, met name naar erfelijkheid, ziekten, gedrag en intelligentie.

Charles Darwin made history a scientific method; Sigmund Freud applied the scientific method to psychology, with equally starting results. In the first book to reveal the seminal role that Darwinʹs method and ideas played in Freudʹs basic thinking, Lucille B. Ritvo shows how Freud could have been influenced by Darwinʹs ideas and how the biologically rooted discipline of psychoanalysis reflects this relationship. -- Back cover.