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Textbook round-up
Biosciences
Extra listings to be appended to Biosciences section of 28 May textbook round-up
A Primer of Conservation Biology
Author Richard B. Primack
Edition Fourth
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 300
Price £30.99
ISBN 9780878936922
Primack includes examples of successful conservation approaches, suggestions for a future agenda and links between the field and other disciplines.
Human Physiology
Author Stuart Fox
Edition Eleventh
Publisher McGraw-Hill
Pages 832
Price £45.99
ISBN 9780071281065
This is intended for the one-semester human physiology course, often taken by allied health and biology students. Health applications are included throughout the text to heighten interest, deepen understanding of physiological concepts and help students relate the material to their individual career goals.
Hole’s Human Anatomy and Physiology
Authors David Shier, Jackie Butler, Ricki Lewis
Edition Twelfth
Publisher McGraw-Hill
Pages 1056
Price £47.99
ISBN 9780071220095
This text assumes no prior science knowledge by placing emphasis on the fundamentals.
The format of this edition focuses on learning outcomes and assessments.
A Primer of Ecology
Author Nicholas J. Gotelli
Edition Fourth
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 265
Price £30.99
ISBN 9780878933181

The author presents a concise but detailed exposition of the most common mathematical models in population and community ecology. It is intended to demystify ecological models and the mathematics behind them.
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles
Author Jonathan B. Losos
Edition First
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 512
Price £44.95
ISBN 9780520255913
With about 400 species, anolis has played an important role in the development of ecological theory and has become a model system exemplifying the integration of ecological, evolutionary and behavioural studies to understand evolutionary diversification. Losos illustrates how different scientific approaches to the questions of adaptation and diversification can be integrated and examines evolutionary and ecological questions of interest to a broad range of biologists.
Chemistry for the Life Sciences
Authors Raul Sutton, Bernard Rockett, Peter Swindells
Edition Second
Publisher CRC Press
Pages 280
Price £25.99
ISBN 9781420069358
The authors divide their analysis of carbon compounds into two chapters. One focuses exclusively on aliphatic carbon compounds, while the other provides a greatly expanded exploration of aromatic carbon compounds, isomerism, amines and amino acids. With a current examination of organic and biological reactions, this volume also features end-ofchapter questions and provides a solutions manual for qualified instructors.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function
Author Kenneth Saladin
Edition Fifth
Publisher McGraw-Hill
Pages 1248
Price £47.99
ISBN 9780071283410
Saladin weaves descriptions of human anatomy and physiology processes together with selected clinical applications and stories from the history of medicine and evolutionary medicine.
Animal Physiology
Author Richard W. Hill
Edition Second

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 725
Price £49.99
ISBN 9780878933174
This text presents all the branches of modern animal physiology with an emphasis on integration among physiological disciplines, ecology and evolutionary biology.
Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution
Authors Scott F. Gilbert and Epel David
Edition First
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 400
Price £29.99
ISBN 9780878932993
The authors have provided broad coverage in which the molecular biology of epigenetic development meets and interacts with the evolutionary aspects of phenotypic plasticity.
Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea
Author Theodore W. Pietsch
Edition First
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 576
Price £61.00
ISBN 9780520255425
In this fully illustrated text, the first to focus on these intriguing fish, the author summarises all that is known about anglerfish – morphology, diversity, evolution, geographic distribution, bioluminescence and reproduction.
Ecological Models and Data in R
Author Benjamin M. Bolker
Edition First
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 408
Price £39.95
ISBN 9780691125220
The author shows how to choose among and construct statistical models for data, estimate their parameters and confidence limits and interpret the results. The book also covers statistical frameworks, statistical modelling and critical mathematical functions and probability distributions.
Early Life History of Marine Fishes
Authors Bruce S. Miller and
Arthur W. Kendall Jr
Edition First
Publisher University of California Press

Pages 376
Price £35.00
ISBN 9780520249721
The life cycles of fish are complex and varied, and knowledge of the early life stages is important for understanding the biology, ecology and evolution of fish. The authors bring together much of the research available and its application to fishery science. Clear and well written, this volume offers expert guidance on how to collect and analyse larval fish data and on how this information is interpreted by applied fish biologists and fisheries managers.
The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds
Author John Tyler Bonner
Edition First
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 156
Price £11.95
ISBN 9780691139395
Slime moulds are very different from other organisms; they feed as individual amoebae before coming together to form a multicellular organism that has a remarkable ability to move and orient itself in its environment. Bonner gives a balanced, concise and clear overview of slime mould biology from molecules to cells to multicells.
Biology
Author Sylvia Mader
Edition Tenth
Publisher McGraw-Hill
Pages 955
Price £47.99
ISBN 9780071288446
Biology is an introductory textbook for courses that cover biology in a traditional order from the structure and function of the cell to the organisation of the biosphere. The text, which centres on the evolution and diversity of organisms, is appropriate for a one- or two-semester course.
Exploring Animal Social Networks
Authors Darren P. Croft, Richard James and Jens Krause
Edition First
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 208
Price £54.00 and £24.95
ISBN 9780691127514 and 7521
The authors provide a practical guide for researchers, undergraduates and graduate students in ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behaviour and zoology.