History Of Life Sciences – all Bücher und CDs, Page 3

A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance

A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance covers the period from 1300 to 1600, examining the profound impact of insects on the flowering of culture. In the early part of this period, the unpreceden…

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A Cultural History of Insects in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Insects in the Modern Age covers the period from 1920 to the present, a time of tremendous scientific advances in our understanding of insects and their place in the natural world. T…

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Marlene Zuk,
Outsider Animals

From one of our foremost experts on behavioral evolution, an entertaining exploration of what raccoons, rats, and other animal intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, and ourselvesWhen we thi…

lieferbar ab 17.3.2026.

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Max Bennett
A Brief History of Intelligence

"I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again."---Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and …

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Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod, Carl E James, Wolfgan Lehmann
The Story of a Generation

This book presents the longest-running Canadian generational study of its kind, tracking nearly 50 years in the lives of a high school cohort from 1973.

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Matthew Cobb
The Idea of the Brain

Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford PrizeA New Statesman Book of the Year This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain.Today we tend to pic…

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Winifred Frick, M Teague O'Mara
Bats of the World

A marvelously illustrated look at bats from around the worldThe only mammals capable of flight, bats are found on every major continent on the planet. They perform crucial roles in the ecosystems they inh…

lieferbar ab 24.2.2026.

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Mike Stark
Starlings

This first-of-its-kind history of starlings in America reveals an oddball, love-hate story at the intersection of human folly, ornithology, and one bird's tenacious will to endure in hostile territory.

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Adam Chandler
99% Perspiration

An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."…

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Michael Taylor
Impossible Monsters

When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate hist…

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Chris Mattison
The Lives of Snakes

A richly illustrated introduction to the marvelous world of snakes. Descended from prehistoric lizards, snakes have been slithering across the earth for more than a hundred million years. There are some 4…

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William Whewell
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Matt Ridley
Birds, Sex and Beauty

"In all animals, mating is a deal. But few creatures behave as if sex is a simple transaction. Many treat it with reverence, suspicion, angst and violence. In the case of the Black Grouse, the bird a…

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William Whewell
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Olga Khomenko
Ukrainians beyond Borders

Ukrainian Voices

This book brings to life the remarkable-and often challenging-journeys of nine Ukrainians from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Poltava, along with one Austrian who chose to become Ukrainian. With unshakab…

lieferbar ab 30.11.2025.

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Wild Science

What's it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen for 40 years?From deserts to rainforests and even the pol…

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Jim Labisko, Richard Griffiths
The Lives of Frogs

A marvelously illustrated introductory guide to frogs and their natural historyFrogs are among the most diverse and adaptable animals on the planet, with a rich evolutionary history and a vitally importan…

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Edna Bonhomme
A History of the World in Six Plagues

"Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout histor…

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Rachel Carson
The Edge of the Sea

From the author of one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring , The Edge of the Sea is part handbook, part hymn to ecological complexity that conveys the sense of wonder in …

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Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition]

"One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one -- homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? From ex…

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