Biology Books

This is an excellent book that I received as a gift. I purchased a copy for my brother to motivate and inspire him.

This book really inspired me. I couldn't put it down and dog-eared almost every page.

I really enjoyed this book. If you like to use motivational statements, this book is packed full of them. The contents are useful for managers to use with staff, teachers with students and in your own personal life.

We actually found this book in a used bookstore. I am so glad to have found it. My girls, 4 and 2, keep asking me how the baby got into my belly, and how it looks now and so on. THis book goes into all of it, and actually shows a picture of the baby being born. They also ask me how the baby is going to come out. This book is great.

This is the most artful, beautiful and straight forward book I have found for helping my children understand the miracle of conception and birth. It is simple and gorgeous! By this book!

This book is sadly out of print, but if you can find it, you must get it for your child. It was the book I had as a youngster, and happily, I found it for my six year old daughter to explain the mysteries of conception, childbirth, the difference between baby boys, baby girls, boys, girls, men and women.

The book is illustrated in a beautiful painterly style. I remember looking at the images for a long time as a young girl. They are graphic, but not crude. They are not comical, or cartoonish, as in some "birds and bees" books. There is a picture of a nude man, and then a picture of a nude woman. There is a picture of a pregnant woman, "cut away" so you can see the baby inside. There is also a picture of a woman giving birth, but not in a scary way, but in a loving way. Also, a woman nursing a baby.

Discussions of intercourse are limited to things like, the man getting close to the woman and putting his (male organ) inside her v--. There is not a graphic explanation of sex. Girls bodies are explained as "not working as women's bodies work".

This is a good beginning book for children ages 5-8. Gives all the basic information and leaves plenty of room for further parental discussion.

The book is good for students who want to be scientists. It mentions many details to be take care of during the process of study.

It analyzed both the technical and non-technical aspects of today's research life. the advice is practical and helpful.

I felt lucky to have found a book like this.

This book is the top 5% of its category. Dr Rothwell's many years observation and experience in scientific research environment definitely will light up all the younger mind. Read this book before you enter your graduate school!

This is an unsurpassed work in its field, which contains the details and minutia researchers are after. Some of the best biologists in the country are represented here; people who, in some cases, have made it their life's work to study these animals. You get an excellent, well documented distillation of their work.

This text provides an in depth review of the biology of virtually every North American mammal. It is an excellent resource for those conducting research on a variety of taxa. This text is probably a bit too in depth to be very useful as a required text for mammalogy courses, but it is still a great resource for educators as it provides detailed information on nearly every life history aspect of the included species.

For up-to-date information on the mammals of North America - refer to this book. Current research on the study of mammals has brought wildlife science to life. The volume is an updated version of Chapman and Feldhamer's earlier edition. Anyone studying animals should obtain a copy.

This book reveals valuable information about wild turkey biology and behavior. Naturalists, wildlife biologists, and hunters would find this book useful. Scientific research is presented so that everyone can understand the data.

this book reads like a college biology text book. but one you love to read.your friends will want to shoot you for all the info you'll be able to spit out after reading this book.at first the price gave me pause but now i'm glad i bought it.

I purchased this book in anticipation of answering some self generated questions about wild turkeys. Not only were ALL of my questions answered, but it provided information beyond my needs. I would highly recommend it to any biologist or hunter.

This book is a beautiful amalgam of science and poetry. Not only is it a wonderful introduction for children to the mysteries of the sea, it's a very special aesthetic experience for grownups as well!

This books tells us about sea organisms that glow --all the dinoflaggelates, bright worms, flashlight fish, etc. -- that turn the ocean into fairyland. Mary Batten clearly describes how and why this happens. Intended for children, Mary Batten's book invites ANYONE'S imagination to swim among the weird bioluminescent creatures in the deep underwater sea. Beautifully illustrated. Really neat. (This joint review by readers 53 and 13).

This is one awesome book, for kids and for adults. Not much seems to be offered regarding bioluminescence in mainstream science books and it's very nice to see this beautiful book being offered for kids. It's wonderfully and clearly written, the pictures and photography are literally "out of this world". I bought it for my kids, but to be honest, I really bought it for myself. This is simply one of the best books I've seen for kids in years.

I heard of "Your Brain: The Missing Manual" from the technical podcast "The Java Posse". I wasn't disappointed.

This book gives the casual reader a detailed exposition of the brain, its parts and their functions. It mixes in quite a bit of fun facts about the brain functions, such as optical illusions, with practical ways for how to better use them, such as memory improvement tips.

This is a thin book, and can be read over a weekend.

I read a lot of books on science and the human body, so I expected the usual on this book. Matthew MacDonald's book, "Your Brain, The Missing Manual" blew me away. In this book MacDonald covers the entire brain from neurons, to glands, to emotions. The book starts out covering the brains biological workings. It covers neurons, synapses, the Endocrine system and the Nervous system. Next he covers how the brain uses energy and how it gets its food. In this section MacDonald includes the Brain-Friendly Diet and explains how Protein, Fat and even Chocolate affect the brain. There is a great explanation on how the Human Appetite works. In one chapter he discusses the brain and sleep. He writes how the human brain needs light and dark to regulate the sleep cycle. In the book, MacDonald, state how sunlight or bright lights can wake you up fasters. I tried it for myself, I got out of bed early one morning and stepped outside and faced the morning sun. I was amazed at how fast my mind woke up and how clear my mind was.

The Sections on the mind's visual perception and memory were extremely interesting. I enjoyed the Optical Illusions that he included in the book. One thing I would like to point out is that MacDonald references several websites throughout the book were you can get additional information. I found this very useful and learned a lot on these websites. In addition, the section on how to improve your memory helped me significantly. There MacDonald lists several methods on how to boost your memorization powers, don't skip this section trust me.

The author goes on to cover such topics as Emotions, Reason, Personality and more. MacDonald lays all the information out in an easy to understand format. This is one of those books that you're skeptical on getting, but once you've read it you know it was well worth the purchase price. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand the brain, or just wants to improve their memory. This books is a must have on every book shelf, you won't be disappointed with "Your Brain, The Missing Manual".

'Your Brain: The Missing Manual' is a different book than most of the fare that Pogue Press puts out, but this doesn't mean that it's not a good read!

The Missing Manual line of books is simply one of the best publishers I have ever had the PLEASURE to read. I stress the word pleasure because TMM books truly are what they say they are. Incredibly laid out, easy to follow, and enjoyable to read and hold in your hand, most of The Missing Manual books I have read I give 5 stars and it's no mistake.

With 'Your Brain' this book looks at how the brain works from all different perspectives: logic, eating, aging, sex, stress, pleasure. It examines how the brain interacts with these subjects and why things work they way they do.

If you like previous Missing Manual books or are curious how the brain works, you owe it to yourself to pick up this book. Jam packed with color pictures and a small footprint with a small size of 250+ pages, this is a great weekend read that will entertain and TEACH you something as well!!

***** RECOMMENDED

There are a number of reasons why I can recommend this book.
Matthew MacDonald displays a great sense of humor in Your Brain: The Missing Manual.
He covers a complex subject as complex as the human brain in simple easy to understand language and does it in about a third the number of pages needed to cover a much simpler computer operating system.
He includes summaries of the information that can help you to use this understanding for your own brain maintenance.
I believe some of the most useful information that he provides has to do with how the brain and our own expectations can fool us into an unshakable belief in something that is absolutely untrue.
I also believe that his own brain fooled him into including a probability example from a 1990 Parade magazine article. I had read about this before and the author repeated what I had read - that hundreds of math professors wrote in with faulty logic to "correct" the solution that was given in the Parade article.
A person is to pick the one of three doors that leads to the prize. After he picks the door, the host then eliminates one of the remaining doors that does not contain the prize. The person is not told whether the door he picked leads to the prize or not. It is true, but maybe not obvious, that this first choice is absolutely meaningless and provides no information about what is behind the other two doors.
The person is then told that he can pick either of the two doors. Wording this instruction in terms of switching or sticking to the person's initial choice obscures the fact that this is now a new separate simple probability game where choosing either door has a 50 - 50 chance of winning.
If you cannot see that this simple solution is correct, it is probably because who are we to question it when hundreds of math professors wrote it with faulty logic to "correct" it?
I recommend reading this book to learn more about how our brains and others words lead us to incorrect conclusions, and about ways we might better maintain the way our brains function.
If you read the above probability example remember that the probability depends only upon the doors and has nothing to do with whether he changes his mind.

Excellent! details in text and photographs. Highly recommended for biologists and folks interested in wild life.

This ia an excellant book that combines coffe-table quality photographs of the butterflies and moths with an excellent text describing interesting aspects of their biology.

These reproducible worksheets are just what teachers need to assign additional homework to reinforce bio content.

The book offers various worksheets on the most common topics covered in any high school biology class. They are a life saver because they save hours of worksheet creation time.

Great book to learn some new skills about trophy preparation.
Making a wing bone call. Excellent tips from a lifetime of knowledge from an expert Wild Turkey authority.

A great book with lots of info on turkey biology and how to care for your bird after the harvest. Great section on making a winbone yelper call. Lots of nice photos. Two turkey spurs up on this one.