Helps students understand how essential statistical skills apply to analysis across life science fields.

Now available with Macmillan’s ground-breaking online learning platform Achieve, The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences gives biology students an introduction to statistical practice all their own. It covers essential statistical topics with examples and exercises drawn from across the life sciences, including the fields of nursing, public health, and allied health.

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Principles of Life is engaging, active, and focused on skills.

Research shows that when students engage with a course, it leads to better outcomes. Principles of Life 3e Digital Update is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning system for biology. Achieve supports PoL’s holistic solution that has been designed from the ground up to actively engage students in mastering concepts and becoming skilled at solving biological problems. Achieve includes thoughtfully curated as...

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology. Written in an accessible and friendly style, the book answers the questions people actually have about language; how do we speak, listen, read, and learn language?The book advocates an experimental approach, explaining how psychologists can use experiments to build models of language processing. Considering the full ...

An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is transforming the life sciencesThis book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the fundamental principles of microbiome science, an exciting and fast-emerging new discipline that is reshaping many aspects of the life sciences. Resident microbes in healthy animals--including humans—can dictate many traits of the animal host. This animal microbiome is a second immune system conferring protection ...

In continuous publication since 1994 and now in its sixth edition, Molecular Biotechnology: Principles and Applications of Recombinant DNA has been effective in introducing this complex field to students for more than 25 years. This textbook covers essentially every aspect of the field of molecular biotechnology, which is constantly changing and adapting in light of new advances.

This edition includes the latest techniques in DNA sequencing and genetic engineering of microbial, plant, and ani...

Over the past two decades, our understanding of the ways life functions have been transformed in many ways but the public narratives about biology have not kept up. By drawing on these recent discoveries and insights, this book outlines a new vision of biology for the 21st century.

Geen examenstress en zeker slagen voor je eindexamen havo biologie met de nieuwe Examenbundel 2023/2024! In jouw persoonlijke online dashboard zie je precies welke stof je nog moet leren. Je kunt in je boek en online oefenen op onderwerp of met hele examens en krijgt duidelijke uitleg van docenten en vakexperts hoe je opgaven oplost.

In dit boek beschrijft Darwin de

waarnemingen die hij gedurende

een drietal jaren deed aan honderden

klimplanten uit Europa, Amerika,

Azië en Australië. In de buitenlucht,

de koude kas of broeikas kweekte

hij de planten op en legde hij hun

methoden van omhoog klimmen

nauwgezet vast. Urenlang

observeerde hij geduldig het rond-

wentelen van ranken die op zoek

waren naar een steun om zich

aan vast te hechten. Door ziekte

gekweld was het vaak ook het

enige dat hij vanaf de sofa in ...

A thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication, and a poignant look at how science may change our relationship with animals forever.

In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. A video clip of the event went viral, and Tom found himself inundated with theories about what happened. He became obsessed with trying to find out what the whale had been thinking. He wished he could just ask it. In th...

A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals..

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.

'Rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson

'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' Observer

'Exquisite and timely.' Maggie O'Farrell

** Shortlisted for the Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year **

In The Golden Mole, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the...