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Featured Categories : Study Books : Undergraduate & Postgraduate : Sciences : Biology : General AAS

• The Selfish Gene

  Richard Dawkins

  
  
   

• Principles of Anatomy and Physiology: WITH Atlas AND Registration Card

  Gerard J. Tortora, Bryan H. Derrickson

  
  
   

• Biology

  Neil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece

  
  
   

• Understanding Children's Development (4th Edition) (Basic Psychology S.) (Basic Psychology)

  Peter Smith, Helen Cowie, Mark Blades

  
  
   

• Molecular Biology of the Cell

  Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Peter Walter, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts

  
  
   

• Anatomy and Physiology for Dummies (For dummies)

  Donna Rae Siegfried

  
  
   

• The Origin of Species (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

  Charles Darwin

  
  It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.

  To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.

  Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T. H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin, Amazon.com

  
   

• Essential Cell Biology

  Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Keith Roberts, Martin Raff, Peter Walter

  
  
   

• Brock Biology of Microorganisms

  Michael T. Madigan, John M. Martinko, Paul V. Dunlap, David P. Clark, Thomas Brock

  
  
   

• The Pocket Atlas of the Moving Body

  Mel Cash

  
  
   

• Mushrooms (Collins GEM)

  Patrick Harding

  
  
   

• Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan

  Jim Peltier Milo

  
  
   

• A Dictionary of Psychology (Oxford Paperback Reference)

  Andrew M. Colman

  
  
   

• Human Physiology: The Basis of Medicine (Oxford Core Texts)

  Gillian Pocock, Christopher D Richards

  
  
   

• Janeway's Immunobiology

  Kenneth M. Murphy, Paul Travers, Mark Walport

  
  
   

• Practical Skills in Biomolecular Sciences (Practical Skills)

  Rob Reed, David Holmes, Jonathan Weyers, Allan Jones

  
  
   

• QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance

  John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

  
  
   

• The Dog Listener

  Jan Fennell

  
  The behavioural problems covered in The Dog Listener will sound all too familiar to anyone who shares their life with a canine companion. During the 25 years that Jan Fennell has been working with dogs, she's been increasingly aware of the ways in which communication between man's best friend and ourselves has broken down. Inspired by Monty Roberts, Fennell embraces similar ideas to those found in The Man Who Listens to Horses. Rather than trying to fit human psychology to animals, the starting point is observing how animals communicate, how they structure their groups in the wild and what they think their role is.

  Initially Fennell looks at the role that dogs have played historically--primarily a working role, in which human and animal worked side by side to the same goal. Many owners flinch as the idea of a dog "working", with associations of oppression and hierarchy. But dogs naturally form a hierarchical society with the strongest, most intelligent dog leading the pack. Humans might thrive on the concept of democracy but dogs don't automatically feel the same way. When we understand and respect a dog's mindset, effective training can be done with intelligence and compassion.

  Each chapter deals with a different case study and owners of problem or "challenging" dogs will be kicking themselves as they realise just how wrong they've been getting it all this time. Some myths dispelled: "Tugging games are fun and it makes my little dog happy to think he's the winner." Wrong--if you let the dog win it reinforces the idea that he is the top dog in the group. "My dog can't bear to be left in the house ... because he loves me so much." Wrong--your dog thinks that he is responsible for you, the acute anxiety that results from separation can be likened to that of a mother who's has a toddler wander off by itself into untold danger.

  Much of what we do to show affection to our dogs actually has the result of creating insecurities and confusion. In this respect many ideas are similar to those in John Fisher's Think Dog, particularly on remedies for anxious and aggressive dogs. Here though, the use of real life case studies offers encouragement that following this advice can initiate a rapid transformation in your dog's behaviour. Jan Fennell writes with affection and a real conviction that sharing her work with others can make a real difference. Her wide and admiring audience of happy dog owners would indicate that the title of "dog listener" is a highly appropriate one.--Tony Martin

  
   

• A World Without Bees

  Alison Benjamin, Brian McCallum

  
  
   

• Chemistry for the Biosciences: The Essential Concepts

  Jonathan Crowe, Tony Bradshaw, Paul Monk