Author: Carl Zimmer
Publisher: Roberts and Company Publishers
Keywords: evolution, introduction, bank, tangled
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2009-10-15
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0981519474
ISBN-13: 9780981519470

The Tangled Bank is the first textbook about evolution intended for the general reader. Zimmer, an award-winning science writer, takes readers on a fascinating journey into the latest discoveries about evolution. In the Canadian Arctic, paleontologists unearth fossils documenting the move of our ancestors from sea to land. In the outback of Australia, a zoologist tracks some of the world’s deadliest snakes to decipher the 100-million-year evolution of venom molecules. In Africa, geneticists are gathering DNA to probe the origin of our species. In clear, non-technical language, Zimmer exp

Authors:Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth,
Publisher: Roberts & Company Publishers
Keywords: genetics, evolutionary, elements
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2010-02-03
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0981519423
ISBN-13: 9780981519425

Evolutionary genetics is concerned with nature of the variability used in evolution, and the causes of evolutionary change. The methods of evolutionary genetics are critically important for the analysis and interpretation of the massive datasets on DNA sequence variation and evolution that are becoming available, as well for our understanding of evolution in general. This book shows readers how models of the genetic processes involved in evolution are made (including natural selection, migration, mutation, and genetic drift in finite populations), and how the models are used to interpret class

Author: Christof Koch
Publisher: Roberts & Company Publishers
Keywords: approach, neurobiological, consciousness, quest
Number of Pages: 429
Published: 2004-03
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0974707708
ISBN-13: 9780974707709

Consciousness is one of science’s last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from networks of neurons and their associated synaptic and molecular processes? In The Quest for Consciousness, Caltech neuroscientist Christof Koch explores the biological basis of the subjective mind in animals and people. He outlines a framework that he and Francis Crick (of the "doub

Author: Marc Loudon
Publisher: Roberts and Company Publishers
Keywords: chemistry, organic
Number of Pages: 1353
Published: 2009-01-02
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0981519431
ISBN-13: 9780981519432

Loudon’s Organic Chemistry is known for its clear writing, high standard of accuracy, and great problem sets. The fifth edition makes its first appearance in four colors, and with 1,668 problems--many of them new and taken directly from the scientific literature--this edition, more than ever before, encourages readers to analyze and synthesize concepts.

Author: Larry Squire and Eric Kandel
Publisher: Roberts and Company Publishers
Keywords: molecules, mind, memory
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0981519415
ISBN-13: 9780981519418

Combining insights from both cognitive neuroscience and molecular biology, two of the world’s leading experts address memory from molecules and cells to brain systems and cognition. What is memory and where in the brain is it stored? How is memory storage accomplished? This book touches on these questions and many more, showing how the recent convergence of psychology and biology has resulted in an exciting new synthesis of knowledge about learning and remembering. Memory: From Mind to Molecules is an ideal primer for courses on learning and memory or for general readers who are interest

Author: Joseph W. Goodma
Publisher: Roberts and Company Publisher
Keywords: optics, phenomena, speckle
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $98.50
ISBN-10: 0974707791
ISBN-13: 9780974707792

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the statistical properties of speckle, as well as detailed coverage of its role in applications. Some of the applications discussed include speckle in astronomy, speckle in the eye, speckle in projection displays, speckle in coherence tomography, speckle in lithography, speckle in waveguides (modal noise), speckle in optical radar detection, and speckle in metrology. This book is aimed at graduate students and professionals working in a wide variety of fields.

Author: John Wakeley
Publisher: Roberts & Company Publisher
Keywords: introduction, theory, coalescent
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0974707759
ISBN-13: 9780974707754

Coalescent theory provides the foundation for molecular population genetics and genomics. It is the conceptual framework for studies of DNA sequence variation within species, and is the source of essential tools for making inferences about mutation, recombination, population structure and natural selection from DNA sequence data. This monograph is intended mainly for biologists but it will also be of interest to mathematicians who wish to see how this branch of applied probability theory plays out in a biological setting.