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Mammalogy Techniques: Lab Manual
James M Ryan Johns Hopkins University Press, £29.50 Over 19 chapters, Mammalogy Techniques is a laboratory manual for the student and tutor. Chapters one and two are dedicated to the primary resources for identification: the skull and teeth. Diagrams,...
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The Wildlife Techniques Manual - Volume 1: Research; Volume 2: Management (Eighth Edition)
Edited by Nova J Silvy Johns Hopkins University Press, in association with The Wildlife Society, £129.50 Wildlife rangers and national park managers have a great ‘office’: environment outdoors with wide horizons, sometimes literally covering as far as...
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Denys Wheatley: Why aren’t researchers taught how to write and publish?
Science education pays scant regard to the skills needed to present research clearly The Biologist 63(5) p7 In a session on scientific writing at a meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2014, I asked the audience of about 200 the simple...
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The Ecology of Malaria Vectors
Jacques Derek Charlwood CRC Press 2020, £63.00 I feel somewhat pipped at the post in writing this review: the foreword to The Ecology of Malaria Vectors already lays out the important position statement, that this book represents not only a future...
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How to… write a lab handbook
Samuel Mehr has studied what makes a good lab handbook so you don’t have to – and says a good one could improve your team’s science and save time April 2nd 2020 When joining a laboratory, trainees become part of a scientific organisation with an array...
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Freshwater Algae
Edward G Bellinger and David C Sigee Wiley-Blackwell, £65.00 Edward G Bellinger and David C Sigee Wiley-Blackwell, £65.00 As the authors say, freshwater algae have delighted biologists with their range of shapes and beauty for a long time. Now...
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Biology Book Awards Shortlists Announced
The Royal Society of Biology would like to announce the shortlists for its annual Book Awards. The Royal Society of Biology would like to announce the shortlists for its annual Book Awards. The awards celebrate outstanding biology books for the general...
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Book Awards Winners 2015
These excellent titles were shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology Book Awards, celebrating outstanding biology books for the general reader, as well as exceptional undergraduate and postgraduate textbooks. The Society would like to congratulate...
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Sport
Sport and exercise Sport and exercise help us to keep our bodies fit and healthy and can be used to help patients recover from illness and injury. Biologists play an important role in identifying and developing the best ways for doing this. Follow a...
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Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry
Ingvar Eidhammer, Harald Barsnes, Geir Egil Eide, Lennart Martens Wiley-Blackwell, £60.00 Ingvar Eidhammer, Harald Barsnes, Geir Egil Eide, Lennart Martens Wiley-Blackwell, £60.00 A few hours before this book arrived I was giving a lecture to...
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Practical Bioinformatics
Michael Agostino Garland Science, £25.00 Michael Agostino Garland Science, £25.00 In the last 20 years the field of bioinformatics has grown exponentially and now reaches into many areas of biology. There are currently over 200 billion nucleotides from...
