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History of Rabies in the Americas: From the Pre-Columbian to the Present, Volume I

Rabies is one of the oldest known pathogens, is incurable, and has the highest fatality rate of all infectious diseases. The Americas is the only region with bat rabies virus, including vampire bat rabies…

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EUR 131,42*

History of Rabies in the Americas: From the Pre-Columbian to the Present, Volume II

Fascinating Life Sciences

Rabies is one of the oldest known pathogens, is incurable, and has the highest fatality rate of all infectious diseases. The Americas is the only region with bat rabies virus, including vampire bat rabies…

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EUR 120,46*

Social Strategies of Carnivorous Mammalian Predators

Fascinating Life Sciences

The book offers a comparative look at the social strategies of five carnivorous social predators (four terrestrial and one marine) that make them successful hunting units. The focus is on mammalian predat…

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EUR 120,46*

Daniel Guevara, Claudio Campagna
Speaking of Forms of Life

Fascinating Life Sciences

Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms. The human-induced extinction rate has been compared to "mass extinctions" of the past. But this language masks the fact tha…

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EUR 138,67*

Rory P Wilson, David G Ainley
The Aquatic World of Penguins

Fascinating Life Sciences

Centuries ago, when penguins were first encountered by European explorers, they were not thought to be birds but rather a fish-like relative. Subsequent accumulation of knowledge has shown penguins to be …

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EUR 109,51*

The Equids

Fascinating Life Sciences

The narrative of the progression of the horse family through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and three toes on their hind legs, to the valiant long-leg…

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EUR 120,46*

David Costantini
The Role of Organismal Oxidative Stress in the Ecology and Life-History Evolution of Animals

Fascinating Life Sciences

This book illustrates the role of cellular oxidative stress as one of the most important physiological cornerstones in the evolution of biodiversity. The first part of the book provides the fundamentals t…

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EUR 175,23*

Urban Bats

Fascinating Life Sciences

The Anthropocene is the age of human influence , an epoch well known for its urban impact. More than half of all people already live in cities, and this proportion is expected to rise to almost 70 percen…

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EUR 87,60*