Frank Carlson Library

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book offers a startling and original answer. In clear, jargon-free language, Dennis Bray taps the findings from the discipline of systems biology to show that the internal chemistry of living cells is a form...

A child learns about the life cycle of a giant pumpkin and the rewards of letting it grow. Includes "Pumpkin Fun Facts" and information on growing and racing giant pumpkins.

The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers?...

During his visit to an aquarium, a boy finds out about the characteristics and environments of many different marine and freshwater creatures.

Text and illustrations explore the theory that the collision of an asteroid with the Earth ended the Cretaceous Period and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

"Insects play a critical role on our planet, from sustenance to pollination to medicines and more. [The author] . . . tackles both the wacky and weird, as well as threats to insects and their habitats, their possible extinction, and ways that everyday people, like you, can prevent their decline"--Provided by publisher.

In the vein of Quiet and The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth comes this illuminating look at what it means to be awkward-and how the same traits that make us socially anxious and cause embarrassing faux pas also provide the seeds for extraordinary success. As humans, we all need to belong. While modern social life can make even the best of us feel gawky, for roughly one in five of us, navigating its challenges is consistently overwhelming-an ongoing...

L'ontogenèse recouvre l'ensemble des processus de développement des êtres vivants, jalonnés, à partir de la fécondation, par l'embryogenèse, l'acquisition de l'état adulte, la sénescence, puis la mort et/ou la reproduction qui conduisent à un nouveau cycle de vie. Il est évident que les modalités de l'ontogenèse diffèrent en fonction du degré...

Une étude consacrée à un essai du célèbre embryologue Wilhelm Roux En 1881, le grand embryologiste allemand Wilhelm Roux publie cet essai dont la densité et l'originalité ne cessent, encore aujourd'hui, d'étonner. Inspiré par les idées de Charles Darwin, il cherche à en prolonger la portée en imaginant l'organisme comme un territoire o des formes variables de sélection naturelle opèrent sur toutes les entités, de la cellule à l'organe....

Neither in my own nursing education at the B.S.N. nor at the M.S.N. level, was it even suggested, much less required, that I read any of Florence Nightingale's original writings. Even as a nurse educator for over 30 years, I did not require my students to read her writings either. After reading this book, I now believe it is a void in the education of a nurse not to read at least some of the writings of the founder of modern day nursing. Notes on...