Life sciences: general issues (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Demonstrating that animal cruelty behaviours are another form of antisocial behaviour, alongside human aggression and violence, and almost without exception are carried out by the same individuals this book offers clear recommendations for future res...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book introduces undergraduate, postgraduate and research students and scientists to animal models of neurological disorders, along with their working principle and brief procedures. Addressing all the disorders related to the central nervous sys...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Social Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals within social work's moral framework, arguments that hav...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals are everywhere in society. Kay Peggs explores the significant contribution that sociology can make to ou...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that ch...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book explores how Paul Tillich’s systematic theology, focusing on the concepts of being and reason can benefit nonhuman animals, while also analysing how taking proper account of nonhuman animals can prove immensely beneficial. The author first ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:In this thought-provoking and innovative book, Kendra Coulter examines the diversity of work done with, by, and for animals. Interweaving human-animal studies, labor theories and research, and feminist political economy, Coulter develops a unique ana...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies. Through lean and elegant text, rea...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Applied Survival Analysis Using R covers the main principles of survival analysis, gives examples of how it is applied, and teaches how to put those principles to use to analyze data using R as a vehicle. Survival data, where the primary outcome is t...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival.Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods a...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Das Buch dokumentiert die Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums „Assistierter Suizid: Der Stand der Wissenschaft“ vom 15. Juni 2015 in Berlin. Es bietet einen einmaligen Überblick über die aktuellen empirischen Untersuchungen zum Thema, die in der ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book provides concise and cutting-edge reviews in astrobiology, a young and still emerging multidisciplinary field of science that addresses the fundamental questions of how life originated and diversified on Earth, whether life exists beyond Ea...