Science and Technology

About the Book Until a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as mysterious and inaccessible as outer space. Oceans cover two-thirds of the ...

About the Book This book focuses on the geographical aspects of the epidemiology of diabetes. It examines such diverse populations throughout the w...

About the Book This volume of The Enzymes features high-caliber thematic articles on the topic of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchoring of p...

About the Book Volume 6: Ionization Methods captures the story of molecular ionization and its phenomenal evolution that makes mass spectrometry th...

About the Book This book presents lectures by prestigious researchers and experienced observers from the eighteenth Winter School of the Canary Isl...

About the Book Worldwide soybean crop yields can achieve USD$130 billion per year in farm-level sales, but around 13% of these yields are lost to d...

About the Book Snow and ice environments support significant biological activity, yet the biological importance of some of these habitats, such as ...

About the Book How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-y...

This top-selling historical geology text provides an excellent balance of basic geology and paleontology. THE EARTH THROUGH TIME provides rich, aut...

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This book has established itself as a key text for all doctors, whatever their experience and wherever they practise. The role of doctors is changi...

About the Book This account of the global switch to digital television, from its origins to its emerging outcomes, provides an understanding of how...

About the Book The Dictionary of Substances and their Effects (DOSE) is a unique, user-friendly guide to over 4,000 chemicals and the adverse effec...

About the Book Environmental science and engineering is a truly interdisciplinary field. From its origins in public health practice, concern for th...

About the Book This book describes the evolution of epidemiology, its methods, concepts and application over the last 100 years. Current and future...

About the Book Complete guidance for mastering the tools and techniques of the digital revolution With the digital revolution opening up tremendous...

About the Book Computing environments that furnish a large set of tools (such as editors, mail programs, and language processors) are difficult to ...

About the Book There is a companion web site asssociated with the book (). It contains chapter summaries, links to relevant material and posts abou...

About the Book Compiled by a number of qualified authors and contributors, this guide leads readers through the often confusing world of health and...

About the Book "These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat an...

About the Book Designed to foster a stronger awareness and exploration of the subject by practicing clinicians, medical researchers and scientists,...

About the Book In 2015, annual average atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels surpassed a level of 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time ...

For the past decade, historian dipesh Chakrabarti has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate c...

About the Book The Chemistry of Polymers, Third edition, is a well established and highly readable introductory text book on polymer science, ideal...

About the Book In the past decade, since the first edition was published, the study of cereal protein chemistry has grown and changed. New separati...

About the Book This series seeks to publish practical, applications orientated books designed for professional chemists employed in the paints and ...

About the Book Influence of chemical and physical equilibria on chemical reactions.- Introduction to mass and energy balances.- Study of reactions ...

About the Book This monograph gives a description of all algorithmic steps and a mathematical foundation for a special numerical method, namely the...

A basic textbook introducing the scientific principles involved in studying the structure and functioning of the biosphere. It uses worldwide examp...

About the Book This book reviews up-to-date knowledge on the biology of sole ( Solea senegalensis and S. solea ). These flatfish species are increa...

About the Book This book focuses on marine and estuarine soft sediments as complex and essential habitats for an astonishing variety of animals and...

About the Book Overviews of biochemical, genetic, and molecular perspectives of plant-insect interactions with added emphasis on bioinformatic, gen...

About the Book Peatlands form important landscape elements in many parts of the world and play significant roles for biodiversity and global carbon...

About the Book This book provides the first global synthesis of the biology of disturbed habitats and offers readers both the conceptual underpinni...

About the Book This book provides a concise and up-to-date review of current knowledge on the biological processes affecting animal welfare. It is ...

About the Book The impending threats of catastrophic climate change and peak oil are driving our society towards increased use of biomass for energ...

About the Book The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis This lively science history relates one of the great...

About the Book The Basic Practice of Statistics 9e teaches statistical thinking by guiding students through an investigative process of problem-sol...

About the Book NFC is a world standard since 2004 which is now within every smartphone on the market. Such a standard enables us to do mobile trans...

About the Book The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. F...

About the Book DSPs sind programmierbare, in Echtzeit arbeitende Mikroprozessoren. Dieser Band fasst erstmals das breitgef�cherte, schnell expand...

About the Book Aging is optional. We don't have to age like our parents. We can hold on to our vitality and look well into our later years. Program...

About the Book Palms are an economically important group of plants and support major agronomic and horticultural industries, quite apart from their...

About the Book This series is world-renowned as the leading compilation of current reviews of this vast field. Internationally acclaimed for more t...

Trying to understand the growth and development of multicellular organisms has been one of the most intriguing subjects of research for centuries. ...

About the Book On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close with...

About the Book A groundbreaking text to the study of textile fibers that bridges the knowledge gap between fiber shape and end uses Textile Fiber M...

About the Book Renewable energies are sources of clean, inexhaustible and increasingly competitive energy. They differ from fossil fuels principall...