Science and Technology

About the Book This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives....

About the Book The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a third of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobi...

About the Book Nanotechnology is changing the world in a very big way, but at the atomic and sub-atomic level. Although the roots of nanotechnology...

About the Book Lowland glaciers are usually considered the best analogs for formerly glaciated areas and as such, many Icelandic glaciers have been...

About the Book Provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research detailing the etiology, epidemiology, treatment, and detection of myelodysp...

About the Book The fifth edition of Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion's famous guide to the night sky is updated for planet positions and forthcoming ecli...

Editorial Reviews - The Monodromy Groups of Isolated Singularities of Complete Intersections

About the Book 'An urgent and extraordinary book. Weaving a philosophical analysis of Heidegger, Agamben and Foucault, Jan draws out the implicatio...

A close look at the fossil record offers many clues about the origins of life on our planet, how it diversified and why certain species survived wh...

About the Book This volume is the Proceedings of the symposium held at the University of Wyoming in August, 1985, to honor Gail Young on his sevent...

About the Book The Mekong is the most controversial river in Southeast Asia, and increasingly the focus of international attention. It flows throug...

This portable desk reference offers programmers at-a-glance guidance on the four most popular programming languages: C, Pascal, BASIC, and Assembly...

About the Book Few people have proved more influential in the field of differential and algebraic geometry, and in showing how this links with math...

About the Book This book explores the geotectonic evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Indian Shield, which comprises a collage of cratons vari...

About the Book What are the final limits of medicine? What should we not try to cure medically, even if we had the necessary financial resources an...

About the Book A thorough introduction to modern classical and quantum optics, appropriate for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduates. The ...

About the Book A volume in the Handbook of Experimental Animals series, The Laboratory Primate details the past and present use of primates in biom...

About the Book The Internet, and all the netcentric innovations that emerge from it, have transformed the workplace and our working lives in a very...

About the Book Ninety percent of the cells in the human body are bacteria, and humans may be host to many thousands of different species of bacteri...

The Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response To A Natural Disaster

About the Book World leaders, environmentalists and the international science community agree that climate change is one of the largest and most in...

About the Book This is an all-inclusive alphabetical reference guide to all AutoCAD 2009 commands. It includes explanations of topics such as comma...

This dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to the lives, labours and achievements of the men and women who have shaped the worl...

About the Book A quarter of a century into the HIV pandemic, this multi-country comparative book aims to demonstrate how the response to a common, ...

About the Book The History of British Birds reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historic...

About the Book This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the...

About the Book Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a disease that only affects males, with an incidence of around 1 in 3500 new-born baby boys. Its rele...

About the Book An authoritative survey of the science and advanced technological uses of the actinide and transactinide metals The Heaviest Metals ...

About the Book Meteor succeeded meteor in such rapid succession that it was impossible to count them; at times the sky seemed full of them, and the...

The book is designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way, such that trainees engage with th...

About the Book The following title, previewed in September 1998 as a separate Journal and Clinician's Guide, is now available as a set.

About the Book User research is global - yet despite its pervasiveness, practitioners are not all well equipped to work globally. What may have wor...

About the Book Die kompetente, gut strukturierte Einf�hrung in die Grundlagen des GSM-Standards - jetzt in der 2. Auflage! Sie k�nnen nachvollz...

About the Book - The book is intended both as a history and an ecological overview of the Park and as a plea for continuing conservation of the ric...

About the Book The Great Convergence: An Environmental History of BRICS is the result of a collaborative effort in which environmental historians f...

The Great Climate Robbery How the food system drives climate change and what we can do about it by Grain, 9382381686, 9789382381686, Tulika Books

About the Book This shrewd guide to the General Practitioner Vocational Training Scheme supports candidates from the process of application, throug...

About the Book Hundreds of millions around the world live in chronic pain - many in such severe pain they are disabled by it. The Institute of Medi...

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, econ...

About the Book What will our lives be like fifty years from now? What will we know about ourselves as humans, and how will that affect our lives? I...

About the Book A hard look at the twin challenges of climate change and energy scarcity that examines historical precedents and allows no room for ...

About the Book ..".you'd be hard pressed to find a better no-brainer beginners guide to the iMac...a practical, inspirational introduction to the w...

About the Book The finite element method is a technique for solving problems in applied science and engineering. The essence of this book is the ap...

About the Book The formal systems of logic have ordinarily been regarded as independent of biology, but recent developments in evolutionary theory ...

About the Book This book presents a collection of linked essays written by one of the leading philosophers of biology, Kim Sterelny, on the topic o...

Explores such issues regarding cloning as the identity of clones, the purpose of cloning, political debate, and religious arguments from a variety ...