Science and Technology

About the Book An understanding of statistical thermodynamic molecular theory is fundamental to the appreciation of molecular solutions. This compl...

About the Book Research on advanced energy conversion devices such as solar cells has intensified in the last two decades. A broad landscape of can...

About the Book What is the human essence? Although typically viewed as one of the big questions in philosophy, exploring the human essence requires...

About the Book Food, water and society: what is managed by whom, and with what impacts?Our food supply chains are at risk. Water resources―someti...

Ever since its introduction around 1960 by Kirillov, the orbit method has played a major role in representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebr...

About the Book Extracting key information from Academic Press's range of prestigious titles in optical communications, this reference gives the R&a...

About the Book Although our understanding of the structure and activities of the cell nucleus and of the nanomachines which it contains is increasi...

Although our understanding of the structure and activities of the cell nucleus and of the nanomachines which it contains is increasing rapidly, muc...

About the Book There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to fo...

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 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...

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 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 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...

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 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 - 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...

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 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 ...

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...

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 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...