Category: Engineering, Science and Technology
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Sex in Fungi
Original price was: $169.95.$135.96Current price is: $135.96.Add to cartAn invaluable resource that will guide new research on the major groups within the fungal kingdom. Provides illuminating insights into the molecular details of cell-type specification, mating-type switching, pheromone perception and signaling, and cellular and nuclear fusion. Includes chapters on both model and pathogenic fungi, as well as a section that looks forward to what …
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Solar System Astrophysics
Original price was: $119.00.$95.20Current price is: $95.20.Add to cartThe book covers the field of solar system astrophysics beginning with basic tools of spherical astronomy and coordinate frames and celestial mechanics. It therefore presents equations and derivations starting from a level that permits one to see the underlying physical ideas. An up-to-date overview on all essential topics is presented, but is concise where possible. …
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Spaces of Geographical Thought
Original price was: $157.00.$125.60Current price is: $125.60.Add to cartSpaces of Geographical Thought examines key ideas – like space and place – which inform the geographic imagination. The text explains the significance of these binaries in the constitution of geographic thought and shows how many of these binaries have been interrogated and reimagined in more recent geographical thinking. A consideration of these binaries will …
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Spectroscopic Measurement
Original price was: $165.00.$132.00Current price is: $132.00.Add to cartElectromagnetism, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, molecular spectroscopy, optics and radiation form the foundations of the field. On top of these rest the techniques applying the fundamentals (e.g. Emission Spectroscopy, Laser Induced Fluorescence, Raman Spectroscopy). This book contains the basic topics associated with optical spectroscopic techniques. About 40 major sources are distilled into one book, so …
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Synthesis of Acetylenes, Allenes and Cumulenes
Original price was: $390.00.$312.00Current price is: $312.00.Add to cartThere is a vast and often bewildering array of synthetic methods and reagents available to organic chemists today. The Best Synthetic Methods series allows any scientist who is interested in the chemical transformations of molecules to choose between all the alternatives and assess their real advantages and limitations. With the emphasis on laboratory use, these …
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The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin
Original price was: $205.00.$164.00Current price is: $164.00.Add to cartWith a complex assemblage of largely intact ecosystems that support the earth’s greatest diversity of life, the Amazon basin is a focal point of international scientific interest. And, as development and colonization schemes transform the landscape in increasing measure, scientists from around the world are directing attention to questions of regional and global significance. Some …
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The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and Their Allies
Original price was: $305.00.$244.00Current price is: $244.00.Add to cartWetas are native to New Zealand and in evolutionary terms are insect ‘dinosaurs’ within the Orthoptera. Related species occur in South Africa, Australia, North America and to a lesser extent, Europe. This book brings together all known information on these groups (mostly in superfamilies Stenopelmatoidea and Gryllacridoidea) to form a compendium of existing scientific knowledge …
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The Chemistry and Physics of Coatings
Original price was: $99.00.$79.20Current price is: $79.20.Add to cartThe Chemistry and Physics of Coatings provides an introduction to the science underpinning the paint (organic coatings) industry to graduate level chemists who may have no previous knowledge of polymer-based technologies. This book stresses important physical phenomena such as rheology, film formation, and mechanical properties, their exploitation in paint, and the economic and legislative background …
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The Chemistry and Technology of Furfural and Its Many By-products
Original price was: $305.00.$244.00Current price is: $244.00.Add to cartThis book is a “world first”, since the furfural industry has been traditionally secretive to the point of appearing shrouded in clouds of mystery. Even renowned encyclopedic works have published but scant and often erroneous information on the subject. Striking a healthy balance between theory and practice, the book leads the reader from reaction mechanisms …
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The Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology
Original price was: $146.00.$116.80Current price is: $116.80.Add to cartThe Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology aims to provide an affordable and ready access to a large variety of microbiological topics within one set of covers. This handy desk-top reference brings together an outstanding collection of work by the top scientists in the field. Covering topics ranging from the basic science of microbiology to the current …
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The Earth’s Plasmasphere
Original price was: $206.95.$165.56Current price is: $165.56.Add to cartThe plasmasphere is the vast “doughnut-shaped” region of the magnetosphere that forms a cold thermal plasma cloud encircling the Earth, terminating abruptly at a radial distance of 30,000 km over a sharp discontinuity known as the plasmapause. This is the first monograph to describe the historical development of ideas concerning the plasmasphere by the pioneering …
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The Heliosphere Near Solar Minimum: The Ulysses Perspective
Original price was: $259.00.$207.20Current price is: $207.20.Add to cartIn this book, the authors aim to summarise our understanding of the heliosphere near solar minimum and to provide the basis for understanding the more complex state of the heliosphere around solar maximum, which will be observed during the next phase of the Ulysses mission.
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The Oceanic Crust, from Accretion to Mantle Recycling
Original price was: $198.00.$158.40Current price is: $158.40.Add to cartThe last 30 years have been marked by a huge international effort to explore the deep sea floor, especially the mid-ocean ridge system. Thanks to the continuous development of new technologies and tools such as high-resolution multibeam sonar systems, sid e-scan sonars, deep submersibles and high-performance geophysical tools, these efforts have resulted in a much …
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