Category: Engineering, Science and Technology
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Combustion
Original price was: $59.95.$47.96Current price is: $47.96.Add to cartCombustion is an old technology, which at present provides about 90% of our worldwide energy support. Combustion research in the past used fluid mechanics with global heat release by chemical reactions described with thermodynamics, assuming infinitely fast reactions. This approach was useful for stationary combustion processes, but it is not sufficient for transient processes like …
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Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles
Original price was: $189.00.$151.20Current price is: $151.20.Add to cartBirds and reptiles have long fascinated investigators studying hearing and the auditory system. The highly evolved auditory inner ear of birds and reptiles shares many characteristics with the ear of mammals. Thus, the two groups are essential in understanding the form and function of the vertebrate and mammalian auditory systems. Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles …
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Comparative Vertebrate Lateralization
Original price was: $162.99.$130.39Current price is: $130.39.Add to cartThis book takes a comparative and integrative approach to lateralization in a wide range of vertebrate species, including humans, and highlights model systems that have proved invaluable in elucidating the function, causes, development, and evolution of lateralization. The volume is arranged in four parts, beginning with the evolution of lateralization, moving to its development, cognitive …
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Competition and Succession in Pastures
Original price was: $253.90.$203.12Current price is: $203.12.Add to cartThis book describes how competition between plant species, and succession in plant ecosystems, operate in grasslands and grazed pastures, both natural and sown. It discusses how competition both affects botanical structure, productivity and persistence of pastures and is itself regulated by biological, environmental and management factors, such as grazing animals. The book also examines the …
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Coral Reef Fishes
Original price was: $68.95.$55.16Current price is: $55.16.Add to cartCoral Reef Fishes is the successor of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs. This new edition includes provocative reviews covering the major areas of reef fish ecology. Concerns about the future health of coral reefs, and recognition that reefs and their fishes are economically important components of the coastal oceans of many tropical nations, …
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Countercurrent Chromatography
Original price was: $270.00.$216.00Current price is: $216.00.Add to cartCovering definitions, concepts, and applications, Countercurrent Chromatography recounts the developments in two types of liquid-liquid chromatography termed countercurrent-high-speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC) and centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC)-as well as the HSCCC-derived cross-axis CCC, a versatile technique for purification in biotechnology applications. The text investigates mechanisms for mixing liquid phases, particularly hydrostatic techniques for CPC and hydrodynamic …
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CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference
Original price was: $304.00.$243.20Current price is: $243.20.Add to cartThe CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference contains almost 30,000 concise ethnobotanical monographs of plant species characteristics and an inventory of claimed attributes and historical uses by cultures throughout the world-the most ambitious attempt to date to inventory plants on a global scale and match botanical information with historical and current uses.To obtain the same information about …
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Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry, Third Edition
Original price was: $132.95.$106.36Current price is: $106.36.Add to cartMoving from basic concepts to systematic coverage of specific elements and compounds, this text uses the periodic table as a framework for understanding chemical properties and uncovering little recognised relationships between elements in different groups. The book also familiarizes students with the rich historical background of inorganic chemistry as well as with crucial applications, especially …
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Directed Enzyme Evolution
Original price was: $209.00.$167.20Current price is: $167.20.Add to cartDirected evolution comprises two distinct steps that are typically applied in an iterative fashion: (1) generating molecular diversity and (2) finding among the ensemble of mutant sequences those proteins that perform the desired fu- tion according to the specified criteria. In many ways, the second step is the most challenging. No matter how cleverly designed …
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DNA Virus Replication
Original price was: $110.00.$88.00Current price is: $88.00.Add to cartDNA viruses have always been the most important model systems for eukaryotic DNA replication. Add to this the clinical significance of these human pathogens- 99% of the population of the world is infected with at least one of the viruses discussed in this volume (hepatitis B virus, EptsteinBarr virus or herpes simplex virus) – and …
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Drosophila Cytogenetics Protocols
Original price was: $199.00.$159.20Current price is: $159.20.Add to cartLeading drosophilists describe in step-by-step detail all the essential techniques for studying Drosophila chromosomes and suggest new avenues for scientific exploration. The chapters emphasize specimen preparation (from dissection to mounting) and cover both polytene and mitotic/meiotic chromosomes in depth. Each fully tested and readily reproducible protocol offers a background introduction, equipment and reagent lists, and …
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Drug Discovery and Design
Original price was: $190.00.$152.00Current price is: $152.00.Add to cartStrategies to reduce medical uncertainty and build evidence have become critical to the advancement of medical knowledge and modern medical practice. As new techniques and strategies have arisen, so has the need for a current reference work. Drug Discovery and Design examines the latest research in the development of these new strategies. Some of the …
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Dryland Rivers
Original price was: $450.25.$360.20Current price is: $360.20.Add to cartExamines the processes operating in the headwaters and main channels of ephemeral rivers in semi-arid environments and includes coverage of current fieldwork investigations, modeling approaches, and management issues. focuses on dryland channel networks and processes presents a historical framework for research discusses examples of current studies and evaluates contemporary modelling approaches Emphasis is on the …
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Earthworm Management in Tropical Agroecosystems
Original price was: $133.00.$106.40Current price is: $106.40.Add to cart*Covers all aspects of the ecology of tropical earthworm communities and their effects on soil properties and plant growth and examines the latest methods and technologies which facilitate their management for the maximum benefit to the farmer. *Written by leading experts in the field from Europe, South and Central America, Africa, Australia and Asia.
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Ecology of Desert Systems
Original price was: $121.00.$96.80Current price is: $96.80.Add to cartConventional wisdom considers deserts stark, harsh regions that support few living things. Most people also believe that water alone makes the desert bloom. Ecology of Desert Systems challenges these conventional views. This volume explores a broad range of topics of interest to ecosystem, population, community, and physiological ecologists. Climate, weather patterns, geomorphology, and wind and …
