Creator: Anthony J. Davy
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2002-10-15
Dewey code: 570
List Price: $245.00
Price: $245.00
Review Handbook of Ecological Restoration Two Volume Set / Cambridge University Press:This two-volume set provides a comprehensive account of the rapidly emerging and vibrant science of ecological restoration of habitats and species. Volume 1, Principles of Restoration, defines the underlying principles of restoration ecology, in relation to manipulations and management of the biological, geophysical, and chemical framework. Volume 2, Restoration in Practice, provides details of state-of-the-art restoration practice in a range of biomes within terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The Handbook of Ecological Restoration two-volume set is an invaluable resource to everyone concerned with the restoration, rehabilitation, enhancement or creation of habitats in aquatic or terrestrial systems worldwide.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-02-28
Dewey code: 581.8733
List Price: $258.00
Price: $258.00
Review Origins Of Plastids: Symbiogenesis, Prochlorophytes and the Origins of Chloroplasts / Springer:Origins of Plastids looks at symbiosis and symbiogenesis as a mechanism of evolution. This theory of endosymbiotic evolution postulates that photosynthetic prokaryotes living as endosymbionts within eukaryotic cells gradually evolved into the organelle structures called chloroplasts. The theory is controversial but has been strongly advocated by Lynn Margulis. Based on a colloquium held at the Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory of the University of California at Davis, Origins of Plastids reviews recent data on this most basic problem in plant evolution. In it, leading researchers in the field apply the theory of endosymbiotic evolution to plastid origins, producing an important new reference work for both professionals and graduates interested in the origins of life, the origins of the eukaryotic cell and its organelles, and the evolution of the higher plants in general. Origins of Plastids represents the state-of-the-art in its field. It should find a place on the bookshelves of people interested in microbiology, plant science, phycology, cell biology, and evolution.
Edition: 6
Publication date: 2008-08
Dewey code: 551
List Price: $245.00
Price: $245.00
Review Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals 2008: Mammals, Birds and Bees / Office Intl Des Epizooties:
Creator: P. H. Liotta
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-01-16
Dewey code: 577
List Price: $319.00
Price: $249.33
Review Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century (Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace) / Springer:Globalization and Environmental Challenges pose new security dangers and concerns. In this reference book on global security thinking, 92 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the global reconceptualization of security triggered by the end of the Cold War, globalization and manifold impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century. In 10 parts, 75 chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security; discuss the relationship between security, peace, development and environment; review the reconceptualization of security in philosophy, international law, economics and political science and for the political, military, economic, social and environmental security dimension and the adaptation of the institutional security concepts of the UN, EU and NATO; analyze the reconceptualization of regional security and alternative security futures and draw conclusions for future research and action. This book contains carefully revised papers from three workshops at ISA (Montreal), IPRA (Sopron) and the Fourth Pan European Conference on International Relations (The Hague) and additional commissioned papers. All chapters were anonymously peer reviewed.
Creator: Ph. Vidal
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 552.4
List Price: $399.00
Price: $399.00
Review Granulation and Crustal Evolution (NATO Science Series C: (closed)) / Springer:X
Creator: Laszlo Urban
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 599.0182
List Price: $291.00
Price: $291.00
Review Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing: The Somatosensory System (Nato a S I Series Series H, Cell Biology) / Springer-Verlag Telos:This volume is a multi-disciplinary characterization of the somatosensory system - a field that has experienced revolutionary changes in recent years through the accumulation of basic and clinical data. For example, the discovery of the interaction between the nervous system and the immune system has changed our view on the development of inflammatory diseases, while the cloning of genes encoding different trophic factors boosted studies revealing profound changes in the regeneration of neurones, and the induction of changes in phenotype.
Creator: Peter Nijkamp
Publication date: 1996-12
Dewey code: 333.336
List Price: $380.00
Price: $245.28
Review Transport and Land Use (Modern Classics in Regional Science, Vol 2) / Edward Elgar Publishing:These classical and recent papers explore the complex interrelationships between transport, land use and the spatial organization of metropolitan areas. Since land use and transportation planning play a major role in these relationships, attention is paid to planning issues and policies.
Creator: K. Waldron
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-04-06
Dewey code: 664.00286
List Price: $289.95
Price: $245.77
Review Handbook of Waste Management and Co-Product Recovery in Food Processing: Volume 1 / CRC:With its distinguished editor and army of international contributors, Waste Management and Co-Product Recovery in Food Processing reviews the latest developments in this area. The book introduces the field, focussing on legislation and consumer interests, the principle drivers of waste management. It addresses the minimization of biowaste and the optimization of water and energy use. The book goes on to discuss key technologies for co-product separation and recovery and important issues to consider when recovering co-products. It offers examples of waste management and co-product exploitation and explores advanced techniques and state of the art technologies.
Creator: Gerald J. Fishman
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-10-06
Dewey code: 522.6862
List Price: $250.00
Price: $245.00
Review Gamma-Ray Bursts: 5th Huntsville Symposium (AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics) / American Institute of Physics:Proceedings of the 5th Huntsville Symposium on Gamma-Ray Bursts, held in Huntsville, AL, October 18-22, 1999. Topics covered at the symposium included GRB detection and classification, detection biases, distributions, temporal studies, and radio afterglow.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-02-19
Dewey code: 664
List Price: $264.00
Price: $264.00
Review FOOD EMULSIONS AND FOAMS (Special Publications) / Royal Society of Chemistry:This work highlights current progress in the understanding of food dispersions and describes the physical chemistry underlying the stabilization of foams and emulsions. Key topics covered include polymers, mechanisms of destabilization, theory and stimulation of aggregation and gelation, rheology of food colloids, surface rheology of adsorbed protein layers, protein-surfactant and protein-polysaccharide interactions, preparation of emulsions and foams and processing effects on protein functionality. Much of the emphasis is placed on relating behaviour of model systems, to properties of adsorbed layers at oil-water and air-water interfaces. Review articles and experimental developments are included in the text.
Edition: Mul
Publication date: 2004-11-17
Dewey code: 025
List Price: $265.00
Price: $245.86
Review Elsevier's Dictionary of Forestry: In English, German, French and Russianapprox. 10,000 terms / Elsevier Science:Hardbound. The dictionary will contain terms used today in forest science, management and conservation, comprising forest ecology, forest entomology and pathology, forest fire management, forest geomatics, forest meteorology and hydrology, forest soils and geomorphology, forest surveys and mensuration, genetics and tree improvement, harvesting and forest operations, integrated forest management, photogrammetry and remote sensing, physico-mechanical properties of wood, processing (panels, pulp and paper, sawing, etc. ), silviculture, tree physiology, agroforestry, urban forestry, wildlife and wilderness management and arboriculture, wood anatomy and structure.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-04-30
Dewey code: 363.189
List Price: $286.00
Price: $245.95
Review The Forgotten Pollution / Springer:The increasing pace of industrialization throughout the world has brought with it a serious and ever increasing threat from air pollution. It is true that this threat is being taken seriously, and that many responsible research workers, government advisors and others are working towards its reduction. But air pollution seems to have something of the nature of a hydra-headed monster: tackle one problem and another immediately grows to take its place. Actions taken sometimes have results that are far from what was envisioned, sometimes even seeming to make the problem worse. In The Forgotten Pollution, Roos shows clearly, and in an often entertaining way, how many of the `unexpected' side effects of pollution by waste gases and particles can be explained by paying attention to the electrical activity of the atmosphere and the earth. Using an instrument which he has developed, the Electrostatic Charged Aerosol Monitor (ECAM), together with other instruments and reference to the literature, much of it dating back to the early days of science when electrostatics was appreciated as a science more than it is today, Roos has succeeded in explaining many hitherto `puzzling' phenomena in a clear, simple and intellectually satisfying way.
Authors
- Carlos Molineri
- Eduardo Dominguez
- Carolina Nieto
- Michael D. Hubbard
- Manuel L. Pescador
Dewey code: 578
List Price: $285.00
Price: $245.00
Review Ephemeroptera of South America (Aquatic Biodiversity of Latin America) / Pensoft Pub:For many years, students from numerous countries have complained about the lack of "tools" to identify aquatic invertebrates from Latin America. Keys found in accepted textbooks are mostly limited, superficial or too popular-science. On the other hand, more advanced keys in academic books on aquatic invertebrates fail to cover Neotropical representatives in due detail. The few that do, however, also show too many defects in scope and presentation to be considered up-to-date. An international team of editors combined their efforts with Pensoft Publishers to launch a new major series on the aquatic biodiversity of Latin America. About 15 monographs, written by scientists from various countries, will offer a new, unrivalled view of the marvellous aquatic world of South America! The series is addressed to zoologists, ecologists, hydrobiologists, biogeographers, conservationists and students interested in aquatic biodiversity. The series will be an imminent tool for any biological library. Volume 2 - This book covers all known (14) families, (103) genera and (470) species of the insect order Ephemeroptera from continental South America. It includes updated keys (in English and Spanish) to separate families, genera and species (when possible), as well as complete reference data on each taxon, considering its status, characters, biology and distribution. The book is addressed to specialists in systematics, ecologists, limnologists and biologists in general.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-03-31
Dewey code: 631.841
List Price: $299.00
Price: $245.93
Review Improving Efficiency of Urea Fertilizers by Inhibition of Soil Urease Activity / Springer:This book is a comprehensive and updated review of fundamental studies on inhibition of soil urease activity and of applied studies on improving efficiency of urea fertilizers by inhibition of soil urease activity. The general literature on these topics covers 65 years and the patent literature comprises a period of nearly 40 years. The potential of food production to meet the growing needs related to population increase is largely conditioned by the efficiency of agricultural fertilizers. Urea has gradually become the most important nitrogen fertilizer in world agriculture. However, its efficiency is in general reduced due to excessive activity of a soil enzyme, urease. One way to increase efficiency of urea fertilizers is the inhibition of soil urease activity. In the last four decades, multilateral investigations have been carried out in a series of countries to identify and test unpolluting and inexpensive chemical compounds to be used as inhibitors of soil urease activity. These investigations are reviewed, including those described in the patent literature. The book is addressed to a broad audience, including experts and students in agronomy, forestry, plant physiology, soil science (especially soil biology and biochemistry), and other environmental sciences, as well as in organic and inorganic chemistry.
Creator: Orjan Wikander
Publication date: 1999-11-01
Dewey code: 627.09
List Price: $372.00
Price: $310.46
Review Handbook of Ancient Water Technology (Technology and Change in History) / Brill Academic Publishers:Based on archaeological and written evidence, this volume presents a study of water use and water technology in an area from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic Ocean, from the beginning of the Neolithic period up to c. AD 600.
Creator: George W. Beran
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1994-08-22
Dewey code: 616.959
List Price: $519.00
Price: $245.00
Review Handbook of Zoonoses, Second Edition, Section B: Viral Zoonoses / CRC:This multivolume handbook presents the most authoritative and comprehensive reference work on major zoonoses of the world. The Handbook of Zoonoses covers most diseases communicable to humans, as well as those diseases common to both animals and humans. It identifies animal diseases that are host specific and reviews the effects of various human diseases on animals. Discussions address diseases that remain important public and animal health problems and the techniques that can control and prevent them. The chapters are written by internationally recognized scientists in their respective areas of disease, who work or have worked extensively in the most affected areas of the world. The emphasis for each zoonosis is on the epidemiology of the disease, the clinical syndromes and carrier states in infected animals and humans, and the most current methods for diagnosis and approaches to control. For infectious agents or biologic toxins, which may be transmitted by foods of animal origin, a strong focus is placed on food safety measures. The etiologic and therapeutic aspects of each disease important to epidemiology and control are identified.
Publication date: 1994-11-01
Dewey code: 551.503
List Price: $245.00
Price: $245.00
Review Elsevier's Dictionary of Climatology and Meteorology / Elsevier Science:The main objective of this dictionary is to bring all branches of meteorology science up-to-date with special attention given to application fields, as well as to agrometeorology, climatology, hydrometeorology, environmental meteorology, aeronautical meteorology, marine meteorology and radiometeorology. The dictionary includes the most important terms used in weather bulletins and textbooks. It is indispensable for the day to day use of students, investigators, and translators working in meteorological and geophysics institutes and universities.
Authors
- Gerrit H. Vonkeman
- M.J. Scoullos
- Z. Makuch
- I. Thornton
Publication date: 2001-12-31
Dewey code: 363.1791
List Price: $278.00
Price: $245.95
Review Mercury - Cadmium - Lead Handbook for Sustainable Heavy Metals Policy and Regulation (Environment & Policy) / Springer:Although this is a handbook for policy and regulation, the major part of it is filled with data on the three heavy metals that served as examples: mercury, cadmium and lead. Their stocks, productions, prices, trade flows, uses and applications, recovery and recycling, as well as their (eco)toxicological characteristics have been collected and presented to their fullest extent. In addition, they are thoroughly analysed for consistency, future developments and trends and, of course, their consequences for sustainable development and future policy and regulation. The second part, on policy and regulation, begins with an extensive and fundamental consideration on the characteristics of a sustainable heavy metals policy, whereby innovative policy tools are developed. In many aspects, these considerations are also valid for other metals and even non-metallic persistent substances. Addressing the European Union in particular, its policy-making structure and practice are critically analysed, in order to develop feasible and viable guidelines for long-, medium- and short-term EU policy measures. The results of this exercise are then applied to the three heavy metals. In each of these three chapters, all existing EU measures are presented in detail and confronted with better practices elsewhere, resulting in many suggestions and recommendations for the future. In the last chapter, the main conclusions and recommendations are carefully summarised. Together with a very extended table of contents, this makes the book easily accessible, in spite of its volume. [+]This Handbook is a must for policy-makers and administrators at all levels, as well as for their counterparts in a wide variety of industries. In addition, it is well-suited for environmental science courses at academic or higher professional level.
Creator: Chas N. Archie
Publication date: 2006-03-31
Dewey code: 621.38153
List Price: $245.00
Price: $245.00
Review Metrology, Inspection, And Process Control For Microlithography (Proceedings of SPIE) / SPIE-International Society for Optical Engine:
Authors
- David Beerling
- F. Ian Woodward
Publication date: 2001-12-15
Dewey code: 577.144015118
List Price: $264.00
Price: $259.52
Review Vegetation & the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: The First 400 Million Years / Cambridge University Press:Plants have colonized and modified the world's surface for the past 400 million years. In this book the authors demonstrate that an understanding of the role of vegetation in the terrestrial carbon cycle during this time can be gained by linking the key mechanistic elements of present day vegetation processes to models of the global climate during different geological eras. The resulting interactive simulations of climate and vegetation processes tie in with observable geological data supporting the validity of the authors' approach.
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Handbook of Ecological Restoration Two Volume Set, Origins Of Plastids: Symbiogenesis, Prochlorophytes and the Origins of Chloroplasts, Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals 2008: Mammals, Birds and Bees, Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century (Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace), Granulation and Crustal Evolution (NATO Science Series C: (closed)), Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing: The Somatosensory System (Nato a S I Series Series H, Cell Biology), Transport and Land Use (Modern Classics in Regional Science, Vol 2), Handbook of Waste Management and Co-Product Recovery in Food Processing: Volume 1, Gamma-Ray Bursts: 5th Huntsville Symposium (AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics), FOOD EMULSIONS AND FOAMS (Special Publications), Elsevier's Dictionary of Forestry: In English, German, French and Russianapprox. 10,000 terms, The Forgotten Pollution, Ephemeroptera of South America (Aquatic Biodiversity of Latin America), Improving Efficiency of Urea Fertilizers by Inhibition of Soil Urease Activity, Handbook of Ancient Water Technology (Technology and Change in History), Handbook of Zoonoses, Second Edition, Section B: Viral Zoonoses, Elsevier's Dictionary of Climatology and Meteorology, Mercury - Cadmium - Lead Handbook for Sustainable Heavy Metals Policy and Regulation (Environment & Policy), Metrology, Inspection, And Process Control For Microlithography (Proceedings of SPIE), Vegetation & the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: The First 400 Million YearsTop headlines: EPA approves Calif. rule on car emissions: Reversing a Bush-era decision and honoring a pledge last month, the EPA on Tuesday granted California the ability to impose stringent rules on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. ›16:22 30 Jun, Tue 'Organic' label's integrity under fire: USDA shortcomings mean consumers who buy "organic" are not always getting foods without pesticides, produced in a way that is gentle on the environment. ›09:20 3 Jul, Fri Attending a wedding? 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