Authors
- Brunello Tirozzi
- Enrico Ferraro
- Daniela Bianchi
Publication date: 2007-06-12
Dewey code: 600
List Price: $69.00
Price: $52.06
Review Introduction to Computational Neurobiology and Clustering (Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences) / World Scientific Publishing Company:This volume provides students with the necessary tools to better understand the fields of neurobiological modeling, cluster analysis of proteins and genes. The theory is explained starting from the beginning and in the most elementary terms, there are many exercises solved and not useful for the understanding of the theory. The exercises are specially adapted for training and many useful Matlab programs are included, easily understood and generalizable to more complex situations. This self-contained text is particularly suitable for an undergraduate course of biology and biotechnology. New results are also provided for researchers such as the description and applications of the Kohonen neural networks to gene classification and protein classification with back propagation neutral networks.
Publication date: 2009-08-15
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00
Review Chronoengineering (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering) / Morgan & Claypool Publishers:
Creator: J.M. Brunetaud
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1990-11
Dewey code: 617.05
List Price: $419.00
Price: $419.00
Review Medical Laser Endoscopy (Developments in Gastroenterology) / Springer:
Publication date: 2009-08-15
Dewey code: 530
List Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00
Review Human Performance Modeling And Measurement (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering) / Morgan & Claypool Publishers:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000-11
Dewey code: 631.5233
List Price: $139.00
Price: $98.94
Review Vexing Nature: On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology / Springer:Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology is a collection of philosophical essays on the ethical dimensions of agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) crops. Agricultural biotechnology refers to a diverse set of industrial techniques used to produce genetically modified foods. Genetically modified (GM) crops are plants manipulated at the molecular level to enhance their value to farmers and consumers. The ethical issues discussed in Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology are diverse and complex. Comstock addresses such concerns as the possibility of genetic engineering producing unanticipated allergens in previously safe foods, unexpectedly toxic health supplements, novel GM diseases, environmental catastrophe, bizarre new lines of animals possessing genes taken from humans, exceedingly wealthy corporations more powerful than the nations trying to regulate them, bankrupted family farmers in the US and Europe, exploited peasant farmers in developing countries, inhumanely treated animals in our labs and on our farms, and corrupted attitudes to nature among our children. In a fascinating narrative account of a journey that began in 1988 and ended twelve years later, Comstock tells the story of how he, an early and somewhat vocal critic of agricultural biotechnology, changed his mind about the ethical acceptability of GM organisms (GMO). Once tempted to oppose all uses of genetic engineering in agriculture, Comstock came to believe that many uses are morally justifiable, and even required. Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology explains his early, anti-GMO, position; the ethical, environmental, economic, social justice and animal rights arguments that led him to reverse himself; and the implications of his new position for public policy.
Authors
- Simon Finch
- Dr Jean-Marie / Sick Le Minor
- Jean-Marie Le Minor
- Henri Sick
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 611
List Price: $70.00
Price: $40.00
Review Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery: The Complete Coloured Plates of 1831-1854 (25th Anniversary Special Edtn) / TASCHEN America Llc:We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797 1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published in any language. In 1830, having received his doctorate in medicine three years prior, Bourgery began work on his magnificent atlas in cooperation with illustrator Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782 1871). The first volumes were published the following year, but completion of the treatise required nearly two decades of dedication. The four parts of Bourgery's treatise cover descriptive anatomy, surgical anatomy and techniques, general anatomy and embryology, and microscopic anatomy. Jacob's spectacular hand-colored, life-size lithographs are remarkable for their clarity, color, and aesthetic appeal, reflecting a combination of direct laboratory observation and illustrative research; the images are to this day unsurpassed in anatomical illustration.
Publication date: 2001-08-06
Dewey code: 820.9356
List Price: $50.00
Price: $40.00
Review British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind / Cambridge University Press:In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats, and novelists such as Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, are shown to have shared a surprising extent of common ground with pioneering brain scientists including Erasmus Darwin and F. J. Gall. It demonstrates the value for literary and cultural history of learning from recent work in neuroscience and cognitive science.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-07-30
Dewey code: 610.938
List Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00
Review Early Civilizations: Prehistoric Times to 500 C.e. (The History of Medicine) / Facts on File:
Publication date: 1993-01-01
Dewey code: 615.53
List Price: $49.95
Price: $44.95
Review Religious Medicine: The History and Evolution of Indian Medicine / Transaction Publishers:
Creator: Maija Jansson
Publication date: 2001-11-15
Dewey code: 328.4109032
List Price: $125.00
Price: $115.61
Review Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament: House of Commons: The Strafford Trial. Volume 3: 22 March 1641 - 17 April 1641 (Proceedings of the English Parliament) / University of Rochester Press:In the English Parliament during the spring of 1641 two closely related matters came to a head: the trial of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, and the completion of articles forming the framework for a treaty with Scotland. Strafford was one of King Charles I's closest associates, and his trial and eventual execution marked the beginning of the long-fought out conflict between the Parliament and the Crown over political control in England. The treaty and the trial reflect the interconnectedness of the three kingdoms - Ireland, Scotland, and England - and their relationships to one another under the English monarchy. In the parliamentary debates recorded in this volume, the interplay between public and private interests, military, religious, and mercantile, with and outside the court in England becomes clearer, as does the extent of state-driven policy and imperial design which had evolved during the years when Charles ruled without a Parliament. These records constitute the definitive account of the Strafford trial, as well as detailing other early impeachment proceedings, which would set the precedent for later impeachment trials in Great Britain and America (including the recent impeachment of United States President William Jefferson Clinton). With regards to the treaty, the journals and diaries present a detailed narrative of the step-by-step construction of peace with Scotland. Maija Jansson is Director of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History.
Authors
- Leroy D. Sturges
- William F. Riley
- Don H. Morris
Publication date: 2001-10-30
Dewey code: 620.112
Price: $60.00
Review Statics and Mechanics of Materials: An Integrated Approach / Wiley:* Use of Free-Body Diagrams. Authors, Riley, Sturges and Morris, feel that a proper free-body diagram is very important in all mechanics courses. Whenever an equation of equilibrium is written, a complete, proper free-body diagram accompanies it. * Problem Solving Procedures. Statics and Mechanics of Materials: An Integrated Approach provides students with an effective methodology for problem decomposition and solution, the ability to present results in a clear, and logical manner is emphasized throughout the text. * Homework Problems. Over 1100 homework problems allow for varied problem assignments. Each set of problems represents a range of difficulty and is grouped according to this range of difficulty. * SI vs. U. [+]S. Customary Units are used in equal proportions in the text for both example and homework problems.
Creator: Eleanor Krohn Herrmann EdD RN FAAN
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-11-16
Dewey code: 610.73
List Price: $50.00
Price: $40.00
Review Capturing Nursing History: A Guide to Historical Methods in Research / Springer Publishing Company:While research texts abound in the nursing literature and nursing history fields, there has been no hands-on text for describing the process of doing historical research. This book, written by well known and respected nurse historians, will provide the necessary direction, guidance, and examples needed to conduct historical research. Features of this edition: Provides direction and tools for conducting historical research Describes types of research including biographic and oral histories Covers frameworks used to study historical events, such as social, political, feminist, intellectual, and cultural Addresses contemporary issues such as preserving and storing digitalized and tape-recorded data and obtaining institutional review board (IRB) approval for research Includes case studies providing "how-to" guidance in conducting historical research in nursing Case studies are used throughout to illustrate various research methods and describe how, why, when, and where historical research is used in nursing.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2010-02-28
Dewey code: 610.9
List Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00
Review Medicine Today: 2000 to the Present (The History of Medicine) / Facts on File:
Publication date: 1993-01-01
Dewey code: 615.53
List Price: $49.95
Price: $44.95
Review Religious Medicine: The History and Evolution of Indian Medicine / Transaction Publishers:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-08-30
Dewey code: 610.940902
List Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00
Review The Middle Ages: 500-1450 C.e. (The History of Medicine) / Facts on File:
Creator: E.F.M. Wouters
Publication date: 2003-12-01
Dewey code: 616
List Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00
Review Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Respiratory Disease (European Respiratory Monograph) (European Respiratory Monograph) / Maney Publishing:This monograph offers a complete overview of the present insights into the metabolic, systemic and nutritional aspects of chronic respiratory disorders. Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Respiratory Disease gives the clinician an excellent tool for day-to-day clinical management of COPD patients. Although this challenging scientific field is rapidly evolving, this monograph is an important step towards a more scientifically based recognition of the metabolic complications in daily practice, and to a broader implementation of nutritional and metabolic strategies in an integrated management programme for patients.
Creator: D. Gordon
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1988-08-31
Dewey code: 362.1042
List Price: $130.00
Price: $40.00
Review Biomedicine Examined (Culture, Illness and Healing) / Springer:
Creator: Lynne Tatlock
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 618.2009
List Price: $65.00
Price: $40.00
Review The Court Midwife (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) / University Of Chicago Press:First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, The Court Midwife contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains riveting birthing scenes, sworn testimonials by former patients, and a brief autobiography.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-04-29
Dewey code: 610.94409033
List Price: $110.00
Price: $48.42
Review Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850 / Cambridge University Press:This book explores the tradition of the "science of man" in French medicine of the era 1750-1850, focusing on controversies about the nature of the "physical-moral" relation and their effects on the role of medicine in French society. Its chief purpose is to recover the history of a holistic tradition in French medicine that has been neglected, because it lay outside the mainstream themes of modern medicine, which include experimental, reductionist, and localistic conceptions of health and disease. Professor Williams also challenges existing historiography, which holds that the "anthropological" approach to medicine was a short-term by-product of the leftist politics of the French Revolution. This work argues instead that the medical science of man long outlived the revolution, that it spanned traditional ideological divisions, and that it reflected the shared aim of French physicians, whatever their politics, to claim broad cultural authority in French society.
Creator: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen
Publication date: 1995-12-01
List Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00
Review Functions and Biogenesis of Peroxisomes in Relation to Human Disease / Elsevier Science Pub Co:Paperback. Peroxisomes have attracted great interest in recent years since it was recognized that impairments in one or more peroxisomal functions are associated with severe disease. This book aims to describe the current state of knowledge about peroxisomes concentrating on the functions and biogenesis of perxisomes with special emphasis on the various peroxisomal disorders. Accordingly, this book contains chapters on the functions of peroxisomes (fatty acid oxidation, ether-phospholipid synthesis, cholesterol synthesis), the biogenesis of peroxisomes and chapters dealing with the (dys)functions and morphology of peroxisomes in the various peroxisomal disorders.
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Introduction to Computational Neurobiology and Clustering (Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences), Chronoengineering (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering), Medical Laser Endoscopy (Developments in Gastroenterology), Human Performance Modeling And Measurement (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering), Vexing Nature: On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology, Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery: The Complete Coloured Plates of 1831-1854 (25th Anniversary Special Edtn), British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind, Early Civilizations: Prehistoric Times to 500 C.e. (The History of Medicine), Religious Medicine: The History and Evolution of Indian Medicine, Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament: House of Commons: The Strafford Trial. Volume 3: 22 March 1641 - 17 April 1641 (Proceedings of the English Parliament), Statics and Mechanics of Materials: An Integrated Approach, Capturing Nursing History: A Guide to Historical Methods in Research, Medicine Today: 2000 to the Present (The History of Medicine), Religious Medicine: The History and Evolution of Indian Medicine, The Middle Ages: 500-1450 C.e. (The History of Medicine), Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Respiratory Disease (European Respiratory Monograph) (European Respiratory Monograph), Biomedicine Examined (Culture, Illness and Healing), The Court Midwife (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe), Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850, Functions and Biogenesis of Peroxisomes in Relation to Human DiseaseTop headlines: Marshals seize Madoffs $7 million penthouse: The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday took possession of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse, an action that forced his wife to move elsewhere. ›23:34 2 Jul, Thu Obama prods Senate to OK climate bill: After the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy, President Barack Obama urged senators to show courage and follow suit. ›16:48 27 Jun, Sat Gary Coleman's wife arrested in Utah: Police say the wife of actor Gary Coleman was booked into jail after an argument at the couple's Utah County home. ›21:48 2 Jul, Thu Did the fry die when trans fats got the boot?: Good news! 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