Other Sciences category: 9579 books
Weighing the World
The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific...
Volcanic Ash
Hazard Observation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Volcanic Ash: Hazard Observation presents an introduction followed by four sections, each on a separate topic and each containing chapters from an internationally renowned pool of authors. The introduction provides a volcanological context for ash generation that sets the stage for the development...
Life's Ratchet
How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The cells in our bodies consist of molecules, made up of the same carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms found in air and rocks. But molecules, such as water and sugar, are not alive. So how do our cells—assemblies of otherwise “dead” molecules—come to life, and together constitute a living being?
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Calmodulin and Signal Transduction focuses on emerging themes in the molecular mechanisms of calcium signal transduction through calmodulin-regulated pathways. It provides the reader with selected examples and experimental precedents that underlie current models of cell regulation through calmodulin-regulated...
When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish
...and Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "bitter gene" that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
The term “heavy metals” is used as a group name of toxic metals and metalloids (semimetals) causing contaminations and ecotoxicity. In strict chemical sense the density of heavy metals is higher than 5 g/cm3. From biological point of view as microelements they can be divided into two major groups....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The rapid growth of interest and research activity in ion channels is indicative of their fundamental importance in the maintenance of the living state. This volume was prepared with a view toward providing a sampling of the range of molecular and physical methods that are significant for the study...
Origins of Darwin's Evolution
Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Historical biogeography—the study of the history of species through both time and place—first convinced Charles Darwin of evolution. This field was so important to Darwin’s initial theories and line of thinking that he said as much in the very first paragraph of On the Origin of Species (1859)...
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Martin Parry University College, London, UK The 13 country studies collected in this re Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide, country-by-country (Carter et al., 1994) as an agreed technical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
This invaluable resource discusses clinical applications with effects and side-effects of applications of stem cells in liver, lung and heart regeneration. All chapters are contributed by pre-eminent scientists in the field and covers such topics as cell therapy in the treatment of cirrhosis and...
by Sarah C. Watkinson, Lynne Boddy, Nicholas Money
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
The Fungi, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive and thoroughly integrated treatment of the biology of the fungi. This modern synthesis highlights the scientific foundations that continue to inform mycologists today, as well as recent breakthroughs and the formidable challenges in current research....
Entangled Worlds
Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created....
The Future of Creation Order
Vol. 1, Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Perspectives on Order and Emergence
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This work provides an overview of attempts to assess the current condition of the concept of creation order within reformational philosophy compared to other perspectives. Focusing on the natural and life sciences, and theology, this first volume of two examines the arguments for and against the beauty,...
by Richard Lung
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
A universe, by definition independent, implies its own freedom. The debate, whether the universe is determined or governed by laws of chance, takes the opposite ends to a range from zero to infinite choice.Science is measurement, whose logic is an increasing power of choice to give the most...