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Selective Toxicity
The physico-chemical basis of therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is about selectively toxic agents. That is to say, it is about those substances that affect certain cells without harming others, even when they are close neighbours. Toxicity need not be fatal. It can be made easily reversible, as is the case with general anaesthetics. Selective toxicity...
by J.D. Sneed
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is about scientific theories of a particular kind - theories of mathematical physics. Examples of such theories are classical and relativis tic particle mechanics, classical electrodynamics, classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum mechanics. Roughly,...
Re/Structuring Science Education
ReUniting Sociological and Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Since its beginnings, science education has been under the influence of psychological theories of knowing and learning, while in more recent years, social constructivist and sociological frameworks have also begun to emerge. With little work being done on showing how the perspectives of these separate...
The Design Charrette
Ways to Envision Sustainable Futures
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach. The combination of community involvement and design is, at least in literature, not very extensive. Although much has been written about...
by Rob Roggema
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
As it becomes clear that climate change is not easily within the boundaries of the 1990’s, society needs to be prepared and needs to anticipate future changes due to the uncertain changes in climate. So far, extensive research has been carried out on several issues including the coastal defence...
A Dictionary of Scientific Units
Including dimensionless numbers and scales
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
and by the Librarians and Staffs ofthe University and the Public Libraries at Southampton. Finally, we wish to thank Mrs H. G. Jerrard and Miss A. J. Tutte for typing the manuscript. Department of Physics H. G. JERRARD University of Southampton D. B. McNEILL 1963 Preface to the fifth edition Since...
The Laboratory Cockroach
Experiments in cockroach anatomy, physiology and behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Cockroaches are ideal subjects for laboratory investigation at all educational levels. Compared with many other laboratory animals, cockroaches are easily and inexpensively maintained and cultured and require relatively little space. They are hardy and are readily available. The purpose of this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Yeasts are the active agents responsible for three of our most important foods - bread, wine, and beer - and for the almost universally used mind/ personality-altering drug, ethanol. Anthropologists have suggested that it was the production of ethanol that motivated primitive people to settle down...
by Albert Leyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Books on engineering design, like designs them selves, are highly individual. In this one, the author emphasizes the importance of a visual approach to machine design and makes his point by including a large number of illustrations. He also stresses the need for clear objectives in all design work....
Genesis - In The Beginning
Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Genesis – In The Beginning deals with the origin and diversity of Life and early biological evolution and discusses the question of where (hot or cold sources) and when the beginning of Life took place. Among the sections are chapters dealing with prebiotic chemical processes and considering self-replication...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Fishes are very successful vertebrates and have adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions, from the deep ocean to the smallest brook or pond. The physiological background to these environmental adaptations is, obviously, far from clear, and provides fish physiologists with many challenges....
Human-Environment Interactions
Current and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Drawing on research from eleven countries across four continents, the 16 chapters in the volume bring perspectives from various specialties in anthropology and human ecology, institutional analysis, historical and political ecology, geography, archaeology, and land change sciences. The four sections...
Cleanrooms
Facilities and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In writing this book, our goal was to produce a much needed teaching and reference text with a fresh approach to c1eanroom technology. The most obvious technological reason for bringing this book into being is that c1ean rooms have become vital to the manufacture and development of high technology...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Biotechnology in its many guises has developed very considerably over the last few years. We now feel that it is appropriate for the publication of a series of books that discuss the technical aspects of biotechnology specifically as applied to foods, and in particular concentrating on new and emerging...