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  • Basic Plant Pathology Methods Basic Plant Pathology Methods
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    Basic Plant Pathology Methods

    The Second Edition of this bestseller brings together basic plant pathology methods published in diverse and often abstract publications. The Second Edition is updated and expanded with numerous new figures, new culture media, and additional methods for...
    $165.00

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  • Soil Organic Matter in Sustainable Agriculture Soil Organic Matter in Sustainable Agriculture
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    Soil Organic Matter in Sustainable Agriculture

    Recognition of the importance of soil organic matter (SOM) in soil health and quality is a major part of fostering a holistic, preventive approach to agricultural management. Students in agronomy, horticulture, and soil science need a textbook that...
    $174.00

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  • Tropical Ecosystems in Australia Tropical Ecosystems in Australia
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    Tropical Ecosystems in Australia

    Over the last century, the world has lived through changes more rapid than those experienced at any other time in human history, leading to pressing environmental problems and demands on the world's finite resources. Nowhere is this more evident than...
    $149.00

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  • Forensic Science Laboratory Benchmarking Forensic Science Laboratory Benchmarking
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    Forensic Science Laboratory Benchmarking

    Forensic Laboratory Benchmarking and Improvement: The FORESIGHT Manual is an operational guidebook for managers, QA specialists, and testers at the hundreds of public laboratories around the world.
    $373.00

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  • Cultivation for Climate Change Resilience, Volume 1 Cultivation for Climate Change Resilience, Volume 1
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    Cultivation for Climate Change Resilience, Volume 1

    This book focuses on various tropical fruit tree species management for climate change including mitigation strategies and technological countermeasures taken by researchers, progressive growers and commercial companies to overcome the adverse changes...
    $385.00

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  • Cannabis as Medicine Cannabis as Medicine
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    Cannabis as Medicine

    For hundreds of years cannabis has been used as a therapeutic medicine around the world. Cannabis was an accepted medicine during the second half of the 19th century, but its use declined because single agent pain medications were advocated by physicians...
    $160.00

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  • Biogeology Biogeology
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    Biogeology

    This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing...
    $897.00

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  • Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology
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    Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology

    The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes. Among the topics explored are how variations in height,...
    $273.00

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  • Gene Editing, Epigenetic, Cloning and Therapy Gene Editing, Epigenetic, Cloning and Therapy
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    Gene Editing, Epigenetic, Cloning and Therapy

    This book is really helpful for someone who wants to start learning about genes and DNA. It is a well-written book describing all the introductory materials one would need to become current with genomes and genomics topics. It begins with an introduction...
    $39.00

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  • The Herpesviruses The Herpesviruses
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    The Herpesviruses

    The first volume of the series entitled Comprehensive Virology was pub­ lished in 1974 and the last is yet to appear. We noted in 1974 that virology as a discipline has passed through its descriptive and phenomenological phases...
    $228.00

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  • DNA-Ligand Interactions DNA-Ligand Interactions
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    DNA-Ligand Interactions

    This volume contains the texts of the nineteen lectures presented at the NATO-ASI - FEBS Course on "DNA - ligand interactions: from drugs to proteins." The Advanced Study Institute (ASIl was held from August 30th to September...
    $156.00

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  • Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and Lipoxins Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and Lipoxins
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    Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and Lipoxins

    The family of known essential fatty acid metabolites continues to grow. Synthesis of the prostaglandins from essential fatty acids was first described by Bergstrom and Samuelsson in 1964. The thromboxanes were discovered in...
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  • Thymic Hormones and Lymphokines Thymic Hormones and Lymphokines
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    Thymic Hormones and Lymphokines

    The Third Annual Symposium on Health Sciences attracted over 400 scientists from 15 countries. It was held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. The theme of this meeting was "Thymic Hormones and Lymphokines:...
    $185.00

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  • Structural Molecular Biology Structural Molecular Biology
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    Structural Molecular Biology

    Structural biology is undergoing a revolution in both the sophistication of new biophysical methods and the complexity of problems in biomolecular structure and organization opened up for study. These changes are directly...
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  • Phylogeny and Ontogeny Phylogeny and Ontogeny
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    Phylogeny and Ontogeny

    This comprehensive treatise on the reticuloendothelial system is a project jointly shared by individual members of the Reticuloendothelial (RE) Society and bio­ medical scientists in general who are interested in the intricate...
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  • Structure and Function of Plasma Proteins Structure and Function of Plasma Proteins
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    Structure and Function of Plasma Proteins

    Plasma proteins are of interest from many points of view. Biochemists have separated and purified numerous plasma proteins and studied their physical properties, aminoacid composition and sequence, the carbohydrate components...
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  • Biochemical Interaction Between Plants and Insects Biochemical Interaction Between Plants and Insects
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    Biochemical Interaction Between Plants and Insects

    Botanists and zoologists have recognized for centuries the specificity of various insects for plants, and entomolo­ gists have long been aware that insects defend themselves from predators by emitting repulsive odors. Only...
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  • Drinking Behavior Drinking Behavior
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    Drinking Behavior

    This is the first book that is devoted entirely to a discussion of the effects on drinking behavior of sensory stimulation of the tongue and mouth. As Blass and Hall (J 976) have recently pointed out, there has been an...
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  • Nerves, Muscles, and Electricity Nerves, Muscles, and Electricity
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    Nerves, Muscles, and Electricity

    For centuries man knew about the lightning of the sky (atmospheric or physical electricity) and the numbing effects from contact with powerful electric fishes (animal electricity). Then, after proper experimentation and a...
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  • Biomechanics of Cell Division Biomechanics of Cell Division
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    Biomechanics of Cell Division

    There are virtually hundreds of life scientists publishing hundreds of papers a year on numerous aspects of the cell cycle. The following are few of the topics covered: cell membrane organization, membrane components, ...
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  • Neurobiology of Aging Neurobiology of Aging
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    Neurobiology of Aging

    Aging is one of the most universal and inevitable social and sci­ entific challenges confronting man. The lives of all multicellular organisms begin with conception, extend through phases of development, maturity, senescence...
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  • Soil Biota and Ecosystem Development in Post Mining Sites Soil Biota and Ecosystem Development in Post Mining Sites
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    Soil Biota and Ecosystem Development in Post Mining Sites

    This book focuses on soil development in restoration of post‐mining sites. In particular, the authors address the role of biota, including plants, microorganisms, invertebrates, and their various interactions during the process of soil formation. The...
    $373.00

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  • PROTEASES PROTEASES
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    PROTEASES

    We are pleased to present to our readers the Proceedings of the International Symposium "Proteases: Potential Role in Health and Disease" which was held in WUrzburg (FRG) during October 17-20, 1982. The topics discussed...
    $118.00

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  • Surface Chemistry of Biological Systems Surface Chemistry of Biological Systems
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    Surface Chemistry of Biological Systems

    This vol\.Dl\e of Advances in Experinental ~dicine and Biology is based on an Arrerican Chemical Society SympositUII entitled: "Surface Chemistry of Biological Systems", which took place in New York on September 11-12, 1969...
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  • Meat Animals Meat Animals
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    Meat Animals

    Dramatic shortfalls in crop production in various regions of the world have led some people to question the relatively inefficient use of cereal grains for feeding meat animals instead of their direct use for human food. There...
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  • Acid Rain Economic Assessment Acid Rain Economic Assessment
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    Acid Rain Economic Assessment

    This volume, Proceedings of the Conference ACID RAIN: Economic Assessment, is meant to present the areas of agreement which economists have established and the uncertainties which they have discovered in their attempts to use...
    $156.00

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  • Progress in Medical Radiation Physics Progress in Medical Radiation Physics
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    Progress in Medical Radiation Physics

    New developments in the application of radiation to medicine are occurring so rapidly that this is possibly the fastest growing branch of medicine today. In the past decade alone, we have seen enormous progress made in tech­...
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  • Control Mechanisms in the Nervous System Control Mechanisms in the Nervous System
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    Control Mechanisms in the Nervous System

    The explosive accumulation of new knowledge in the biological sciences in the last decades has advanced our understanding of the basic mechanisms that underlie most biological phenomena. These advances, however, have not been...
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  • Genomic Adaptability in Somatic Cell Specialization Genomic Adaptability in Somatic Cell Specialization
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    Genomic Adaptability in Somatic Cell Specialization

    I am pleased to include this book as Volume 6 of Developmental Biology: A Comprehensive Synthesis. It has been edited by two of the foremost investiga­ tors in the study of genomic adaptability. lowe a special debt of gratitude...
    $191.00

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  • Fat Production and Consumption Fat Production and Consumption
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    Fat Production and Consumption

    Among the major components of human diet, edible fats and oils are typically produced through various forms of technological manipulation of naturally available starting material. It is also generally recognized that dietary...
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  • Long-Term Studies in Ecology Long-Term Studies in Ecology
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    Long-Term Studies in Ecology

    The Cary Conferences, as we have envisaged them, are different from most scientific meetings in that they provide a forum for major issues in ecology from a more philosophical point of view. It appears to many of us that...
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  • Waves in Neural Media Waves in Neural Media
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    Waves in Neural Media

    ​Waves in Neural Media: From Single Neurons to Neural Fields surveys mathematical models of traveling waves in the brain, ranging from intracellular waves in single neurons to waves of activity in large-scale brain networks. The work provides a...
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  • State Space Grids State Space Grids
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    State Space Grids

    Human development from birth through adulthood is a complex interplay of many interacting forces. Children's internal processes are manifest in behaviors that are sculpted by their experiences, most notably with primary caregivers. Because the discipline...
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  • Cytopreparation Cytopreparation
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    Cytopreparation

    Cytopreparation: Principles & Practice by Gary W. Gill fills a long-standing need for an easy-to-use and authoritative manual on the fundamentals of cytopreparation up-to-and- including microscopy, screening, and data...
    $233.00

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  • Mathematical Methods and Models in Biomedicine Mathematical Methods and Models in Biomedicine
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    Mathematical Methods and Models in Biomedicine

    Mathematical biomedicine is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of research that connects the natural and exact sciences in an attempt to respond to the modeling and simulation challenges raised by biology and medicine. There exist a large...
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  • Current Topics in Innate Immunity II Current Topics in Innate Immunity II
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    Current Topics in Innate Immunity II

    Mounting evidence in the past decade indicates that innate immunity mediates functions above and beyond first-line defense against infection. It is now appreciated that innate immune mechanisms are critically involved in the development of adaptive...
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  • Fundamentals of Space Medicine Fundamentals of Space Medicine
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    Fundamentals of Space Medicine

    Investigations in space have led to fundamental discoveries of the human body to the space environment. Gilles Clément has conducted extensive research in this field. This readable text presents the findings from the life science experiments conducted...
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  • Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience
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    Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience

    This book applies methods from nonlinear dynamics to problems in neuroscience. It uses modern mathematical approaches to understand patterns of neuronal activity seen in experiments and models of neuronal behavior. The intended audience is researchers...
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