Science and Technics

Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on their Identification, Culture, and Garden Attributes (3rd Edition)

by Allan M. Armitage

The long-awaited third edition of Allan Armitage's masterpiece on garden perennials was released in April of 2008. Armitage's extensive traveling, teaching and trialing experiences provide a depth of understanding...

Jung and Ecopsychology: The Dairy Farmer's Guide to the Universe Volume I

by Dennis L. Merritt

Western man has no need of more superiority over nature, whether outside or inside. He has both in almost devilish perfection. What he lacks is conscious recognition of his inferiority to nature around him and...

Ethics in Forensic Science

by J.C. Upshaw Downs & Anjali Ranadive Swienton

This work will draw upon the expertise of the editors as authors and various contributors in order to present several different perspectives with the goal of approaching and understanding when ethical lines...

Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

by James D. Watson

From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out...

Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry

by Ralph A. Wheeler

Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry provides timely and critical reviews of important topics in computational chemistry as applied to all chemical disciplines. Topics covered include quantum chemistry,...

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: Emerging Technologies and Applications

by Bent Sorensen (Sorensen)

A hydrogen economy, in which this one gas provides the source of all energy needs, is often touted as the long-term solution to the environmental and security problems associated with fossil fuels. However,...

Intratumor diversity and clonal evolution in cancer

by David Gisselsson

This specialized volume of Advances in Cancer research is dedicated to the complex and largely unexplored field of intratumor diversity, with respect to differences in both genotype and phenotype among cell...

International Review Of Cell and Molecular Biology

by Kwang W. Jeon

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology presents current advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology--both plant and animal. Articles address structure and control of gene expression, nucleocytoplasmic...

Advances in Marine Biology

by Michael Lesser

Advances in Marine Biology has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 -- over 45 years of outstanding coverage! The series is well-known for both its excellence...

Nutritional And Therapeutic Interventions For Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

by Debasis Bagchi & Nair Sreejayan

Diabetes mellitus affects approximately 20 million people in the US, or nearly 7% of the population. It is expected to increase by 70% within the next 25 years and numerous epidemiologic studies have demonstrated...

Contemporary Issues in Construction in Developing Countries

by George Ofori

Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central role in driving both of these.

Traditionally the issues faced...

Collaborative Working in Construction

by Dino Bouchlaghem

Complications arising from poor collaboration are the source of a variety of the construction industry's biggest problems. It is now widely recognized that an effective collaboration strategy based on the implementation...

Urban Design

by Ron Kasprisin

For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation - yet losing sight of the importance of the design process is all too often exactly...

Glorious Visions

by Helene Furján

Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England, built...

Globalization, Modernity and the City

by John Rennie Short

We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the subjects of similar attention....

Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction

by Alex Rosenberg

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg's updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary...

Teletechnologies, Place and Community

by Rowan Wilken

Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the present electronic age is said to have wrought profound changes to how we think about and experience who we are, where we are, and...

Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry

by Bryan Walpert

This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific zeitgeists...

Motion Structures

by Zhong You & Yan Chen

Motion structures are simply assemblies of resistant bodies connected by movable joints. Unlike conventional structures, they allow large shape transformations to satisfy practical requirements and they can...

An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism

by Tijana Raki? & Donna Chambers

An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism is the first book to present, discuss and promote the use of a range of visual methods in tourism studies. It introduces methods ranging from the collection...