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The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine.Over 3,000 km below the earth's surface an extraordinary inner world the size of Mars awaits us.Dive through the molten iron of the outer core and eventually you will reach a solid sphere -...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-04-09
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North America contains an incredibly diverse array of natural environments, each supporting unique systems of plant and animal life. These systems, the largest of which are biomes, form intricate webs of life that have taken millennia to evolve. This richly illustrated...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-04-09
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This book explains the formation of biofilm on materials surfaces in an industrial setting. The authors describe new developments in understanding of biofilm formation, detection, and control from the viewpoint of materials science and engineering. The book details the...
Editeur :
Springer
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2015-04-09
ePub
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Professor Bryan Sykes, the world's leading expert on human genetics, set a goal to locate and analyse as many DNA samples as possible with links to the yeti. In doing so, he found himself entering a strange world of mystery and sensationalism, fraud and obsession and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-04-09
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This book summarizes the latest knowledge in the science and technology of ionic liquids and polymers in different areas. Ionic liquids (IL) are actively being investigated in polymer science and technology for a number of different applications. In the first part of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-08
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This book provides a systematic introduction to the principles of microscopic imaging through tissue-like turbid media in terms of Monte-Carlo simulation. It describes various gating mechanisms based on the physical differences between the un scattered and scattered...
Editeur :
Springer
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2015-04-08
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This book explores the double coding property of DNA, which is manifested in the digital and analog information types as two interdependent codes.This double coding principle can be applied to all living systems, from the level of the individual cell to entire social...
Editeur :
Springer
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2015-04-08
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Combining the important research topic of multiple bond-forming transformations with green chemistry, this book helps chemists identify recent sustainable stereoselective synthetic sequences. • Combines the important research topic of multiple bond-forming...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-04-08
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This comprehensive treatise provides a systemic and insightful overview of current advances in the biosynthetic genomics/genetics and preventive dietetics of carotenoids, flavonoids and betalains, from a general perspective, and in specific fruits and vegetables as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-08
ePub
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Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral sometimes known as fool's gold. Pyrite behaves like stone and shines like metal, and its dual nature makes it a source of both metals and sulfur. Despite being the most common sulfide mineral on the earth's...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-08
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In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-07
ePub
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The book assembles the latest research on new design techniques in water supplies using desalinated seawater.The authors examine the diverse issues related to the intakes and outfalls of these facilities. They clarify how and why these key components of the facilities...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-07
ePub
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This book is a collection of scholarly articles presenting the research results of work carried out under the supervision of Prof. Saroj Bhosle, a microbiologist at Goa University, India.The objective of this volume is to document the comprehensive ecological knowledge...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-07
ePub
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This book presents geomorphological and sedimentological aspects of Holocene boulder ridges along the coastline of western Ireland (the Aran Islands and Galway Bay). Given these boulders’ size, extent and altitude, they are among the most spectacular deposits moved by...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-07
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Edited in collaboration with TEN ECOPORT project, this volume contains the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on ‘Sustainable Development of the Sea-corridors and Coastal Waters’. The book highlights the advances of environmental pollution management on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-07
ePub
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This combination of historiography and theory offers the growing Anglophone readership interested in the ideas of Gilbert Simondon a thorough and unprecedented survey of the French philosopher’s entire oeuvre. The publication, which breaks new ground in its thoroughness...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-07
ePub
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This book examines how biotechnology can improve livestock breeding and farming, and thereby also animal products. In the first chapters the reader will discover which techniques and approaches are currently used to improve animal breeding, animal health and the value...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-07
ePub
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Introduction to Population Ecology, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of population ecology. It uses a wide variety of field and laboratory examples, botanical to zoological, from the tropics to the tundra, to illustrate the fundamental laws...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-04-07
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?The study of origin and domestication of legumes described in this book emerged when it became apparent that while this kind of information is adequate for cereals, the pulses lagged behind. At the end of the 1960s the senior author initiated a study on the chickpea's...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-07
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Tingyue Gu's second edition provides a comprehensive set of nonlinear multicomponent liquid chromatography (LC) models for various forms of LC, such as adsorption, size exclusion, ion-exchange, reversed-phase, affinity, isocratic/gradient elution and axial/radial flow...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-06
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