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Experimental Glycoscience

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Naoyuki Taniguchi, Akemi Suzuki, Yukishige Ito, Hisashi Narimatsu, Toshisuke Kawasaki, Sumihiro Hase

£55.99 20 Aug 2008 Paperback Springer Verlag, Japan

Offers experimental protocols covering many aspects of glycobiology, glycotechnology, and chemistry: biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, genetics, physiology, and medicine. This book helps scientists in fields other than glycobiology and glycoscience to carry out research.

Experimental Glycoscience

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Naoyuki Taniguchi, Akemi Suzuki, Yukishige Ito, Hisashi Narimatsu, Toshisuke Kawasaki, Sumihiro Hase

£71.00 20 Aug 2008 Paperback Springer Verlag, Japan

Comparative Placentation

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Structures, Functions and Evolution

By Peter Wooding, Graham Burton

£115.50 20 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Comparative placental studies can facilitate the identification of the common factors in placental growth, differentiation and function and their relevance to possible evolutionary pathways. This book presents data illustrating the great variety of structure but uniform function of vertebrate placentas from fish to man.

Theoretical Femtosecond Physics

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Atoms and Molecules in Strong Laser Fields

By Frank Grobmann

£92.50 20 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Theoretical femtosecond physics is a new field of research. Theoretical investigations of atoms and molecules interacting with pulsed or continuous wave lasers of up to atomic field strengths are leading to an understanding of many challenging experimental discoveries. Laser-Matter interaction is treated on a nonperturbative level in the book using approximate and numerical solutions of the time-dependent SchrAdinger equation. The light field is treated classically. Physical phenomena, ranging from ionization of atoms to the ionization and dissociation of molecules and the control of chemical reactions are presented and discussed. Theoretical background for experiments with strong and short laser pulses is given. Several exercises are included in the main text. Some detailed calculations are performed in the appendices.

Speech and Audio Processing in Adverse Environments

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Eberhard Hansler, G. Schmidt

£75.50 20 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Focuses on the important areas of speech and audio signal processing. This book presents topics such as multi-microphone systems, specific approaches for noise reduction, and evaluations of speech signals and speech processing systems. It covers approaches to the problem of adaptive echo and noise suppression.

Sensors

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Advancements in Modeling, Design Issues, Fabrication and Practical

By Subhash Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Yueh-Min Huang

£75.50 20 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Modelling Environmental Dynamics

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Martin Paegelow, Maria Teresa Camacho Olmedo

£98.00 20 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Self-incompatibility in Flowering Plants

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Evolution, Diversity, and Mechanisms

By Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

£105.50 20 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Great progress has been made in our understanding of pollen-pistil interactions and self-incompatibility (SI) in flowering plants in the last few decades. This book covers a broad spectrum of research into SI, with accounts by internationally renowned scientists. It comprises two sections: Evolution and Population Genetics of SI, Molecular and Cell Biology of SI Systems. The reader will gain an insight into the diversity and complexity of these polymorphic cell-cell recognition and rejection systems. Heteromorphic and homomorphic SI systems and our current understanding of the evolution and phylogeny of these systems, based on the most recent molecular sequence data, are covered. Further, the book presents major advances in our knowledge of the pistil and pollen S-determinants and other unlinked components involved in SI, as well as the apparently diverse cellular regulatory mechanisms utilised to ensure inhibition of a oeselfa pollen.

Reviews in Modern Astronomy (v. 20)

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Vol. 20: Cosmic Matter

By Rser, Siegfried

£90.00 20 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Highlights contributions presented during the 2007 International Scientific Conference of the German Astronomical Society on the topic of 'Cosmic Matter', held in Wurzburg, Germany. This title contains papers that discuss topics including, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, and astroparticle physics gravitational waves.

Enzyklopadie Der Holzgewachse (v. 49)

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

49. Erganzungslieferung

By Andreas Roloff, Horst Weisgerber, Ulla Lang, Bernd Stimm, Peter Schutt

£45.00 20 Aug 2008 Looseleaf In Binder John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Chromatographie Fur Einsteiger

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Karl Kaltenbock

£29.95 20 Aug 2008 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Advances in Flow Analysis

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marek Trojanowicz

£145.00 20 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Covers different injection techniques. This title provides a comprehensive overview of methodologies and instrumentation. It also covers advances in flow method analysis, with an appendix listing additional databases, instrumentation and methods on the Internet.

Kurzlehrbuch Physikalische Chemie

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter W. Atkins, Julio De Paula

£45.00 20 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Photosynthetic Protein Complexes

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Structural Approach

By Petra Fromme

£120.00 20 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Surveys the important proteins involved in photosynthesis, discussing the structural information we have at our disposal. This book also includes a CD-ROM that contains data files and animations to allow readers to visualize many of the complicated proteins presented.

GMP Qualifizierung und Validierung von Wirkstoffanlagen

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ein Leitfaden fur die Praxis

By Ralf Gengenbach

£135.00 20 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

State and Local Pension Fund Management

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jun Peng

£46.99 20 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Public pension funds have gained prominence over the years. This book examines public pension funds from both the technical and policy perspectives. It provides a comprehensive discussion of fund management, detailing important technical materials needed to help readers understand the subject.

Animal Tracks and Tracking in Western North America

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By S. Morse

£13.50 20 Aug 2008 Paperback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Animal Tracks and Tracking in Western North America

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By S. Morse

£26.95 20 Aug 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

General, Organic and Biological Chemistry

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Owen McDougal, Rick Steiner

£23.50 20 Aug 2008 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Introduction to Organic Chemistry

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William H. Brown, Thomas Poon

£0.50 20 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

American Boundaries

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey

By Bill Hubbard

£29.00 20 Aug 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Mapping how each state came to have its shape, and how the nation itself formed within its present borders, this title provides historians, geographers, and general readers alike with the story behind those fifty distinctive jigsaw-puzzle pieces that together form the United States.

Wildfire Risk

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Human Perceptions and Management Implications

By Wade E. Martin, Carol Raish, Brian Kent

£56.50 19 Aug 2008 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

Follows from an increasing awareness among fire experts that relying on fire behavior models from the physical sciences to design a risk management program is no longer sufficient - and that simply increasing public knowledge related to wildfire hazard does not necessarily lead to appropriate risk reduction behaviors.

Nature of the Plant Community

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J.B. Wilson

£17.95 19 Aug 2008 Paperback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Nature of the Plant Community

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J.B. Wilson

£44.95 19 Aug 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Islington to Camberwell

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By L Price

£29.95 19 Aug 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Global Anomalies and Quantum Topology

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By R.A. Baddhio

£40.95 19 Aug 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Key Papers in Complexity

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By R. Karp

£23.95 19 Aug 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Nucleeic Acids

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Samuel Delvin

£36.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Sarup & Son

Quantum Transport

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Modelling Analysis and Asymptotics - Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer

By Gregoire Allaire, Anton Arnold, Pierre Degond, Thomas Y. Hou

£30.00 18 Aug 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

The CIME Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, in 2006 addressed researchers interested in the mathematical study of quantum transport models.

In this volume, a result of the above mentioned Summer School, four leading specialists present different aspects of quantum transport modelling. Allaire introduces the periodic homogenization theory, with a particular emphasis on applications to the SchrAdinger equation. Arnold focuses on several quantum evolution equations that are used for quantum semiconductor device simulations. Degond presents quantum hydrodynamic and diffusion models starting from the entropy minimization principle. Hou provides the state-of-the-art survey of the multiscale analysis, modelling and simulation of transport phenomena.

The volume contains accurate expositions of the main aspects of quantum transport modelling and provides an excellent basis for researchers in this field.

Continental Evolution - the Geology of Morocco

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Structure, Stratigraphy, and Tectonics of the Africa-Atlantic-Mediterranean

By Andre Michard, Ahmed Chalouan, Omar Saddiqi

£98.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Halliday Physik

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Set Mit Losungsband

By David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker, Stephan W. Koch

£60.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Bemessung Von Stahlspundwanden

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gerhard Schmitt

£45.00 18 Aug 2008 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Captain's Log

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Voyage of the Spacecraft Cassini

By C. Porco

£19.95 18 Aug 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

The Secretarial Imagination

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By L. Price

£26.95 18 Aug 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kurt Wuthrich

£31.95 18 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Wiley Registry of Mass Spectral Data

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

£4510.82 18 Aug 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Wiley Registry of Mass Spectral Data, 8th Ed. with NIST 2008 (Upgrade)

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

£3089.07 18 Aug 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Library 2008 (Upgrade)

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wiley

£1526.32 18 Aug 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Contains an EI-MS library, a GC retention library and a significantly enlarged MS/MS library. New versions of MS Search software, AMDIS 32, and other NISt software come bundled with the database.

NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Library 2008

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wiley

£1774.25 18 Aug 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Contains an EI-MS library, a GC retention library and a MS/MS library.

WileyPLUS Stand-alone to Accompany AIA Dissection Access Only

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Arle

£4.11 18 Aug 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Science and Religion

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Schilling Harol

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offers an interpretation that portrays science and religion in their actualities as personal, communal and cultural phenomena involving different concerns, conceptions and modes of inquiry.

Foundations of Inference in Natural Science

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wisdom, J. O. Wisdom J., O.

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

A survey of the views of scientific inference that have been developed since the end of World War I. It contains exposition of ideas - notably of Keynes. It discusses and illustrates the method of hypothesis. It also considers aspects of the theory of probability that seem to bear on the problem of induction.

Beyond Empiricism

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tudor Andrew

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology's self-understanding. This book explores the failings of the old 'received view' and some alternatives. It proposes a schematic outline of the structure of inquiry, paying attention to questions about the nature of theory.

Evidence and Explanation in Social Science

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Studdert-Kenned

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Concerns with the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an abstract level by social scientists. This book draws on material from several disciplines to explore the contributions of social science theory to historical insight.

Science and ESP

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Smythies J., R.

£85.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Representing the viewpoints of philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, physicists, psychoanalysts, parapsychologists, psychiatrists and biologists, this book discusses many aspects of ESP.

Philosophy and Scientific Realism

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J.J.C. Smart

£75.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Argues that philosophy ought to be more than the art of clarifying thought and that it should concern itself with outlining a scientifically plausible world view. This book deals with phenomenalism and the reality of theoretical entities, and with the relation between the physical and biological sciences.

Method in the Physical Sciences

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Georg Schlesinger

£75.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Can one discern certain regularities in the manoeuvrings and techniques employed by scientists and can these be formulated into the methodological principles of science? What is the origin and basis of such principles? This book investigates these questions and sheds light on the growth mechanism of the evolving structure of science itself.

Francis Bacon

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

From Magic to Science

By Paolo Rossi

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Discusses Francis Bacon's thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon's philosophy and was in turn influenced by it.

The Royal Society

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Concept and Creation

By Margery Purver

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Investigates the royal society's underlying purpose and creation. This book covers the real nature of its debt to Francis Bacon and its role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.

Science, Technology and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By A.E. Musson

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Illustrates the awareness of the importance of science and technology in the Industrial Revolution.

Philosophy of Science and Sociology

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Edmund Mokrzycki

£75.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Concentrates on the impact of philosophy of science on sociology.

Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By P.B. Medawar

£70.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of 'inductive' reasoning.

Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Lack

£75.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Concerns with the conflict between 'Darwinism' as the Victorians called it, and Christianity. This book explains that the conflict is re-stated in modern terms because it so vitally affects our understanding of human nature and human values.

The Astronomical Revolution

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Aleandre Koyre

£95.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Traces the development of the astronomical revolution which so drastically altered man's view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Experience and Theory

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephan Korner

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. This book focuses on the logic underlying empirical discourse before its subjection to the various constraints, imposed by the logico-mathematical framework of scientific theories upon their content.

Objectivity, Science and Society

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Paul A. Komesaroff

£90.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Puts forward unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep problems arising from unresolved dilemmas about the meaning, content and technical applications of the theories of nature they employ.

Soviet Marxism and Natural Science

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Joravsky

£90.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first phase of Soviet Marxism. This book correlates the development of ideas with trends in the Cultural Revolution.

Cooke and Wheatstone

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Geoffrey Hubbard

£75.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This book discusses the way in which two such antagonistic men were driven into collaboration and sets out the history of the early telegraph lines.

The Common Scientist of the Seventeenth Century

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By K.Theodore Hoppen

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Dublin Philosophical Society were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. This title shows that a study of the work and membership of these groups is essential before any realistic assessment can be made of the scientific world at this time.

The Scientific Revolution

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Harman

£50.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows how the transformation in world-view during the period was affected by broader historical terms. This book discusses themes such as the spread of Puritanism, and the decline of witchcraft.

Boundaries of the Universe

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John S. Glasby

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

The boundaries of space exploration are being pushed back constantly, but the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is as great as ever. This book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, discoveries in the solar system, stellar evolution, the exploding starts, the galaxies, quasars, and pulsars.

Frames of Meaning

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By H.M. Collins, T.J. Pinch

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taking a radical interpretation of the Kuhnian concept of paradigm incommensurability, this book discusses the difficulties of gaining access to the ideas of communities with different rational categories. It defines the subject area of parapsychology, offering a review of the relevant literature.

British Scientists of the Twentieth Century

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J.G. Crowther

£85.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Covers six eminent British scientists whose work and personality have not receded into the same depth of perspective as their predecessors of the Nineteenth Century, but the tremendous changes following the two world wars have already cut them off sharply from this generation.

British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J.G. Crowther

£85.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Examines the various aspects of the lives and works of five of the greatest scientists of the nineteenth century - Davy, Faraday, Clerk-Maxwell, Joule, and Lord Kelvin.

Darwin and the Naked Lady

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alex Comfort

£75.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Focuses on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology. This book discusses criticism, the fantasy element in drama and popular literature, the history of the novel, the motivation of science and the function of erotic art.

Continuous Creation

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wilfred Branfield

£75.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Emphasising that chalk, limestone and coal seams are the residues of ancient life, this book suggests that this knowledge may also be applied to the rest of matter. It argues that the origin of the world was not cosmic upheaval which broke down at last into life, but organic life itself.

Evolution and Human Behaviour

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alex Alland

£85.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Considers man's biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. This book rejects analogue models of biological evolution common in the social sciences. It shows how the theory of biological evolution applies to the study of contemporary human behavior.

The Social Impact of Modern Biology

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Watson Fuller

£80.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes, such as inheritance, grows, so do the possibilities of applying these results for good and evil, such as the treatment of disease, and the control of ageing. This book discusses these discoveries and their implications.

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy

17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rob Withnall, Babur Z. Chowdhry

£295.00 17 Aug 2008 Hardback IM Publications LLP

Approaches to Violence

17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By D Rejali

£11.50 17 Aug 2008 Paperback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Approaches to Violence

17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By D Rejali

£32.95 17 Aug 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Introduction to Butterflies of South America

17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By P.D. de Vries

£23.95 17 Aug 2008 Paperback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Introduction to Butterflies of South America

17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By P.D. de Vries

£56.00 17 Aug 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Atoms and Alchemy

17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution

By William R. Newman

£39.00 17 Aug 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. This title exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origins of the Scientific Revolution.

AntiBase 2008 SciDex Upgrade

16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Natural Compound Identifier

By Hartmut Laatsch

£1339.50 16 Aug 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Presents a comprehensive database of 34,400 natural compounds from micro-organisms and higher fungi. This work includes descriptive data (molecular formula and mass, elemental composition, CAS registry number); physico-chemical data (melting point, optical rotation); spectroscopic data (UV, 13C-NMR, IR and mass spectra); and biological data.

AntiBase 2008 SciDex

16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Natural Compound Identifier

By Hartmut Laatsch

£6785.62 16 Aug 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

El Nino, Catastrophism, and Culture Change in Ancient America

16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Daniel H. Sandweiss, Jeffrey Quilter

£35.95 16 Aug 2008 Paperback Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

El Nino is an extreme climate perturbation that periodically changes weather throughout the globe, often with dire consequences. First recognized in Peru, El Nino events are best known and documented there. This book summarizes research on the nature of El Nino events in the Americas and details specific historic and prehistoric patterns in Peru and elsewhere. By also looking at other catastrophic natural events in the ancient New World, the book illustrates how scientific archaeology can serve pure research as well as provide information for contemporary issues.

Spin Wave Confinement

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sergej O. Demokritov

£70.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd

Presents various scientific achievements in the investigation of magnetization dynamics in confined magnetic systems. This book addresses spin waves, which play an important role for description of very small magnetic systems ranging from microelements, building the basis for magnetic sensors, down to magnetic nano-contacts.

Symplectic Elasticity

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Weian Yao, Wanxie Zhong, Chee Wah Lim

£37.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Solid mechanics problems have long been regarded as bottlenecks in the development of elasticity. This book presents an approach based on the Hamiltonian principle and the symplectic duality system where solutions are derived in a rational manner in the symplectic space.

Ici Et Maintenant

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marcel Vuillaume

£36.80 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Editions Rodopi B.V.

Contact angle, wettability and adhesion, v.5

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£106.59 15 Aug 2008 Hardback V S P BV, NE/Brill Academic Pubs

Visions of nature : a scientific exploration of people's implicit philosophies regarding nature in Germany, the Netherlands and

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Scientific Exploration of People's Implicit Philosophies Regarding Nature

By Van Den Born, Riyan De Groot, Wouter Lenders, Rob

£22.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Lit Verlag, GW/Transaction Pubs

Status and prospects of astronomy in Germany 2003-2016

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Memorandum

By Hasinger, Guenther.

£37.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Wiley-VCH/John Wiley & Sons

A white paper that identifies the main issues and major recommendations for German astronomical research.

Photocatalysis : catalysts, kinetics and reactors

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Parmon, Valentin M.

£96.15 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Wiley-VCH/John Wiley & Sons

Handbook of Evolution (v. 3)

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Franz M. Wuketits

£135.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

This three--volume handbook is unique in spanning the entire field of evolution, from the origins of our universe, via the development of living systems on earth, right up to the formation of social structures and science and technology.

Processing of Magnetic Materials

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Oliver Gutfleisch

£140.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

The first book to cover in depth innovative processes and materials, while also evaluating their potential for use in electronic, medical or automotive devices and other more unconventional applications. The whole is rounded off with a survey of the fundamental concepts of rare earth magnets and their relevant material classes.

MATLAB tutorial in electromagnetics

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jost, Randy.

£19.20 15 Aug 2008 Paperback SciTech Publ Co Inc

The Finite Difference Time Domain Method for Electromagnetics

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

With MATLAB Simulations

By Atef Elsherbeni, Veysel Demir

£85.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback SciTech Publishing Inc,US

Helps students to construct a program with sufficient functionally to solve some basic problems. This book presents the construction of equations accompanied by 3D illustrations. It also explains the transformation of the concepts into programming.

Urban Transport (V. 14)

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century

By C.A. Brebbia

£258.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback WIT Press

Reconciling human existence with ecological integrity : science, ethics, economics and law

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Science, Ethics, Economics and Law

By Westra, Laura

£65.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Earthscan Pubns, UK/Stylus Publ

Ecosystems have been compared to a house of cards - remove or damage a part, and you risk destroying or fundamentally and irreversibly altering the whole. This book considers the extent to which human rights - such as the right to food, energy, health, clean air or water - can be reconciled with the principles of ecological integrity.

Online Science Learning

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Best Practices and Technologies

By Kevin F. Downing, Jennifer K. Holtz

£59.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback IGI Global

Reviews trends and efforts in Web-based science instruction and evaluates contemporary philosophies and pedagogies of online science instruction.

Women, Science, and Myth

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present

By Sue V. Rosser

£57.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback ABC-CLIO Inc

Surveys the scientific research on gender throughout the ages - the people, experiments, and impact - of both legitimate and illegitimate findings on the scientific community and society at large. This book explores the people and experiments that exemplify the problematic relationship between science and gender throughout the centuries.

Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Reference Handbook

By Zachary A. Smith, Katrina D. Taylor

£37.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback ABC-CLIO Inc

Offers an overview of renewable and alternative energy technologies and policies in the United States and around the world. This volume looks at a number of specific questions and controversies on this issue, examining the social, political, and economic aspects of renewable and alternative energy use in the United States and other countries.

The most important fish in the sea : menhaden and America

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Menhaden and America

By Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934-

£12.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Island Press

Shows how menhaden have shaped America's natural - and national - history, and why a single company now threatens their crucial ecological mission. This work looks at the menhaden's decline. It also presents an exploration of American history, and gives a call to action.

The Dominant Animal

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Human Evolution and the Environment

By Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich

£37.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Island Press

Offers readers an understanding of how we evolved and how we're changing the planet by tracing the interplay between environmental change and genetic and cultural evolution since the dawn of humanity.

Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David B. Lindenmayer, Philip J. Burton, Jerry F. Franklin

£22.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Island Press

Salvage logging refers to removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic event such as a wildfire or hurricane. This book explores the issues surrounding the practice of salvage logging. It synthesizes the research about its economic and ecological costs and benefits, and considers its impacts on ecosystem processes.

Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David B. Lindenmayer, Philip J. Burton, Jerry F. Franklin

£44.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Island Press

Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert A. Long, Paula MacKay, William J. Zielinski, Justina C. Ray

£30.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Island Press

A guide for wildlife researchers who seek to conduct carnivore surveys using scientific approaches. It discusses strategies for implementing surveys across a broad range of habitats, providing input on survey design, sample collection, DNA and endocrine analyses, and data analysis.

River Futures

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Integrative Scientific Approach to River Repair

By Brierley, Gary J. Society for Ecological Restoration Inter

£27.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Island Press

Offers an overview of considerations that underpin the use of science in river management, emphasizing cross-disciplinary understanding that builds on a landscape template. This volume contains case studies which explore practical applications in different parts of the world, highlighting approaches to the use of integrative river science.

River Futures

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Integrative Scientific Approach to River Repair

By Brierley, Gary J. Society for Ecological Restoration Inter

£54.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Island Press

Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Five Case Studies from the United States

By Mary Doyle, Cynthia A. Drew

£23.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Island Press

Presents case studies of five large-scale restoration projects in the US: Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, California Bay Delta, the Platte River Basin, and the Upper Mississippi River System. This book contains a chapter which offers a guide to assessing the progress of large-scale restoration projects.

Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Five Case Studies from the United States

By Mary Doyle, Cynthia A. Drew

£47.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Island Press

The Unfinished Quest

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Plight of Progressive Science Education in the Age of Standards

By Clair T. Berube

£50.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Information Age Publishing

Educators are ideologically in one of two camps: those who see American education as heading in the right direction, and those who fear that it has gone astray. This book was born of a science teacher's frustration brought on by the standardized testing movement's reliance on high-stakes tests as the sole measurement tool to measure achievement.