Sciences et techniques

You Belong in a Zoo!: Tales from a Lifetime Spent with Cobras, Crocs, and Other Extraordinary Creature s

de Peter Brazaitis

From catching alligators in the reservoirs of New York and capturing giant crocodiles in Venezuela and giant frogs in West Africa to finding mummified human heads in a Bronx apartment, eels on a bus, cobras...

Designing Commercial Interiors

de Christine M. M. Piotrowski & Elizabeth A. , IIDA Rogers

The definitive reference on designing commercial interiors-expanded and updated for today's facilities

Following the success of the ASID/Polsky Prize Honorable Mention in 1999, authors Christine Piotrowski and...

Transport Phenomena: An Introduction to Advanced Topics

de Larry A. A. Glasgow

Enables readers to apply transport phenomena principles to solve advanced problems in all areas of engineering and science

This book helps readers elevate their understanding of, and their ability to apply, transport...

Advanced Circuit Simulation using Multisim Workbench

de David Baez-Lopez & Felix Guerrero-Castro

Multisim is now the de facto standard for circuit simulation. It is a SPICE-based circuit simulator which combines analog, discrete-time, and mixed-mode circuits. In addition, it is the only simulator which...

Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies

de Karl Zimmerer & Thomas J. Bassett

This volume offers a unique, integrative perspective on the political and ecological processes shaping landscapes and resource use across the global North and South. Twelve carefully selected case studies demonstrate...

Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife

de Warner Shedd

Did you know that "flying" squirrels are incapable of true flight? Were you aware that opossums don't "play dead," as in the common folk saying "playing possum"? In this fascinating and gorgeously illustrated...

Welding for Dummies

de Steven Robert Farnsworth

Get the know-how to weld like a pro

Being a skilled welder is a hot commodity in today's job market, as well as a handy talent for industrious do-it-yourself repairpersons and hobbyists. Welding For Dummies...

The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World

de James Shreeve

The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.

On May...

Advances in Agronomy

de Donald L. Sparks

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad of subject...

Growth Factors in Development

de Carman Birchmeier

This new volume of the renowned serial Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers the important features of growth factors in development. With an international board of authors, this volume will be invaluable...

Protein Engineering for Therapeutics, Part B

de K. Dane Wittrup & Gregory L. Verdine

This volume of Methods in Enzymology looks at Protein Engineering for Therapeutics. The chapters provide an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and students alike. With an international board of...

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

de Peter W. Hawkes

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials--Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy.

This series features extended articles...

Membrane Fusion

de Leonid V. Chernomordik & Michael M. Kozlov

This volume of Current Topics in Membranes focuses on Membrane Fusion, beginning with fusion and fission of lipid bilayers, with reviews focused on hemifusion and dynamic remodeling of membranes catalyzed by...

Microfabrication for Industrial Applications

de Regina Luttge

This book focuses on the industrial perspective for micro- and nanofabrication methods including large-scale manufacturing, transfer of concepts from lab to factory, process tolerance, yield, robustness, and...

The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics

de III, H. William Detrich, Monte Westerfield & Leonard I. Zon

This volume on Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics, will cover new technologies in Forward and Reverse Genetics, Transgenesis, The Zebrafish Genome and Mapping Technologies, Informatics and Comparative Genomics,...

Probability and Random Processes: With Applications to Signal Processing and Communications

de Scott Miller & Donald Childers

Miller and Childers have focused on creating a clear presentation of foundational concepts with specific applications to signal processing and communications, clearly the two areas of most interest to students...

Advances in Botanical Research

de Jean-Claude Kader & Michel Delseny

Edited by Jean-Claude Kader and Michel Delseny and supported by an international Editorial Board, Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences....

Advances in Applied Microbiology

de Allen I. Laskin, Geoffrey M. Gadd & Sima Sariaslani

Published since 1959, Advances in Applied Microbiology continues to be one of the most widely read and authoritative review sources in microbiology.

The series contains comprehensive reviews of the most current...

ADVANCES IN QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

de John R. Sabin & Erkki J. Brandas

Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry,...

Biomarkers of Neurological and Psychiatric Disease

de Sabine Bahn & Paul Guest

Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an internationally renowned...