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Plant Biomass Conversion

de Elizabeth Hood, Peter Nelson & Randy Powell

A whole host of motivations are driving the development of the “renewables” industry— ranging from the desire to develop sustainable energy resources to the reduction of dangerous greenhouse gases that...

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...

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...

Garden Composting - How Garden Recycling Works

de Bill Butterworth

Hands-on, know-how and understanding of practical delivery of integrated, closed-loop gardening from waste delivering real sustainability. Includes your Safety Check List and how to calculate your own positive...

How to Defeat Your Own Clone: And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution

de Kyle Kurpinski

Send in the clones! On second thought, maybe not.

CAN IT READ MY MIND?

WILL IT BE EVIL?

HOW DO I STOP IT?

Find out the answers to these and other burning questions in this funny, informative, and ingenious book...

The Stem Cell Hope: How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives

de Alice Park

A landmark book by the senior science writer at Time magazine introduces us to a medical breakthrough that can save our lives. 

Few people know much about stem cell research beyond the ethical questions raised...

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

de Richard Fortey

With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil...

Mobile DNA: Finding Treasure in Junk

de Haig H. Kazazian

This is the eBook version of the printed book.In Mobile DNA, leading geneticist Haig Kazazian thoroughly reviews our current understanding of the substantial role mobile genetic elements play in genome and organism...

Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: Technology, Incentives, Behavior

de Fereidoon Perry Sioshansi

The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and...

Peptide and Protein Delivery

de Chris Van Der Walle

The growing area of peptide and protein therapeutics research is of paramount importance to medical application and advancement. A needed reference for entry level researchers and researchers working in interdisciplinary...

Pulse Foods: Processing, Quality and Nutraceutical Applications

de Brijesh K. Tiwari, Aoife Gowen & Brian McKenna

Pulses are nutritionally diverse crops that can be successfully utilized as a food ingredient or a base for new product development. They provide a natural food grade ingredient that is rich in lysine, dietary...

Molecular Wine Microbiology

de Alfonso V. Carrascosa Santiago, Rosario Munoz & Ramon Gonzalez Garcia

Molecular Wine Microbiology features rigorous scientific content written at a level comprehensible for wine professionals as well as advanced students. It includes information on production and spoilage issues,...

Advances in Parasitology

de D. Rollinson & S.I. Hay

First published in 1963, Advances in Parasitology contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews in all areas of interest in contemporary parasitology.

Advances in Parasitology includes medical studies on parasites...

The Yeasts: A Taxonomic Study

de C.P. Kurtzman, J.W. Fell & Teun Boekhout

Fully revised, updated and offered in a new three-volume format, The Yeasts: A Taxonomic Study, 5^th Edition remains the most comprehensive presentation of yeast taxonomy and systematics available. Nearly 1500...

Plant Systematics

de Michael G. Simpson

Plant Systematics has made a substantial contribution to plant systematics courses at the upper-undergraduate and first year graduate level. This second edition continues to provide the basis for teaching an...

Molecular Tools and Infectious Disease Epidemiology

de Betsy Foxman

The application of modern molecular genetic and biologic techniques to infectious disease epidemiology dramatically improves measurement of disease and putative risk factors increasing our ability to detect...

Handbook of Capture-Recapture Analysis

de Steven C. Amstrup, Trent L. McDonald & Bryan F. J. Manly

Every day, biologists in parkas, raincoats, and rubber boots go into the field to capture and mark a variety of animal species. Back in the office, statisticians create analytical models for the field biologists'...

Human Genetics: The Basics

de Ricki Lewis

Human genetics has blossomed from an obscure branch of biological science and occasional explanation for exceedingly rare disorders to a field all its own that affects everyone. This book introduces the key...

Biopunk: Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages

de Marcus Wohlsen

Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules."...

Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution

de Benedikt Hallgrímsson & Brian K. Hall

Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, epigenetics seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mechanisms that can only be understood in terms of interactions that...