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The ability to culture cells is fundamental for mass propagation and as a baseline for the genetic manipulation of plant nuclei and organelles. The introduction to Plant Cell Culture: Essential Methods provides a general background to plant cell culture, including basic principles, technologies and laboratory practices that underpin the more detailed techniques described in subsequent chapters. Wh…
Biological monitoring of running waters is a scientifically and economically valid approach for surveys and monitoring programmes to assess the water quality. Biological Monitoring of Rivers is a timely, up-to-date book that includes a good number of practical how-to-do chapters. Up-to-date assessment of biological water monitoring Practical how-to-do chapters help the practitioner Provides a broa…
Here, H.-G. Schmalz and T. Wirth have put together a collection of current contributions on the most important topics in organic chemistry all in one handy book. Like its successful predecessors, this volume provides readers with numerous articles on the current state of synthetic methods and their applications. The wide range covered by nearly forty contributions ensures a concise overview of the…
Prehistoric life is the archive of evolution preserved in the fossil record. This book focuses on the meaning and significance of that archive and is designed for introductory college science students, including non-science majors, enrolled in survey courses emphasizing paleontology, geology and biology. From the origins of animals to the evolution of rap music, from ancient mass extinctions to th…
Философия, искусство, демократия, язык и даже компьютеры – многие наши достижения берут начало в греческой цивилизации. Как известно, греческими по сути были и империя Александра Македонского, и Римская империя. К грекам обращались в поисках вдохновения деятели эпохи Возрождения и философы европейского Просвещения. Следуя четкой хронологии, Джеймс Хенидж кратко и крупными мазками рисует историю Гр…
In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote «I think» and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation – adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things. However, more than 150 years since Darwin published his singular idea of natural selection, the scien…
Although there are a number of books in this field, most of them lack an introduction of comprehensive analysis of MS and IR spectra, and others do not provide up-to-date information like tandem MS. This book fills the gap. The merit of this book is that the author will not only introduce knowledge for analyzing nuclear magnetic resonance spectra including 1H spectra (Chapter 1), 13C spectra (Chap…
Crystallization is an important technique for separation and purification of substances as well as for product design in chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological process industries. This ready reference and handbook draws on research work and industrial practice of a large group of experts in the various areas of industrial crystallization processes, capturing the essence of current trends, t…
Андре Моруа, классик французской литературы XX века, автор знаменитых романизированных биографий Дюма, Бальзака, Виктора Гюго, Шелли и Байрона, считается подлинным мастером психологической прозы. Однако значительную часть наследия писателя составляют исторические сочинения. История возникновения Соединенных Штатов Америки представляла для писателя особый интерес, ведь она во многом уникальна. Могу…
Вещи, о которых пойдет речь в этой книге, – строение тела и характеры, психологические типы и темпераменты, френология, физиогномика, гипноз, феномен гениальности и многое-многое другое – так или иначе являются предметом психологии и психиатрии. В последние годы возобладала тенденция рассматривать вид Homo sapiens вне его эволюционных и биосферных связей, а науку все чаще подменяют религиозными до…
In the very first book on this hot topic, the expert editors and authors present a comprehensive overview of these elegant reactions. From the contents: Organoboron compounds Free-radical mediated multicomponent coupling reactions Applications in drug discovery Metal catalyzed reactions Total synthesis of natural products Asymmetric isocyanide-based reactions The Biginelli reaction Asymmetric isoc…
With its particular emphasis on the constitutive activity of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)s, this book comprehensively discusses an important biological process that has not yet been covered in such depth in any other existing books on GPCRs. The international team of highly distinguished authors addresses in detail current models and concepts, to introduce medicinal chemists, physiologists,…
With its particular emphasis on the constitutive activity of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)s, this book comprehensively discusses an important biological process that has not yet been covered in such depth in any other existing books on GPCRs. The international team of highly distinguished authors addresses in detail current models and concepts, to introduce medicinal chemists, physiologists,…
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 179. This multidisciplinary monograph provides the first modern integrative summary focused on the most spectacular active tectonic systems in North America. Encompassing seismology, tectonics, geology, and geodesy, it includes papers that summarize the state of knowledge, including background material …
This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most hotly debated questions in philosophy of biology Lively head-to-head debate format sharply defines the issues and paves the way for further discussion Includes coverage of the ne…