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Size- and Age-Related Changes in Tree Structure and Function (Book)
Todd E. Dawson (Editor), Barbara Lachenbruch (Editor), Frederick C. Meinzer (Editor)
Millions of trees live and grow all around us, and we all recognize the vital role they play in the world s ecosystems. Publicity campaigns exhort us to plant yet more. Yet until recently comparatively little was known about the root causes of the physical changes that [...]
English; Hardback
Released: July 2011 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
CHF 216.60
Manual of Clinical Microbiology - 10th ed (Book)
James Versalovic (Author), James (EDT) Versalovic (Author), Ellen J. Baron (Editor), Karen C. Carroll (Editor), Guido Funke (Editor), James H. Jorgensen (Editor), Marie Louise Landry (Editor), Patrick R. Murray (Editor), James Versalovic (Editor), David W. Warnock (Editor)
The Manual of Clinical Microbiology is the most authoritative reference in the field. It has been indispensable to clinical microbiologists, laboratory technologists, and infectious disease specialists for 40 years, enabling them to accurately detect clinically significant [...]
English; Hardback
Released: July 2011 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
CHF 295.90
Ecology of Atlantic Salmon and Brown Trout (Book)
Bror Jonsson (Author), Nina Jonsson (Author)
Destruction of habitat is the major cause for loss of biodiversity including variation in life history and habitat ecology. Each species and population adapts to its environment, adaptations visible in morphology, ecology, behaviour, physiology and genetics. Here, the [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 24.01.2011 / Delivery time: 5-7 days
CHF 288.90
Biophysical Chemistry of Proteins (Book)
Engelbert Buxbaum (Author)
The book is structured in nine sections, each containing several chapters. The volume starts with an overview of analytical techniques and progresses through purification of proteins; protein modification and inactivation; protein size, shape, and structure; enzyme [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 2010 / Delivery time: 5-7 days
CHF 216.60
The Sugar Code (Book)
Hans-Joachim Gabius (Editor)
Ein neues Lehrbuch der Glykobiologie, das einen umfassenden Einblick in die Biochemie und die biologische und medizinische Relevanz von glykosylierten Biomolekülen gibt. Zusammengestellt von einem führenden Pionier auf dem Gebiet gemeinsam mit einem internationalen [...]
English; Hardback
Released: October 2009 / Delivery time: 5-7 days
CHF 79.00
Biosaline Agriculture and High Salinity Tolerance (Book)
chedly abdelly (Editor), Muhammad Ashraf (Editor), Claude Grignon (Editor), Münir Öztürk (Editor)
A major, worldwide threat to agricultural productivity is undoubtedly due to environments with stressful factors, including drought, salinity, and extreme temperatures. Based on contributions presented at the International Conference on Biosaline Agriculture and High [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 2008 / Delivery time: 5-7 days
CHF 267.20
Food and Package Engineering (Book)
Morris (Author), Scott A. Morris (Author)
For the first time, engineering for the packaging industry - and for the biggest packaging user, food processing - is presented in a way that clearly demonstrates its interconnected, globally integrated nature. Food and Package Engineering is a groundbreaking work that [...]
English; Hardback
Released: August 2011 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
CHF 212.00
Climate Wars (Book)
Harald Welzer (Author)
Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century. They no longer hinge on ideological [...]
English; Hardback
Released: March 2012 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
CHF 36.50
Immunology (Book)
Andrew Williams (Author), Andrew E Williams (Author), Andrew E. Williams (Author), WILLIAMS ANDREW E (Author)
The vast majority of medically important pathogens infect their host across a body surface such as the skin, or across a mucosal tissue such as the respiratory tract or intestines, as these sites are the ones exposed to the external environment. By focusing on immunity at [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 09.12.2011 / Delivery time: 1-3 weeks (not available at short notice)
CHF 209.30
The Naked Man (Book)
Desmond Morris (Author)
Presents a study of the masculine body from head to toe, examining biological features of the male anatomy. This book describes the many ways in which these features have been modified, suppressed, or exaggerated by local customs and changes in social fashions. It also [...]
English; Hardback
Released: July 2011 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
CHF 40.50
Oxidative Stress in Cancer Biology and Therapy (Book)
Kenneth J. Dornfeld (Editor), David Guis (Editor), Koyamangalath Krishnan (Editor), Douglas R. Spitz (Editor)
During the last 30 years it has become clearly evident that oxidative stress and free radical biology play key roles in carcinogenesis, cancer progression, cancer therapy, and normal tissue damage that limits treatment efficacy during cancer therapy. These mechanistic [...]
English; Hardback
Released: December 2011 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
CHF 216.60
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Fluid Dynamics (Book)
Anne Cros (Editor), Jaime Klapp (Editor), Mario Alberto Rodriguez Meza (Editor), Catalina Stern (Editor), Oscar Velasco (Editor)
The book is comprised of lectures and selected contributions presented at the Enzo Levi and XVI Annual Meeting of the Fluid Dynamic Division of the Mexican Physical Society in 2010. It is aimed at fourth year undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scientists in the [...]
English; Hardback
Released: October 2011 / Delivery time: 2-3 days
CHF 245.50
Adaption of Microbial Life to Environmental Extremes (Book)
Sergiu Fendrihan (Editor), Helga Stan-Lotter (Editor)
Once considered exceptional rarities, extremophiles have become attractive objects for basic and applied research ranging from nanotechnology to biodiversity to the origins of life and even to the search for extraterrestrial life. Several novel aspects of extremophiles are [...]
English; Hardback
Released: August 2011 / Delivery time: 2-3 weeks (title will be printed to order)
CHF 187.70
Shaping Ecology (Book)
Peter G. Ayres (Author), AYRES PETER G (Author)
Sir Arthur Tansley was the leading figure in ecology for the first half of the 20th century, founding the field, and forming its first professional societies. He was the first President of the British Ecological Society and the first chair of the Field Studies Council. His [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 13.04.2012 / Delivery time: 1-3 weeks (not available at short notice)
CHF 104.90
Coffee, Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production (Book)
Jean Nicolas Wintgens (Editor), Jean-Nicolas Wintgens (Editor)
Was ist Kaffee? Ein belebendes Heißgetränk, Einkommensquelle für Millionen (reicher und armer) Menschen, Kulturgut oder gar Mittelpunkt einer religiösen Philosophie? In 40 Kapiteln, auf über 600 Seiten mit rund 900 hervorragenden Illustrationen beantworten Ihnen in diesem [...]
English; Hardback
Released: June 2013 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks
CHF 129.00
