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Life sciences: general issues

Hardback. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the field of biobanks and human tissue research, including ethical and legal challenges, regulatory issues, the rights of donors and patients, and examples and recommendations for the future of tissue research. Editor(s): Lenk, Christian; Sandor, Judit; Gordijn, Bert. Series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBGR; PSAD; PSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400716728
ISBN
9789400716728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.36

Hardback. This volume presents a collection of remarkable adaptations to anoxia, observed in protists, fungi, plants and animals. The text presents case studies that provide evidence for controlled beneficial use of anoxia, like organic modification of free radicals, for example. Editor(s): Altenbach, Alexander V.; Bernhard, Joan M.; Seckbach, Joseph. Series: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. Num Pages: 684 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAF; PSF; PSG; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1175.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2012
Number of pages
684
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400718951
ISBN
9789400718951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 254.62

Hardback. This book explores reservoir limnology in tropical and subtropical China. Coverage includes zooplankton, phytoplankton and zoobenthos communities, cyanobateria, nutrient budget, sediments, biogeochemical cycling of mercury, fishery and eutrophication. Editor(s): Han, Bo-Ping; Liu, Zhengwen. Series: Monographiae Biologicae. Num Pages: 384 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; PSAF; RBKF; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400720060
ISBN
9789400720060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.07

Hardcover. This book offers comprehensive coverage of the neuroscience and behavior of honeybees. Coverage includes social organization, communication and navigation, brain anatomy and physiology, sensory systems, genetics and molecular biology, and learning and memory. Editor(s): Galizia, Giovanni C.; Eisenhardt, Dorothea; Giurfa, Martin. Num Pages: 524 pages, 10 black & white tables, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: PSAN; PSVT7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 870.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2012th Edition
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400720985
ISBN
9789400720985
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 285.92

Hardcover. Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook Num Pages: 848 pages, 74 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations, 50 black & white tables, 50 colo. BIC Classification: MMFM; PSA; PSTP; TVB; YQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 261 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer
Edition
8th ed. 2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400721401
ISBN
9789400721401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 622.76

Hardback. This volume explores the application of traditional forest knowledge (TFK) by indigenous communities worldwide. It considers the interplay between TFK and formal forest science and interrogates the often uneasy relationship between these different systems. Editor(s): Parrotta, John A.; Trosper, Ronald. Series: World Forests. Num Pages: 648 pages, 11 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PSAF; TVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1128.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2012
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400721432
ISBN
9789400721432
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 254.23

Hardcover. Continuous cover forestry is the selective management of uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, a methodology with clear advantages over diversity-destroying monocultures. This book uses examples from around the world to demonstrate its implementation. Editor(s): Pukkala, Timo; Gadow, Klaus von. Series: Managing Forest Ecosystems. Num Pages: 304 pages, 50 black & white tables, 50 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: PSAF; RNF; TVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2nd ed. 2012
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400722019
ISBN
9789400722019
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 316.73

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2012th Edition
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400722316
ISBN
9789400722316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 119.56

Hardback. Focusing on the role of social and political ideology in the development of bioethics, this book offers offers a retrospective look at the ideological foundations of the discipline, and a range of perspectives on the current influence of ideology in bioethics. Editor(s): Engelhardt, H. Tristram. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2012
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400722439
ISBN
9789400722439
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Hardback. The Biotechnology Debate presents a deliberative democratic theory within a more refined understanding of practice, focusing especially on moral disagreement regarding novel technologies. The examination traces the varying perspectives in this debate back to fundamentally different worldviews and values. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 356 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PSAD; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 675.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400726901
ISBN
9789400726901
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.41

Hardcover. This book details an array of numerical and statistical techniques used in palaeolimnology and other branches of palaeoecology, including exploratory data analysis, error estimation, clustering, ordination and modern statistical learning techniques. Editor(s): Birks, H. John B.; Lotter, Andre F.; Juggins, Steve; Smol, John P. Series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research. Num Pages: 745 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAF; RBKF; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1200.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2012th Edition
Number of pages
734
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400727441
ISBN
9789400727441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 233.27

Hardback. This book examines the Lysenko controversy. It covers the interwar eugenics movement, the Scopes Trial, the popularity of Lamarckism as a theory of heredity prior to the synthesis of genetics and Natural Selection, and the Cold War. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400728394
ISBN
9789400728394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Hardcover. This book summarizes current knowledge of plastid and mitochondrial genomes in all major groups of algae and land plants. Includes chapters on endosymbioses, plastid and mitochondrial mutants, gene expression profiling and methods for organelle transformation. Editor(s): Bock, Ralph; Knoop, Volker. Series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration. Num Pages: 508 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAJ; PSF; PSTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1145.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2012th Edition
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400729193
ISBN
9789400729193
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 254.65

hardcover. Bacillus thuringiensis is used as a biopesticide due to its specific toxicity against target insects, lack of polluting residues and safety to non-target organisms. This volume offers a thorough assessment by recognized experts of the latest research into it. Editor(s): Sansinenea, Estibaliz. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSA; PSG; TCB; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade Netherlands
Edition
2012th Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400730205
ISBN
9789400730205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 317.81

Paperback. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and propose alternative solutions. It will help scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for the future. Series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Num Pages: 524 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCM; PSAF; RNU; TVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 795.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
524
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400730557
ISBN
9789400730557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 373.13

Paperback. This collection aims to explore the fulgurating force of memory within the perspective of the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness and action, facts and imagination, history and myths, and self-realization and metamorphosis. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPM; JMAF; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
323
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400730717
ISBN
9789400730717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.44

Paperback. In this book, scientists from eleven countries summarize the results of the EU project that probed the effects of climate change on lakes in Northern, Western and Central Europe. They also discuss climate change implications for the Water Framework Directive. Editor(s): George, Glen. Series: Aquatic Ecology Series. Num Pages: 534 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; PSAF; RBKF; RNPG; TQD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 813.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
Previously published in hardcover
Number of pages
534
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400731219
ISBN
9789400731219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 251.80

Paperback. This up-to-date review focuses on the crucial role heat shock proteins play in human physiology. By introducing the mechanisms by which heat shock proteins modulate human disease and pathophysiology, this volume reveals its biological significance to the host. Editor(s): Asea, Alexzander A. A.; Pedersen, Bente K. Series: Heat Shock Proteins. Num Pages: 448 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBGR; MFG; MJCM; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400731318
ISBN
9789400731318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 250.93

Paperback. Animal cell technology is a growing discipline of cell biology which aims not only to understand structures, functions and behaviors of differentiated animal cells, but also to ascertain their abilities to be used in industrial and medical purposes. Editor(s): Kamihira, Masamichi; Katakura, Yoshinori; Ito, Akira. Series: Animal Cell Technology: Basic and Applied Aspects. Num Pages: 446 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBGR; PSA; PSF; TCB; TDCT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 724.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
446
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400732124
ISBN
9789400732124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 372.87

Paperback. Ground Vibration Engineering bridges the gap between the limited provisions of engineering standards and numerical analysis. Engineers will find descriptions of ground vibration measurements, predictions and controls, as well as the effects of ground vibration from demolition, traffic and more. Series: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAF; RBP; TNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 359.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400732735
ISBN
9789400732735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

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