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Directed Evolution of Selective Enzymes. Catalysts for Organic Chemistry and Biotechnology
Manfred Reetz T.
Authored by one of the world's leading organic chemists, this authoritative reference provides an overview of basic strategies in directed evolution and introduces common gene mutagenesis, screening and selection methods. Throughout the text,...
Mediation Ethics. Cases and Commentaries
Ellen Waldman
Mediation Ethics is a groundbreaking text that offers conflict resolution professionals a much-needed resource for traversing the often disorienting landscape of ethical decision making. Edited by mediation expert Ellen Waldman, the book is...
Nobelpreise. Brisante Affairen, umstrittene Entscheidungen
Heinrich Zankl
Der Nobelpreis ist die wichtigste Ehrung weltweit. Dass bei der Auswahl und Vergabe vielleicht nicht immer alles mit richtigen Dingen zugeht, ist nur menschlich – und dazu kann man viele interessante, witzige und prekare Geschichten erzahlen.
Lessons from Fort Apache. Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance
M. Nevins Eleanor
This incisive ethnographic analysis of indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization focuses on linguistic heritage issues on the Native American reservation at Fort Apache and explores the broader social, political and...
Toxikologie. Band 2 - Toxikologie der Stoffe
Hans-Werner Vohr
Im zweiten Band dieses modular aufgebauten Lehrbuchs wird die Exposition und toxische Wirkung der wichtigsten toxischen Chemikalien abgehandelt. (Nano-)Partikulare Stoffe, Metalle, anorganische und organische Verbindungen werden systematisch...
Toxikologie. Band 1 Grundlagen der Toxikologie
Hans-Werner Vohr
Perfekt abgestimmt auf die moderne Ausbildung zum Toxikologen, werden in diesem Lehr- und Pr?fungsbuch alle wichtigen Konzepte und wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Toxikologie erkl?rt: von der molekularen Toxikologie bis hin zu Risk Assessment...
Making Sense of Agile Project Management. Balancing Control and Agility
Charles Cobb G.
The book is intended to provide a much deeper understanding of agile principles, methodologies, and practices to enable project managers to develop a more agile approach and understand how to blend and tailor agile and traditional principles,...
Chemische Experimente in Schl?ssern, Kl?stern und Museen. Aus Hexenk?che und Zauberlabor
Prof. Schwedt Georg
Ob es um Tinte, Farben, Genussmittel, Zundholzer, Pharmazeutika oder gar den Stein der Weisen geht: Chemie und Kulturgeschichte sind nicht voneinander zu trennen. Besonders anschaulich wird das, wenn chemische Experimente in historischem...
Ultraschneller Tauchgang in die Atome. Attosekunden-Blitze erkunden den Quantenkosmos
Thorsten Naeser
Als es Wissenschaftlern an der Technischen Universit?t Wien im Jahr 2001 zum ersten Mal gelang, Lichtblitze zu produzieren, die nur noch Attosekunden dauern, bedeutete dies den Beginn einer neuen Disziplin in den Naturwissenschaften: Die...
Understanding and Facilitating Organizational Change in the 21st Century: Recent Research and Conceptualizations. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, Volume 28, Number 4
Adrianna Kezar
There is a widespread discontent with the quality of education and levels of college student achievement, particularly for undergraduates preparing for the professions. This report examines the educational challenges in preparing professionals,...
Student Engagement Online: What Works and Why. ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 40, Number 6
Katrina Meyer A.
What makes online learning engaging to students? Engagement depends upon designing learning that is active and collaborative, authentic and experiential, constructive and transformative. While students and instructors can inadvertently act in...
Representing "U": Popular Culture, Media, and Higher Education. ASHE Higher Education Report, 40:4
Pauline Reynolds J.
From the magazines and newspapers of the mid-1800s to movies and apps of the twenty-first century, popular culture and media in the United States provide prolific representations of higher education. This report positions artifacts of popular...
Understanding Institutional Diversity in American Higher Education. ASHE Higher Education Report, 39:3
Michael Harris
Institutional diversity serves as one of the fundamental hallmarks of American higher education. After a long history of support for many institutional types, the past 40 years have seen a decline in institutional variety. Through a discussion...
Creative Industries in China. Art, Design and Media
Michael Keane
Creative industries in China provides a fresh account of China’s emerging commercial cultural sector. The author shows how developments in Chinese art, design and media industries are reflected in policy, in market activity, and grassroots...
Chemical Biology. Approaches to Drug Discovery and Development to Targeting Disease
Natanya Civjan
An authoritative look at the application of chemical biology in drug discovery and development Based on the award-winning Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology published in 2008, this book explores the role of chemical biology in drug discovery...
Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 3. Applications, Isothermal Transport and Coupled Transfers
Jean-Fran?ois Da?an
A porous medium is composed of a solid matrix and its geometrical complement: the pore space. This pore space can be occupied by one or more fluids. The understanding of transport phenomena in porous media is a challenging intellectual task....
Tools for Signal Compression. Applications to Speech and Audio Coding
Nicolas Moreau
This book presents tools and algorithms required to compress/uncompress signals such as speech and music. These algorithms are largely used in mobile phones, DVD players, HDTV sets, etc. In a first rather theoretical part, this book presents the...
Isocyanide Chemistry. Applications in Synthesis and Material Science
V. Nenajdenko
The efficacy of isocyanide reactions in the synthesis of natural or naturallike products has resulted in a renaissance of isocyanide chemistry. Now isocyanides are widely used in different branches of organic, inorganic, coordination,...
An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis. Applications in Signal Processing and Music Informatics
Alexander Lerch
With the proliferation of digital audio distribution over digital media, audio content analysis is fast becoming a requirement for designers of intelligent signal-adaptive audio processing systems. Written by a well-known expert in the field,...
Supramolecular Soft Matter. Applications in Materials and Organic Electronics
Takashi Nakanishi
The pivotal text that bridges the gap between fundamentals and applications of soft matter in organic electronics Covering an expanding and highly coveted subject area, Supramolecular Soft Matter enlists the services of leading researchers to...
Optics in Instruments. Applications in Biology and Medicine
Jean Goure Pierre
Optics is a science which covers a very large domain and is experiencing indisputable growth. It has enabled the development of a considerable number of instruments, the optical component or methodology of which is often the essential part of...
Field Computation for Accelerator Magnets. Analytical and Numerical Methods for Electromagnetic Design and Optimization
Stephan Russenschuck
Written by a leading expert on the electromagnetic design and engineering of superconducting accelerator magnets, this book offers the most comprehensive treatment of the subject to date. In concise and easy-to-read style, the author lays out...
Digital Design for Print and Web. An Introduction to Theory, Principles, and Techniques
John DiMarco
The all-inclusive guide—from theory to practice—for print and Web design Any well-conceived print or Web design features the dynamic interplay between visual artistry and technical skill. It becomes important, therefore, for the designer to...
Fusion. An Introduction to the Physics and Technology of Magnetic Confinement Fusion
Weston Stacey M.
This second edition of a popular textbook is thoroughly revised with around 25% new and updated content. It provides an introduction to both plasma physics and fusion technology at a level that can be understood by advanced undergraduates and...
Mirror-Image Asymmetry. An Introduction to the Origin and Consequences of Chirality
James Riehl P.
An overview of the importance and consequences of asymmetry from molecules to the macroscopic world As scientists have become more capable of probing the structure of three-dimensional objects at the molecular level, the need to understand the...
The Sounds of Language. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Elizabeth Zsiga C.
The Sounds of Language is an introductory guide to the linguistic study of speech sounds, which provides uniquely balanced coverage of both phonology and phonetics. Features exercises and problem sets, as well as supporting online resources at...
Methods of Molecular Quantum Mechanics. An Introduction to Electronic Molecular Structure
Valerio Magnasco
This advanced text introduces to the advanced undergraduate and graduate student the mathematical foundations of the methods needed to carry out practical applications in electronic molecular quantum mechanics, a necessary preliminary step...
Crystallography and Surface Structure. An Introduction for Surface Scientists and Nanoscientists
Klaus Hermann
A valuable learning tool as well as a reference, this book provides students and researchers in surface science and nanoscience with the theoretical crystallographic foundations, which are necessary to understand local geometries and symmetries...
Practical Raman Spectroscopy. An Introduction
Peter Vandenabeele
This text offers an open-learning approach to Raman spectroscopy providing detail on instrumentation, applications and discussions questions throughout the book. It provides a valuable guide to assist with teaching Raman spectroscopy which is...
English Phonetics and Phonology. An Introduction
Philip Carr
The second edition of the popular English Phonetics and Phonology textbook has been extensively updated and expanded to offer greater flexibility for teachers and increased support for non-native speakers studying the sound systems of English....
Fire Phenomena and the Earth System. An Interdisciplinary Guide to Fire Science
Claire Belcher M.
Fire plays a key role in Earth system processes. Wildfires influence the carbon cycle and the nutrient balance of our planet, and may even play a role in regulating the oxygen content of our atmosphere. The evolutionary history of plants has...
The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011. An Explanation and Guide for Busy Practitioners and Students
David Chappell
Books about construction contracts tend to be dense and wordy, but what most architects, quantity surveyors, project managers, builders and employers are looking for is an easily navigable, simple guide to using a contract, written in plain...
Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders. An Evidence-Based Approach to Enhancing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Mindfulness and Hypnotherapy
Assen Alladin
Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders applies a systematic integrative approach, Cognitive Hypnotherapy (CH), to the psychological treatment of anxiety disorders; it demonstrates how simple techniques can be used to create a therapeutic context...
Combining CBT and Medication. An Evidence-Based Approach
Donna M. Sudak
Combining medication and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be challenging but can also enhance patient care. This book reviews the existing literature about the neurobiological and clinical basis in combining CBT and medication for...
The Good Life of Teaching. An Ethics of Professional Practice
Chris Higgins
The Good Life of Teaching extends the recent revival of virtue ethics to professional ethics and the philosophy of teaching. It connects long-standing philosophical questions about work and human growth to questions about teacher motivation,...
Statistical Physics. An Entropic Approach
Ian Ford
This undergraduate textbook provides a statistical mechanical foundation to the classical laws of thermodynamics via a comprehensive treatment of the basics of classical thermodynamics, equilibrium statistical mechanics, irreversible...
Television and the Meaning of 'Live'. An Enquiry into the Human Situation
Paddy Scannell
This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of ‘life’. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2011. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2011
A. Knipe C.
The only book series to summarize the latest progress on organic reaction mechanisms, Organic Reaction Mechanisms, 2011 surveys the development in understanding of the main classes of organic reaction mechanisms reported in the primary...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2010. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2010
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2010, the 46th annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2010. It details the latest progress in a wide...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2009. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2009
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2009, the 45th annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2009. The following classes of organic reaction...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2008. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2008
A. Knipe C.
This volume is the 44th in this classical series. In every volume relevant reaction mechanisms are featured in chapters entitled: Reaction of Aldehydes and Ketones and their Derivatives Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids and...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2007. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2007
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2007, the 43rd annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2007. The following classes of organic reaction...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2006. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2006
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2006 is the 42nd volume in this classical series. Every year, an experienced team of authors compiles these reviews, so that the reader can rely on a continuing quality of selection and presentation. Detailed author...
Realizing General Education: Reconsidering Conceptions and Renewing Practice. AEHE Volume 42, Number 2
Cynthia Wells A.
General education is widely touted as an enduring distinctive of higher education, but what do we actually mean by general education? Differing perspectives not only make it challenging to consider its significance, but also open it up to a wide...
Future Earth. Advancing Civic Understanding of the Anthropocene
Diana Dalbotten
Earth now is dominated by both biogeophysical and anthropogenic processes, as represented in these two images from a simulation of aerosols. Dust (red) from the Sahara sweeps west across the Atlantic Ocean. Sea salt (blue) rises into the...
Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Advances in Synthetic Chemistry
Bruno Pignataro
Written by some of the most talented young chemists in Europe, this text covers most of the groundbreaking issues in chemistry. It provides an account of the latest research results in European chemistry based on a selection of leading young...
Technology Platforms for 3D Cell Culture. A User's Guide
Stefan Przyborski
Technology Platforms for 3D Cell Culture: A Users Guide points to the options available to perform 3D culture, shows where such technology is available, explains how it works, and reveals how it can be used by scientists working in their own...
Working with Problem Faculty. A Six-Step Guide for Department Chairs
R. Crookston Kent
Working with Problem Faculty When asked to name their number one concern and problem, department leaders overwhelmingly said that it was dealing with difficult people. Now R. Kent Crookston draws on the wisdom of seasoned department chairs, the...
The Weather Almanac. A Reference Guide to Weather, Climate, and Related Issues in the United States and Its Key Cities
Steven Horstmeyer L.
The Weather Almanac, 12th Edition is a resource for a variety of climate and meteorological data including both domestic and international weather trends, historical weather patterns dating back 1000 years, natural disasters, and a 20 page...
Optimizing Organization Design. A Proven Approach to Enhance Financial Performance, Customer Satisfaction and Employee Engagement
Ronald Capelle G.
Optimizing Organization Design offers a comprehensive resource and valued guide for anyone interested in improving organization performance. The book presents an approach to optimizing organization design that is based on over 100 large scale...
