Ciencias y técnicas / Ciencia / Ciencias de la tierra

Biotechnology Demystified

de Sharon Walker

This self-teaching guide explains the basic concepts and fundamentals in all the major subtopics of biotechnology. The content advances logically from the basics of molecular and cellular biology to more complex...

Cosmos

de Carl Sagan

This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to...

Molecular Biology: Academic Cell Update Edition

de David P. Clark

Molecular Biology

Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

de George M. Church & Ed Regis

Everyone has heard of genetic engineering: we eat engineered foods, we take drugs made in engineered bacteria and yeast, and someday soon may drive our cars on fuel produced by engineered microorganisms. Regenesis...

Geothermal Energy Systems: Exploration, Development, and Utilization

de Ernst Huenges & Patrick Ledru

Presenting boundary conditions for the economic and environmental utilization of geothermal technology, this is the first book to provide basic knowledge on the topic in such detail.

The editor is the coordinator...

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines

de Michael Mann

In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” a chart showing global temperature data over the past one...

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

de Erik Larson

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the...

Rambunctious Garden

de Emma Marris

A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come...

Geology for Dummies

de John Wiley & Sons

Get a rock-solid grasp on geology

Geology is the study of the earth's history as well as the physical and chemical processes that continue to shape the earth today. Jobs in the geosciences are expected to increase...

Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance

de Mariana Gosnell

Like the adventurer who circled an iceberg to see it on all sides, Mariana Gosnell, former Newsweek reporter and author of Zero Three Bravo, a book about flying a small plane around the United States, explores...

Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything

de Doug Macdougall

"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking...

Physical Geography: A Self-Teaching Guide

de Michael Craghan

Learn physical geography at your own pace

What is atmospheric pressure? How does latitude indicate the type of climate a specific place will have? Where are volcanic eruptions or strong earthquakes most likely...

Weather For Dummies

de John D. Cox

What’s going on up there when the rain falls, when the wind blows, when the clouds roll in and the lightning flashes? How do hurricanes arise and where to tornadoes come from? Why do seasonal conditions sometimes...

Bioinformatics For Dummies

de Jean-Michel , Ph. D. Claverie & Cedric , Ph.D. Notredame

Were you always curious about biology but were afraid to sit through long hours of dense reading? Did you like the subject when you were in high school but had other plans after you graduated? Now you can explore...

Advances in Optical Imaging for Clinical Medicine

de Nicusor Iftimia, William R. Brugge & Daniel X. Hammer

This book provides students, teachers, researchers and clinicians with a strong and established source of information on advanced optical technologies that show real promise of being translated to clinical use....

Advanced Biomedical Image Analysis

de Mark Haidekker

A comprehensive reference of cutting-edge advanced techniques for quantitative image processing and analysis

Medical diagnostics and intervention, and biomedical research rely progressively on imaging techniques,...

Biotransformation and Metabolite Elucidation of Xenobiotics: Characterization and Identification

de Ala F. Nassar

The goal of this book is to improve the readers' knowledge of metabolite elucidation in drug metabolism by exposing them to in depth coverage of the biotransformation of xenobiotics, strategies for identifying...

Organelle-Specific Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

de Volkmar Weissig & Gerard G. D'Souza

This book introduces and discusses the latest in biomedical research--Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology applied at the sub-cellular level.

Antigen Retrieval Immunohistochemistry Based Research and Diagnostics

de Shan-Rong Shi & Clive R. Taylor

The most complete, up-to-date reference on antigen retrieval and immunohistochemistry

An antigen is a substance that prompts the generation of antibodies and can cause an immune response. The antigen retrieval...

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption

de Clive Barnett & Paul Cloke

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption.

• Develops a...