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    • The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 58
      • January 21, 2013
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving.

    • Biogeochemistry

      • 3rd Edition
      • January 7, 2013
      • William H. Schlesinger + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Biogeochemistry, Third Edition, considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth—from atmosphere to soil to seawater—have been and are being affected by the existence of life. This expansive text pulls together the numerous fields of study encompassed by biogeochemistry to analyze the increasing demands of the growing human population on limited resources and the resulting changes in the planet's chemical makeup. It employs current technology to help students extrapolate small-scale examples to the global level, and also discusses the instrumentation being used by NASA and its role in studies of global change. With the Earth's changing chemistry as the focus, this book provides an excellent framework for courses examining global change and environmental chemistry, and will also be a useful self-study guide. This edition calculates and compares the effects of industrial emissions, land clearing, agriculture, and rising population on Earth's chemistry. It also synthesizes the global cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur, and suggests the best current budgets for atmospheric gases such as ammonia, nitrous oxide, dimethyl sulfide, and carbonyl sulfide. It includes an extensive review and up-to-date synthesis of the current literature on the Earth's biogeochemistry. Answers to end of chapter problem sets are available on the instructor's companion website. This book will appeal to upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in geochemistry, ecology, earth, and soil sciences, especially those with interest in global change or environmental chemistry.

    • Advances in Genetics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 81
      • February 14, 2013
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The field of genetics is rapidly evolving, and new medical breakthroughs are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of genetics. This series continually publishes important reviews of the broadest interest to geneticists and their colleagues in affiliated disciplines.

    • Cell Physiology

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2013
      • Nicholas Sperelakis
      • English
      • Paperback
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      A multi-authored and comprehensive text, Cell Physiology Source Book enables graduate students in various biological sub-disciplines to gain a thorough understanding of cell physiology. It begins with a reviewof the physical chemistry of solutions, protein structure, and membrane structure, and ends with an Appendix featuring reviews of electricity, electrochemistry, and cable properties of cells. In between, this book is loaded with information on membrane potentials, cell metabolism, signal transduction, transport physiology and pumps, membrane excitability and ion channels, synaptic transmission, sensory transduction, muscle contraction, excitation-contracti... coupling, bioluminescence, photosynthesis, andplant cell physiology.This exhaustive work provides graduate students with detailed and authoritative coverage of nearly all aspects of cell physiology. Such broad coverage of this field within a single source makes for a unique text.Chapters written in a clear, concise, and didactic style, and appropriate reviews of basic physics and chemistry are among the many distinguishing features of this monumental treatise.

    • Inhibitors of the Ras Superfamily G-proteins, Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 34
      • November 7, 2013
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Targeted toward researchers in biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, pharmacology, and cancer, this is the second part of The Enzymes' volumes that discuss inhibitors of the Ras superfamily G-proteins.

    • Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical and Literary Connections

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 205
      • November 25, 2013
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume on the neurosciences, neurology, and literature vividly shows how science and the humanities can come together --- and have come together in the past. Its sections provide a new, broad look at these interactions, which have received surprisingly little attention in the past. Experts in the field cover literature as a window to neurological and scientific zeitgeists, theories of brain and mind in literature, famous authors and their suspected neurological disorders, and how neurological disorders and treatments have been described in literature. In addition, a myriad of other topics are covered, including some on famous authors whose important connections to the neurosciences have been overlooked (e.g., Roget, of Thesaurus fame), famous neuroscientists who should also be associated with literature, and some overlooked scientific and medical men who helped others produce great literary works (e,g., Bram Stoker's Dracula). There has not been a volume with this coverage in the past, and the connections it provides should prove fascinating to individuals in science, medicine, history, literature, and various other disciplines.

    • Pharmaceutics

      • 1st Edition
      • October 12, 2013
      • Alekha Dash + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice is an engaging textbook that covers all aspects of pharmaceutics with emphasis on the basic science and its application to pharmacy practice. Based on curricular guidelines mandated by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), this book incorporates laboratory skills by identifying portions of each principle that can be used in a clinical setting. In this way, instructors are able to demonstrate their adherence to ACPE standards and objectives, simply by using this book. Written in a straightforward and student-friendly manner, Pharmaceutics enables students to gain the scientific foundation to understand drug physicochemical properties, practical aspects of dosage forms and drug delivery systems, and the biological applications of drug administration. Key ideas are illustrated and reinforced through chapter objectives and chapter summaries. A companion website features resources for students and instructors, including videos illustrating difficult processes and procedures as well as practice questions and answers. Instructor resources include Powerpoint slides and a full-color image bank. This book is intended for students in pharmaceutical science programs taking pharmaceutics or biopharmaceutics courses at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level.

    • Methods in Protein Design

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 523
      • February 14, 2013
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial by containing quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. This volume covers methods in protein design and it has chapters on such topics as protein switch engineering by domain insertion, evolution based design of proteins, and computationally designed proteins.

    • Epigenetics and Development

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 104
      • April 12, 2013
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers epigenetics and development, with contributions from an international board of authors. The chapters provide a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as epigenetic marking of the zebrafish developmental program, functions of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation in mammalian development, and reprogramming and the pluripotent stem cell cycle.

    • Protein Kinase Inhibitors in Research and Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 548
      • July 1, 2013
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. This volume covers protein kinase inhibitors in research and medicine, and includes chapters on such topics as fragment-based screening, broad kinome profiling of kinase inhibitors, and designing drug-resistant kinase alleles.

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