Interesting pictures and detailed information. I've used it in the classroom for a resource for background information on the Artic. My students enjoy ...
The replacement or augmentation of failing human organs with artificial devices and systems has been an important element in health care for several d ...
Ascochyta blights consistently affect large areas of grain legume production (pea, lentil, chickpea and faba bean) in all countries where they are cul ...
The idea that comets may be connected with the origin of life on Earth was considered heresy a few decades ago, with scientists shying away from this ...
The atomic force microscope (AFM) allows biomolecules to be observed andmanipulated under native conditions. It produces images with an outstanding si ...
Volume 5 of Biomembranes covers an important group of membrane proteins, the ATPases. The P-type ATPases couple the hydrolysis of ATP to the movement ...
Throughout their evolution, living creatures have developed systems to attach themselves to a variety of substrate textures. As is the case in many te ...
This revised edition will continue to serve as the most complete and up-to-date guide to the use of the avian embryo in studies of vertebrate developm ...
With the growing global fear of a major pandemic, avian influenza virus research has increased greatly in importance during this young century. In Avi ...
Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most fundamentally on "fieldwork"--the long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for know ...
This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate ...
Ce texte est le premierouvrage d'ensemble qui, depuis plus de 30 ans, ait été consacré aux Européens du paléolithique supérieur jusqu'à nos jours. Il ...
The study is a contribution to the history of the theory of aesthetic thinking in the 18th century using the concept of emotion as its guide. Using an ...
-- Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman, editors, Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America
Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this c ...
This introduction to the structure of the central nervous system demonstrates that the best way to learn how the brain is put together is to understan ...
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses ...
