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New Drug Discovery and Development

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

A case history approach to drug synthesis and discovery

Discover the origins of some of the most popular drug therapies on the market today, including penicillin, Minoxidil, Viagra®, and "the pill." This guide to drug synthesis and discovery focuses on case histories. Organized by drug category, the...

MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond)

O'Reilly, 2008

"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation." -Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation "This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line." -Rob Church, a...

Security in an IPv6 Environment

Auerbach Publications, 2008

As the number of intelligent systems that require direct access expands to the multiple billions, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) becomes an institutional imperative. However, questions are being raised about security aspects and subtending apparatuses of IPv6. This book provides a practical and accessible primer on this emerging technology. The...

Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers

Oxford University Press, 2006

"A vivid picture of how one man, by force of rigorous analysis and clear writing, taught a generation of biologists how to think about evolution."--New York Times

ith the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of...

Manual of Botulinum Toxin Therapy (Cambridge Medicine)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The Manual of Botulinum Toxin Therapy provides practical guidance on the use of botulinum toxin in a wide variety of disorders, in many areas of medicine. Using clear line drawings, it describes the relevant injection sites for each condition and gives comparative dosage tables for the various formulations of toxin used in different muscle groups....

Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century

National Academy Press, 2003

This report is the result of a study encompassing astrophysical phenomena that give insight into fundamental physics, as well as fundamental physics relevant to understanding astrophysical phenomena, and the structure and evolution of the universe. Includes color illustrations. Softcover.

The fall 1999 meeting of the National...

History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan

Oxford University Press, 2009

History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America examines the subjects, motives, and personal and intellectual origins of conservative historians who were also successful public intellectuals. In their search for a persuasive and wide appeal, conservatives depended until at least the 1960s upon history and historians to provide...

Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

GO BEYOND THE BLOG

Smashing WordPress shows you how to utilize the power of the WordPress platform, and provides a creative spark to help you build WordPress-powered sites that go beyond the obvious. You will learn the core concepts used to build just about anything in WordPress, resulting in fast deployments and...

Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)

MIT Press, 2009

In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthropologists reconsidered the role of innovation in particular, and have moved toward characterizing innovation in cultural systems not only as a product but also as an evolutionary process. This...

The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory

Oxford University Press, 2009

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of...

Snow Leopard Server (Developer Reference)

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

In-depth guide to all aspects of handling Apple's newest big cat

Whether you manage a large enterprise server or your own Macs at home or in a small office, this book has what you need to understand Apple's new Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server inside and out. Crammed with information, this detailed guide presents best practices and insights...

Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

Crown, 2000

Every few years a book changes the way people think about a field. In psychology there is Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence. In science, James Gleick's Chaos. In economics and finance, Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street. And in business there is now Surfing the Edge of Chaos by Richard...

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