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Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers
This is an insiders account of 50 years of genetic studies of the soil-inhabiting microbes that produce most of the antibiotics used to treat infections, as well as anti-cancer, anti-parasitic and immunosuppressant drugs. The book begins by describing how these microbes the actinomycetes were discovered in the latter part of the nineteenth... | | Jasmine JavaScript Testing
From a little renegade scripting language to the de facto standard platform of today, JavaScript has become a universal language available in the widest range of devices; it is truly the 'write once, run everywhere’ language. However, as JavaScript applications become more complicated, testing and applying sustainable software... | | The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (Comedia)
This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology.
Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography studies, a range of key topics... |
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Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia: Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space
In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture, and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural element, the door is not merely a practical, constructional solution. Doors control access, generate movement, and demark boundaries, yet also serve... | | Concepts of Modern Catalysis and KineticsUntil now, the literature has offered a rather limited approach to the use of fundamental kinetics and their application to catalytic reactions. Subsequently, this book spans the full range from fundamentals of kinetics and heterogeneous catalysis via modern experimental and theoretical results of model studies to their equivalent large-scale... | | Google and the Culture of Search
What did you do before Google?
The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study... |
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Energy Evolution (The Eco-Technology Series)Coincidence? Or perhaps not! Standing as we are on the threshold of a new era, the first dawning of a new age, there is an air of expectancy of things imminent and better. In a certain sense this has psychologically programmed us with a willingness to embrace new concepts, to inaugurate and accept far-reaching change. It is also a time to reflect... | | Instrumentation and Sensors for the Food Industry, Second EditionAn authoritative and practical guide to the range of instrumentation and sensors available to the food technology professional. Revised to include new developments and techniques, including the development of on-line sensors for immediate analysis and control of production.
The enjoyable, everyday food in an industrialized society relies... | | Polyurethane and Related Foams: Chemistry and Technology
Polyurethane foams debuted over 60 years ago. At the present time these types
of foams make up the largest segment in the thermosetting foam industry.
This book describes polyurethane (PUR) and urethane linkage-modified
polyisocyanurate (PIR) foams. A characteristic of these foams lies in the
versatility of their physical... |
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