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Marine Chemical Ecology (Marine Science)

CRC Press, 2001

The interdisciplinary field of marine chemical ecology is an expanding and dynamic science. It is no surprise that the breadth of marine organisms studied expanded in concert with developments in underwater technology. With its up-to-date subject reviews by experts, Marine Chemical Ecology is the most current, comprehensive book on the...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Harper Perennial, 2001

The Challenge:
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good...

Glucose Metabolism in the Brain, Volume 51 (International Review of Neurobiology.)

Academic Press, 2002

Glucose is an essential energy source for the adult human brain. When blood glucose levels fall by half from a normal fasting value (to about 2–3 mM), there is some cognitive impairment and, at glucose levels below 1 mM, mental confusion is evident and coma may result from sustained glucose deprivation. Recent studies...

Sertoli Cell Biology (Vol 1)

Academic Press, 2004

In 1993 Lonnie Russell and Michael Griswold edited a book titled The Sertoli Cell, which has served as a major resource for investigators interested in male reproduction. It is appropriate that now—more than 10 years later—the advances in this field are summarized in this new text. It is also appropriate that...

Cisplatin: Chemistry and Biochemistry of a Leading Anticancer Drug

John Wiley & Sons, 1999

30 years after its discovery as an antitumor agent, cisplatin represents today one of the most successful drugs in chemotherapy. This book is intended to reminisce this event, to take inventory, and to point out new lines of development in this field. Divided in 6 sections and 22 chapters, the book provides an up-to-date account on topics...

Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

How cognitive psychology explains human creativity

Conventional wisdom holds that creativity is a mysterious quality present in a select few individuals. The rest of us, the common view goes, can only stand in awe of great creative achievements: we could never paint Guernica or devise the structure of the DNA molecule because...

Macroeconomics: Principles and Policy

Cengage Learning, 2008

As usual, when preparing a new edition, we have made many small changes to improve clarity of exposition and to update the text both for recent economics events and for relevant advances in the literature. But this time we have focused on one particular addition that will, so far as we have been able to find out, differentiate this...

Contrast Agents III: Radiopharmaceuticals - From Diagnostics to Therapeutics (Topics in Current Chemistry) (v. 3)

Springer, 2005

It is the objective of this review to introduce the reader to the current status of organometallic chemistry, oriented towards the development of novel 99mTc-based imaging agents. This type of inorganic chemistry has nowadays become part of so-called bioorganometallic chemistry.

The article describes the current...

Creatine and Creatine Phosphate: Scientific and Clinical Perspectives

Academic Press, 1996

Creatine and creatine phosphate (CP, also called phosphocreatine, PCr) are

important metabolites in high-energy phosphorus metabolism. They rank with dietary carbohydrates fats, proteins and other compounds as central components of the metabolic system involved in the provision of energy for work and exercise performance....

Biologic Therapy of Leukemia (Contemporary Hematology)

Humana Press, 2003

In the latter part of the 20th century, hematologists and medical oncologists were trained to treat leukemia with systemic therapy that was cytotoxic to both normal and malignant cells. Some of these therapies, such as methotrexate and L-asparaginase, were developed within the context of known biologic pathophysiology, but most...

Real-Resumes for Computer Jobs (Real-Resumes Series)

Prep Publishing, 2001

Every resume and cover letter in this book actually worked. And most of the resumes and cover letters have common features: all are one-page, all are in the chronological format, and all resumes are accompanied by a companion cover letter. The book is divided into three parts. Part One provides some advice about job hunting. Step...

Ocular Angiogenesis: Diseases, Mechanisms, and Therapeutics (Ophthalmology Research)

Humana Press, 2006

Angiogenesis is of fundamental importance in development, health, and disease. The study of angiogenesis in the eye, in particular, has increased exponentially in the last decade because retinal and choroidal neovascularization play an important role in the major blinding diseases of the industrialized world and represent an...

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