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Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles
Original price was: $189.00.$151.20Current price is: $151.20.Add to cartBirds and reptiles have long fascinated investigators studying hearing and the auditory system. The highly evolved auditory inner ear of birds and reptiles shares many characteristics with the ear of mammals. Thus, the two groups are essential in understanding the form and function of the vertebrate and mammalian auditory systems. Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles …
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Comparative Vertebrate Lateralization
Original price was: $162.99.$130.39Current price is: $130.39.Add to cartThis book takes a comparative and integrative approach to lateralization in a wide range of vertebrate species, including humans, and highlights model systems that have proved invaluable in elucidating the function, causes, development, and evolution of lateralization. The volume is arranged in four parts, beginning with the evolution of lateralization, moving to its development, cognitive …
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Competition and Succession in Pastures
Original price was: $253.90.$203.12Current price is: $203.12.Add to cartThis book describes how competition between plant species, and succession in plant ecosystems, operate in grasslands and grazed pastures, both natural and sown. It discusses how competition both affects botanical structure, productivity and persistence of pastures and is itself regulated by biological, environmental and management factors, such as grazing animals. The book also examines the …
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Comprehensive Handbook of Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Original price was: $167.95.$134.36Current price is: $134.36.Add to cartDrugs discussed include benzodiazepine, cocaine, marijuana, phencyclidine, amphetamines, nicotine, hallucinogens, sedatives-hypnotics, anabolic-androgenic steroids, methadone, and ophioids. Also discusses drug and alcohol effects on pregnancy and the newborn, women, alcohol and drugs, alcohol and drug addiction in the elderly, eating disorders and drug and alcohol addiction, drug and alcohol addiction and AIDS, suicide in drug and …
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Conceptual Foundations of Human Factors Measurement
Original price was: $109.95.$87.96Current price is: $87.96.Add to cartDavid Meister, in his latest volume, sets explores the uncharted depths behind the most common practices and most basic principles of Human Factors (HF) and its measurement process. Seeking to question the status quo, he asks what significant changes have occurred in the discipline since its inception and what capabilities have been developed. To what …
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Constitutive Modelling of Granular Materials
Original price was: $479.00.$383.20Current price is: $383.20.Add to cartIn view of its extreme complexity the mathematical description of the mechanical behaviour of granular materials is an extremely difficult task. Today many different models compete with each other. However, the complexity of the models hinders their comparison, and the potential users are confused and, often, disencouraged. This book is expected to serve as a …
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Coral Reef Fishes
Original price was: $68.95.$55.16Current price is: $55.16.Add to cartCoral Reef Fishes is the successor of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs. This new edition includes provocative reviews covering the major areas of reef fish ecology. Concerns about the future health of coral reefs, and recognition that reefs and their fishes are economically important components of the coastal oceans of many tropical nations, …
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Corrections and the Criminal Justice System
Original price was: $176.95.$141.56Current price is: $141.56.Add to cartThis text integrates law with policies and practices, seeking consistently to show that corrections is an integral part of American criminal justice. Throughout, the systematic impact of changes in law, policies, and practices is discussed, with an emphasis on the law of corrections, including issues such as sentencing procedures, proportionality of sentences, cruel and unusual …
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Cosmetic Microbiology
Original price was: $179.95.$143.96Current price is: $143.96.Add to cartUntil now, information on cosmetic microbiology was scattered and mostly consisted of oral tradition passed on from mentors to apprentices. Finally, here is an understandable and easy-to-read guide documenting cosmetic microbiology practices. Cosmetic Microbiology: A Practical Handbook contains technical information on sanitation and the preservation of cosmetics for microbiologists as well as for process engineers, …
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Cosmetic Regulation in a Competitive Environment
Original price was: $209.95.$167.96Current price is: $167.96.Add to cartA summary of current and emerging domestic and international regulatory issues. It delineates the roles of organizations and programmes to navigate the legislative mass – for large and small personal care companies. The contributors describe the most common means of conducting safety tests to evaluate irritation, sensitization, photoirritation and photosensitization.
