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Witness to America
Original price was: $39.95.$31.96Current price is: $31.96.Add to cart“The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.” — John F. Kennedy In this newly revised and updated edition, two of our most distinguished historians, Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley, bring together a stunning collection of eyewitness accounts and illustrations that chronicles the American experience from the perspectives of those who …
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Women’s Lives and Public Policy
Original price was: $84.00.$67.20Current price is: $67.20.Add to cartAt all levels of government–from the international to the local–public policies are formulated mainly by men, but their impacts are felt, sometimes differently, by women, men, and children. This book considers the impact of public policy on various aspects of women’s lives, including sex and birth, marriage and death, work and child rearing, and women’s …
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Working with Dynamic Crop Models
Original price was: $115.00.$92.00Current price is: $92.00.Add to cartMathematical models are being used more and more widely to study complex dynamic systems (global weather, ecological systems, hydrological systems, nuclear reactors etc. including the specific subject of this book, crop-soil systems). The models are important aids in understanding, predicting and managing these systems. Such models are complex and imperfect. One fundamental research direction is …
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World Enough & Time
Original price was: $22.95.$18.36Current price is: $18.36.Add to cartWorld Enough & Time focuses on the positive effect of deliberately simple living on creativity. McEwen juxtaposes religious traditions of both the East and West, and intertwines words of wisdom from writers ranging from Montaigne to Ralph Waldo Emerson and from Virginia Woolf to Jack Kerouac to Adrienne Rich, artists and musicians from John Ruskin …
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World Spatial Metadata Standards
Original price was: $295.00.$236.00Current price is: $236.00.Add to cartWorld Spatial Metadata Standards represents years of work by the ICA Spatial Data Standards Commission during the 1995-2003 ICA cycles. It consists of an Introduction and six Regional Summary chapters that describe the spatial metadata activities happening in Europe, North America, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa/Middle East, and the ISO community. These chapters provide the broader …
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World Textiles Atlas
Original price was: $99.95.$79.96Current price is: $79.96.Add to cartThe World Textiles Thesaurus provides a unique hierarchical overview of all key concepts that are relevant to navigating scientific literature in the textiles and fibres domain. Both the Tree Structure and Term Relations are available for building sophisticated search strategies. In constructing the World Textiles Thesaurus, the same editorial rules were applied as to other …
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Written in Bones
Original price was: $49.95.$39.96Current price is: $39.96.Add to cartThis work by international experts shows how the careful study of bones can reveal a compelling picture of the lives, cultures and beliefs of ancient societies. It reveals 36 case studies from sites around the world, including the world’s oldest dwarf and the Chinchorro mummies of Chile.
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Yeast Biotechnology
Original price was: $339.00.$271.20Current price is: $271.20.Add to cartBiotechnology is now established as a major area of technology, concerned with the application of biological organisms, systems, or processes to manufacturing or service industries. Although human exploitation of organisms is not new, many of the techniques that are stimulating rapid advances in biotechnology have developed from recent scientific discoveries. Throughout history, man has, knowingly …
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Yeast Genetic Engineering
Original price was: $47.95.$38.36Current price is: $38.36.Add to cartAn illustration of the impressive development of yeast gene expression systems accomplished in recent years which demonstrates the power of these systems for the production of proteins in quantities useful as therapeutics, industrial enzymes and research agents.
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Yeasts in Natural and Artificial Habitats
Original price was: $329.00.$263.20Current price is: $263.20.Add to cartThis book is an attempt to introduce the general reader, and possibly some interested specialists, to the lives of the yeasts in their natural and more artificial habitats, their use by human beings, and to give some idea of the wonderfully complex activities within the yeast cell, the characteristics of the metabolism and molecular biology of yeasts, and the applications of these characteristics to life in the present-day world of human existence.
