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Mechanical evaluation strategies for plastics
Woodhead Publishing Limited 2001; US$ 265.00Thermoplastics, being non-linear viscoelastic, impose constraints on testing which are absent in elastic and plastic materials. End products manufactured from them are often anisotropic, complicating the relationships between laboratory test data and service performance. This new book explains recently developed testing strategies for providing service-pertinent... more...
Valuing Ecosystem Services
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book provides guidance on the valuation of ecosystem services, using the case of multifunctional wetlands to illustrate and make recommendations regarding the methods and techniques that can be applied to appraise management options. It provides... more...
Lecture Notes on Clinical Skills
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2002; US$ 49.95The basic principles of taking a complete history, examining a patient thoroughly, requesting the appropriate investigation and coming to a diagnosis are now recognised as being of great importance. This book aims to clearly teach these principles. more...
Health Systems Confront Poverty
World Health Organization 2003; US$ 36.00Health care systems across the WHO European Region have done and are doing much to tackle the complex and daunting problem of poverty and health. This book describes 12 initiatives already undertaken in 10 WHO Member States. It documents WHO's preliminary findings on how health care systems can help to alleviate poverty, and reaches three main conclusions:... more...
Core Concepts in Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanochemistry
Wiley 2007; US$ 169.00Supramolecular chemistry and nanochemistry are two strongly interrelated cutting edge frontiers in research in the chemical sciences. The results of recent work in the area are now an increasing part of modern degree courses and hugely important to researchers. Core Concepts in Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanochemistry clearly outlines the fundamentals... more...
Stanford University
Springer 2006; US$ 24.95With the many additions to the campus of Stanford University since the publication of our book, including the Frances Arrillaga Alumni Center by Hoover Associates / The SWA Group, the James H. Clark Center for Bio Sciences & Bio Engineering by Foster and Partners / Peter Walker and Partners, and the Carnegie Institution by Esherik Homsey Dodge and... more...
Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 224.99This highly topical study of tropical deforestation reports on the first phase of a large, integrated, multi-institutional, and team-based study. Based in Mexico, it is designed to understand and project land changes in a development frontier that pits the rapidly growing needs of smallholder farmers to cut down forests for cultivation against federally... more...
Cruise of the Pintail
LSU Press 2011; US$ 30.00The journal of a young, ambitious Fonville Winans is reproduced in Cruise of the Pintail: A Journal, which layers the now legendary photographer's unique voice over his iconic photographic record of that journey. Fonville Winans sailed on his boat, The Pintail, during the summers of 1932 and 1934 to swamps, barrier islands, and reefs, from Grand Isle... more...
Coordination Polymers
Royal Society of Chemistry 2008; US$ 224.00Awarded the 2009 Olle Prize! The field of coordination polymer research has undergone rapid expansion in recent years. No longer are these materials the vaguely defined 'insoluble material' at the bottom of your vessel that spell death for your reaction. They have gone from 'polymeric rubbish' to 'materials of the future'. Great... more...









