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Biological resource centers (BRCs) collect, certify, and distribute organisms for use in research and in the development of commercial products in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, and biotechnology industries.

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The authors of the eleven chapters in this book approach the subject from a variety of viewpoints, ranging from an analysis of molecular changes within differentiating cells to a consideration of the factors governing the transplantation of normal and abnormal tissues. The book is based on papers presented at the Twelfth Growth Symposium of the Soc

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Presents the history of biology in America over two hundred years. This book describes the establishment of biology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth century, and the retreat of life scientists from the problems of American nature.

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This text introduces and draws together pertinent aspects of fluid dynamics, physical oceanography, solid mechanics, and organismal biology to provide a much-needed set of tools for quantitatively examining the biological effects of ocean waves. "Nowhere on earth does water move as violently as on wave-swept coasts," writes the author, "and every b

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A reference work for mycologists, microbiologists, and botanists interested in symbiosis and chemosystematics. Lawrey synthesizes research on or related to the fungi and other microorganisms, puts it into perspective in order to eliminate the difficulties in using lichens as research organisms.

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How can students, teachers, parents, and librarians be certain that the information a Web site provides is accurate and age appropriate

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The study of bioluminescence--visible light emitted by living organisms--is truly in progress, as these 35 papers contributed by 49 of the leading scientists active in this field attest. Not since E. Newton Harvey's Bioluminescence in 1952 has there appeared a more comprehensive and critical study. The approaches to the subject range from the purel

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Understanding biomesthe communities of nature that share a similar climate and plant and animal lifeis key to a student's success in biology, geography, and environmental studies.

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Wohlsen delivers a chronicle of DIY biotech scientists and their idealistic quest to democratize DNA like the Internet did information.

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Biosociology is an emerging paradigm seeking to understand human behavior by integrating relevant insights from the natural sciences into traditional sociological thinking. Biosociology posits no ultimate causes of human behavior, rather it seeks to understand how biological factors interact with other factors to produce observed behavior.

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The Netherlands Antilles comprises the three main islands of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire. They are major tourist destinations, especially popular with divers. This will be the first ever comprehensive field guide dedicated to the birds of the region.

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Elliptic equations of critical Sobolev growth have been the target of investigation for decades because they have proved to be of great importance in analysis, geometry, and physics. The equations studied here are of the well-know Yamabe type.

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The first book to bring together the many different everyday gestures that are used all over the world. The result is a fascinating reference book of over 600 different gestures from Europe, the Middle East, North & South America and the Far East.

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Offers an overview of what is known about the structure and mechanics of bone, bones, and teeth. This work shows how bone structure and bone's mechanical properties are intimately bound up with each other and how the mechanical properties of the material interact with the structure of whole bones to produce an adapted structure.

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Are reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer baby" method.

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This book has as its subject the boundary value theory of holomorphic functions in several complex variables, a topic that is just now coming to the forefront of mathematical analysis. For one variable, the topic is classical and rather well understood. In several variables, the necessary understanding of holomorphic functions via partial different

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This process reveals those characteristics of mechanical explanations that make them superior to elemental theories of chemical explanation, characteristics that have become an enduring feature of the scientific enterprise.

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In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brainfrom the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the present timeGross attempts to answer the question of how the discipline of neuroscience evolved into its modern incarnation through the twists and turns of history.