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  • THE SKELETON CREW
    THE SKELETON CREW
    DEBORAH HALBER
    Solving cold cases from the comfort of your living room... "The Skeleton Crew" provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement--and one another--at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and...
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    Q. 250

  • HOW WE´LL LIVE ON MARS
    HOW WE´LL LIVE ON MARS
    PETRANEK, STEPHEN
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    Q. 170

  • HOW TO CHANGE MINDS ABOUT OUR CHANGING CLIMATE
    HOW TO CHANGE MINDS ABOUT OUR CHANGING CLIMATE
    SETH DARLING / DOUG SISTERSON / DOUGLAS L SISTERSON
    The essential climate-debate handbook everything you need to know about climate science to change mindsHave you ever heard someone say that climate change is simply the result of natural cycles? Or that there can t be global warming because it still gets so cold out? While the claims climate-change deniers make can seem, on their surface, quite plausible, they simply don t hold...
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    Q. 150

  • THE REAL COST OF FRACKING
    THE REAL COST OF FRACKING
    A pharmacologist and a veterinarian pull back the curtain on the human and animal health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" Across the country, fracking--the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing--is being touted as the nation's answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy. Drilling companies assure us that the process is safe, politici...
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    Q. 270

  • ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS
    ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS
    WILLIAM KLUG
    Known for its focus on conceptual understanding, problem solving, and practical explanations, this best-seller strengthens problem solving coverage and explores the essential genetics content today's students need to know. This edition maintains the book's briefer, less-detailed approach to teaching core concepts. New features of the Eighth Edition include four new Special Topi...
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    Q. 2.280

  • ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS
    ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS
    WILLIAM KLUG
    This valuable manual provides a detailed, step-by-step solution or extended discussion for every problem in the text in a chapter-by-chapter format. The handbook also contains extra study problems and a thorough review of the concepts and vocabulary. ...
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    Q. 1.130

  • THE END OF NIGHT
    THE END OF NIGHT
    PAUL BOGARD
    The "terrific ... moving, poetic, immersive, multifaceted, and thought-provoking" book "(Publishers Weekly) "that will open your eyes to the night. A brilliantly starry night is one of nature's most thrilling wonders. Yet in our world of nights as bright as day, most of us no longer experience true darkness. Eight out of ten Americans born today won't ever live where they can s...
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    Q. 160

  • MINIWEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
    MINIWEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
    AUSTIN, JOHN
    Author and toy designer John Austin provides detailed, step-by-step instructions with diagrams to show stealth warriors how to build 37 different ninja weapons for the modern era. Each of the projects in "MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction 4" are built from common household and office items--plastic utensils, markers, clothespins, paper clips, wire hangers, and discarded packaging...
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    Q. 170

  • THE HANDBOOK OF PEDIATRIC NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
    THE HANDBOOK OF PEDIATRIC NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
    DAVIS, ANDREW S, PHD
    This handbook covers basic neurodevelopmental research that any paediatric neuropsychologist will need to know. The authors discuss practical issues in paediatric assessment, and provide a comprehensive overview of the most common medical conditions that neuropsychologists encounter while dealing with paediatric populations. ...
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    Q. 3.345

  • NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT (5TH ED.)
    NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT (5TH ED.)
    LEZAK, MURIEL DEUTSCH / HOWIESON, DIANE B / BIGLER, ERIN D
    The long-awaited new edition of this time-honored classic has arrived. Now in its Fifth Edition, the text includes fully updated testing references and a neuroimaging primer. ...
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    Q. 2.040

  • COLOR ATLAS OF MEDICAL BACTERIOLOGY
    COLOR ATLAS OF MEDICAL BACTERIOLOGY
    DE LA MAZA, LUIS M
    A unique visual reference for the diagnostic microbiology laboratory. Conceived by a team of authors with decades of classroom and laboratory experience.Includes more than 730 brilliant, four-color images of common pathogenic bacteria and descriptions of the methods used to identify them.Valuable illustrative supplement for lectures and laboratory presentations, this easy-to-us...
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    Q. 2.525

  • REGULATION OF BACTERIAL VIRULENCE
    REGULATION OF BACTERIAL VIRULENCE
    VASIL, MICHAEL L
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    Q. 2.970

  • FORGOTTEN PEOPLE, FORGOTTEN DISEASES
    FORGOTTEN PEOPLE, FORGOTTEN DISEASES
    HOTEZ, PETER J
    The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common infections of the world s poor, but few people know about these diseases and why they are so important. This second edition of "Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases" provides an overview of the NTDs and how they devastate the poor, essentially trapping them in a vicious cycle of extreme poverty by preventing them from w...
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    Q. 565

  • SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY
    SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY
    MACRINA, FRANCIS L
    This text on scientific integrity covers topics including: ethics and the scientist; mentoring; authorship and peer review; use of humans and animals in biomedical experimentation; managing conflict of interest; and collaborative research. ...
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    Q. 915

  • GENOME PLASTICITY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
    GENOME PLASTICITY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
    HACKER, JORG
    Comprehensive examination of the current understanding of pathogen adaptation and microevolution. Introduces the rapidly evolving field of genome plasticity, presents the latest research findings, and explores the relevance of these findings to infection and infection control. Compiles and analyzes current investigations on the genome fluidity of pathogenic microbes. Explores b...
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    Q. 2.380

  • CASES IN MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
    CASES IN MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
    GILLIGAN, PETER H
    "Cases in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases" challenges students to develop a working knowledge of the variety of microorganisms that cause infections in humans. This valuable, interactive text will help them better understand the clinical importance of the basic science concepts presented in medical microbiology or infectious disease courses.The cases are presented ...
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    Q. 1.125

  • BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS
    BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS
    SALYERS, ABIGAIL A
    Discover the strategies bacterial pathogens use to survive and multiply. Focuses on core principles based on the growing understanding of the underlying similarities among pathogens and their mechanisms of action, and is a recommended text for one-semester microbiology courses. Presents the latest research to help students explore the mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens cau...
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    Q. 1.265

  • OUTBREAK
    OUTBREAK
    ANDERSON, RODNEY P
    Presenting case studies covering a broad variety of subject areas, including general, environmental & industrial microbiology this text integrates current outbreaks that have featured in news headlines. ...
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    Q. 745

  • MANUAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY 2 VOLUME SET
    MANUAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY 2 VOLUME SET
    VERSALOVIC, JAMES
    The Manual of Clinical Microbiology is the most authoritative reference in the field. ...
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    Q. 2.805

  • HANDBOOK OF MICROBIOLOGICAL MEDIA
    HANDBOOK OF MICROBIOLOGICAL MEDIA
    ATLAS, RONALD M
    Handbook of Microbiological Media, Fourth Edition is an invaluable reference for every medical, veterinary, diagnostic, and academic laboratory, and now in its fourth edition, it is even more complete. This edition carries on the tradition of CRC Press handbook excellence, listing the formulations, methods of preparation, and uses for more than 7000 microbiological media. With ...
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    Q. 3.625

  • CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY PROCEDURES HANDBOOK
    CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY PROCEDURES HANDBOOK
    GARCIA, LYNNE S
    A collaborative effort of 150+ clinical microbiologists, medical laboratory technologists, and laboratory supervisors. Provides step-by-step protocols and descriptions to enable clinical microbiologists and laboratory staff personnel to perform all analyses, including appropriate quality control recommendations, from the receipt of the specimen through processing, testing, inte...
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    Q. 3.715

  • BIODIESEL POWER
    BIODIESEL POWER
    ESTILL, LYLE
    Biodiesel in North America is in its infancy. As air quality deteriorates in major centres, governments are scrambling for ways to reduce emissions and are embracing biodiesel in their fleets. Conferences on biodiesel are often 'inaugural', as society begins discussing this fuel in earnest. Lightly touching on the technical aspects of the fuel, its qualities and specifications,...
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    Q. 200

  • WIND ENERGY BASICS
    WIND ENERGY BASICS
    GIPE, PAUL
    Paul Gipe presents an overview of the use of wind energy around the world providing information on planning, purchasing, siting, and installing a wind system and the integration of wind power with solar photovoltaics. ...
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    Q. 325

  • MARKETING GREEN BUILDINGS
    MARKETING GREEN BUILDINGS
    YUDELSON, JERRY
    Engineers, architects and contractors seeking to expand their involvement in the green buildings market need a firm grounding in the marketing strategies and tactics which are being used most successfully in this specialized and growing field. This book is intended to serve as an effective tool for professional green building enthusiasts and advocates in presenting green design...
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    Q. 2.195

  • POWERING THE DREAM
    POWERING THE DREAM
    MADRIGAL, ALEXIS
    Eye-opening micro-histories about America's energy past, with an eye to the future...A well-told cautionary tale about the need for widespread renewable energy production.--Kirkus Reviews ...
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    Q. 195

  • ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
    ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
    HATCHER
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    Q. 480

  • PLANET OF THE BUGS
    PLANET OF THE BUGS
    SHAW, SCOTT RICHARD
    Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer space - where, Shaw proposes, insect - like aliens may have achieved similar preeminence. This book spins an account of insects' evolution from humble arthropod ancestors into the bugs we know and love (or fear and hate) today. ...
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    Q. 280

  • MARAVILLAS Y MISTERIOS DE LA FÍSICA CUÁNTICA
    MARAVILLAS Y MISTERIOS DE LA FÍSICA CUÁNTICA
    LUIS GONZALEZ DE ALBA
    Todos los pueblos antiguos comenzaron por explicarse los fenómenos naturales atribuyéndolos a seres poderosos e invisibles. Para todos los pueblos antiguos, el mundo era incomprensible salvo como capricho de dioses y espíritus. Sin embargo, los humanos comenzaron a encontrar regularidades en la naturaleza, las más notorias de las cuales podían observarse en el cielo: el sol, la...
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    Q. 210

  • LA CIENCIA, LA CALLE Y OTRAS MENTIRAS
    LA CIENCIA, LA CALLE Y OTRAS MENTIRAS
    LUIS GONZALEZ DE ALBA
    ¿La ciencia en la calle? En efecto, mientras el puritanismo cultural que da en tomar a la ciencia como un recinto inviolable y prohibido a legos y profanos, se sorprende ante este atrevimiento –esta serie de atrevimientos- de Luis González de Alba: Quitarle a la ciencia la bata blanca, o la toga y el birrete, y ponerla a circular en traje de calle, con playera y zapatos cómodos...
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    Q. 125

  • ANIMAL WEAPONS
    ANIMAL WEAPONS
    EMLEN, DOUGLAS J
    The story behind the stunning, extreme weapons we see in the animal world--teeth and horns and claws--and what they can tell us about the way humans develop and use arms and other weaponsIn "Animal Weapons, " Doug Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the ...
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    Q. 300