Libros de Ciencia - STEM 2487 resultados

Vasil, Michael L

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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

Versalovic, James

The Manual of Clinical Microbiology is the most authoritative reference in the field. ...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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. ...

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...

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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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. ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Mcallister, Ian

The Great Bear Rainforest is the fabled region that stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from the top of Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of the area, award-winning photographer and conservationist Ian McAllister takes us on a deeply personal journey from the headwaters of the Great Bear Rainforest's unexplored river valleys down to where the ocean meet...

One thousand million years ago, a huge revolution occurred on Earth-sex happened for the first time. From that moment on, the world became ever more colorful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided, generation after generation, in an unbroken chain of sex going back to the dawn of comple...

Fleischman, Paul

Paul Fleischman offers teens an environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting them. We're living in an Ah-Ha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never before seen. The downsides weren't visible for centuries, but now they are. Suddenly everything ...

Italo Calvino

Simon Singh

De cómo la serie más longeva y exitosa de la historia de la televisión trató, por todos los medios, de hacernos amar el cálculo, el álgebra y la geometría. Aunque muchos han tratado de encontrar enseñanzas filosóficas, psicológicas o incluso literarias en Los Simpson, lo cierto es que si hay una disciplina por la que sus guionistas sientes devoción, esa es las matemáticas. Ya e...

Degrasse Tyson, Neil / Donald Goldsmith

Una exploración accesible y magníficamente bien escrita sobre las profundas aguas de la cosmología, la astrofísica y la exobiología. Nuestros verdaderos orígenes no son sólo humanos, ni siquiera terrestres, sino cósmicos. Orígenes es un libro sorprendente y absorbente, que empieza con el Big Bang y termina con la búsque da de vida extraterrestre, en el cual los autores sintetiz...

Ian Stewart

At its heart, mathematics is about numbers, our fundamental tools for understanding the world. In Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart offers a delightful introduction to the numbers that surround us, from the common (Pi and 2) to the uncommon but no less consequential (1.059463 and 43,252,003,274,489,856,000). Along the way, Stewart takes us through prime number...

Matt Ridley

Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture -- including why men propose marriage, the method be...

Edward Keller

Marc Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-531) and index.Table of Contents:1. Introduction to Natural Hazards 2. Internal Structure of Earth and Plate Tectonics 3. Earthquakes 4. Tsunamis 5. Volcanoes 6. Flooding 7. Mass Wasting 8. Subsidence and Soils 9. Atmospheric Processes and Severe Weather 10. Hurricanes and Extratropical Cyclones 11. Coastal Hazards 12. C...

Mark Maslin & Bill Macguire

Review Quotes:"Further, this book convincingly demonstrates the need for greater inclusion of the geoscience research community in discussions on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction planning." ("Geological Journal", 25 February 2014)"I heartily recommend this book. We all have a stake in surviving climate change." ("International Journal of Environmental Studi...

Kyoji Sassa / Hiroshi Fukuoka

Review Quotes:From the reviews: This volume represents the proceedings of the First General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides which was held in Washington . The illustrations and images are mainly of the highest quality. I highly recommend the book as a library resource for all institutions. Professionals involved in landslide work will find several interes...