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  • PHEs, Environment and Human Health

    Potentially harmful elements in the environment and the impact on human health

    Edited by Claudio Bini, Jaume Bech ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is dedicated to the occurrence and behaviour of PHEs in the different compartments of the environment, with special reference to soil. Current studies of PHEs in ecosystems have indicated that many industrial areas near urban agglomerates, abandoned or active mines, major road systems and ultimately also agricultural land act as sources and at the same time sinks, of PHEs and large ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Assessment, Restoration and Reclamation of Mining Influenced Soils

    Edited by Jaume Bech, Claudio Bini, Mariya A Pashkevich ...
    Assessment, Restoration and Reclamation of Mining Influenced Soils covers processes operating in the environment as a result of mining activity, including the whole spectra of negative effects of anthropopressure and the environment, from changes in soil chemistry, changes in soil physical properties, geomechanical disturbances, and mine water discharges. Mining activity and its waste are an ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

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  • The Science of Everyday Life

    Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine

    by Marty Jopson ...
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  • Toxicology of Organophosphate and Carbamate Compounds

    Edited by Ramesh C. Gupta ...
    This text/reference book provides the most comprehensive coverage of anticholinesterase compounds (Organophosphates and Carbamates), which constitute the largest number of chemicals that are primarily used as insecticides in agriculture, industry, and around the home/garden. Some OPs (nerve agents) have been used in chemical warfare and terrorist attacks, while some OPs and CMs have been ... Read more

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  • Mercury Poisoning, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions

    by Kenneth Kee ...
    Mercury poisoning is a medical disorder induced by exposure to mercury or its compounds.The consumption of fish is by far the most important source of ingestion-linked mercury exposure in humans and animals.Plants and livestock also have mercury due to bio-concentration of mercury from seawater, freshwater, marine and sediments, soils, and atmosphere.Mercury is a geologically occurring element ... Read more

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  • What's In This Stuff?

    The Hidden Toxins in Everyday Products - and What You Can Do About Them

    by Patricia Thomas ...
    We all like to buy things that make our lives easier, keep us healthy and provide a bit of luxury. But, few of us are aware that many of the products we buy every day are polluting our homes and bodies. In this fascinating and sometimes shocking book, Pat Thomas reveals that many widely-used products contain a cocktail of cheap, poorly-tested chemicals that are implicated in long-term health ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Ecosystems and Human Health

    Toxicology and Environmental Hazards, Third Edition

    by Richard B. Philp ...
    Since the second edition of this text was published, many new environmental incidents have occurred, including another nuclear disaster, a mine disaster in the United States, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Updated throughout the text, Ecosystems and Human Health: Toxicology and Environmental Hazards, Third Edition explores the broad range of env ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability

    Volume 1

    Edited by Ram Prasad ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes. Remediation through fungi—or mycoremediation—has multifarious possibilities in applied remediation engineering and the future of environmental sustainability. Fungi have the biochemical and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Fish Physiology: Homeostasis and Toxicology of Essential Metals

    by Chris M. Wood, Colin Brauner, Anthony P. Farrell ...
    Series Book 31 - Fish Physiology
    Homeostasis and Toxicology of Essential Metals synthesizes the explosion of new information on the molecular, cellular, and organismal handling of metals in fish in the past 15 years. These elements are no longer viewed by fish physiologists as "heavy metals" that kill fish by suffocation, but rather as interesting moieties that enter and leave fish by specific pathways, which are subject to ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • Nutrient Use Efficiency: from Basics to Advances

    Edited by Amitava Rakshit, Harikesh Bahadur Singh, Avijit Sen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses in detail multifaceted approaches to boosting nutrient use efficiency (NUE) that are modified by plant interactions with environmental variables and combine physiological, microbial, biotechnological and agronomic aspects. Conveying an in-depth understanding of the topic will spark the development of new cultivars and strains to induce NUE, coupled with best management ... Read more

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  • Biotechnology for the Environment: Strategy and Fundamentals

    Edited by W. Reineke, Spiros Agathos ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    At the dawn of the 21st century, biotechnology is emerging as a key enabling technology for sustainable environmental protection and stewardship. Biotechnology for the Environment: Strategy and Fundamentals captures the dynamism of environmental biotechnology as it addresses the molecular functioning of microorganisms as cleanup agents, their communal interactions in natural and polluted ... Read more

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