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  • Bioprospecting

    Success, Potential and Constraints

    Edited by Russell Paterson, Nelson Lima ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book considers all aspects of bioprospecting in 14 succinct chapters and a forward by David Hawksworth. The organisms addressed include plants, insects, fungi, bacteria and phages. Bioprospecting has never been more relevant and is of renewed interest, because of the extremely worrying rise in novel, resistant pathogenic microorganisms. The practices in pharmaceutical companies have failed to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Biotransformations in Organic Chemistry

    A Textbook

    by Kurt Faber ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    The use of biocatalysts, employed either as isolated enzymes or whole microbial cells, offers a remarkable arsenal of highly selective transformations for state-of-the-art synthetic organic chemistry. Over the last two decades, this methodology has become an indispensable tool for asymmetric synthesis, not only at the academic level, but also on an industrial scale.This well-established textbook ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Surviving the 21st Century

    Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

    by Julian Cribb ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of Fruit Ripening

    by Graham Seymour, Gregory A. Tucker, Mervin Poole, James Giovannoni ...
    A comprehensive and mechanistic perspective on fruit ripening, emphasizing commonalities and differences between fruit groups and ripening processes.Fruits are an essential part of the human diet and contain important phytochemicals that provide protection against heart disease and cancers. Fruit ripening is of importance for human health and for industry-based strategies to harness natural ... Read more

    $197.00 USD

  • Successful Agricultural Innovation in Emerging Economies

    New Genetic Technologies for Global Food Production

    Edited by David J. Bennett, Richard C. Jennings ...
    World population is forecast to grow from 7 to 9 billion by 2050, 1 in 6 is already hungry and food production must increase by 70-100% if it is to feed this growing population. No single solution will solve this problem but recent developments in the genetic technologies of plant breeding can help to increase agricultural efficiencies and save people from hunger in a sustainable manner, ... Read more

    $61.49 USD

  • Biodiversity, Natural Products And Cancer Treatment

    by Victor Kuete, Thomas Efferth ...
    This book is the first of its kind in bringing together biodiversity, chemical ecology, phytochemistry and cancer therapy. The highlight of the book is an exhaustive compilation of scientific data on biodiversity of medicinal plants, biodiversity and metagenomics, chemical ecology of medicinal plants, chemical ecology of marine organisms, natural products from terrestrial microbial organisms with ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Forest and Nature Governance

    A Practice Based Approach

    Edited by Bas Arts, Jelle Behagel, Séverine van Bommel, Esther Turnhout, Jessica de Koning ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Today, problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and illegal logging have provoked various policy responses that are often referred to as forest and nature governance. In its broadest interpretation, governance is about the many ways in which public and private actors from the state, market and/or civil society govern public issues at multiple scales. This book takes a fresh perspective on ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Halophiles

    Biodiversity and Sustainable Exploitation

    Edited by Dinesh K Maheshwari, Meenu Saraf ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The world of halophiles is quite diverse and their representatives in three domains of life i.e. archaea, bacteria and eukarya. They are found all over the small subunit rRNA based tree of life and these micro-organisms are adapted to salt concentration up to saturation hence able to grow at >300g/l Nacl concentration. Their metabolic diversity is high as well encompassing oxygenic and anoxygenic ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Mendel's Ark

    Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction

    by Amy Lynn Fletcher ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis accelerates, conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as reproductive cloning, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and bioinformatics in the urgent effort to save species.Mendel's Ark considers the ethical, cultural and social implications of using these tools for wildlife conservation. Drawing ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sharks: Conservation, Governance and Management

    Edited by Erika J. Techera, Natalie Klein ...
    Series series Earthscan Oceans
    The key aim of this book is to explore the global conservation and management of sharks. There has been a rapid decline in populations of many shark species, while new science has emerged of the critical role they play in marine ecosystems. However, the authors show that conservation law and policy have been slow to develop, with only a small number of iconic species being protected worldwide. The ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Investigations

    by Stuart A. Kauffman ...
    "It may be that I have stumbled upon an adequate description of life itself." These modest yet profound words trumpet an imminent paradigm shift in scientific, economic, and technological thinking. In the tradition of Schrödinger's classic What Is Life?, Kauffman's Investigations is a tour-de-force exploration of the very essence of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD