Providing the latest information on the effects of environmental contaminants and biodiversity issues on wildlife, this comprehensive reference identifies and documents examples of chemical stressor exposures and responses among ecosystem receptors worldwide. Experts in the field, contributors examine new findings on wildlife toxicology of munitions-related compounds, agriculture, and biofuels. Chapters address emerging diseases and expansion of pesticides/contaminants use, impacts on biodiversity, atmospheric contaminants and climate change, population modeling, and emerging transnational issues in ecotoxicology. Several case studies throughout the book emphasize emerging contaminant and biodiversity issues.
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Biodiversity
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
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Discussing the science, technology, and philosophy of organic agriculture, this book addresses relevant issues and concepts along with practical applications. Chapters cover soil fertility and plant nutrition; individual plant requirements; liming; farm manures, green manures, and composts; mulching and tillage; and weed, insect, and disease control, as well as companion planting and storage. Accessible to undergraduate students in organic farming and gardening, and sustainable agriculture, the text includes a glossary with common technical and scientific terms used in conventional and organic agriculture.
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Crop Science
Soil Science
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Now with color photographs and illustrations throughout, this third edition of a bestseller continues to provide a wealth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades. With an emphasis on natural history, the text is unified around themes of biogeography and ecosystem functions of the plant and animal communities. It presents current and historical geology, discussions of human impacts, ecosystem degradation, planned restoration, and socioeconomic aspects of the Everglades ecosystem. It includes more than 30 maps of historical and ecological importance.
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Water Engineering
Marine & Aquatic Science
Biodiversity
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The new edition of this highly respected text explores advances in specific therapeutic approaches and other key information that is otherwise available only through multiple sources. It offers pharmacological, anatomical, and physiological information for basic therapeutic rationales that are not well understood in the field. Expanding coverage from the last edition, it includes details on metabolic and bioenergetic factors in brain injury, neuroendocrine dysfunction following brain injury, blast injury, ethical issues in treatment of brain injury, interventions for the minimally conscious patient, neuropharmacological and neuropsychological interventions following brain injury, and dietary and exercise considerations after brain injury.
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Neurology
Rehabilitation Medicine
Medical & Healthcare Law
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This third edition describes and illustrates more than 515 fungal species, including 49 oomycetous, 35 zygomycetous, 49 ascomycetous, 38 basidiomycetous, and 344 anamorphic species. All fungi are described alphabetically in order of Oomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Anamorphic (Deuteromycetous) fungi. For each genus, the atlas includes type species, references, morphology, and materials. The book illustrates all fungi alongside morphologies and colonies of their fresh agar cultures or dried specimens, providing ready access to morphologically similar fungi for quick comparison. This edition also contains a bonus CD-ROM, which includes color versions of all images from the book.
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Agriculture
Botany
Microbiology
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Molecular modeling is becoming an increasingly important part of chemical research and education. This volume provides the fundamental theory needed to understand not only what molecular modeling programs do, but also the gist of research papers that describe molecular modeling results. It begins by examining the potential energy surface (PES). It explores ways to calculate energy by molecular and quantum mechanics. It describes molecular properties and the condensed phase, and shows how to extract and interpret information from a program output. The author uses hands-on exercises to illustrate concepts and he supplements the text with a blog containing animated tutorials and interactive figures.
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Chemistry
Mathematical Physics
Chemical Physics
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Exploring issues that confront today’s drug interdiction officer, this book explains how to initiate specific domestic drug interdiction programs and how to use business partnerships to assist law enforcement in identifying potential violators. It examines consensual encounters, drug canines, and interdictions involving trains, buses, airports, and rental vehicles. It also covers interdiction investigations at hotels and those involving storage units and parcel systems. The book includes a chapter on currency seizures as well as chapters on report writing, courtroom testimony, and the role of the interdiction supervisor. Each chapter includes relevant case law that supports the protocol described.
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Forensic Science - Law
Terrorism
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A practical guide to environmental, safety, and occupational health audits, this book allows organizations and business to avoid expensive external auditors and retain the knowledge and learning in-house. In contrast to the over-academic and uninspiring tone of most auditing books, this text gives accessible user-friendly advice in a step by step manner. Building on novel auditing techniques designed to overcome common problems in the audit process, emphasizes accurate auditing that is representative and repeatable. It allows any competent manager or safety/environmental officer to undertake in-house audits in a competent and reproducible fashion.
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Health & Safety
Quality Control & Reliability
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Ideal for product developers, this book provides a complete, practical, and accessible introduction to photoinitiators and their commercial use. The text describes the chemical mechanisms of how these materials work from the energy delivered by UV light and the use of the many different groups of photoinitiators in diverse applications. It highlights individual differences and discusses what particular effects they bring to end-products. Based on more than 30 years of experience working with photoinitiators, the author also covers many relevant practical factors, such as surface and depth cure, oxygen inhibition, and yellowing effects.
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Industrial Chemistry
Materials Science
Organic Chemistry
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This book focuses on various facets of stainless steel, including processing, component design, properties, fabrication, and applications. It covers a broad spectrum of topics spanning the entire life cycle of stainless steel, from alloy design and characterization to engineering design, fabrication, mechanical properties, corrosion, quality assurance of components, in-service performance assessment, and life prediction and failure analysis of materials and components. Exploring contemporary developments in stainless steels, the text discusses component design, modeling and structural integrity, manufacturing technology, property evaluation, alloy development and applications, nondestructive evaluation methods, and corrosion and surface modification.
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Materials Science
Metals & Alloys
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