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Artificial Chemistries
The field of Artificial life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth. The new field of artificial chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal. For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from pirmi…
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- 9780262329460
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- 1 online resource (xv, 555 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Chemicals without Harm: Policies for a Sustainable World
Today, there are thousands of synthetic chemicals used to make our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronic devices, even our children's toys. Many of these chemicals help us live longer and more comfortable lives, but some of these highly useful chemicals are also persistent, toxic, and dangerous to our health and the environment. For fifty years, the conventional approach to hazard…
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- 9780262327015
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- 1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) :illustrations.
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Global biomass burning : atmospheric, climatic, and biospheric implications
The burning of biomass - forests, grasslands, and agricultural fields after the harvest - is much more widespread and extensive than previously believed; most biomass burning is thought to be initiated by humans and is on the increase. This comprehensive volume is the first to consider biomass burning as a global phenomenon and to assess its impact on the atmosphere, on climate, and on the bios…
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- 9780262310895
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 569 pages) : illustrations, maps
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- 620 GLO
CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge
An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth's natural cooling process. Melting Ar…
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- 9780262285612
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 223 pages)
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The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depressio…
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- 9780262275491
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- 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) :illustrations, photographs.
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The dynamic neuron
"A Bradford book."The traditional model of synapses as fixed structures has been replaced by a dynamic one in which synapses are constantly being deleted and replaced. This book, written by a leading researcher on the neurochemistry of schizophrenia, integrates material from neuroscience and cell biology to provide a comprehensive account of our current knowledge of the neurochemical basis of s…
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- 9780262283984
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- 1 online resource (viii, 150 pages) :illustrations
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Computational Modeling of Genetic and Biochemical Networks
"A Bradford book."The advent of ever more sophisticated molecular manipulation techniques has made it clear that cellular systems are far more complex and dynamic than previously thought. At the same time, experimental techniques are providing an almost overwhelming amount of new data. It is increasingly apparent that linking molecular and cellular structure to function will require the use of …
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- 9780262269056
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- 1 online resource (xx, 336 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Instruments and experimentation in the history of chemistry
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275590
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 415 pages) : illustrations.
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- Dibner Institute Studies In The History Of Science And Technology
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Neither physics nor chemistry :a history of quantum chemistry
The authors of this book examine the evolution of quantum chemistry into an autonomous discipline, tracing its development from the publication of early papers in the 1920s to the dramatic changes brought about by the use of computers in the 1970s.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298759
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) :illustrations.
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The beauty of chemistry :art, wonder, and science
Includes index."This book will combine photographs with evocative text to show how chemistry underpins the formation of snowflakes, the patterns of animal markings, and much more"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363526
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