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Pioneer Photographers of the Far West

A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865

By: Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn

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Pioneer Photographers of the Far West

A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865

By: Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn

This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.

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Stanford University Press

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0804738831

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The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals)

Essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century

By: Peter Mathias

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The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals)

Essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century

By: Peter Mathias

First published in 1979, The Transformation of England discusses the creation in late eighteenth century England of the industrial system and thereby the present world. Professor Mathias poses questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are his principal scholarly concern. This series of essays is divided into two groups. The first group of essays focuses upon general themes such as the 'uniqueness' in Europe of the industrial revolution, capital formation, taxation, the growth of skills, science and technical change, leisure and wages, and diagnoses of poverty. In the second section, Professor Mathias focuses on the social structure in the eighteenth century, considering the industrialization of brewing, coinage, agriculture and the drink industries, advances in public health and the armed forces, British and American public finance in the War of Independence, Dr Johnson and the business world.

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Routledge

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1136464395

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9781136464393

Learning to Teach English and the Language Arts

A Vygotskian Perspective on Beginning Teachers’ Pedagogical Concept Development

By: Peter Smagorinsky

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Learning to Teach English and the Language Arts

A Vygotskian Perspective on Beginning Teachers’ Pedagogical Concept Development

By: Peter Smagorinsky

Drawing together Smagorinsky's extensive research over a 20-year period, Learning to Teach English and the Language Arts explores how beginning teachers' pedagogical concepts are shaped by a variety of influences. Challenging popular thinking about the binary roles of teacher education programs and school-based experiences in the process of learning to teach, Smagorinsky illustrates, through case studies in the disciplines of English and the Language Arts, that teacher education programs and classroom/school contexts are not discrete contexts for learning about teaching, nor are each of these contexts unified in the messages they offer about teaching. He explores the tensions, not only between these contexts and others, but within them to illustrate the social, cultural, contextual, political and historical complexity of learning to teach. Smagorinsky revisits familiar theoretical understandings, including Vygotsky's concept development and Lortie's apprenticeship of observation, to consider their implications for teachers today and to examine what teacher candidates learn during their teacher education experiences and how that learning shapes their development as teachers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350142913

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9781350142916

Computer Performance Evaluation. Modelling Techniques and Tools

13th International Conference, TOOLS 2003, Urbana, IL, USA, September 2-5, 2003, Proceedings

By: Peter Kemper

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Computer Performance Evaluation. Modelling Techniques and Tools

13th International Conference, TOOLS 2003, Urbana, IL, USA, September 2-5, 2003, Proceedings

By: Peter Kemper

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation, TOOLS 2003, held in Urbana, IL, USA, in September 2003. The 17 revised full papers presented together with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on tools for measuring, benchmarking, and online control; tools for evaluation of stochastic models; queueing models; Markovian arrival processes and phase-type distributions; and supporting model-based design of systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540408142

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9783540408147

Hitler as Political Artist

Theatrical Impresario & Rock Star

By: Peter G. Clark

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Hitler as Political Artist

Theatrical Impresario & Rock Star

By: Peter G. Clark

“What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in 2-1/2 hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years!” —Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler’s early confidant “Hitler was one of the first great rock stars. He was no politician; he was a great media artist. How he worked his audience! ... The world will never see anything like that again. He made an entire country a stage show.” —David Bowie, British rock legend As a young man in Vienna, Adolf Hitler was sleeping on park benches in 1909, just a real “Nowhere Man” making all his “Nowhere Plans” and who would soon haunt homeless shelters while trying to hawk his unimaginative and banal paintings. Yet in 1933, this mommy’s boy and self-centered dilettante was appointed Chancellor of Germany after discovering his artistic-political calling as a charismatic orator and stage actor in the 1920s—and then dazzled Germans and foreigners alike with the color and pageantry of the Nuremberg rallies and other grand spectacles in the 1930s. As a virtuoso in the art of presenting dramatic performances, Hitler inspired the same type of emotional ecstasy that the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley aroused from their frenzied fans. Even after clearly revealing the monstrous side of his murderous character in World War II by exterminating Jews and Slavs by the millions before committing suicide on April 30, 1945, he still emerged from the ashes and rubble of the Third Reich to seduce later generations. To the present generation, he has morphed from a murderous villain into a comical figure on many Internet platforms, particularly the hundreds of humorous YouTube parodies of his fanatical ranting and raving. This book examines Hitler’s extraordinary political-artistic talents to explain his nearly unfathomable rise from a homeless nobody into the most influential and demonic creature on the vast stage of modern history.

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Outskirts Press

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1977225551

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9781977225559

Mama's Boy

By: Peter G. Clark

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Mama's Boy

By: Peter G. Clark

This novel, "Mama's Boy," is about a pathologically shy, pigeon-toed boy, Peter Macaulay, who everybody, including his parents, considers mentally retarded and incredibly awkward physically. He has no friends and relates only to his mother, Elizabeth, even though when drunk she abuses him verbally and often slaps him. On the eve of high school, a gifted teacher and tutor, Ellen Marie Gaffney, is brought into Peter's life by his father, Jack, who is embarrassed by his son known at school as "The Geek." Jack hopes Miss Gaffney can prepare Peter academically for high school. The father also bribes the school principal with a $10,000 check to have Peter placed on the all-black basketball team. Two blacks, Fred "Sweetie" Davis and James "Big Daddy" Winkfield, take Peter under their wings, although other blacks bully him physically and verbally, often threatening his life. The female protagonist of the novel, 21-year-old Nora Quindt, a senior at the University of California at Berkeley, becomes Peter's second tutor, and through her growing emotional attachment to this 16-year-old "child" becomes part of the black basketball world of Castlemont High School in Oakland, California. The overall theme of this novel revolves around black-white relations in America. The author, Peter Clark, went to Castlemont, an inner-city school that was 60 percent black in 1958-1961, and was personal friends with Fred Davis and James Winkfield.

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1977274412

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Recent Advances in Prostate Cancer

Basic Science Discoveries and Clinical Advances

By: Donald J. Tindall,Peter T. Scardino

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Recent Advances in Prostate Cancer

Basic Science Discoveries and Clinical Advances

By: Donald J. Tindall,Peter T. Scardino

The easy way to boost employee engagement Today more than ever, companies and leaders need a road map to help them boost employee engagement levels. Employee Engagement For Dummies helps employers implement the necessary plans to create and sustain an engaging culture, allowing them to attract and retain the best people while boosting their productivity and creativity. Employee Engagement For Dummies helps you foster employee engagement, a concept that furthers an organization′s interests through ensuring that employees remain involved in, committed to, and fulfilled by their work. It covers: practical steps to boost employee engagement with your company or team; how to engage different generations of employees; the keys to reduce voluntary employee turnover; practical tools to help retain and engage your employees; processes that will boost employee retention and productivity; hiring the best fits from the start; and much more. Helps you recognize and understand the impact of positive employee engagement Helps you attract and retain the best employees Employee Engagement For Dummies is for business leaders at all levels who are looking to better engage their employees and increase morale and productivity.

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World Scientific

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9814329452

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9789814329453

First Migrants

Ancient Migration in Global Perspective

By: Peter Bellwood

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First Migrants

Ancient Migration in Global Perspective

By: Peter Bellwood

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways. The first volume to chart global human migration and population dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory, in all regions of the world An archaeological odyssey that details the initial spread of early humans out of Africa approximately two million years ago, through the Ice Ages, and down to the continental and island migrations of agricultural populations within the past 10,000 years Employs archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence to demonstrate how migration has always been a vital and complex element in explaining the evolution of the human species Outlines how significant migrations have affected population diversity in every region of the world Clarifies the importance of the development of agriculture as a migratory imperative in later prehistory Fully referenced with detailed maps throughout

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118325893

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The Earth Transformed

An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

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The Earth Transformed

An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time *The ebook edition now includes endnotes. Anyone who purchased the book previously can re-download this updated edition and access the notes.* Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Niño to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us. Frankopan explains how the Vikings emerged thanks to catastrophic crop failure, why the roots of regime change in eleventh-century Baghdad lay in the collapse of cotton prices resulting from unusual climate patterns, and why the western expansion of the frontiers in North America was directly affected by solar flare activity in the eighteenth century. Again and again, Frankopan shows that when past empires have failed to act sustainably, they have been met with catastrophe. Blending brilliant historical writing and cutting-edge scientific research, The Earth Transformed will radically reframe the way we look at the world and our future.

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Vintage

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052565917X

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Physics & Chemistry of Fullerenes

A Reprint Collection

By: Peter W. Stephens

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Physics & Chemistry of Fullerenes

A Reprint Collection

By: Peter W. Stephens

The creation of the hollow carbon buckminsterfullerene molecule as well as methods to produce and purify bulk quantities of it has triggered an explosive growth of research in the field. Superconducting and magnetic fullerides, atoms trapped inside the fullerene cage, chemically bonded fullerene complexes, and nanometer-scale helical carbon tubes are some of the leading areas that have generated much excitement.This book is intended as a guide to the literature for the scientist who is just entering fullerene research, and will be one more valuable volume to the collection for the established worker. It contains reprints of some sixty most important research papers, with focus especially on those papers that have guided further work in the field. There is also a short review of the field, with references to many other publications.

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World Scientific

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9810211171

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Rosen's Breast Pathology

By: Syed A. Hoda,Edi Brogi,Fred Koerner,Paul Peter Rosen

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Rosen's Breast Pathology

By: Syed A. Hoda,Edi Brogi,Fred Koerner,Paul Peter Rosen

For three editions, Rosen’s Breast Pathology has been widely recognized as the “gold standard” reference. Now in its Fourth Edition, this classic text continues its legacy of being the leading reference work on the pathology of the breast. Precise pathological diagnosis of breast disease is the most critical factor in determining treatment and establishing prognosis. The Fourth Edition of Rosen’s Breast Pathology provides the most comprehensive, updated information on diseases of the breast. Intended primarily for pathologists, the book will be an indispensible reference for all surgeons, oncologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, as well as other physicians and medical personnel who require a thorough knowledge of breast pathology to provide optimal care for their patients. Discussions of most disease entities include clinical and radiological presentation, epidemiology, gross pathology, microscopic pathology, treatment, and prognosis. Surgical and oncological aspects of the various diseases are addressed wherever appropriate. Numerous images, a large proportion of which are new, complement the encyclopedic descriptions of the surgical pathology and cytology of diseases of the breast.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469870703

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9781469870700

From School Delusion to Design

Mixed-Age Groups and Values-Led Transformation

By: Peter A Barnard

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From School Delusion to Design

Mixed-Age Groups and Values-Led Transformation

By: Peter A Barnard

This book explains how school organization by age (grade) alone, sets schools on a factory course that is harmful and ultimately self-defeating to all involved and to ecology. It returns us to three systems thinking concepts; purpose, measures, and method. The book explains why school managers and administrators are deluded by the system they operate and by how they understand complexity (the variety of value demand on the system, or what people need to be able to draw-down to make progress). This book returns us to the fundamental confusion of purpose. It involves revisiting our interpretation of human psychology and its application in the workplace—seeking out flaws in our organizational thinking and finding the best means of putting us back in touch with who we are—our thinking selves. The answer, or at least its start, is Vertical Tutoring. Vertical Tutoring (mixed-age groups) is the first domino of a redesign process. It changes all learning relationships and through personalization and it is this that drives the management task. It is the first domino needed for better systemic change and ensures that parents, students, and everyone employed by the school is involved in learning. For school leaders, parents, teachers and students, this means redesigning the way school management works, identifying values driven purposes from the customers’ perspective, and the roles stakeholders play in trying to make the work, work. In short, this book cuts through the dross of the great education debate and offers a better, more innovative, and safer way forward -and at no cost.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475815360

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9781475815368

Grasslands in Europe

Of High Nature Value

By: Peter Veen,Richard Jefferson,Jacques de Smidt,Jan van der Straaten

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Grasslands in Europe

Of High Nature Value

By: Peter Veen,Richard Jefferson,Jacques de Smidt,Jan van der Straaten

Grasslands are an important element of European nature. About half of Europe's endemic species depend on grasslands, whether in mountains, lowlands, river plains or coastal areas. Many grasslands originate in traditional agricultural landscapes. Modern intensification, however, brings many of these ecosystems under threat. 'Grasslands in Europe' is a tribute to these important ecosystems. It was written by an international team of grassland experts, who describe twenty-four case studies from countries in all of Europe - ranging from the grasslands of Gotland and #land (Sweden) to the Spanish Dehesa, and from the hay meadows of the British Pennine Dales to the steppes of Turkish Anatolia. Together, these case studies provide a fascinating glimpse into the various European grasslands, their value for nature, culture and agriculture, and the threats they are facing today. The accessible text as well as the rich illustrations will appeal to a wide audience. Grasslands in Europe contains a large number of stunning full-colour photographs of grassland landscapes, species and cultural history. It also contains many maps and infographics. Thematic chapters provide essential background information on topics such as grassland fauna, the history of agriculture, grassland communities, and the connection between grasslands and climate. The book also analyses the opportunities and risks of EU policy to conserve these grasslands. It offers a farmer-centred outlook to manage and to maintain the European grasslands of high nature value.

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BRILL

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9004278109

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9789004278103

Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2

By: Peter Adamson

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Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2

By: Peter Adamson

Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, and Augustine. But in keeping with the motto of the series, the story is told 'without any gaps,' providing an in-depth look at less familiar topics that remains suitable for the general reader. For instance, there are chapters on the fascinating but relatively obscure Cyrenaic philosophical school, on pagan philosophical figures like Porphyry and Iamblichus, and extensive coverage of the Greek and Latin Christian Fathers who are at best peripheral in most surveys of ancient philosophy. A major theme of the book is in fact the competition between pagan and Christian philosophy in this period, and the Jewish tradition also appears in the shape of Philo of Alexandria. Ancient science is also considered, with chapters on ancient medicine and the interaction between philosophy and astronomy. Considerable attention is paid also to the wider historical context, for instance by looking at the ascetic movement in Christianity and how it drew on ideas from Hellenic philosophy. From the counter-cultural witticisms of Diogenes the Cynic to the subtle skepticism of Sextus Empiricus, from the irreverent atheism of the Epicureans to the ambitious metaphysical speculation of Neoplatonism, from the ethical teachings of Marcus Aurelius to the political philosophy of Augustine, the book gathers together all aspects of later ancient thought in an accessible and entertaining way.

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OUP Oxford

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0191043907

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9780191043901

British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800

The Origins of an Associational World

By: Peter Clark

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British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800

The Origins of an Associational World

By: Peter Clark

Modern freemasonry was invented in London about 1717, but was only one of a surge of British associations in the early modern era which had originated before the English Revolution. By 1800, thousands of clubs and societies had swept the country. Recruiting widely from the urban affluent classes, mainly amongst men, they traditionally involved heavy drinking, feasting, singing, and gambling. They ranged from political, religious and scientific societies, artistic and literary clubs, to sporting societies, bee keeping, and birdfancying clubs, and a myriad of other associations.

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0191542164

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9780191542169

Heretics and Believers

A History of the English Reformation

By: Peter Marshall

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Heretics and Believers

A History of the English Reformation

By: Peter Marshall

A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of “reform” in various competing guises. King Henry VIII wanted an orderly, uniform Reformation, but his actions opened a Pandora’s Box from which pluralism and diversity flowed and rooted themselves in English life. With sensitivity to individual experience as well as masterfully synthesizing historical and institutional developments, Marshall frames the perceptions and actions of people great and small, from monarchs and bishops to ordinary families and ecclesiastics, against a backdrop of profound change that altered the meanings of “religion” itself. This engaging history reveals what was really at stake in the overthrow of Catholic culture and the reshaping of the English Church.

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Yale University Press

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0300226330

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9780300226331

Principles of Fermentation Technology

By: Peter F. Stanbury,Allan Whitaker,Stephen J Hall

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Principles of Fermentation Technology

By: Peter F. Stanbury,Allan Whitaker,Stephen J Hall

This second edition has been thoroughly updated to include recent advances and developments in the field of fermentation technology, focusing on industrial applications. The book now covers new aspects such as recombinant DNA techniques in the improvement of industrial micro-organisms, as well as including comprehensive information on fermentation media, sterilization procedures, inocula, and fermenter design. Chapters on effluent treatment and fermentation economics are also incorporated. The text is supported by plenty of clear, informative diagrams. This book is of great interest to final year and post-graduate students of applied biology, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemical and chemical engineering.

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Elsevier

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1483292916

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9781483292915

Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas

By: James O. Armitage,Peter M. Mauch,Nancy Lee Harris,Bertrand Coiffier,Riccardo Dalla-Favera

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Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas

By: James O. Armitage,Peter M. Mauch,Nancy Lee Harris,Bertrand Coiffier,Riccardo Dalla-Favera

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas is the definitive textbook on the biology, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of all forms of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. With backgrounds in medical and radiation oncology, molecular biology, and pathology, the editors and contributors provide an international, multidisciplinary approach to the topic. This edition is the first text using the new World Health Organization classification of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. The book offers complete coverage of the most current techniques for diagnosis, staging, and treatment, the approach to specific types of lymphoma, and special problems common to the management of patients with these disorders.

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1469837315

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