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Cengage Learning, 2010. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This reference for students in middle school, high school, and college (as well as their parents and tutors) clarifies the principles and operations of basic math and pre-algebra through step-by-step examples, solutions, and applications. Coverage progresses from numbers and their operations to fractions, decimals, percentages, converting, ratios, powers and exponents, logarithms, roots and radicals, and statistical quantities. Ross holds a BA in chem... more information

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Am. Assn./Clinical Chemistry, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Hammett-Stabler (U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) introduces the most common type of metabolic bone disease to scientists and students in her specialty area of pathology and lab medicine. She reviews normal and abnormal bone structure basics; osteoporosis types; risk factors; imaging for bone health assessment; medications; and new biochemical markers for assessing treatment efficacy. Case discussions and a glossary conclude the text. (&... more information

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Chelsea House, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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Firefly Books Ltd., 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This volume offers a general readership brief profiles of 308 of the approximately 800 people and organizations who have received the Nobel Prize for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics since its inception in 1901. The selected profiles are organized by decade each a page long, with an additional page accompanying some of the science honorees that illustrates a major discovery. Chapter conclusions contain a... more information

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Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Giguere (chemistry, Skidmore College) presents a volume to accompany an exhibit at Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery that highlighted one molecule for each decade of the twentieth century. The ten organic molecules--aspirin, isooctane, penicillin G, polyethylene, nylon 6.6, DNA, progestin, DDT, Prozac, and buckball and carbon nanotubes--are shown along with related contemporary art and historical documents from the exhibit... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This brief monograph describes the multi-component molecular orbital methods and the hybrid type density functional theories used to analyze such chemical phenomenon as the H/D isotope effect and positronic systems. Udagawa (quantum chemistry, Yokohama-City U., Japan) and Tachikawa (quantum chemistry, International Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Japan) have aimed this paper primarily at fellow researchers and advanced students of quantum... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Contributing to the ongoing study of electron-nuclear interactions in solids, Yuryeva, Rafael N. Pletnev (both Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Ekaterinburg, Russia) and Svyatoslov Gabuda (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia) present results of their investigation into the mutual influence of the fast electronic fluctuations and the slow movement of nuclei in some artificial and natural functional materials based on complex... more information

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SETAC, 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The workshop proceedings presented here were sponsored by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry with the intention of evaluating how ecological risk assessment concepts can be used to reformulate water-quality criteria and methods. Workgroups were tasked with developing a conceptual model, identifying problems and research needs, and proposing solutions. They addressed such issues as the level of exposure concentration needed to assess effects, t... more information

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NSTA Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The activities collected here are designed to help middle and high school biology, Earth science, chemistry, physics, and mathematics students develop skills in measuring and applying scale, gain an appreciation for the value of different scales in scientific work, and understand the role that scale has in limiting natural systems. Engaging explorations of sugar molecules, giant bugs, and fractals reinforce concepts related to types of scale, measurement, p... more information

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ASTM International, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In these proceedings of the symposium of held in Washington DC in October 2004, contributors present their research into advances in crop protection technologies and disseminate updates on regulatory issues regarding the use of pesticides. Following a review of the last 25 years of symposia, paper topics include developments in pesticide formulation, innovations in adjuvant chemistry, and advances in application technology research. Individual topic... more information

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Carolina Academic Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This workbook-style text for a one-semester mathematics course for veterinary technicians and assistants is written in everyday language rather than formal mathematical terms. While the emphasis is on dosage and concentration applications, the text focuses on practical mathematical techniques and concepts, and is not intended as a course on medications or the administration of medications. Coverage encompasses basic computational skills, includ... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This work provides 28 experimental procedures which describe the preparation of useful chemicals and/or illustrate important synthetic methods. The procedures are grouped in several broad categories based on the type of chemistry employed and the nature of the target molecules described. The book begins with four procedures that highlight the application of transition-metal organometallic chemistry in organic synthesis. Other procedures describe ... more information

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Haworth Press, 1997. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Describes methods by which librarians can adapt their programs to the rapidly evolving demands of educators and researchers in chemistry without sacrificing high standards of service. Reports on pedagogical experiments in which librarians partner with faculty, students, and computer staff and how such approaches have improved how chemists approach research and teaching. The 13 articles are published simultaneously as Science and Technology Libraries v.16... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The copper alloyed with aluminum can range from a few atoms dispersed in solid solutions, through clusters, to fully intermetallic compositions and particle size. It has significant impact on the chemistry and electrochemistry of the alloy's surface, and so on its susceptibility to corrosion and its reception of metal finishing. Muster, A. E. Hughes, (both manufacturing and materials, CSIRO) and G. E. Thompson (materials, U. of Manchester, ... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Kolev (Institute of Organic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) reports on recent research in amino acid amides. He offers a conformational and structural investigation of hydrochlorides, hydrogensquarates, and ester amides of squaric acid of the following amino acids: alanine, arginine, isoleucine, leucine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine, prolin, serine, and valine. Theoretical results are compared w... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This annual collects protocols of synthesis of organic chemicals and, in soft cover format, is distributed free to members of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society, Polskie Towrazystwo Chemiczne, Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK, and Japan's Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. The hard cover edition, intended primarily for library collections, differs primarily through the inclusion of an index. In this 83rd volume of ... more information

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Greenwood Press, 2004. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Moving chronologically through the 20th century, from the invention of air conditioning to the human genome project, this text for middle and secondary school students demonstrates the ways society and science are inextricably linked. The text introduces principles from biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science and connects them to specific social, cultural and political events. A good starting point for student research, this volume will also hel... more information

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Sage Publications, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. VanLoon (chemistry, Queen's U., Canada), Patil (environmental sciences, U. of Agricultural Studies, India), and Hugar (agricultural economics, College of Agriculture, India) developed this book based on their work with a project for studying management factors affecting the sustainability of agriculture in and around and irrigation project area in South India. They present a methodology for assessing agricultural sustainability within a micro-reg... more information

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Sage Publications, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. VanLoon (chemistry, Queen's U., Canada), Patil (environmental sciences, U. of Agricultural Studies, India), and Hugar (agricultural economics, College of Agriculture, India) developed this book based on their work with a project for studying management factors affecting the sustainability of agriculture in and around and irrigation project area in South India. They present a methodology for assessing agricultural sustainability within a micro-reg... more information

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National Academies Press, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The research, analysis, and conclusions of this report were carried out by the members of the Committee on Benchmarking the Research Competitiveness of the United States in Chemistry and the Board on Chemical Science and Technology. Made up of chemists in academe and industry in the U.S., with two members in Switzerland and Belgium, both groups undertook an international benchmarking exercise to determine the standing of the U.S. performance i... more information

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