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NHBS Monthly Catalogue: October 2008Animal & General BiologyACANTHAMOEBA: BIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS Naveed Khan This book provides the first comprehensive review of Acanthamoeba research to be published. Everything that is known about Acanthamoeba is critically reviewed and divided into easy-to-follow ...... 220 pp. hardcover | NYP 02/2009 | £213 | approx. $355/€270 ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION A Guide to the Issue Vaghan Monamy New Edition Animal Experimentation is an important book for all those involved in the conduct, teaching, learning, regulation, support or critique of animal-based research. ...... 110 pp. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £39.99 | approx. $67/€51 softcover | NYP 01/2009 | £16.99 | approx. $29/€22 BUILT BY ANIMALS The Natural History of Animal Architecture Mike Hansell New Paperback Edition From termite mounds that in relative terms are three times as tall as a skyscraper, to the elaborate nests of social birds and the deadly traps of spiders, the constructions of the animal world can ...... 268 pp, 25 line drawings/halftones. hardcover | 2007 | £16.99 | approx. $29/€22 softcover | NYP 01/2009 | £8.99 | approx. $15/€12 ESSENTIAL FORENSIC BIOLOGY Animals, Plants and Microorganisms in Legal Investigations A. Gunn New Edition Fully revised and updated, this second edition of a highly successful text carefully guides the reader through the science of biology in legal investigations. Now in full colour throughout, the ...... 464 pp. hardcover | NYP 02/2009 | £85 | approx. $142/€108 softcover | NYP 02/2009 | £29.95 | approx. $50/€38 FOUNDATIONS OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGY Using Cell Illustrator and Pathway Databases M Nagasaki, A Saito, A Doi, H Matsuno and S Miyano Navigating safely through a wealth of genome, protein and metabolite information, as well as a host of information processing tools, without getting lost is crucial for successful research in - ...... Computational Biology 13 170 pp, 145 illustrations in colour. hardcover | NYP 02/2009 | £20.99 | approx. $35/€27 GENE AND CELL THERAPY Nancy Smyth Templeton New Edition "Gene and Cell Therapy" provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the tools and state-of-the-art technologies that are currently available. Written by international leaders in the field, ...... 1160 pp, 325 black & white illustrations, 64 colour illustrations. hardcover | 2008 | £121 | approx. $202/€154 GENOME MAPPING AND GENOMICS IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS Edited by Noelle E Cockett and Chittaranjan Kole Genomics research on animals has generated huge databases and several new concepts and strategies, which are used to elucidate origin, evolution and phylogeny of species. Genetic and physical ...... Genome Mapping and Genomics in Animals 3 280 pp, 49 illustrations, 12 in colour. hardcover | 2008 | £128 | approx. $213/€162 HEMOPARASITES OF THE REPTILIA Color Atlas and Text Sam R Telford Compiling all of the published data as well as the author's 45 years of field research on the morphology of reptilian unicellular hemoparasites, this book covers plasmodiids, hemogregarines, ...... 488 pp, 83 black & white illustrations. hardcover | 2008 | £105 | approx. $175/€133 LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE Expectations and Constraints D Schulze-Makuch and LN Irwin New Edition Energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats -- the basic elements of living systems - define the opportunities and limitations for life on other worlds. This class-tested text examines each of these ...... Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics 252 pp, 49 illustartions, 10 in colour. hardcover | 2008 | £31.99 | approx. $54/€41 PHYSICAL BIOLOGY OF THE CELL Rob Phillips and Jane Kondev Physical Biology of the Cell is a biophysics textbook that explores how the basic tools and insights of physics and mathematics can illuminate the study of molecular and cell biology. Drawing on key ...... 800 pp. softcover | 2008 | £50 | approx. $84/€64 PROKARYOTIC SYMBIONTS IN PLANTS Katharina Pawlowski Endophytic prokaryotes can invade the tissue of the host plant without triggering defense reactions or disease symptoms. Instead, they promote the growth of the host plant due to their ability to ...... Microbiology Monographs 8 360 pp. hardcover | 2008 | £118.50 | approx. $197/€150 SYSTEMS BIOLOGY A Textbook E Klipp, W Liebermeister, C Wierling, C Lehrach, A Kowald and R Herwig New Paperback Edition This advanced textbook is tailored to the needs of introductory course in Systems Biology. It has a companion website with solutions to questions in the book and several additional extensive ...... 444 pp. softcover | NYP 02/2009 | £55 | approx. $92/€70 |
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