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During the past twenty years, multitudes of exciting discoveries in the field of anaerobic bacteria have been made. BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF ANAEROBIC BACTERIA explores the full range of these microorganisms.

Many anaerobes have been found to have the uniquely fascinating quality of being able to survive, indeed even thrive, in extreme environments. Anaerobic bacteria often do not require oxygen, can survive extremes in temperature, and can withstand the presence of toxins and heavy metals. In addition, these organisms have very different metabolic processes than "conventional" microorganisms. The wide diversity of metabolism in anaerobes is only part of the story. They have distinct energies, cytochromes, electron transport proteins, hydrogenases and dohydrogenases. Their molecular biology, physiology, and ability to use many types of electron receptors (CO2, sulfur, nitrogen and metal oxides) are also extraordinary.

With practical applications ranging from wastewater treatment to food storage issues, clinical diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of medical conditions to decontamination of heavy metal exposures BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF ANAEROBIC BACTERIA will prove indispensable to researchers and students alike. ... Read more

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Substantially refining nine widely used previous editions, here is the most accessible reference available for professionals who need an orientation and overview on today's varied chemical processes, products, and practices. No other one-volume source offers as much detailed data on the chemistry, engineering, economics, and technological infrastructure of all major chemical industry segments.

Some 50 top experts cover the chemistry and technology that underlie the major components of thechemical process industries. Every chapter in this edition has been thoroughly updated, and several have been completely redesigned and rewritten to ensure that readers receive the most current information available.

In keeping with the Editor's commitment to keep pace with the changing nature of the industry, this edition includes a new chapter on industrial cell culture, a companion piece to the well-established chapter on industrial fermentation. Together, these two chapters provide valuable insights and information on the burgeoning field of biochemical engineering. Also, a new approach has been taken with the chapter on agrochemicals. It now presents, in several tables, an enormous amount of vital information on pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, including chemical structure, biochemistry, mode of action, and environmental fate, making it a valuable new reference source.

This handbook provides extensive information on plastics, rubber, adhesives, textile fibers, pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic organic chemicals, soaps and detergents, and other major classes of industrial chemistry. There is detailed coverage of coal utilization technology, dyes and dye intermediates, chlor-alkali and heavy chemicals, paints and pigments, chemical explosives, propellants, petroleum and petrochemicals, natural gas, industrial gases, synthetic nitrogen products, fats and oils, sulfur and sulfuric acid, phosphorus and phosphates, wood products, and sweeteners.

Comprehensive in scope and easy to use, the tenth edition of Riegel's Handbook of Industrial Chemistry is an essential working tool for chemical and process engineers, chemists, plant and safety managers, regulatory agency personnel, and teachers. ... Read more

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Most experts believe that innovation in every aspect of patient care will be nothing less than astonishing as we move into the next century. Technology and the Future of Health Care brings together a remarkable group of health care visionaries who have identified and begun to analyze which trends and technological advances will likely shape and inform the next generation of medicine. From fundamental advances in computing and administration, research, nursing, and patient care delivery to noninvasive surgery, biomolecular therapies, bionics, and beyond, this ground-breaking book offers professional, executive-level insight into topics that until recently existed only in the realm of science fiction. ... Read more

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Book-of-the-Year Award winner
Technology and the Future of Health Care, by David Ellis, has been named Book of the Year (2001) by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Chicago, IL. HIMSS is a membership group of approximately 12,000 health care information technology and management professionals. The award will be formally presented in February, 2001.

An important title on health care, technology & the future.
An important titles on issues in health care which will appeal to any examining the future of health care, David Ellis' Technology And The Future Of Health Care examines the implications of technological change and healthcare management. Chapters explain how new technologies will change healthcare throughout the system, from artificial intelligence and cyborgdevelopments to patient management and information systems. ... Read more

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Soft biological tissues often undergo large (nearly) elastic deformations that can be analyzed using the nonlinear theory of elasticity. Because of the varied approaches to nonlinear elasticity in the literature, some aspects of the subject may be difficult to appreciate. This book attempts to clarify and unify those treatments, illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of each through various examples in the mechanics of soft tissues. Applications include muscle, arteries, the heart, and embryonic tissues. ... Read more

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"Genomics & Proteomics" Book Review 4(4):40, 2004
With the rise and utility of RNA Interference (RNAi) as a useful tool for silencing and manipulating genes, there has been much interest in the specific applications of this technique to various animal models for disease. Because it is a natural phenomenon, RNAi is more robust than other RNA-based methods. However, RNAi pathways do not follow the same rules in different organisms, and therefore, specific information on RNAi methods is essential for each model organism studied.
The aim of "RNA Interference (RNAi): Nuts & Bolts of RNAi Technology" by David Engelke and published by DNA Press (www.dnapress.net) is to serve as a guide for practical RNAi use in the laboratory. The book is short on general theory behind RNAi, except to furnish the bare minimum of background information for each chapter. However, the book is rich in specific protocols for the various methods that are described, including suppliers of reagents and advice on modifications and customizations of protocols.
Chapters include protocols for RNAi in plants, Drosophila, C. elegans, mammalian systems, mice, and discussions of high-throughput RNAi as well as design, synthesis and preparation of synthetic RNAi. An added bonus each chapter contains an ample list of relevant literature references.

Joshua Marcy, www.genpromag.com ... Read more

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This dynamic new volume conceived and edited by Mark Schena features twenty-four cutting-edge chapters from the leading laboratories in the hot new field of protein microarrays. Dr. Schena, who published the first two papers on DNA microarrays in 1995 and 1996, extends his original vision of parallelism and miniaturization to advance the protein microarray field, which promises important breakthroughs in disease diagnostics and drug discovery, as well as basic research on protein expression, development, the immune system, aging, behavior, and other issues central to medicine. Protein Microarrays is the first comprehensive treatment of protein microarray technology, and includes detailed descriptions of manufacturing methods, surface chemistry, detection strategies, and data analysis for antigen, antibody, and peptide microarray assays. The book also presents numerous biological applications and experimental protocols not available from any other source. Protein!Microarrays is an exceptional treatise and essential reading for everyone in the microarray and proteomics fields. ... Read more

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The use of mathematical modeling techniques in biomedical research is playing an increasingly important role in the understanding of the pathophysiology of disease processes. This includes not only understanding mechanisms of physiological processes, but also diagnosis and treatment. In addition, its introduction in the study of genomics and proteomics is key in understanding the functional characteristics of gene expression and protein assembly and secretion. Finally, with the increasing complexity and associated cost of drug development, modeling techniques are being used to streamline the process. This book is designed to give the reader the mathematical and statistical information necessary to design tracer kinetic studies, to use noncompartmental methodologies and/or to develop multicompartmental models to interpret the data.

The book starts with a review of fundamentals of radioactive and stable isotope tracer kinetics and then proceeds with a description of the noncompartmental and multicompartmental modeling methodologies to study systems in the steady state. The focus is on understanding the basic assumptions inherent in the methodologies and the underlying mathematics and statistics, on discussing how to assess how `good' a model is and on giving some hints on how better to design kinetic studies, in order to increase the probability of a successful study and to ensure the maximal information content in the experimental data to be extracted. The book has an extensive section on parameter estimation, i.e., fitting models to data, first in general terms and then specifically related to noncompartmental and compartmental models. This is written from a basic point of view, and is intended to remove the mystery from the `black box' of computer optimization software. Finally, a special application often found in tracer kinetic analysis, precursor--product relationships, is discussed.

Throughout the book, the goal is to provide even the novice with sufficient background so that he/she can feel comfortable. A number of case studies, based upon real experimental data, are carried through the text. Other examples illustrate specific points. All data examples are provided on a floppy disk. ... Read more

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The Master Validation Plan provides a roadmap to management for on-time start-up of facility operations, and validation of existing facilities, in compliance with GMP requirements. The lack of a comprehensive Master Validation Plan and well-documented validation procedures is the main reason that new drug, medical device, medical equipment, and related product applications are rejected by the FDA. In fact, only about 2% of the applications submitted by foreign pharmaceutical companies are approved each year. This thorough guide provides the needed solutions and guidance for both foreign and U.S. companies to achieve FDA compliance and authorization to market their products in the United States. Pharmaceutical Master Validation Plan: The Ultimate Guide to FDA, GMP, and GLP Compliance will allow you to more easily achieve satisfactory inspections, new medical product approval, minimize non-conformance, reduce rework and rejected lots, and avoid recall lots by developing and managing a Master Validation Plan. The accompanying CD allows users to input the template plan into their computers and tailor it to incorporate additional regulatory requirements specific to individual companies worldwide and print the required documents. Together, the book and CD contain everything required to develop and execute a successful Master Validation Plan based on FDA guidelines for the pharmaceutical industry, and allows the templates to be extended to diagnostic products, medical device, medical equipment, and biotech industry products. ... Read more

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No actual content
I'm sorry to report that this book merely presents an outline of steps to take, along with a collection of document templates, neither of which contain any actual "content". In other words, it tells you "what", but not "how". If you're looking for insight and real-world examples, look elsewhere. I couldn't justify a bunch of blank forms and outlines for such a cover-price. I sent mine back and Amazon graciously refunded my money.

Master Validation Plan
I have reviewed this excellent book. This book guides you through all process required for validation from FDA. In new edition, the author should give more details and technical guidance for control systems and software validation. Also to help in 21 CFR 11 approval. CD-ROM with the book is a help to cut down all the time wasted in formatting information and make templtes for crtical forms. Congratulations for writing this exceelent book. ... Read more

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A wide variety of biomedical photonic technologies have been developed recently for clinical monitoring of early disease states; molecular diagnostics and imaging of physiological parameters; molecular and genetic biomarkers; and detection of the presence of pathological organisms or biochemical species of clinical importance. However, available information on this rapidly growing field is fragmented among a variety of journals and specialized books.Now researchers and medical practitioners have an authoritative and comprehensive source for the latest research and applications in biomedical photonics. Over 150 leading scientists, engineers, and physicians discuss state-of-the-art instrumentation, methods, and protocols in the Biomedical Photonics Handbook. Editor-in-Chief Tuan Vo-Dinh and an advisory board of distinguished scientists and medical experts ensure that each of the 65 chapters represents the latest and most accurate information currently available. ... Read more

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Intelligent, Useful Handbook
Biomedical applications of light are expanding dynamically. This handbook does a good job of organizing a mass of information on dozens of cutting-edge technologies. The articles by leading experts are aimed at professionals but do not, in most cases, require specialized knowledge to understand. The clear graphics appropriately support the text, while the chapter bibliographies are extensive.
So this handbook can be recommended to any scientist, medical doctor, engineer, or graduate student in this or related fields.
However, this book suffers from certain flaws that it shares with many other English-language books in this field. Scientists in Russia and other East European countries are very competitive in certain areas of biomedical photonics. They lead the world in the centrally important field of low-intensity laser therapy (LILT). Yet the book's discussion of biophotonics and its almost totally monoglot bibliographies do not come close to incorporating their findings.
Even the sole article on LILT states that it will not discuss whole body responses to this therapy. Why not? They are very relevant in a handbook of this sort.
What's more, this article omits any mention of Biophotonic Therapy (Photoluminescence, Quantum Hemotherapy), the treatment of the blood with a low-intensity laser via an intravenous waveguide or, in extracorporeal mode, with UV and visible light. The reader would never learn from this handbook that thousands of practitioners throughout the world use Biophotonic Therapy every day for a wide range of indications. The mechanisms of BT are well characterized, and more than 400 scientific articles and a dozen books are devoted to BT's clinical track record.
These are unfortunate omissions in an otherwise admirable handbook. ... Read more

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A comprehensive, accessible, up-to-date catalog of enzymes and their uses in modern manufacturing.

Enzymes have long been used by industrial product makers as major catalysts to transform raw materials into end products. Now available in English for the first time, Industrial Enzymes and Their Applications is the only authoritative catalog of enzymes with in-depth coverage of their varied uses, the classes in which they are grouped, and which chemical reagents they have replaced on current mass production lines.

The first section surveys general enzyme characteristics and discusses their microbiological origin, including pH and temperature dependence of the activity and stability of each enzyme. The next section then examines the most important industrial enzymes in use today—including carbohydrate-hydrolyz-ing enzymes, proteases, ester cleavage-fat-hydrolyzing enzymes, and immobilized enzymes. The last section is devoted to specific applications of technical enzymes in such areas as food processing, beverage production, animal nutrition, leather, and textiles.

Industrial Enzymes and Their Applications offers instant access to a wealth of key enzyme data—an invaluable, wide-ranging resource for industrial chemists, biochemists, biochemical engineers, and students. ... Read more

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

It may be true that we are what we eat. Now, with a flood of genetically modified foods overtaking the market, it is possible to eat what we are. But the prospect of genetic cannibalism is the least of the worries of food activists, and journalist Bill Lambrecht's Dinner at the New Gene Café follows both sides of the genetically modified organism (GMO) debate with vigor. He's been covering the story since the mid-1980s, interviewing agricultural officials, biotech industry executives, family farmers, and protesters to build a comprehensive understanding of the issues.

Lambrecht's writing, clear and direct, explains the science and politics plainly enough that even those who flunked Biology or Poli Sci 101 can understand his arguments. He is equally skeptical of the claims of industry shills and activists, and often shakes his head in wonder at the incompetence of government agencies. From academic conferences to the Battle for Seattle, he's seen every aspect of the GMO wars, as they ignited in Europe and slowly spread across the world and eventually penetrated the U.S. Peppered with short essays on his own illegal home experiments with GMO seeds, Dinner at the New Gene Café offers readers insight into a growing question that will most likely define our menu choices for many years to come. --Rob Lightner ... Read more

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a comprehensive look at gmo's
This book was very enlightening in the subject of GMO's, as they are a powerful new technology with frightening implications. Lambrecht uses entertaining anecdotes and accounts of his dealings with ordinarys farmer and head agricultural powerfigures. I recommend this book because it tried to show an objective perspective on the entire issue, and left no voice unheard.

The new age of eating
If you are curious about what you are eating this is a necessary book for you. Bill Lambrecht provides an unbiased resource for those intrested in the history of GMO food. Lambrecht gives the opinions of scientists, politicians and the farmers that grow these crops. This provides a balenced collage of information that allows anyone to make up their own mind about what the future of food should be. ... Read more

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This book describes the history and properties of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) used in artificial joints.

UHMWPE is currently used in 1.4 million patients around the world every year for use in the hip, knee, upper extremities and spine.It has been used in hip replacements for over 40 years.Although the use of this material is very succcessful, the lifetime of artificial joints is limited to approximately 10 years, after which the survivorship declines markedly.

Recently, the orthopedic industry has developed new processing techniques (radiation crosslinking), which are expected to dramatically reduce wear and improve the longevity of hip implants beyond 10 years.

A major emphasis of this book is to describe the properties of these new highly crosslinked UHMWPE materials and to review the latest clinical results.

* The most up-to-date information on the properties of UHMWPE

* Endorsed by Ticona - the world's leading manufacturer of UHMWPE for medical use

* An enormous 'installed base' of over 1.4 million procedures each year

* UHMWPE has been used by orthopedists for over 40 years, yet its properties and performance in situ are still not well understood ... Read more

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In The Biotech Century, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin examines the emerging biotech revolution that has captured the world's attention.Biochips, cloning, and genetic mapping and engineering are among the new biotechnologies that are allowing scientists to redirect the evolutionary wisdom of millions of years of life on earth. These technologies offer a cornucopia of potential benefits in fields ranging from agriculture to medicine, but very troubling issues are being disregarded, denied, and overlooked by both the scientific community and the media.In a state-of-the-art account of what is currently possible, what is being developed, what is being imagined, and the potential repercussions, Rifkin provides an opinion that is not generally expressed in the ebullient reports given to the public. He examines how these discoveries will fundamentally transform our economic systems and our civilization.The Biotech Century is a fascinating portrait of the new era in economics, science, and technology upon us and is certain to become a standard reference source on biotechnology. ... Read more

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Excellent book, readable and timely
Dr. Rifkin and I were simultaneously interviewed on WICR FM in Indianapolis on November 19, 1998. (My book, Mobius, discusses the evolution of life and of humanity, and the host of the show thought there was much common ground with The Biotech Century.) Thus, I have had the benefit of reading The Biotech Century, as well as the opportunity of speaking with the author at length about it.

I do not agree with all of Dr. Rifkin's points. If I happened to have an untreatable genetic disease, I personally would not wish to see laws enacted which would restrict my access to a cure that involved permanently changing my genetic structure. If my children could be born without the disease, so much the better, in my humble view. But I still give Rifkin five stars for The Biotech Century.

Rifkin has been labeled as an alarmist, and I disagree. The corporate spin doctors have conditioned all of us to believe that there is little or no risk to splitting the gene and tampering with the code of life. Rifkin lets us know of some of the hazards, and he does so with brilliance. Richard R. Hofstetter, lawyer, author of Mobius (1998).

A thought-provoking look at our future.
Jeremy Rifkin has written a well-informed and provocative book. As a practising molecular biologist I consider that frequently his criticisms if not his predictions err on the side of caution. Perhaps he felt the need to restrain himself in the light of previous criticism of his hyperbole. Nevertheless, he was proven right in the past and I am sure for the most part he will be again. In his struggle for balance he frequently lets the biotech industry and its regulators off the hook, especially in the field of agricultural biotechnology, a subject that scares me to death. The writing style is a little irritating but the book is a must-read. Everyone should know what is in store for their children.

The Fire Flower
Rifkin does not attack the idea of creation as an anti-thesis to an divine creator. Instead proposes the genesis of life was a composition of diversity produced by genes. Rifkin says man first major break through was fire. Fire allowed elements to be separated and recombine. Fire empower man to move into the industrial century. The next century would be the biotech century. It all started with a major advancement in science put a Japanese company who gained the the spotlight after they discovered who to classify a gene, remove specific gene material, and reinsert the geneic material various DNA species. The effective extracting and recombination open the door of new life. Thus, man would be able to recombine the genes to create new forms of life blocked orignial by barriers of the species. The idea of the second genesis is to take the best genes properties and introduce them into high demand life forms. Rifkin points out that the biotech century emerged proportional to increasing computer computations. The commerical of living material was thoughtfully presented. Rifkin explains legally, we do not have ownership over cell matter taken from our body. Unique celluar resistence to specific diseases can be exploited, catalog, recombined, and marketed. The gene database will produce exponential increase in new drugs, products, foods, and material. Commerical companies use the gene information which does not necessarily benefit the original sources of the genetic material. So, the creator created all diversity of life. Life was suppose to act within a sphere of influence. It seems to enhance of modify those bounds of influence would be unwise. Just rationally, I fear the unknown and lack of control. Those spheres of influence limit the range of destructive capability nature can impose. Nature can not produce an elephant which can walk up a wall.
Suppose, a gene is introduced into a potatoe plant to kill aphids. The genetic property responses effectively and the number of aphids significantly drops. However, a drought reduces the water supply and the genetic deterence stops because the gene does remain active in drought conditions. The point, genetic engineer works well in a laboratory where all the variables are controlled and measured. It is conceivable Rifkin warnings are valid consider, we don't know all the properties of the gene and how they will act, in all conditions. The example, did not demonstrate harm, because the farmers could apply pesticide to kill the aphids and recovery some their crop.

Raises Awareness
I agree that this book is not perfect, nor the author the most appropriate person to write it, but what's a hell! You can find errata in almost every book! At least he cares and has the courage to write this book.

Jeremy Rifkin is very well informed and what really matters here is that this book is an excellent source of information to raise awareness of what is going on in this field, about the irresponsible work that is been conducted by big corporations playing with genes and doing dangerous things that can affect the present and future life in our little world. Rifkin also outlines that everyone has to be responsible for his own actions.

I have read also his other book "Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture" (5 Stars)

A must read for all Christians
I read this book cover-to-cover in one weekend, and I have rarely encountered a work that challenges the imagination and expands the boundaries of thought as thoroughly as this book. Rifkin's book falls somewhere between economics, biology, futurism, sociology, and theology - and it's a masterful blend.

Rifkin lays out the potential of the new genetic science (curing diseases, ending our dependence on environmentally-destructive technologies) and underlines the risks (genetic warfare, eugenics, genetic contamination of natural species). But I was the most impressed by his analysis of how the new science offers a new paradigm for understanding nature, humanity, and our place in the universe. I have read similar treatments from a number of scientists, but Rifkin's was by far the most accessible and compact. The new paradigm is a shift away from Darwinism, which holds that life evolved through a random process of natural selection, toward a view that life is the driving force of its own evolution, changing its shape through the way it interracts with the environment - the upswing of this is that life is an evolution of consciousness. Life evolves based on how it chooses to evolve. Our deliberate control of genetics is seen as an extension of life's evolution toward greater conscious control of its own destiny. (If I fail to adequately convey the substance of the new paradigm, my apologies.) The new view of evolution is in sync with "process theology" proposed by A. Whitehead and championed by figures like Salvador Dali, among others, and chaos theory. Rifkin doesn't use this term, but on the popular level, I think many people will immediately recognize this line of pantheistic thinking as "New Age." I couldn't help but be reminded of the "evolutionary messiah" motif of films like the Matrix, Dune, and Dark City.

According to Rifkin, societies always invent a cosmological understanding of how nature works that mirrors the way their society is organized. Darwinism came about from 19th-century Englishmen reading Capitalism - with its emphasis on competition and survival of the fittest - into nature. As a result, western society was able to assure itself that laissez-faire capitalism, despite its brutality, was the way the world was supposed to work, because it was exhibited in nature itself. In the process, Darwinism overthrew theism as the reigning ideology among society's elite and substituted atheism.

Now society is creating a new cosmology - a form of pantheism that makes humankind the ultimate manifestation and guiding agent of cosmic Mind. This cosmology mirrors the networked, nodal existence of our computerized world, where "survival of the fittest" has been replaced by the survival of those best able to acquire, adapt, and manipulate information.

Rifkin points out that if we are to challenge the indiscriminate use of genetic engineering, we must fight the new paradigm before it becomes taken for granted in society. Once people accept the assumption that nature is inherently mutable and re-shapes itself according to its will, then those who argue against genetic tampering will be viewed much the way Young Earth Creationists are viewed today. To most people's minds, genetic engineering will be right and natural - and to protest it will be ridiculous.

The unanswered question is this: how do we fight the new paradigm? If Darwinism was simply the result an English botanist reading Capitalism into nature, then what is the truth about how nature works? Rifkin doesn't offer any suggestions.

I personally think that the Intelligent Design movement led by Phillip Johnson, William Dembeski, and Michael Behe stands the best chance to proposing an alternative vision of how nature works - and restraining indiscriminate use of genetic engineering. Intelligent Design is a Christian ideology. It explains genetics as the result of a transcendent God who designed the nature of each living thing (with some potential for adaptive change). As such, the genetic differences between species are part of the Creator's design, and not something to be tampered with lightly. Darwinism will fall - and with it, the last fortress of Modernism. Freud and Marx have both fallen, kicking out two legs of the Modernist troika. Once Darwinism falls - and the sheer implausibility of natural selection and the incompatibility of natural selection with molecular biology assures us that it will - western society will plunge headlong into a postmodern era. The battle for the postmodern mind might easily be a battle between Intelligent Design and pantheistic process evolution. One theory holds that life is a creation of God - the other holds that life is evolving to become God.

(I think the growing influence of the new cosmology is behind the unfounded attacks on this author and this book, especially from the "post-human" disciples of utopian secular humanists like Julian Simon and Gregg Easterbook. Rifkin has come much too close to hitting the nail on the head.)

That's why the Biotech Century, although not an expressly Christian book, is required reading for all modern Christians. ... Read more

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Genetics, the most rapidly advancing of the life sciences, has stimulated more diverse disciplines in the natural and social sciences than any other field. The fact that it has encouraged scientists of varied backgrounds-- anthropologists, chemists, computer specialists, engineers, mathematicians, paleontologists, physicians, and physicists--to contribute to its development is one reason for its prodigious growth. Such growth is accompanied by a proliferation in terminology, which creates a problem both to beginning students and scientists from other disciplines who read papers by geneticists. Various terms, especially in molecular and cell biology, are newly coined and thus not found in any collegiate or biology dictionaries; in some cases, the terms are unknown to students with little or no background in taxonomy. This fifth edition of the much-needed Dictionary of Genetics has been organized to provide a quick understanding to students and non-geneticists. It includes over 6,500 definitions of terms and species names relevant to the study of genetics. Also featured are a chronology that spans nearly 400 years of genetic study, as well as an extensive bibliography. The entries are for both strictly genetic terms and nongenetic terms that are often encountered in the literature. Thus the book is helpful not only to beginning geneticists, but anyone involved in life sciences. ... Read more

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a must for the biological graduate studentia
As a graduate student studying biochemistry/molecular biology, this book (on the PI's shelf) was a frequent read. Not only does it explain "old-school" genetic experiments with aplomb, it provides clear and concise examples. A fine reference for reviewing papers, and a must have for any PI (if only for your students to use as a reference!) ... Read more

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In summary, the proposed book fills the current need for an advanced scientific text on diagnostic ultrasound for practitioners and for professionals wishing to enter the field. Suitable as a graduate level text for engineering or science students or as a reference for the practicing engineer, scientist or physician engaged in ultrasound research or development, this book will provide a well rounded and comprehensive overview of the major topics of interest in diagnostic medical ultrasound. Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging: Inside Out will introduce ultrasound imaging from its historic acoustic beginnings to recent advances from a unified perspective as well as present new material not available elsewhere. Written with the reader in mind, this unique text will facilitate comprehension of complicated concepts, stress the interrelatedness of topics, and present a structure to enable the reader to extend his/her knowledge even farther. The book and its companion website will also include MATLAB programs and exercises.

ú Based on the author's over thirty-fiveyears of experience in developing laboratory methodology and standards and conducting research in ultrasound.

ú Conveys the fundamentals of diagnostic ultrasound as well as state-of-the-art reviews of major topics. from a historical perspective. Matlab MATLAB problems and examples included.

. MATLAB problems and examples included ... Read more

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This is a concise balanced introductin to this subject. Written in an accessible and readable style, the book takes a fresh, modern approach with the author successfully combining key concepts and theory with relevant applications and examples drawn from the field as a whole.

• A carefully structured introduction to biophysics and medical physics
• Combines coverage of the basic concepts and ideas along with the more cutting edge developments
• Assumes little biological or medical knowledge
• Includes a supplementary website which will include animations, simulations, colour images, additional content, solutions and links to other sites

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complete and formal introduction
it is really a well written and upto date book, with perhaps the widest coverage. ... Read more