Sergio: 1038 books

More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Megafauna describes the history and way of life of these...

Emphasizing the essential principles underlying the preparation of cereal-based products and demonstrating the roles of ingredients, Cereal Grains: Laboratory Reference and Procedures Manual is a practical laboratory manual complementing the author's text, Cereal Grains: Properties, Processing, and Nutritional Attributes. Organized so that readers

A risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD), hypertriglyceridemia is exacerbated by uncontrolled diabetes, obesity, and sedentary habits, especially in industrialized countries like the United States. Written by a recognized expert in lipid disorders, this new handbook will discuss hypertriglyceridemia...

In recent years, epigenetic approaches to existing scientific problems have offered many new and exciting perspectives. This book focuses on epigenetic approaches to study asthma and allergy research. The authors briefly review cellular factors, immune signaling, and inflammatory pathways in allergy...

This book offers comprehensive information on all aspects of ELISA, starting with the fundamentals of the immune system. It also reviews the history of analytical assays prior to the advent of ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) and addresses the materials of choice for the fabrication of the...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your life? Do you really want to live in a better world? Would you like to know more about the world you are living in? Then, this is the right e-book for you! You will be taken on a captivating tour where you will be shown a wide range of topics which will help...

This book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology...

This book provides methods and practical cases and experiences with the aim of stimulating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) through the direct engagement of researchers, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), citizens, industry stakeholders, policy and decision makers, research funders and communicators....

This volume is the first to aim at summarizing all of the scientific literature published so far regarding male-female differences and similarities, not only in behavior, but also in basic biology, physiology, health, perceptions, emotions, and attitudes. Results from over 18,000 studies have been...

One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals,...

Ercole è il primo supereroe della Storia. Da più di tremila anni si narrano le sue dodici avventure mozzafiato: credi che sia facile sconfiggere un drago con sette teste che sputano veleno? E inseguire per un anno l’animale più veloce del mondo o mettersi sulle spalle l’intero Universo? Ma...

Avoid spiritual trip wires that can cause you to stumble!Christians--even leaders with good intentions--commit transgressions that can have a devastating ripple effect, releasing poisons within marriages, families, careers and the body of Christ. Now you can identify twelve transgressions that are...

Come to a deeper understanding of the transforming love of God through these guided reflections on the encounters between Jesus and three women in the Gospels. By contemplating the faith of Mary Magdalene, the hope of the penitent woman forgiven by Jesus, and the love of Mary for Bethany (sister of...

“Possiamo guarire dal cancro, come da qualsiasi malattia”. Questa affermazione dell’autore si fonda su conoscenze millenarie nonché sulle ultime scoperte dell’Epigenetica, della Nuova Biologia, della Nuova Medicina; ma soprattutto il libro riporta “prove”, prove viventi: le persone...