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Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea |
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From Book News, Inc.
Explaining how nanotechnology works and looking at recent advances and the future of the field, this book offers a simple, brief, almost math-free introduction for nonscientists. Early chapters give background on concepts needed to understand nanotechnology, and later chapters visit research laboratories, look at breakthroughs in smart materials, electronics, and optics, and discuss the relationship of nanotechnology to society. Color illustrations are include... >> |
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Pharmaceutical Process Engineering (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences: a Series of Textbooks and Monographs) |
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From Book News, Inc.
With the goal of improving communication among diverse professionals involved in the manufacture of therapeutic agents-- from pharmaceutical researchers to chemical and industrial engineers, this volume summarizes the fundamental engineering principles and operations critical to converting bulk pharmaceutical products to patient-ready drug dosage delivery forms. The 15 chapters updating the out-of-print late 1960s text, Unit Processes in Pharmacy, cover ... >> |
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DARWINS BLACK BOX: THE BIOCHEMICAL CHALLENGE TO EVOLUTION |
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Amazon.com
Michael J. Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University, presents here a scientific argument for the existence of God. Examining the evolutionary theory of the origins of life, he can go part of the way with Darwin--he accepts the idea that species have been differentiated by the mechanism of natural selection from a common ancestor. But he thinks that the essential randomness of this process can explain evolutionary development only at the macro level, not at the micro level ... >> |
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