New Chemical and Life Sciences eBooks catalogJuly, August, September 2015

Life Science

Soil-Specific Farming Precision Agriculture

Edited by Rattan Lal, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA and B.A. Stewart, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, USA

EBook ISBN: 9781482245349 PRINT ISBN: 9781482245332 August 2015 | 254 x 178 | 420pp | Hb | $210.00 | illus: 119 b/w, 50 tables NetBASE: ENVIROnetBASE, AGRICULTUREnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, EnvironmentalSCIENCEnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Agriculture

Faced with challenges of resource scarcity and environmental degradation, it is important to adopt innovative farming systems that maximize resource efficiency while protecting the environment. Soil-Specific Farming: Precision Agriculture focuses on principles and applications of soil-specific farming, providing information on rapidly evolving agricultural technologies. It addresses assessments of soil variability and application of modern innovations to enhance use efficiency of fertilizers, irrigation, tillage, and pesticides through targeted management of soils and crops.

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Globally focuses on site specific farming, agronomic productivity and soil variability

Discusses characterization and measurement of variability in soil properties

Covers applications of GPS and sensors with information technology for crop protection

Presents information on various forms of resource use efficiency, including agrochemicals, energy use and irrigation water

Features information on mapping soil properties by measuring electrical conductivity

Audience: soil scientists; precision farmers; agronomists

Related titles: Precision Agriculture Technology for Crop Farming 9781482251074 Principles of Sustainable Soil Management in Agro ecosystems 9781466513464 GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume Four: Conservation Planning – 9781439867228

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Life Science

Sustainable Approaches to Controlling Plant Pathogenic Bacteria

Edited by V. Rajesh Kannan, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India and Kubilay Kurtulus Bastas, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey

EBook ISBN: 9781482240542 PRINT ISBN: 9781482240535 September 2015 | 254 x 178 | 424pp | Hb | $225.00 | illus: 36 b/w, 34 tables NetBASE: AGRICULTUREnetBASE, BIOSCIENCEnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, LifeSCIENCEnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Life Science

Plant diseases are a global problem and contribute to massive crop losses every year. The bacteria that cause these diseases can shorten the shelf life of food products and degrade the quality and nutritional value of food crops. To minimize or even reverse these effects, plant pathologists continue to develop innovative methods to control plant diseases. This book focuses on sustainable control measures for plant diseases caused by bacteria. Chapters explore pathogenic bacteria epidemiology, host range and resistance, nutrient supplementation, traditional control methods, and various application strategies.

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Details epidemiology and pathogenesis of plant pathogenic bacteria and presents various strategies for controlling these bacteria

Synthesizes sustainable control measures for plant diseases caused by bacteria

Discusses the role of antibiotics and nutrient supplementation on control strategies

Explains bacteria control through seed and foliar applications

Audience: crop scientists and consultants; plant scientists; horticulturalists; agronomists; ag. extension agents; soil scientists

Related titles: Handbook of Plant Nutrition, Second Edition – 9781439881972 Fungal Pathogenesis in Plants and Crops 9780849398674 Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Third Edition – 9781439813966

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Life Science

Papaya Biology, Cultivation, Production and Uses

Parmeshwar Lal Saran, Ishwar Singh Solanki and Ravish Choudhary

EBook ISBN: 9781498735612 PRINT ISBN: 9781498735605 September 2015 | 235 x 156 | 302pp | Hb | $195.00 | illus: 83 b/w, 21 tables NetBASE: AGRICULTUREnetBASE, BIOSCIENCEnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, LifeSCIENCEnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Agricultural Science

Papaya is an important fruit cultivated throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is a widely studied crop for researchers in botany, breeding, seed production, sex determination, and tissue culture. There is food and fruit scarcity on a global scale and new production techniques are needed to ensure security. The book covers various aspects of papaya including uses, cultivation, propagation, nutrition, cultural practices, flowering, fruiting and harvesting, seed production, pests and diseases, physiological disorders, and medicinal uses of papaya.

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Provides a solid review of papaya biology, production, and uses

Papaya is one of the most nutritious and medicinally important fruits of tropical regions – it is an especially importantcrop in South Asia.

Discusses uses of papain, papaya products, nutrients and antinutrients produced and used for disease management

Presents a compilation of research from a plant biotechnologist, breeder, and a horticulturalist

Audience: agricultural/crop scientists (papaya/fruit); horticultural scientists; plant scientists (biotechnologists, geneticists,

breeders, etc.); professionals working in the papaya industry

Related titles: Top 100 Exotic Food Plants 9781439856864 Genetics, Genomics, and Breeding of Tomato 9781578088041 Cocoa Production and Processing Technology 9781466598232

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Life Science

Viral Nanotechnology

Edited by Yury Khudyakov, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia and Paul Pumpens

EBook ISBN: 9781466583535 PRINT ISBN: 9781466583528 July 2015 | 279 x 216 | 524pp | Hb | $240.00 | illus: 62 b/w, 121 colours, 27 tables NetBASE: NANOnetBASE, BIOSCIENCEnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, BiomedicalSCIENCEnetBASE, LifeSCIENCEnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Life Science

This book presents a review of a rapidly developing field of viral nanotechnology in the context of immunology, virology, microbiology, chemistry, physics, and mathematical modelling. Viral nanotechnology is founded on the unexpected properties of viral nanoparticles. It emphasizes applications of viral nanotechnology to improving health and advancing material technologies. These applications include developing vaccines for prevention of disease, developing drugs and genetic therapies for treatment of disease, and developing diagnostic reagents and novel imaging technologies for detecting disease and infectious agents causing disease.

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Covers basic methodologies and a selection of current applications of viral nanotechnology in a comprehensible manner

Applies viral nanotechnology to the three major domains of medicine: prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

Illustrates the combination of experimental and computational approaches to viral nanotechnology

Includes contributions from eminent practitioners in the field

Audience: Researchers, molecular biology, biotechnology, virology, genetic and protein engineering

Related titles: Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine 9780849329494 Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine 9781439893784 Medicinal Protein Engineering 9780849373688 Biomedical Nanotechnology 9780824725792

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Life Science

Managing Salt Tolerance in Plants Molecular and Genomic Perspectives

Edited by Shabir Hussain Wani, AICRP NSP (Crops), Division of Plant Breeding and Genetics, India and Mohammad Anwar Hossain

EBook ISBN: 9781482245141 PRINT ISBN: 9781482245134 September 2015 | 254 x 178 | 448pp | Hb | $195.00 | illus: 43 b/w, 17 tables NetBASE: AGRICULTUREnetBASE, BIOSCIENCEnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, LifeSCIENCEnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Agricultural Science

Scientists around the world are striving to develop crop varieties that are tolerant to salt stress. Salinity stress currently impacts more than 800 million hectares of land worldwide and more arable land is likely to be impacted in the future due to global climate changes. This book presents detailed molecular and genomic approaches for the development of crop plants that are tolerant to salinity stress. This comprehensive volume discusses salinity stress in plant adaptation and productivity, biochemical and molecular mechanisms responsible for plant salt tolerance, and genomic approaches for the development of plants tolerant to salinity stress.

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Provides comprehensive information on salt stress tolerance, from gene to full plant

Presents an extensive review of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular bases of salt stress response and tolerance

Reviews salt stress tolerance as well as adaptive mechanisms based on findings generated by using novel molecularapproaches

Assists salt stress researchers searching for a genetic solution

Audience: Plant Geneticists, Plant Molecular Biologists, Plant Physiologists, Plant Ecologists, Agricultural Researchers, Agricultural Policy Makers, Graduate Students, University, College and Research Facility Libraries at Institutions with Strong Programs in Plant Science and Agriculture.

Related titles: Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Third Edition 9781439813966 Abiotic Stresses 9781560229643

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Life Science

Ehrlich’s Geomicrobiology, Sixth Edition

Edited by Henry Lutz Ehrlich, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA, Dianne K. Newman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA and Andreas Kappler, EberhardKarlsUniversity Tuebingen, Center for Applied Geosciences (ZAG), Germany

EBook ISBN: 9781466592414 PRINT ISBN: 9781466592407 September 2015 | 254 x 178 | 0pp | Hb | $285.00 | illus: 178 b/w, 26 tables NetBASE: BIOSCIENCEnetBASE, CHEMLIBnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, GEOnetBASE, CHEMISTRYnetBASE, LifeSCIENCEnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Life Science

Advances in the field of Geomicrobiology have progressed at an accelerated pace in recent years. Important new discoveries have been made and understandings gained in a number of areas of the field. This sixth edition surveys various aspects of Geomicrobiology, including the microbial role in the formation and degradation of minerals and fossil fuels, and elemental cycling.

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Represents an overview of all aspects of Geomicrobiology

Includes a discussion of and reference to the latest findings and theories in various aspects of the field

Features a special chapter on the microbiology of the deep subsurface

Surveys the various aspects of Geomicrobiology, including the microbial role in the formation and degradation ofminerals and fossil fuels, and elemental cycling

Audience: College and university teachers and students of general microbiology, geomicrobiology, microbial ecology, soil

microbiology, freshwater and marine microbiology, petroleum microbiology, industrial microbiology, earth science, biomining

and metallurgical technology, environmental engineering, bioremediation technology, and researchers in these fields

Related titles: Practical Handbook of Microbiology, Second Edition 97808493 93655 Cellular and Molecular Biology of Metals 9781420059977 Polar Microbiology 9781420083842

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Life Science

Oceanography and Marine Biology An Annual Review, Volume 53

Edited by R.N. Hughes, Bangor University, Gwynedd, UK, D.J. Hughes, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Argyll, UK, I.P. Smith, University of Glasgow, UK and A.C. Dale, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Argyll, UK

EBook ISBN: 9781498705462 PRINT ISBN: 9781498705455 August 2015 | 254 x 178 | 344pp | Hb | $285.00 | illus: 27 b/w, 9 colours, 12 tables NetBASE: ENGnetBASE, ENVIROnetBASE, CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE, BIOSCIENCEnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, EnvironmentalSCIENCEnetBASE , LifeSCIENCEnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Life Science

The volumes in the Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review series examine basic areas of marine research; subjects of special and topical importance; and new areas as they arise. This series is consistently among the highest ranking impact factors for the marine biology category of the citation indices compiled by the Institute of Scientific Information/Web of Science. It is an essential reference for research workers and students in all fields of marine science, and the series volumes find a place in the libraries of not only marine laboratories and institutes but also universities.

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Covers the behavioural reactions of mega faunal predators to energetic tidal features such as tide races

Discusses climate driven trophic cascades affecting UK seabirds

Details circum-global invasion by Sargassum muticum

Highlights the value of Littorina spp. as model organisms for evolutionary ecology

Examines the emergence of simple patterns from complex effects on mussel populations

Explores the implications of variation in coral growth for the structure and function of reef ecosystems

Audience: Libraries – Marine Institutes and University; Marine Scientists (Biologists/Chemists/Geologists; Oceanographers

(Biological/Chemical/Physical); Fishert Scientists; Estuarine Scientists

Related titles: Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 51 9781466568662 Interrelationships between Corals and Fisheries 9781466588301 Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 52 9781482220599

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Life Science

Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and Their Applications

Edited by M. Eric Benbow, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA and Aaron M. Tarone, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

EBook ISBN: 9781466575479 PRINT ISBN: 9781466575462 September 2015 | 254 x 178 | 610pp | Hb | $180.00 | illus: 103 b/w, 17 tables, NetBASE: ENVIROnetBASE, FORENSICnetBASE/LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE, BIOSCIENCEnetBASE,SciTECHnetBASE, EnvironmentalSCIENCEnetBASE, LifeSCIENCEnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Life Science

In recent years, there have been major technological innovations allowing important microbial mechanisms and interactions with arthropods that drive carrion decomposition to be described. This book fills a historical information gap in the ecology of decomposing animal organic matter. It covers the molecular mechanistic foundations that provide the foundation for intra and interspecific interactions related to population biology, community ecology, and how this manifests into habitat and ecosystem level importance.

Key Features:

Brings together a team of world-renowned scientists involved with measuring and understanding the process and effects of carrion ecology in nature, with special application in such applied fields as forensic entomology, animalscience, and human and environmental health

Presents the molecular mechanistic foundations that provide the foundation for intra and interspecific interactions related to population biology, community ecology, and how this manifests into habitat and ecosystem levelimportance

Addresses practical issues such as waste or animal decomposition on a large scale

Contains a 16page full color insert

Audience: Ecologists; Entomologists; Forensic Scientists; Microbiologists; Environmental Scientists; Soil Scientists; Waste

Managers; Physical Anthropologists; Public Health Professionals; Epidemiologists; Animal Scientists; Wildlife Scientists and

Professionals

Related titles: Forensic Entomology: International Dimensions and Frontiers 9781466572409 Public Health Entomology 9781439848814 Practical Forensic Entomology 9781439878552

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Chemistry

Organic Electrochemistry, Fifth Edition

Edited by Ole Hammerich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Bernd Speiser, Institut Fur Organische Chemie

EBook ISBN: 9781420084023 PRINT ISBN: 9781420084016 September 2015 | 254 x 178 | 1768pp | Hb | $600.00 | illus: 2258 b/w, 129 tables NetBASE: CHEMLIBnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, CHEMISTRYnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: General Chemistry

Completely revised and updated, Organic Electrochemistry, Fifth Edition explains distinguishing fundamental characteristics that separate organic electrochemistry from classical organic compounds. It includes descriptions of the most important variants of the process of electron transfers between organic molecules and emphasizes the importance of electron transfers in initiating various electrochemical reactions. The sweeping changes and lengthy additions in the fifth edition testify to the field’s continued and rapid growth in research, practice, and application, and make it a valuable addition to your collection.

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Covers the basics to synthetic applications and the use of organic electrochemistry in broader contexts

Introduces different perspectives that have developed in the field

Includes 16 completely new chapters along with extensive revisions of chapters from the previous edition

Presents electrochemical transformations of organic compounds systematically according to the type of starting materials

Collects the critical knowledge of this evolving field in one volume

Audience: Academia

Related titles: Electro-generated Chemiluminescence 9780824753474 Trends in Molecular Electrochemistry 9780824753528 Analytical and Physical Electrochemistry 9780824753573

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Chemistry

Handbook of Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Fourth Edition

Edited by K. S. Birdi, KSB Consultant, Holte, Denmark

EBook ISBN: 9781466596689 PRINT ISBN: 9781466596672 July 2015 | 254 x 178 | 708pp | Hb | $375.00 | illus: 336 b/w, 83 tables, NetBASE: MATERIALSnetBASE, CHEMLIBnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, CHEMISTRYnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: General Chemistry

This new edition of the Handbook of Surface and Colloid Chemistry informs you of significant recent developments in the field. It highlights new applications and provides revised insight on surface and colloid chemistry’s growing role in industrial innovations. It illustrates surface and colloid chemistry’s applicability to global issues including energy resources, pollution, transportation, housing, biotechnology, health, medicine, water, and food production.

Key Features:

Contains chapters representing new research areas and gives updated statuses on important research areas

Includes contributions by internationally recognized experts, edited by a well-respected and highly experienced authority in the field

Identifies surface and colloid chemistry’s applicability to current and future global challenges, including energyresources, pollution, transportation, housing, health, medicine, food, and water

Offers extensive references for understanding related phenomena to enhance theoretical and practical knowledge

Audience: Surface and colloid chemists in industry and academia; physical chemists, polymer chemists, materials scientists,

Nano scientists, material scientists

Related titles:

Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science, Second Edition 9780849396151

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Chemistry

Handbook of Essential Oils Science, Technology, and Applications, Second Edition

Edited by K. Husnu Can Baser, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey and Gerhard Buchbauer, University of Vienna, Austria

EBook ISBN: 9781466590472 PRINT ISBN: 9781466590465 September 2015 | 254 x 178 | 1168pp | Hb |$300.00 | illus: 618 b/w, 5 colours, 261 tables NetBASE: FOODnetBASE, BIOSCIENCEnetBASE, CHEMLIBnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE,

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Bringing together significant research and market profiles, this comprehensive handbook provides a much needed compilation of information related to the development, use, and marketing of essential oils, including their chemistry and biochemistry. A select group of authoritative experts explores the historical, biological, regulatory, and microbial aspects. This reference also covers sources, production, analysis, storage, and transport of oils as well as aromatherapy, pharmacology, toxicology, and metabolism. It includes discussions of biological activity testing, results of antimicrobial and antioxidant tests, and penetration enhancing activities useful in drug delivery.

Key Features:

Provides a much needed compilation of information related to the development, use, and marketing of essential oils,including their chemistry and biochemistry

Covers sources, production, analysis, storage, and transport of oils as well as aromatherapy, pharmacology,toxicology, and metabolism

Includes discussions of biological activity testing, results of antimicrobial and antioxidant tests, and penetration enhancing activities useful in drug delivery

Features contributions from world-renowned experts

International editors, both well respected in the field, who attend and speak at many conferences annually

Audience: Industrial scientists and academics in essential oils production and research, and natural product chemists, botanists,

pharmacognosists; cosmetics industry, food industry, flavour and fragrance industries, aromatherapy industry, pharmaceutical

industry

Related titles:

Bioactive Compounds from Natural Sources, Second Edition 9781439822296

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Chemistry

The Carbon Footprint Handbook

Edited by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, SGS Hong Kong Limited, Hung Hom, Kowloon

EBook ISBN: 9781482262230 ISBN: 9781482262223 September 2015 | 254 x 178 | 566pp | Hb | $284.93 | illus: 142 b/w, 184 tables NetBASE: ENVIROnetBASE, ENERGYandCLEANTECHnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, EnvironmentalSCIENCEnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Environmental Science

This handbook covers all the detailed aspects of carbon footprint including the scientific elements, methodological and technical aspects, standards, industrial case studies and communication of carbon footprint results. It serves as a standard reference on carbon footprint with all the essential information in one place. The book also details the modeling aspects and calculation details of carbon footprints both at organizational and at product levels.

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Provides hard science and real case studies

Measures our impact on the climate as well as addresses chemical processes and human activities

Emphasizes sustainability as well as the importance of abundant, non-polluting sustainable energy sources

Highly experienced editor and an international team of contributors

Audience: Undergraduate and graduates working in environmental science, engineering and sustainability, industrialists,

researchers, and government policy makers, graduates and researchers in organic chemistry and biochemistry

Related titles: Fundamentals of Environmental and Toxicological Chemistry 9781466553163 Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sixth Edition (Print Version) 9781439804421 Carbon Footprint Analysis 9781439857830

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Food & Nutrition

Food Emulsions Principles, Practices, and Techniques, Third Edition

David Julian McClements, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

EBook ISBN: 9781498726696 PRINTISBN: 9781498726689 September 2015 | 254 x 178 | 723pp | Hb | $300.00 | illus: 352 b/w, 30 tables, NetBASE: FOODnetBASE, SciTECHnetBASE, STMnetBASE Market: Food & Culinary Science

Continuing the mission of the first two editions, this third edition covers the fundamentals of emulsion science and demonstrates how this knowledge can be applied to control the appearance, stability and texture of many common emulsion based foods. With two new chapters, this edition provides the most comprehensive and contemporary discussion of the field of food emulsions currently available. The new chapters cover the behavior of food emulsions within the gastrointestinal tract after ingestion and the application of emulsion based delivery systems.

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Highlights the major factors influencing the stability, rheology, flavor and appearance of food emulsions

Presents new information on emulsion design and applications

Explains the behaviour of food emulsions within the GIT after ingestion

Critically assesses the various methods available to prepare food emulsions

Discusses modern analytical methods available for characterizing food emulsion properties

Authored by internationally renowned scientist with PhD from University of Leeds and appointments atUniversity of Massachusetts, USA, and King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Audience: Food chemists, food engineers, food product formulators working on products that use emulsions

Related titles:

Nanoparticle and Micro-particle based Delivery Systems 9781482233155

Food Emulsions 9780824746964

Colloids and Interfaces in Life Sciences and Bio-nanotechnology, Second Edition 9781439817186

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