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This 2000 Edition of Sir Patrick Moore's classic book has been completely revised in the light of changes in technology. Packs a great deal of valuable information into appendices which make up almost half the book. This is probably the only book in which all this information is collected in one place.

Oogenesis provides an overview of oocyte biology, integrating perspectives of philosophy and science. The text explores the voyage from the formation of the primordial oocyte to embryo development, and discusses ethical considerations on questions involved with in vitro growth and maturation.

Imaging is a key source of diagnostic information, but the conditions in which diagnostic imaging has to be performed are often extremely challenging and significantly different to imaging in the non acute setting. Imaging the ICU Patient reviews imaging procedures on the ICU in a highly practical and memorable manner.

This book updates the considerable recent progress in vulval pathology, including significant changes in the FIGO staging system for cancer of this region. Coverage includes high-quality illustrations, detailed description and an exhaustive list of references.

A simple introduction explaining the broad principles underlying chemotherapy, this book gives trainees a framework within which they can place the specific aspects of cancer chemotherapy they encounter in their everyday experience.

This book is an easy-to-read, practical guide for any medical school preparing for accreditation or institutional review. This book will appeal to medical school faculty as well as faculty from other health professions schools who are preparing for either high stakes accreditation or internal review.

This handbook provides accessible, technique-specific information on interventional radiology procedures, supplemented with key-point summaries, illustrations, step-by-step procedural guidelines, and advice on management of complications.

This book brings the most important aspects of modern topology within reach of a second-year undergraduate student. It successfully unites the most exciting aspects of modern topology with those that are most useful for research, leaving readers prepared and motivated for further study.

This self-contained introduction to the fast-growing field of Mathematical Biology is written for students with a mathematical background. A broad range of topics is covered including: Population dynamics, Infectious diseases, Population genetics and evolution, Dispersal, Molecular and cellular biology, Pattern formation, and Cancer modelling.

A comprehensive introduction to the most popular class of neural network, the multilayer perceptron, showing how it can be used for system identification and control.

Derived from a course of innovative lectures, the book shows students early in their studies how many of the topics they have encountered - partial differential equations, differential equations, Fourier series, and linear algebra - are useful in constructing, analysing and interpreting phenomena present in the real world.

This introduction to Laplace transforms and Fourier series is aimed at second year students in applied mathematics. Mathematics students do not usually meet this material until later in their degree course but applied mathematicians and engineers need an early introduction.

We selected 23 full papers out of 63 submitted, which covered our interaction with computer systems in a variety of types of life situation - including games, tourism and certain types of work - and also covered a variety of stages in our lives, from the young to the elderly. First each paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers.

Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (or 'NOTES') is an advancement with surgery and is causing many shockwaves throughout the industry, as well as attracting much attention from the outside media. This book covers the subject of NOTES.

These contributions, compiled as a tribute to Professor Janis Bubenko on his retirement from the University of Stockholm, are in three sections: information society; approaches to information systems engineering; and concepts for information system.

This text presents numerous illustrations of the observed variability of cataclysmic variable stars. It provides a clear explanation and thorough up-to-date overview of this phenomena at a level accessible to the advanced amateur or undergraduate student.

Based on the new 'guided-tour' concept that eliminates the start-up transient encountered in learning new programming languages, this beginner's introduction to MATLAB teaches a sufficient subset of the functionality and gives the reader practical experience on how to find more information.

MATLAB is a programme which lends itself to the implementation of most numerical algorithms. This text, which uses MATLAB, gives an overview of structured programming and numerical methods and covers numerical methods for solving a range of problems, from integration to the numerical solution of differential equations.

Most of the introductory courses on linear algebra develop the basic theory of finite dimensional vector spaces, and in so doing relate the notion of a linear mapping to that of a matrix.

This revolutionary new book is written for practical amateur astronomers who not only want to observe, but want to know the details of exactly what they are looking at. The Moon and How to Observe It is a mine of information for all levels of amateur observers, from the beginner to the experienced

Basic Linear Algebra is a text for first year students leading from concrete examples to abstract theorems, via tutorial-type exercises.

Provides an overview of the successful Soviet/Russian development of space suits and subsequent space walks from Vostok to MIR and ISS. This title provides details of events, including their technical development.

This book provides readers with the tools needed to understand the physical basis of special relativity and will enable a confident mathematical understanding of Minkowski's picture of space-time. Coverage includes acceleration and tensors and has an emphasis on space-time diagrams.

This book examines the toxicological and health implications of environmental epigenetics and provides knowledge through an interdisciplinary approach. Included in this volume are chapters outlining various environmental risk factors such as phthalates and dietary components, life states such as pregnancy and ageing, hormonal and metabolic considerations and specific disease risks such as cancer cardiovascular diseases and other non-communicable diseases.Environmental Epigenetics imparts integrative knowledge of the science of epigenetics and the issues raised in environmental epidemiology.This book is intended to serve both as a reference compendium on environmental epigenetics for scientists in academia, industry and laboratories and as a textbook for graduate level environmental health courses.Environmental Epigenetics imparts integrative knowledge of the science of epigenetics and the issues raised in environmental epidemiology.This book is intended to serve both as a reference compendium on environmental epigenetics for scientists in academia, industry and laboratories and as a textbook for graduate level environmental health courses.

This book covers Curve Modeling with solutions to real life problems relating to Computer Graphics, Vision, Image Processing, Geometric Modeling and CAD/CAM. The book provides a source where the reader can find the latest developments in the field.

Astronomers and students interested in studying the Sun require a thorough understanding of the proper techniques and equipment. In this book, Kitchin provides all the information needed for safe observation as well as novel techniques that will make solar observation a rewarding experience.

This second edition - completely up to date with new exercises - provides a comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the probabilistic theory behind the risk-neutral valuation principle and its application to the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives.

Rex Hall and Dave Shayler provide a unique history of the Soyuz spacecraft programme from conception, through development to its use, detailed in the only English language book available on this topic. Planned for publication in 2003, it will celebrate 40 years since the original concept of the Soyuz craft.