Bøger af Ithaca

Covers various aspects of plant cell biology without emphasizing any one plant, organelle, molecule, or technique. This book explains the physiological underpinnings of biological processes to bring original insight related to plants. It includes examples to bring understanding to plant cell development, growth, chemistry and diseases.

Offers a background in basic physics. With a humanistic perspective, this book shows how science is significant for more than its technological consequences. It includes links to the arts and philosophies of relevant historical periods to bring science and the humanities together.

Offers the nonscientist an alternative view: one that demonstrates how physics is perpetually evolving and shows how so many seemingly diverse concepts are intimately connected. This book aims to tell readers the story of what we have learned about nature so far and how we have done it.

Presents detailed discussions on the systematic, ecological, and evolutionary implications of the pollination of terrestrial orchids of Southern Australia and the Mediterranean; variation and diversity in deep-sea echinoids; the molecular evolution of the alcohol dehydrogenase genes in Drosophila;

Dealing with heat and fluid flow in minichannels and microchannels, this book includes chapters that are accompanied by real life case studies. It is of interest to those involved in the design processes of microchannel flow passages in a heat exchanger.