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Книга «Русалки и водяные: водная стихия в русской традиции» предназначена для широкого круга читателей, интересующихся уникальной русской культурой. В нескольких главах в лёгкой, стилизованной фо…

A new window to local studies of interface phenomena at solid state surfaces has been opened by the development of local probe techniques such as Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) or Atomic For…

A practical guide for ensuring a defect-free coating and drying process For professionals in the coating and drying industry, the world is a demanding place. New, technically complex products suc…

Micro process engineering is approaching both academia and industry. With the provision of micro devices and systems by commercial suppliers, one main barrier for using these units has been elimi…

Как погрузиться в книгу, не читая ее полностью? Для этого существует саммари – краткое изложение основных идей книги. Оно содержит все ключевые мысли, которые автор хотел донести до читателя, и в…

«ИСТОРИЯ ТЕБЯ. Рабочая тетрадь по генеалогии» – это увлекательный практикум по изучению родословной семьи. Благодаря этой тетради, вы сможете узнать не только имена своих предков, но и их судьбы,…

Книга Натальи Долининой «Прочитаем “Онегина” вместе» посвящена знаменитому роману А. С. Пушкина. Это не научное исследование и не комментарий, а свободный разговор о пушкинских героях и о личност…

Книга Натальи Долининой посвящена роману М. Ю. Лермонтова «Герой нашего времени». Вместе с читателем она размышляет над противоречивым, сложным и обаятельным характером Печорина, над трагичной су…

The peroral application (swallowing) of a medicine means that the body must first resorb the active substance before it can begin to take effect. The efficacy of drug uptake depends on the one ha…

Experts from a variety of areas compare and discuss IL-6 and LIF in order to provide a new understanding of their modes of action, the significance of their polyfunctionalization–why the body cho…

Desertification includes land degradation due to both climatic and anthropogenic causes, where land includes water, soil, and the biosphere. This book presents the most recent findings from the E…

Written by experienced practitioners and teachers, this concise and comprehensive treatment on particulate flow covers both the theory as well as applications and examples from the oil and chemic…

`Nanophotonic Materials – Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials' summarizes the work and results of a consortium consisting of more than 20 German research groups concentrated on photo…

Connects classical cellular descriptive studies with more recent work on the molecular and genetic aspects regarding germline development. Prominent scientists discuss research on a range of orga…

Thin-film solar cells are either emerging or about to emerge from the research laboratory to become commercially available devices finding practical various applications. Currently no textbook ou…

Originally published in 1989, Karst Geomorphology and Hydrology became the leading textbook on karst studies. This new textbook has been substantially revised and updated. The first half of the b…

This long-awaited revised second edition of the standard reference on the subject has been considerably expanded to include such recent developments as novel control schemes, control of chaotic s…

A comprehensive textbook and reference for the study of the physics of ionized gases The intent of this book is to provide deep physical insight into the behavior of gases containing atoms and mo…

Computational methods are transforming the work of chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories. Increasingly faster and more exact simulation algorithms have made quantum chemistry a valuable tool i…

Surface, intermediate, and deep-water processes and their interaction in time and space drive the major ocean circulation of the Mediterranean Sea. All major forcing mechanisms, such as surface w…