Looks at environmental and ethical topics related to agriculture and food production, touching on such issues as sustainability, animal welfare, genetic modification of crops, and fair trade practices
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Now in its second edition, this classic textbook for the study of mass transfer operations has been revised to include new information on vital topics such as membrane separations, ion exchange, multi
For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques fo
Emulsifiers are essential components of many industrial food recipes, whether they be added for the purpose of water/oil emulsification in its simplest form, for textural and organoleptic modification
In this book, Franklyn Sills extends the concepts and skills covered in his first volume to the specific structural membrane and tissue dynamics of the human form, demonstrating the connection between
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Well-known text uses a few basic concepts to solve such problems as the vibrating string, vibrating membrane, and heat conduction. Problems and solutions. 31 illustrations.
《自達爾文以來》講了“進化”這個概念。達爾文自己並不用這個概念，他只是在《物種起源》的最後一段才用到這個詞，而且是作為權宜性對比才這樣用的，他自己的用法是“帶有改變的繼承（descent with modification） ”。自然選擇本身就是對環境的適應，並沒有從低到高的方向性，並不代表進步。從“帶有改變的繼承”到進化，人們保留了人類的中心地位，保留了世界觀（進化論最初是為了與關於上帝的信仰相
