978-3-7643-9986-3MOVE - Dynamic Components and Elements in Architecture

December NBIs - Table of Contents

978-3-0346-0087-3Typology+

978-3-7643-9947-4Refurbishment Manual

978-3-7643-9986-3MOVE - Dynamic Components and Elements in Architecture

978-0-387-30365-9Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology

978-1-60761-415-9Multi-Drug Resistance in Cancer

978-3-642-02850-2Rational Decision Making

978-1-4020-9974-8Relativistic Methods for Chemists

978-1-4419-1007-3Encapsulation Technologies for Active Food Ingredients and Food Processing

978-0-387-00542-3Algorithmic Statistics

978-3-642-03009-3Etiology and Pathogenesis of Periodontal Disease

978-3-0346-0032-3Unfolded

978-90-481-3176-1Advances in Machine Learning and Data Analysis

978-90-481-3140-2Major Accomplishments in Composite Materials and Sandwich Structures

978-1-84882-683-0Intelligent Control Systems with LabVIEW™

978-1-84882-783-7Identification of Damage Using Lamb Waves

978-1-84882-738-7Advanced Design and Manufacturing Based on STEP

978-1-4419-0955-8Formal Verification of Microprocessors

978-3-540-88251-0Long Term Processes in Lake Kinneret

978-3-642-02166-4Progress in Botany, Vol. 71

978-3-642-01230-3Scanning Force Microscopy of Polymers

978-3-0346-0068-2An Introduction to Analysis, Adaptivity and Multigrid for Variational Inequalities

978-0-8176-4906-7A History of Algebraic and Differential Topology, 1900 - 1960

978-0-8176-4912-8Hyperbolic Manifolds and Discrete Groups

978-0-8176-4805-3Minimax Systems and Critical Point Theory

978-1-84882-620-5Transesophageal Echocardiography in Clinical Practice

978-3-540-69836-4Cardiovascular MR in Congenital Heart Disease

978-0-387-92850-0Handbook of Critical and Intensive Care Medicine

978-3-211-99224-1Autoimmune Diseases of the Skin

978-3-540-69374-1Pathogenesis and Treatment of Acne and Rosacea

978-1-4419-1033-2Advice to the Young Physician

978-1-84800-264-7Management of Breast Cancer in the Elderly

978-3-642-02873-1Oncology of CNS Tumors

978-3-642-02601-0Minimally Invasive Ophthalmic Surgery

978-3-540-77785-4Surgery for Sleep Disordered Breathing

978-3-540-93829-3Lumbar Spinal Imaging in a Clinical Context

978-1-84882-177-4New Technologies in Urology

978-1-84882-703-5Medical Therapy in Urology

978-90-481-3073-3Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics

978-3-642-02645-4Photonic Crystals

978-1-4419-1052-3The Rainbow Sky

978-3-642-02858-8Magnetic Coupling between the Interior and Atmosphere of the Sun

978-0-387-09483-0Teaching Mindfulness

978-0-387-09805-0Substance Abusing Inmates

978-1-4419-1071-4Trade and Exchange

Architecture

Typology+

Innovative Concepts in Housing Construction

AUTHORS: / Peter Ebner, TU Munich, Germany; Markus Kuntscher, TU Munich, Germany and Ulrike Wietzorrek, TU Munich, Germany
ISBN-13: / 978-3-0346-0087-3
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 430 p., 720 illus., 320 in color, Hardcover
PRICE: / $109.00
AVAILABLE (US): / November 2009
Typology+ documents and analyzes roughly one hundred international housing structures. It uses diagrammatic drawings to elaborate a broad and varied range of residential types and present them systematically. In the process, it examines variants under the categories of access, space (ground plan and open space), and morphology, supplemented by detailed typological descriptions and the elaboration of the special qualities of each individual type. More general essays draw connections between the housing types and twentieth-century reference projects. All of the projects are newly drawn to uniform standards; every project is presented with its ground plan drawn to a scale of 1:200. Site maps, sections, elevations, and photographs illuminate the urban setting, the building structure and design, and the spatial and functional qualities of each residential structure. Thus, Typology+ not only offers a broad range of sustainable approaches to apartment block construction, but also possibilities for using and transforming them in a practical planning context.
SELLING POINTS:

• Comparative analyses of sustainable international housing solutions
• Contains roughly four hundred newly drawn plans, whose uniformity makes it easy to compare them
• Thematically organized examples make for quick and easy searching and targeted study

MARKET: / Architects
SUBJECT: / Building Types and Functions
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Architecture
RELATED TITLES:
Schittich, In Detail: High-Density Housing (978-3-7643-7113-5, 2004, $84.95)
Schneider, Grundrißatlas / Floor Plan Manual (978-3-7643-6985-9, 2004, $59.95)
COMPETITION:
Albern, Factory-Constructed Housing Developments (CRC, 978-0849374814, 1997, $49.95)
Global Green USA, Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing (Island Press, 978-1597261395, 2007, $27.50)

Architecture

Refurbishment Manual

AUTHORS: / Georg Giebeler, University of Wismar, Germany; Harald Krause, FH Rosenheim, Germany; Rainer Fisch, Berlin, Germany; Florian Musso, TU Munich, Germany; Bernhard Lenz, TU Darmstadt, Germany and Alexander Rudolphi, Berlin, Germany
ISBN-13: / 978-3-7643-9947-4
PAGES/ILLUS: / 272 p. 1500 illus., 400 in color, Softcover
PRICE: / $99.00
AVAILABLE (US): / July 2009
Refurbishment Manual closes the gap between basic constructional literature and one-sided, highly specialized technical literature. It constitutes a practical planning aid on the subject of refurbishment, providing a basic introduction to the relevant aspects of building physics, fire protection, sustainability and energy, hazardous materials, construction materials for interior and façade, historic preservation, and technical building equipment. It offers concrete tips on planning steps, methods of building analysis, and cost benchmarks, as well as clear constructional solutions with built projects as examples. A unique feature of the volume is the specially developed timeline, which allows the planner to quickly grasp, categorize, and evaluate a concrete building task and thus obtain an efficient planning overview.
SELLING POINTS:

• A practical planning aid with constructional solutions for various refurbishment tasks
• Categorizes typical weak points of buildings
• With a specially developed timeline for evaluating concrete building tasks

MARKET: / Architects, construction engineers, construction physicists, experts, monument conservators, conservators, students of those fields
SUBJECT: / Basics of Construction
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Architecture
RELATED TITLES:
Hafke, Open I Close (978-3-7643-9961-0, 2009, $59.95)
Schittich, In Detail: Building in Existing Fabric (978-3-7643-1120-9, 2003, $59.95)
COMPETITION:
Doran, Refurbishment and Repair in Construction (Whittles Publishing, 978-1904445555, 2009, $95.00)
Anink, Handbook of Sustainable Building (Earthscan Publications Ltd., 978-1873936382, 1996, $97.50)

Architecture

MOVE - Dynamic Components and Elements in Architecture

AUTHORS: / Michael Schumacher, Dept. of Design and Construction, Leibniz University Hannover; Oliver Schaeffer, Dept. of Design and Construction, Leibniz University Hannover and Michael-Marcus Vogt, Dept. of Design and Construction, Leibniz University Hannover
ISBN-13: / 978-3-7643-9986-3
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 240 p., 850 illus., 350 in color, Hardcover
PRICE: / $109.00
AVAILABLE (US): / December 2009
Dynamic components and adaptive elements are becoming increasingly important in contemporary architecture, and not just because of their visual effect. If architects and engineers are engaging more and more with the issue of movement – whether in the form of sun-tracking solar cells, lowerable walls, or intelligently programmed elevators – it’s because they are busy exploring responses to three challenges: How can we control and reduce the energy requirement of buildings? How can we expand the range of possible uses? And how can we represent, illustrate, accommodate, and control dynamic movements in buildings? Designers and builders who seek to use kinetic components face technical and design challenges that aren’t covered by traditional structural theory. For these users, this book presents the technical tools and constructional solutions that will allow them to implement these movements concretely and deploy them functionally within the domains of of "Energy," "Change of Use," and "Interaction."
SELLING POINTS:

• Innovative solutions to core architectural tasks.
• Functional efficiency and design elegance in fascinating perfection.
• In-depth presentation allows the reader to follow along with every step of the constructional implementation.

SUBJECT: / Basics of Construction
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Architecture
RELATED TITLES:
Bielefeld, Basics Construction Scheduling (978-3-7643-8873-7, 2009, $19.95)
Achilles, Basics Glass Construction (978-3-7643-8851-5, 2009, $16.50)
COMPETITION:
Fatzinger, Basic Estimating for Construction (Prentice Hall, 978-0131119130, 2003, $126.20)
Kilmer, Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors (Wiley, 978-0470190418, 2009, $45.00)

Biomedicine

Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology

Schizophrenia

Third Edition

EDITORS: / Abel Lajtha
ISBN-13: / 978-0-387-30365-9
PAGES/ILLUS: / Approx. 400 p., Hardcover
PRICE: / $249.00
AVAILABLE (US): / December 2009
This volume of the Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology focuses on neurochemical aspects of schizophrenia. Chapters cover the full range of schizophrenia symptoms and anatomical pathologies from neurochemical and molecular biology perspectives. Topics include changes in neurotransmitter systems, alteration in receptors, neurotransmitter release, genetic factors, protein alterations, and redox dysregulation.
SELLING POINTS:

• Explores schizophrenia from a neurochemical perspective
• e-Reference contains crosslinking to other references
• Useful for basic neuroscientists and clinicians alike

MARKET: / Neuroscientists, neurologists, psychiatrists, neurochemistry researchers
SUBJECTS: / Neurosciences; Neuropsychology
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Biomedicine
RELATED TITLES:
Teelken, Neurochemistry: Cellular, Molecular, and Clinical Aspects (978-0-306-45705-0, 1998, $397.00)
Lubec, The Molecular Biology of Down Syndrome (978-3-211-83378-0, 1999, $209.00)
COMPETITION:
Wild, Essentials of Neurochemistry (Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 978-0867208627, 1994, $103.95)
Siegel, Basic Neurochemistry (Academic Press, 978-0120883974, 2005, $99.95)

Biomedicine

Multi-Drug Resistance in Cancer

EDITOR: / Jun Zhou, NankaiUniversity, Tianjin, China
ISBN-13: / 978-1-60761-415-9
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 510 p., 67 illus., 4 in color, Hardcover
PRICE: / $110.00
AVAILABLE (US): / October 2009
With the devastating complication of cancer cells becoming simultaneously resistant to many structurally and mechanistically unrelated drugs, the efficacy of chemotherapeutic management of cancer often becomes severely limited. In Multi-Drug Resistance in Cancer, leading researchers in the field provide comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of multidrug resistance mechanisms, from over-expression of ATP-binding cassette drug transporters such as P-glycoprotein, multidrug resistance-associated proteins, and breast cancer resistance protein, to the drug ratio-dependent antagonism and the paradigm of cancer stem cells. The extensive volume also includes strategies to overcome multidrug resistance, from the development of compounds that inhibit drug transporter function to the modulation of transporter expression, as well as techniques for detection and imaging of drug transporters, methods for investigation of drug resistance in animal models, and strategies to evaluate the efficacy of resistance reversal agents. As a volume in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series, this work provides the kind of detailed description and implementation advice that is crucial for getting optimal results.
Authoritative and cutting-edge, Multi-Drug Resistance in Cancer offers a state-of-art collection of reviews and methods for both basic and clinician investigators who are interested in the vital study of cancer multi-drug resistance mechanisms and reversal strategies.
SELLING POINTS:

• Collects comprehensive reviews written by leading scientists in the field
• Providesup-to-date techniques for detection and imaging of drug transporters
• Offers strategies to evaluate the efficacy of resistance reversal agents

MARKET: / Cancer researchers, pharmaceutical scientists, molecular and cellular biologists, biochemists
SUBJECTS: / Cancer Research; Drug Resistance
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Biomedicine
RELATED TITLES:
Mehta, Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells (978-0-387-89444-7, 2009, $149.00)
Clynes, Multiple Drug Resistance in Cancer 2: Molecular, Cellular and Clinical Aspects (978-0-7923-5272-3, 1998, $228.00)
COMPETITION:
Goldie, Drug Resistance in Cancer: Mechanisms and Models (CambridgeUniversity Press, 978-0521111706, 2009, $53.00)
Weinberg, The Biology of Cancer HB (Garland Science, 978-0815340782, 2006, $160.00)

Business / Economics

Rational Decision Making

AUTHORS: / Franz Eisenführ, University of Cologne, Germany; Martin Weber, University of Mannheim, Germany and Thomas Langer, University of Münster, Germany
ISBN-13: / 978-3-642-02850-2
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 400 p., Softcover
PRICE: / approx. $39.95
AVAILABLE (US): / November 2009
This textbook conveys methods that can improve decision making processes in various fields such as economics, politics, and medicine as well as in personal life. Areas of focus are decision making under conflicting objectives, decision making under risk and uncertainty, decision making with incomplete information about individual preferences or probabilities, and the consideration of time preferences. Special emphasis is placed on the procedures` and concepts`applicability. Explicit sample applications show the methods` benefit for a wide area of decision making problems. Exercises from daily life make it easy for the reader to understand the key insights from decision analysis.
SELLING POINTS:

• Describes basic concepts of rational decision making and decision analysis to the reader
• Offers insights that help to systematically analyze decision making problems in professional and private life and helps the reader to come up with a problem solution based on a higher degree of rationaliy
• Updating/inclusion of current research, in-depth discussion of selected topics, additional exercises/case studies

MARKET: / Students
SUBJECTS: / Operations Research/Decision Theory; Industrial and Organisational Psychology
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Business / Economics
RELATED TITLES:
Bhushan, Strategic Decision Making (978-1-85233-756-8, 2004, $149.00)
McKenzie, Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies (978-0-387-76999-8, 2008, $27.99)
COMPETITION:
Hastie, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World (Sage Publications, 978-0761922759, 2001, $79.95)
Drucker, Harvard Business Review on Decision Making (HarvardBusinessSchool Press, 978-1578515578, 2001, $19.95)

Chemistry

Relativistic Methods for Chemists

EDITORS: / Maria Barysz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland and Yasuyuki Ishikawa, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, USA
ISBN-13: / 978-1-4020-9974-8
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 650 p., Hardcover
PRICE: / approx. $449.00
AVAILABLE (US): / December 2009
Relativistic Methods for Chemists, written by a highly qualified team of authors, is targeted at both experimentalists and theoreticians interested in the area of relativistic effects in atomic and molecular systems and processes and in their consequences for the interpretation of the heavy element’s chemistry. The theoretical part of the book focuses on the relativistic methods for molecular calculations discussing relativistic two-component theory, density functional theory, pseudopotentials and correlations. The experimentally oriented chapters describe the use of relativistic methods in different applications focusing on the design of new materials based on heavy element compounds, the role of the spin-orbit coupling in photochemistry and photobiology, and chirality and its relations to relativistic description of matter and radiation. This book is written at an intermediate level in order to appeal to a broader audience than just experts working in the field of relativistic theory.
SELLING POINTS:

• Features relativistic effects in atoms and molecules from a chemist’s perspective
• Contains contributions from computational chemists and experiential chemists

MARKET: / Graduate students, academics, and researchers in theoretical chemistry, experimentalists in materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and physical chemistry
SUBJECTS: / Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Materials Science, general
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Chemistry
RELATED TITLES:
Grant, Relativistic Quantum Theory of Atoms and Molecules(978-0387346717, 2007, $215.00)
McWeeny, Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics (978-0-7923-4699-9, 1998, $264.00)
COMPETITION:
Hess, Relativistic Effects in Heavy-Element Chemistry and Physics (Wiley, 978-0470841389, 2003, $250.00)
Politzer, Relativistic Electronic Structure Theory (Elsevier, 978-0444512499, 2002, $386.00)

Chemistry, Food Science

Encapsulation Technologies for Active Food Ingredients and Food Processing

EDITORS: / N.J. (Klaas-Jan) Zuidam, Unilever Research & Development, Vlaardingen, the Netherlands and Viktor Nedovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
ISBN-13: / 978-1-4419-1007-3
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 310 p., 81 illus., Hardcover
PRICE: / $189.00
AVAILABLE (US): / September 2009
Consumers prefer food products that are tasty, healthy and convenient. Encapsulation is an important way to meet these demands by delivering food ingredients at the right time and right place.
Chapters in this book review general technologies, food-grade materials, and characterization methods for encapsulation. Encapsulates of active ingredients (i.e. aroma, fish oil, minerals, vitamins, peptides, proteins, probiotics) are then discussed for specific food applications. Finally, immobilization technologies of cells or enzymes are described for food processing and production (including alcoholic, malo-lactic, dairy and meat fermentation).
SELLING POINTS:

• A reference for those working on food processing using immobilized cells or enzymes and on delivery of food compounds via encapsulation
• Explores technology that may allow taste and aroma differentiation, mask bad tasting or bad smelling components, stabilize food ingredients and/or increase their bioavailability

MARKET: / People who work in academia or in the R&D of companies working on food processing using immobilized cells or enzymes and on delivery of food compounds via encapsulation
SUBJECTS: / Food Science; Chemistry/Food Science, general; Biochemical Engineering
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Chemistry, Food Science
RELATED TITLES:
Barbosa-Cánovas, Food Powders (978-0306478062, 2005, $139.00)
Nedovic, Applications of Cell Immobilisation Biotechnology(978-1402032295, 2005, $229.00)
COMPETITION:
Onwulata, Encapsulate and Powdered Foods (CRC Press, 978-0824753276, 2005, $199.95)
Lakkis, Encapsulation and Controlled Release Technologies in Food Systems (Wiley, 978-0813828558, 2007, $209.99)

Computer Science

Algorithmic Statistics

AUTHOR: / Paul M.B. Vitányi, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ISBN-13: / 978-0-387-00542-3
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 400 p., 75 illus., Hardcover
PRICE: / approx. $59.95
AVAILABLE (US): / December 2009
Whereas Kolmogorov complexity is the accepted absolute measure of information content of an individual finite object, a similarly absolute notion is needed for the relation between an individual data sample and an individual model summarizing the information in the data ---for example, a finite set (or probability distribution) where the data sample typically came from. The statistical theory based on such relations between individual objects can be called algorithmic statistics, in contrast to classical statistical theory that deals with relations between probabilistic ensembles. Algorithmic Statistics develops the algorithmic theory of statistics, sufficient statistics, and minimal sufficient statistics. This theory is based on two-part codes consisting of the code for the statistic (the model summarizing the regularity, the meaningful information, in the data) and the model-to-data code. In contrast to the situation in probabilistic statistical theory, the algorithmic relation of (minimal) sufficiency is an absolute relation between the individual model and the individual data sample. The book distinguishes implicit and explicit descriptions of the models and gives characterizations of algorithmic (Kolmogorov) minimal sufficient statistic for all data samples for both description modes--in the explicit mode under some constraints. It also strengthens and elaborates upon earlier results on the ``Kolmogorov structure function'' and ``absolutely non-stochastic objects''--those rare objects for which the simplest models that summarize their relevant information (minimal sufficient statistics) are at least as complex as the objects themselves.
MARKET: / Researchers Professionalsn/a
SUBJECTS: / Theory of Computation; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Computer Science
RELATED TITLES:
Li, An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (978-0387948683, 1997, $109.00)
Gentle, Matrix Algebra (978-0-387-70872-0, 2007, $99.00)
COMPETITION:
Pole, Statistical Arbitrage (Wiley, 978-0470138441, 2007, $95.00)
Varghese, Network Algorithmics (Morgan Kaufmann, 978-0120884773, 2004, $72.95)

Dentistry

Etiology and Pathogenesis of Periodontal Disease

AUTHOR: / Alexandrina L. Dumitrescu, University of Tromsø, Norway
ISBN-13: / 978-3-642-03009-3
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 400 p., 100 illus., in color, Hardcover
PRICE: / approx. $299.00
AVAILABLE (US): / January 2010
Etiology and Pathogenesis of Periodontal Diseaserepresents a new concept in periodontology with its pronounced focus on understanding through knowledge rather than presenting the present valid answers. Connections between the diseases in the periodontium and general health are described in detail. Even if periodontal disease is certainly not a generally accepted cause of death, periodontal treatment may obviously save lives.
SELLING POINTS:

• Evidence-based approach of biology, pathology and treatment principles of periodontal disease
• A reliable companion for the experienced clinican as well as for the student

MARKET: / Specialist at all levels working in the field of dentistry
SUBJECTS: / Dentistry; Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; Pathology
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Dentistry
RELATED TITLES:
Laskaris, Periodontal Manifestations of Local and Systemic Diseases (978-3-540-43249-4, 2003, $319.00)
Slootweg, Dental Pathology (978-3-540-71690-7, 2007, $109.00)
COMPETITION:
Preus, Periodontal Diseases A Manual of Diagnosis, Treatment and Maintenance (Quintessence Publishing, 978-1850970729, 2003, $50.00)
Birnstein, Periodontal and Gingival Health and Diseases: Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (Informa Healthcare, 978-1853177811, 2001, $149.95)

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