Architecture
Explorations in Architecture
Teaching, Design, Research
EDITORS: / Reto GeiserISBN-13: / 978-3-7643-8921-5
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 210 p., 320 illus., 220 in color, Softcover
PRICE: / $49.95
AVAILABLE (US): / October 2008
The job description of the architect has fundamentally changed with the emergence of a globalized society, and it will continue to do so in the future. Already today, the demands of the job no longer correspond to the profile on which classical architectural training is based.
In this context, the question that arises is no longer that of the building alone, but also that of a changed approach to building and new pathways within design itself.
This is where Explorations comes in: internationally celebrated authors, all of whom are professors as well and hence directly involved in the processes they describe, address the principal topics of contemporary architectural research. Taking the works of their own design studios as examples (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule [ETH] Zürich [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich]: Marc Angélil, Fabio Gramazio/Matthias Kohler; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne [EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne]: Harry Gugger, Dieter Dietz), they offer concrete discussions of those topics and place them in the context of applied research and practice. Short and accessible essays on the most important architectural movements of the twentieth century clarify the relationship between the subjects discussed and canonical architectural research.
SELLING POINTS:
· A discussion book/handbook that offers a clear and understandable introduction to the topic
· A topic of burning interest that will continue to gain importance internationally thanks to the Bologna Process at universities
· Symposia and other events in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the United States will continue to pursue the theses of this publication and the issues it raises beyond the Biennale
MARKET: / Architects, researchers, professors, tutors, students
SUBJECTS: / Architectural History and Theory; Architecture, general
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Architecture
RELATED TITLES:
Pfammatter, The Making of the Modern Architect and Engineer (978-3-7643-6217-1, 2000, $45.95)
COMPETITION:
Rattenbury, Architects Today (Laurence King, 1856694925, 2006, $19.95)
Spector, The Ethical Architect (PAP, 1568982852, 2001, $25.00)
Biomedicine
Targeted Regulatory Writing Techniques: Clinical Documentation for Drugs and Biologics
EDITORS: / Linda Fossati Wood, MedWrite Inc., Westford, MA, USA and MaryAnn Foote, MA Foote Associates, Westlake Village, CA, USAISBN-13: / 978-3-7643-8361-9
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 210 p., 26 illus., Softcover
PRICE: / $79.95
AVAILABLE (US): / November 2008
The secrets of regulatory writing for clinical documents in the drug and biologics industry in Europe, Japan, and the United States are revealed in this book. From organizing the writing process through securing the final signatures, the authors describe how to determine which document is needed, how to start the process using writer’s tools like templates and style guides, how to write individual documents, and how to navigate review and sign-off. Details of writing each section of a document and the relationship among documents are discussed. Lessons learned are included in each chapter, describing real-life scenarios in the industry.
This book is helpful for beginning medical writers, as well as writers with more experience who are interested in improving their skills. It is the first comprehensive book of regulatory writing, covering specific document types, as well as submissions to all major regions of the world. It is written by two regulatory writers with more than 20 years experience each.
SELLING POINTS:
· Covers specific document types and submissions for drugs and biologics in the US, Japan and Europe
· Extensive appendices of sample documents
· Comprehensive glossary of terms
· Written by two highly experienced regulatory writers
MARKET: / Regulatory writers and project managers in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry; regulatory affairs professionals; scientific libraries
SUBJECTS: / Pharmacology/Toxicology; Biotechnology; Pharmacy
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Biomedicine
RELATED TITLES:
Foote, Clinical Trial Registries (3-7643-7578-7, 2006, $49.95)
Foster, Management Skills for Project Leaders (3-7643-6423-6, 2001, $59.95)
COMPETITION:
Fries, Medical Device Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance (CRC, 0824701771, 1998, $188.26)
Harnack, Mastering and Managing the FDA Maze (ASQ Press, 0873894553, 1999, $78.75)
Biomedicine
The Kinetochore:
From Molecular Discoveries to Cancer Therapy
EDITORS: / Peter De Wulf, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy and William C. Earnshaw, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UKISBN-13: / 978-0-387-69073-5
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 430 p., 48 illus., 8 in color, with 4-page color insert, Hardcover
PRICE: / $149.00
AVAILABLE (US): / November 2008
Kinetochores orchestrate the faithful transmission of chromosomes from one generation to the next. Kinetochores were first depicted over 100 years ago, but kinetochore research has progressed by leaps and bounds since the first description of their constituent DNA and proteins in the 1980s. “The Kinetochore: from Molecular Discoveries to Cancer Therapy” presents a thorough up-to-date analysis of kinetochore and centromere composition, formation, regulation, and activity, both in mitosis and meiosis, in humans and “model” eukaryotic species, and at natural and mutant neocentromeres. Recently initiated translational research on kinetochores is also discussed as kinetochores are being mined as a very rich target for the next generations of anti-cancer drugs.
SELLING POINTS:
· Ties together the latest research into the workings of the kinetochore/centromere complex and neocentromeres
· Includes what is known about their structure, how they function, how they are regulated, their involvement in the etiology of cancer, and how these structures might be targeted in cancer therapeutics
MARKET: / Cancer researchers focusing on chromosome structure and segregation, the cell cycle (mitosis, meisois); students
SUBJECTS: / Cancer Research; Cell Biology; Medical Microbiology
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Biomedicine
RELATED TITLES:
Frank, Signal Transduction in Cancer Series: Cancer Treatment and Research (1-4020-7340-2, 2003, $144.00)
Jiang, Growth Factors and their Receptors in Cancer Metastasis Series: Cancer Metastasis - Biology and Treatment (978-0-7923-7141-0, 2002, $145.00
Foidart, Proteases and Their Inhibitors in Cancer Metastasis Series: Cancer Metastasis - Biology and Treatment (1-4020-0923-2, 2002, $132.00)
COMPETITION:
Cooper, The Cell: A Molecular Approach (Sinauer Associates, 0878932194, 2006, $117.95)
Alberts, Molecular Biology of the Cell (Garland, 0815332181, 2002, $142.00)
Business / Economics
Monetary Economics in Globalised Financial Markets
AUTHORS: / Ansgar Belke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and Thorsten Polleit, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, GermanyISBN-13: / 978-3-540-71002-8
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 600 p., Hardcover
PRICE: / approx. $189.00
AVAILABLE (US): / October 2008
This book integrates the fundamentals of monetary theory and monetary policy with financial market theory, providing an accessable and comprehensive overview of the many-sided interactions between these important fields. Topics adressed include money supply under different standards, money demand functions, basic valuation models for stocks and bonds, measuring asset price linkages across currency areas and other topics. Illustrated by carefully chosen examples and supported by extensive data analyses, the book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date introduction to the integrated aspects of monetary economics and financial market theory.
SELLING POINTS:
· Povides an accessible, comprehensive and up-to-date review of the theoretical and empirical groundwork
· Strikes a balance between theory and applied empirical work, illustrated by carefully chosen examples
MARKET: / Students
SUBJECTS: / Macroeconomics; Finance/Banking
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Business / Economics
RELATED TITLES:
Wang, The Economics of Foreign Exchange and Global Finance (978-3-540-21237-9, 2005, $89.95)
Siebert, Macroeconomic Policies in the World Economy (978-3-540-21917-0, 2004, $169.00)
COMPETITION:
Liebenberg, The Electronic Financial Markets of the Future: Survival Strategies of the Broker-Dealers (Palgrave Macmillan, 033399860X, 2002, $107.20)
Norman, Plumbers and Visionaries: Securities Settlement and Europe's Financial Market (Wiley, 0470724250, 2008, $95.00)
Business / Economics
Economic Growth
Theory and Numerical Solution Methods
AUTHORS: / Alfonso Novales, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; Esther Fernández, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain and Jesús Ruíz, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, SpainISBN-13: / 978-3-540-68665-1
PAGES/ILLUS: / XX, 528 p. 19 illus., Hardcover
PRICE: / $199.00
AVAILABLE (US): / November 2008
This is a book on deterministic and stochastic Growth Theory and the computational methods needed to produce numerical solutions. Exogenous and endogenous growth models are thoroughly reviewed. Special attention is paid to the use of these models for fiscal and monetary policy analysis. Modern Business Cycle Theory, the New Keynesian Macroeconomics, the class of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models, can be all considered as special cases of models of economic growth, and they can be analyzed by the theoretical and numerical procedures provided in the textbook.
Analytical discussions are presented in full detail. The book is self contained and it is designed so that the student advances in the theoretical and the computational issues in parallel.
SELLING POINTS:
· Integrates the analysis of theoretical models of economic growth and computational methods to produce numerical solutions
· Features a detailed discussion of economic policy issues
· Provides Excel and Matlab files on an accompanying website
MARKET: / Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, scientists, lecturers
SUBJECTS: / Economic Growth; Macroeconomics; Economic Theory/Mathematical Methods
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Business / Economics
RELATED TITLES:
Gavrilenkov, Economic Opening Up and Growth in Russia (978-3-540-20459-6, 2004, $129.00)
Gruescu, Population Ageing and Economic Growth (978-3-7908-1905-2, 2007, $69.95)
COMPETITION:
Weil, Economic Growth (Addison Wesley, 0321416627, 2008, $146.47)
Audretsch, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth (Oxford University Press, 0195183517, 2006, $98.00)
Business / Economics
Game Theory
A Multi-Leveled Approach
AUTHOR: / Hans Peters, Maastricht University, The NetherlandsISBN-13: / 978-3-540-69290-4
PAGES/ILLUS: / XVI, 366 p., 62 illus., Hardcover
PRICE: / $119.00
AVAILABLE (US): / September 2008
This book presents the basics of game theory both on an undergraduate level and on a more advanced mathematical level. It covers most topics of interest in game theory, including cooperative game theory. Part I presents introductions to all these topics on a basic yet formally precise level. It includes chapters on repeated games, social choice theory, and selected topics such as bargaining theory, exchange economies, and matching. Part II goes deeper into noncooperative theory and treats the theory of zerosum games, refinements of Nash equilibrium in strategic as well as extensive form games, and evolutionary games. Part III covers basic concepts in the theory of transferable utility games, such as core and balancedness, Shapley value and variations, and nucleolus. Some mathematical tools on duality and convexity are collected in Part IV. Every chapter in the book concludes with a problem section. Hints, answers and solutions are included.
SELLING POINTS:
· Teaches the basics of game theory on a thorough level
· Adapted for the needs of both undergraduate and graduate students
· Covers most topics of interest in game theory, including cooperative game theory
MARKET: / Students and teachers of courses on game theory, researchers
SUBJECTS: / Game Theory/Mathematical Methods; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences; Operations Research/Decision Theory
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Business / Economics
RELATED TITLES:
Kaneko, Game Theory and Mutual Misunderstanding (978-3-540-22295-8, 2005, $135.00)
Driessen, Russian Contributions to Game Theory and Equilibrium Theory (978-3-540-31405-9, 2006, $129.00)
COMPETITION:
Fudenberg, Game Theory (The MIT Press, 0262061414 , 1991, $80.00)
Mas-Colell, Microeconomic Theory (Oxford University Press, 0195073401, 1995, $120.00)
Chemistry
Symmetry through the Eyes of a Chemist
Third Edition
AUTHORS: / István Hargittai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary and Magdolna Hargittai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Eötvös University, HungaryISBN-13: / 978-1-4020-5627-7
(Replaces ISBN: 978-0-306-44851-5)
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 370 p. 370 illus., Hardcover
PRICE: / $219.00
AVAILABLE (US): / November 2008
The first book to comprehensively survey chemistry from the point of view of symmetry
Contains many examples from chemistry as well as from other fields which emphasize the unifying nature of the symmetry concept.
SELLING POINTS:
· This new edition has been further revised and contains streamlined text and renewed the illustrative material as well as an epilogue
· Features expanded sections dealing with biopolymers and quasicrystals
MARKET: / Chemistry undergraduates and postgraduates; also researchers and professionals working in chemistry, the mathematical sciences, and the fine arts who have an interest in symmetry
SUBJECTS: / Inorganic Chemistry; Math. Applications in Chemistry; Arts
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Chemistry
RELATED TITLES:
Lesk, Introduction to Symmetry and Group Theory for Chemists (978-1-4020-2150-3, 2004, $69.95)
Douglas, Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids (978-0-387-26147-8, 2006, $139.00)
COMPETITION:
Cotton, Chemical Applications of Group Theory (Wiley-Interscience, 0471510947, 1990 $148.50)
Heilbronner, Reflections on Symmetry in Chemistry and Elsewhere (Wiley-VCH, 3527284885 1992, $40.00)
Chemistry
Elements of Synthesis Planning
AUTHOR: / R.W. Hoffmann, University of Marburg, GermanyISBN-13: / 978-3-540-79219-2
PAGES/ILLUS: / approx. 240 p., Softcover
PRICE: / $39.95
AVAILABLE (US): / October 2008
The total synthesis of compounds with interesting physical or biological properties is at the core of organic chemistry. Since only a small number of such compounds originate from natural sources, devising de novo routes to unique and artificial scaffolds requires the skills of planning and executing multi-step syntheses and having a toolbox of methodologies at one’s disposal. Often, even the best plans require modifications, fine-tuning or entire rerouting, and chemists are faced with the daily challenge of choosing the right combination of reagents and building blocks for a whole set of problems: Which building blocks are optimal? In which sequence should they be assembled? Which reactions accomplish the task best?
This text focuses on these basic considerations that govern the planning and execution of a synthesis. The author details synthetic strategies, provides criteria for ranking different synthesis plans, and provides guidelines for optimizing syntheses.
SELLING POINTS:
· A concise and focused style keeps the book short
· Needed by every organic chemist
· Includes problems and solutions
· Extended list of references included
MARKET: / PhD students in organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry and biochemistry
SUBJECTS: / Organic Chemistry; Medicinal Chemistry; Biochemistry, general
LOCATION IN BOOKSTORE: / Chemistry
RELATED TITLES:
Carey, Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part A (978-0-387-68346-1, 2007, $54.95)
Carey, Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part B (978-0-387-68354-6, 2007, $54.95)
COMPETITION:
Pirrung, The Synthetic Organic Chemists Companion (Wiley-Interscience, 0470107073, 2007, $45.86)
Levy, Arrow-Pushing in Organic Chemistry (Wiley-Interscience, 0470171103, 2008, $39.95)
Chemistry