Written by more than 400 subject experts representing diverse academic and applied domains, this multidisciplinary resource surveys the vanguard of biomaterials and biomedical engineering technologies utilizing biomaterials that lead to quality-of-life improvements. Building on traditional engineering principles, it serves to bridge advances in materials science, life sciences, nanotechnology, and cell biology to innovations in solving medical problems with applications in tissue engineering, prosthetics, drug delivery, biosensors, and medical devices. In nearly 300 entries, this four-volume Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Second Edition covers: essential topics integral to tissue engineering research: bioreactors, scaffolding materials and fabrication, tissue mechanics, cellular interaction, and development of major tissues and organs being attempted by researchers worldwide artificial lungs and muscles, bio-artificial livers, and corneal, dental, inner ear, and total hip implants tissue engineering of blood vessels, heart valves, ligaments, microvascular networks, skeletal muscle, and skin bone remodeling, bone cement, and bioabsorbable bone plates and screws controlled drug delivery, insulin delivery, and transdermal and ocular implant-based drug delivery endovascular stent grafts, vascular grafts, and xenografts 3-D medical imaging, electrical impedance imaging, and intravascular ultrasound biomedical, protein adsorption, and in vivo cardiovascular modeling polymer foams, biofunctional and conductive polymers, and electroactive polymeric materials blood-material interactions, the bone-implant interface, host reactions, and foreign body responses and much more

La biodiversidad es el conjunto y la variedad de todos los seres vivos que existen en el planeta. Cada organismo tiene una forma particular de vida que está en perfecta relación con el ecosistema que habita, una interacción que es el resultado de un proceso de adaptación de millones de años. La pérdida actual de biodiversidad se está produciendo a una velocidad hasta ahora desconocida. Nos encontramos ante lo que puede ser uno de los grandes colapsos naturales de la historia de nuestro planeta. 27.000 especies desaparecen cada añ, 72 pérdidas por día, 3 cada hora. Una EDICION EXCLUSIVA de lujo para coleccionistas compuesta por 12 volúmenes completamente actualizados y con un atractivo dieseño que aporta un gran despliegue visual con imágenes de excepcional calidad realizadas por los mejores fotógrafos de animales.

Un recorrido por el apasionante e increible mundo submarino, así como una recopilación fotográfica de los secretos mejor guardados los mares y océanos de nuestro planeta.

The Flora Europaea presents for the first time a synthesis of all the national and regional Floras of Europe. It is based on a critical review of existing literature and on studies on herbaria and in the field. It aims to be simple as well as authoritative, and should enable the reader to name as far as its subspecies any fern, conifer or flowering plant growing wild of wildly cultivated. The second of the four volumes covers the Dicotyledonous families from Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, following the Engler system. Apart from keys and descriptions, information is given on geographical distribution and, where possible, on habitat preference and chromosome number. all names used in current Floras or important monographs are cited in the text or index. The text, in English, uses a limited vocabulary, and there are glossaries of technical terms and Latin equivalents.

The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants and has been designed to meet the highest scientific standards. The vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed nurseryman, gardener and landscape architect, as well as to the professional botanist. Although based on Europe, the work is intended to serve as a reference on plants cultivated throughout the world. Comprehensive keys are provided at the level of family, genus and species and line diagrams are included to illustrate important diagnostic features of critical taxa. Reference is made to useful illustrations and taxonomic accounts, and a small amount of guidance on cultivation is provided for many genera.

En efecto, este libro de Stephen Hawking y Leonard Mlodinow sobre los descubrimientos y los progresos técnicos más recientes nos presenta una nueva imagen del universo, y de nuestro lugar en él, muy