Tag: Encyclopedic

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers


Free Download Jan W. Gooch, "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers"
English | 2007 | pages: 1256 | ISBN: 0387310215 | PDF | 15,4 mb
This reference contains more than 7,500 polymeric material terms, including the names of chemicals, processes, formulae, and analytical methods that are used frequently in the polymer and engineering fields. In view of the evolving partnership between physical and life sciences, this title includes an appendix of biochemical and microbiological terms (thus offering previously unpublished material, distinct from all competitors.) Each succinct entry offers a broadly accessible definition as well as cross-references to related terms. Where appropriate to enhance clarity further, the volume’s definitions may also offer equations, chemical structures, and other figures.

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Encyclopedic Reference of Traditional Chinese Medicine


Free Download Encyclopedic Reference of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Xinrong Yang, Anmin Chen, Yingfu Ma, Yuan Gao, Zhemin Gao, Bingyi Fu, Fang Sun, Jinlin Qiao, Quan Li, Shuqian Wan, Hermut Werner, Yinfu Chuang, Xinsheng Zhu
English | PDF | 2003 | 667 Pages | ISBN : 3540428461 | 71.6 MB
The Traditional Chinese Medicine is a national treasure of China, and an important part of the treasure of the entire world as well. The Traditional Chinese Medicine has a long history for thousands of years since the beginning of the written literature on medicine in China. Even in ancient time with very low developed culture, science, and technology, our ancestry had made a gigantic contribution to the healthy multiplying of the Chinese people of all nationalities through the application of acupuncture techniques and medicinal herbs as well as massage and Qigong. After the People’s Republic of China was founded, the administration has been standing for combining of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine in order to use reference to each other, which has gained gratifying achievements in the treatment for a lot of ordi nary illnesses and hypochondria. With the reformation and opening of the People’s Republic of China, the Traditional Chinese Medicine has been recommended to the of returning to nature is rising western countries. While the voice higher and higher, more and more friends over the world have ac cepted the Traditional Chinese Medicine, and many of them hope to deeply understand the Traditional Chinese Medicine, study its the ory and learn how to apply medical herbs and techniques of acupunc ture, massage and Qigong.

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Reading the World Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age


Free Download Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age by Mary Franklin-Brown
English | September 1, 2012 | ISBN: 0226260682 | True EPUB | 424 pages | 17.1 MB
The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the "century of the encyclopedias." Variously referred to as a speculum, thesaurus, or imago mundi-the term encyclopedia was not commonly applied to such books until the eighteenth century-these texts were organized in such a way that a reader could easily locate a collection of authoritative statements on any given topic. Because they reproduced, rather than simply summarized, parts of prior texts, these compilations became libraries in miniature.

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Molecular Life Sciences An Encyclopedic Reference (2024)


Free Download Robert D. Wells, Judith S. Bond, Judith Klinman, "Molecular Life Sciences: An Encyclopedic Reference"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1461415292 | PDF | pages: 1251 | 48.3 mb
Molecular Life Sciences: An Encyclopedic Reference will focus on understanding biological phenomena at the level of molecules and their interactions that govern life processes. The work will include articles on genes and genomes, protein structure and function, systems biology using genomics and proteomics as the focus, molecular aspects of cell structure and function, unifying concepts and theories from biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics that are essential for understanding the molecular life sciences (including teaching perspectives and assessment tools), and basic aspects of the various experimental approaches that are used in the Molecular Life Sciences.

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