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Books : Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers: Tales of Chemistry in Nature
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Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers: Tales of Chemistry in Nature by: William Agosta List Price: £35.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £33.25 You Save: £1.75 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 577 EAN: 9780691004884 ISBN: 0691004889 Label: Princeton University Press Manufacturer: Princeton University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: November 13, 2000 Publisher: Princeton University Press Studio: Princeton University Press Sales Rank: 1117927 Browse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - Fascinating details and plenty of practical applicationsAgosta is fascinated by the ways in which organisms, from bacteria to humans, use chemicals to find mates, subdue prey, cure themselves and for countless other purposes. There are obviously many applications for agriculture, new pesticides and herbicides and natural medicines to name but three. And for rural communities, research into the roles of chemicals in the lifecycles of Sleeping sickness and Leishmaniasis, could lead to alternative ways of combating disease which do not merely have the effect of building resistant populations. Agosta is keen to reveal the secrets of his science to the general reader; his writing is vivid and free from technical jargon or chemical formulae. His subjects include corals which have their own sunscreen (soon ... Read More: |
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