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List Price: £18.99
Our Price: £5.39
Author:
John Emsley
By OUP Oxford
 Just what the Doctor ordered., 2007-02-08
I really enjoyed reading this book. It struck an excellent balance between scientific insight and salacious gossip. What a combination!
I was reading this in my hospital bed needing something demanding enough to save me from terminal boredom, but that I could pick up in short bursts. Just what the Doctor ordered.
List Price: £32.99
Our Price: £25.90
Author:
C. H. Walker, Steve P. Hopkin, R.M. Sibly, D.B. Peakall
By CRC Press
 Clear explanations, well written, an excellent textbook., 2000-11-24
Of all the books I have bought for use as a reference in my work, this is the best purchase I have made to date. The text covers many forms of pollutants, how they get in to the environment, what happens to them when they get there, how they disperse, and their effects on each other, on individual organisms, populations and communities. The writing is clear and concise and very easy to understand, covering all the important classes of pollutants. Many books are needlessly bogged down with weighty details and cumbersome explanations, or with poorly explained diagrams which seem to bear little or no relevance to the text. This book is quite the opposite. However although it is essentially an outline text, I feel that some topics could have had more explanation, eg. Cytochrome P450 and endocrine disruptors - though perhaps these are the remit of more in-depth biochemistry texts. Purely from a practical point of view, this book is an excellent reference for research, study and practice of many aspects of environmental science.
List Price: £24.00
Our Price: £9.00
Author:
C.H. Walker, R.M. Sibley, D.B. Peakall, S.P. Hopkin
By Taylor & Francis Ltd
Clear explanations, well written, an excellent textbook., 2000-11-24
Of all the books I have bought for use as a reference in my work, this is the best purchase I have made to date. The text covers many forms of pollutants, how they get in to the environment, what happens to them when they get there, how they disperse, and their effects on each other, on individual organisms, populations and communities. The writing is clear and concise and very easy to understand, covering all the important classes of pollutants. Many books are needlessly bogged down with weighty details and cumbersome explanations, or with poorly explained diagrams which seem to bear little or no relevance to the text. This book is quite the opposite. However although it is essentially an outline text, I feel that some topics could have had more explanation, eg. Cytochrome P450 and endocrine disruptors - though perhaps these are the remit of more in-depth biochemistry texts. Purely from a practical point of view, this book is an excellent reference for research, study and practice of many aspects of environmental science.
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: £5.49
Author:
John Emsley
By OUP Oxford
Just what the Doctor ordered., 2007-02-08
I really enjoyed reading this book. It struck an excellent balance between scientific insight and salacious gossip. What a combination!
I was reading this in my hospital bed needing something demanding enough to save me from terminal boredom, but that I could pick up in short bursts. Just what the Doctor ordered.
List Price: £28.99
Our Price: £19.99
Author:
John Timbrell
By CRC Press
 An introduction to toxicology for the student, 2001-11-27
This was one of the few textbooks that I actually bought for my BSc Toxicology course. This was of course not influenced by the fact that John Timbrell was head of department at the time. The book was a good adjunct to Prof Timbrell's lecture course and should prove usefull to all students of toxicolgy, in particular the processes of drug metabolism were well covered
List Price: £8.99
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Author:
Richard Rudgley
By Abacus
An entertaining quick reference guide to almost every drug, 2000-09-07
This isn't drug use manual, you won't any notes on the preparation and dosage of any of the substances in the book. However as a quick reference guide to the history and customs surrounding any number of obscure and not so obscure drugs it is invaulable. In it you will find anything from the potential of the goat fish to cause nightmares to the history of glue sniffing and an analysis of our habitiual use of caffiene.Rudgely does't make any judgements as to the morality of drug use, instead he presents the simple facts whilst avoiding anthropological jargon. The one glaring omission is alcohol which only recieves a passing reference but the book doesn't suffer for it. Well worth a read for anyone with more than a passing interest in the subject be they parents, users or anthropolgy students.
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