Authors:Roya Khosravi-Far, Zahra Zakeri, Richard A. Lockshin
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: methods, enzymology, volume, part, cell, death, programmed
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-09-11
List price: $182.00
ISBN-10: 0123743125
ISBN-13: 9780123743121

The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Sydney Brenner (United Kingdom), H. Robert Horvitz (US) and John E. Sulston (UK) "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death." Cell death is a fundamental aspect of embryonic development, normal cellular turnover and maintenance of homeostasis (maintaining a stable, constant environment) on the one hand, and aging and disease on the other. This volume addresses the significant advances with the techniques that are being used to analyze cell death.

Author: Kristin Zahra Sands
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: qur, routledge, studies, islam, classical, commentaries, sufi
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-01-13
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0415366852
ISBN-13: 9780415366854

Meeting the ever increasing interest in Islam and Sufism, this book is the first comprehensive study of Sufi Qur’anic commentaries and includes translations of many writings previously unavailable in English. It examines the shared hermeneutical assumptions of Sufi writers and the diversity in style of Sufi commentaries. Some of the assumptions analyzed are: * the Qur’an is a multi-layered and ambiguous text open to endless interpretation * the knowledge of deeper meanings of the Qur’an is attainable by means other than transmitted interpretations and rational thought * the sel

Authors:Catherine Winder, Zahra Dowlatabadi,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: animation, effects, visual, focal, producing, press
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2001-06-13
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0240804120
ISBN-13: 9780240804125

Drawing heavily from the authors’ twenty years of combined experience, Producing Animation offers a clear overview of this exciting industry and a comprehensive guide to the process of developing a project from conception to final delivery. Written from the perspective of a producer, this book offers the foundation of how a project is created in addition to describing the role of the producer at each phase. Answers are provided to many of the most commonly asked questions about animation ranging from how to enter the business to the average cost and schedule for a prime-time animated s

Authors:Howard A. Brody, Zahra Meghani, Kimberly Greenwald
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ethics, medical, medicine, classics, philosophy, ryans, michael, writings
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2009-10-29
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 9048130484
ISBN-13: 9789048130481

Michael Ryan (d. 1840) remains one of the most mysterious figures in the history of medical ethics, despite the fact that he was the only British physician during the middle years of the 19th century to write about ethics in a systematic way. Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics offers both an annotated reprint of his key ethical writings, and an extensive introductory essay that fills in many previously unknown details of Ryan’s life, analyzes the significance of his ethical works, and places him within the historical trajectory of the field of medical ethics.