Review of Bridge Design and Evaluation: LRFD and LRFR by Gongkang FuWiley, Hoboken, NJ 07030; 2013; ISBN 978-0-470-42225-0; 456 pp.; $125.

HPLC for pharmaceutical scientists : Yuri Kazakevich and Rosario LoBrutto, Editors, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, USA ISBN 978-0-471-68162-5, Copyright 2007; Hardcover, $175.00 US, 1104 pp.

Without question LC/MS is the most dominant application of mass spectrometry in the pharmaceutical industry. Yet, as I have observed the full integration of LC/MS into pharmaceutical applications over the past two decades, I have been frequently reminded about how limited the knowledge of chromatography is among LC/MS practitioners. If a younger scientist asks you for reading material on the su...

Critical Play: Radical Game Design by Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 353 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-06268-8

THE PAST DECADE HAS SEEN A RAPID EXPANSION in the field of academic writing on the subject of computer and video games. The formerly marginalized field is now receiving its scholarly due as part of an increased focus on popular culture influenced by the development of Cultural Studies departments in universities. Early contributors to this scholarly field, such as Michel de Certeau and Dick Heb...

The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments: An Evaluation with Bias. By Andrew Knight. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, 2011; Hardcover, 272 pp; ISBN 978-0-230-57686-5; Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-230-57687-2.

The book is part of the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series which was developed with the publisher and the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Andrew Knight is a Fellow of the latter. The Centre "aims to demonstrate rigorous intellectual enquiry and the highest standard of scholarship" (p. xv), and the series aims to satisfy the growing appetite for literature in the field. Knight presents a w...

U . K . Isbn : 978 - 988 - 18210 - 1 - 0 Wce 2009

Intensive research in bio-engineering has been conducted in the search for flexible biomaterials that could support cell growth and cells attachment. Flexible synthetic materials that support cell growth without the aid of synthetic extracellular matrix proteins are still rare. Cholesteryl liquid crystal containing cholesteryl moieties may have suitable biological affinity. Human keratinocytes ...

Critical Readings in Translation Studies, Edited by M. Baker (2010), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-46955-5