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This volume in the "Current Topics in Membranes" series discusses the biology of chemokines and their binding partners, chemokine receptors, in normal and disease-related states. Chemokines are small proteins that are important in normal immune responses. Recent research demonstrates a role for these proteins in a variety of diseases such as heart disease, allergy, asthma, and cancer. As a result of the discovery of this link to disease, the t...

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Paddling the Yukon River and its Tributaries covers more than 4, 000 miles of watery trail. The Yukon, Tanana, Porcupine, Koyukuk, and Kuskokwim Rivers are the five longest rivers in Alaska, extending into the Yukon Territory. This water flows freely, almost entirely undammed. Salmon surge against current. Moose, bears, and wolves wander the banks. Birds swarm in spectacular density. Roads rarely cross. Many residents live a subsistence lifest...

Dreamers they were, sailing out into the west in quest of they knew not what-puppets in the game of destiny. What splendid courage it must have needed to sail in their little cockle-shells of vessels over that untravelled sea, with its dangers all the more terrifying because unknown... -Lawrence J. Burpee, in the Introduction From the discovery of Hudson Bay and the search for the mythical Northwest Passage to the first overland journey to the...

In todays chemically dependent society, environmental studies demonstrate that drinking water in developed countries contains numerous industrial chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and chemicals from water treatment processes. This poses a real threat. As a result of the ever-expanding list of chemical and biochemical products industry, current drinking water standards that serve to preserve our drinking water quality are grossly out of da...

Nucleic acids are the fundamental building blocks of DNA and RNA and are found in virtually every living cell. Molecular biology is a branch of science that studies the physicochemical properties of molecules in a cell, including nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes. Increased understanding of nucleic acids and their role in molecular biology will further many of the biological sciences including genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology. Progr...

Documents the meaning of tattooing in contemporary French Polynesian society. This work examines the complex significance of the art, including its relationship to gender, youth culture, ethnicity and prison life. It also provides photographic evidence of the sophisticated techniques and varied forms that characterize French Polynesian tattooing.

To be a seer is to use the eyes of the soul together with one's physical eyes--being able to move from one to the other, letting go of one for the other. For those who wish to develop faculties of higher knowing and seeing, "The Seer's Handbook" is a unique, practical guide, filled with exercises, meditations, and insightful commentary.

Presented in this volume is the set of internationally agreed scientific and technical characteristics by which every spatial metadata standard in the world can be assessed and understood. Created by the members of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Spatial Data Standards Commission after 6 years of study, these characteristics and obligation parameters recognize almost every possible capability that a spatial metadata standard m...

A systematic, research-based guide to teaching reading in the first three years of school. It is designed to ensure that teachers are able to work with 'at risk' or 'reluctant' readers as effectively as those children for whom reading seems to come naturally.

Any effective modern land-based armed force is comprised of tanks, armored fighting vehicles, mechanized infantry, and specialist heliborne and amphibious equipment. These components are all studied in this pictorial series of journals via full clour photographs and an explanatory text.

Any effective modern land-based armed force is comprised of tanks, armored fighting vehicles, mechanized infantry, and specialist heliborne and amphibious equipment. These components are all studied in this pictorial series of journals via full clour photographs and an explanatory text.

Tina's had a growth spurt. Will she get used to being Too-Tall Tina in time to avoid disaster on Sports Day?

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