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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. In English. Perkins, Mina (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Oversized hardcover, with dust jacket. Blue pictorial paper of a whale and calf, over boards, with white and blue lettering. Matching paper dust jacket. Dated 2017 on copyright page. No date on title page. 273 pages. In Spanish and English. Very good condition. Binding is strong and square. No bumps or rubbing. Pages bright and clean. Free of any marks or writing. Glossy, full color photographs throughout. Dust jacket is clean and crisp. Faint scuffing to the jacket, but it is only visible at certain angles. SIGNED by Russel A. Mittermeier on a custom bookplate, affixed to the front free endpaper. Mittermeier was the 2018 Indianapolis Prize Winner. Overall very good condition. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Thomas Lovejoy's name is not in this book. It will come with a card stating provenance, with a picture of Lovejoy. This is an oversized book. Extra shipping may be required for international or priority shipping. Please email with questions or to see any photos. Signed by Author(s).…

Zustand: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 436 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This book is principally concerned with the relatively complex small molecules produced by plants, which are important as drugs, fine chemicals, fragrances, flavours and biologically-active dietary constituents. In a wide-ranging series of thematic essays, it covers key aspects of their role in plant ecology, their metabolism in the plant, their discovery, characterisation and use and their significance in the diet. Biotechnology, including prospects for the genetic engineering of metabolic pathways, for biotransformations and also for the production of biologically-active proteins, is the focus of the final section of the book. The overall aim of the volume is to provide, in each of the selected subject areas, a personal critique which is readily accessible to the advanced undergraduate student and to the non-specialist research worker alike.…