Biochemical reactions, which facilitate metabolic and / or photosynthetic changes in each life form through the actions of enzymes, make all life possible. This insightful volume considers the various types, causes, and results of different reactions that operate at the cellular level and beyond to sustain biological activity. Readers will explore the early discoveries of the first biochemists and trace these developments and their impact to the latest...

Readers will learn about the country's varied landscape, lakes and rivers, climate, and environmental zones. Russia's natural resources and the impact these have had on the country's settlement patterns are also discussed. Maps, charts, and sidebars provide extra information, while colorful photographs give readers a glimpse of some of Russia's most spectacular natural scenery.

In this book, a range of experts, from journalists, to lawyers, to government officials, offer their varied opinions on the dawn of cyberwarfare, allowing readers to determine where they stand on this important issue.

From gender and identity to welfare and consumerism, sociology is the study of how societies are organized and what helps them function or go wrong. Questions posed include: What is my "tribe"? Why do people commit crimes? Who decides if someone has a mental illness? What's work for? Does aid do any good? Heads Up Sociology explores these fascinating questions and more.

These days it's hard to know what to believe. Is the news on television and the internet real or fake? How can you tell? This comprehensive guide helps readers sift through the many types of information out there. It gives guidelines for deciding which sources can be believed. Using a wealth of examples from recent news, politics, and science, it teaches readers how to distinguish fact from fiction and truth from lies. It gives suggestions on how...

Through a close examination of the fundamental principles of physics involved in radiocarbon dating, as well as color photographs and sidebars, this book transforms a complicated science into an accessible, engaging, and eye-opening ride, page after page.

Although Yukihiro Matsumoto released Ruby in 1995, it would take more than a decade for the programming language to achieve widespread adoption. Today, Ruby is one of the fastest growing coding languages, and it is behind major sites like Hulu and Twitter. This book describes the history of the language, the relationship between Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and why Ruby is an ideal first language for new programmers, complete with tips on how readers can...

Though Python takes its name from the comical British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, the coding language is seriously powerful. Guido van Rossum, the programmer who wrote Python, was motivated to create a coding language that is intuitive and easy to understand. This book traces how van Rossum achieved his goal and how both novice programmers and experts use Python to create apps like Instagram and Pinterest and to achieve other objectives....

Completed in April 2003, the Human Genome Project was an international effort to map out and read all the genes that make up Homo sapiens. This book supports the Next Generation Science Standards on heredity and biological evolution by examining the history of genetics and the Human Genome Project, the mechanisms behind heredity, and the types of genetic errors that lead to hereditary diseases. Through simplified explanations of complex scientific...

The 3D printing industry is expected to generate more than 21 billion dollars in revenue by 2020. Printers from the plastic-melting units in the classroom to aluminum-melting units in a factory are getting increasingly complex. This technology has become an important tool in the arts, in medicine, and in the aerospace, automotive, and other big industries. This book looks at all the different ways 3D printers can be used to make things for home, business,...