Published March, 2009
By Michael P. Barnes, Bruce H. Dobkin and Julien Bogousslavsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This is a comprehensive guide to rehabilitation after stroke. It sets out the basic neuroscientific principles that underlie brain recovery and describes appropriate rehabilitation strategies for the many different functional problems that can arise after stroke. It is an essential reference for all members of the multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation team.

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Published March, 2009
By J. Hume Adams, Margaret F. Murray and J.Hume Adams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This volume was first published in 1982. Hume Adams and Margaret Murray have produced an atlas that illustrates basic post-mortem techniques in neuropathology. It shows how to remove the brain, the spinal cord, samples of peripheral nerve and muscle, the eye and the contents of the orbit, the arteries in the neck that supply the brain and the structures in the base of the skull.

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Published March, 2009
By J.C. Waterlow, Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison and J. C. Waterlow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Distinguished contributors, from nutritionists to anthropologists, examine the ways in which nutrition may affect sociocultural circumstances and how the causation and distribution of disease is linked to anthropological factors.

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Published March, 2009
By Yuji Tonomura
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Professor Tonomura's book explains at the molecular level how cells use energy harnessed as adenosine triphosphate to perform the fundamental physiological functions such as muscle contraction and the active transport of cations. A well-written, interesting account of the structure and kinetics of energy-transducing ATPases.

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Published March, 2009
By Alan Poole and George B. Leslie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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First published in 1989, this book acknowledges that new drugs, food additives and other compounds need to be carefully screened for toxic side-effects. The bulk of this study is devoted to the practical questions of 'what toxicological studies should we perform?' and 'how should we perform them?'

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Published March, 2009
By George Britton and G. Britton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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In the natural world colour is obvious and its importance in advertising the presence of flowers to pollinators and in camouflage is well known. This book describes the structures and properties of the main groups of natural pigments, their distribution in Nature, their biosynthesis and functions and their associated chemistry and biology.

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Published March, 2009
By I.H. Burger, J.P.W. Rivers, I. H. Burger and J. P. W. Rivers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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First published in 1989, this volume presents a detailed series of scientific reviews concerned with most of the key areas of dog and cat nutrition; for example, the volume surveys and provides data on protein and energy requirements, calcium metabolism and essential fatty acids.

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Published March, 2009
By N.S.Subba Rao and N. S. Subba Rao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This volume discusses the most recent advances in biological nitrogen fixation, with chapters written by experts on the ecology, physiology, biochemistry and genetics of biological nitrogen fixation.

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Published March, 2009
By Valda M. Craddock and Valda Mary Craddock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Monographs on Cancer Research
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The book deals briefly with the normal structure, functioning and biochemistry of the esophagus and with the histological and genetic changes accompanying the development of esophageal cancer in humans and animals. Factors implicated in causing esophageal cancer are described in relation to its very dramatic epidemiology.

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Published March, 2009
By Philip Bean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Although the discussion is based on the provisions of the 1983 Mental Health Act in England and Wales, the topics covered are of international importance and the interest in the book will be correspondingly wide.

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