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This comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of important scientific terms related to improving our understanding of how we evolved.
Professor Li's World Atlas of Oil and Gas Basins is a fresh and comprehensive treatise of the distribution of the world's hydrocarbon reserves.
Wine Flavour Chemistry brings together a vast wealth of information describing components of wine, their underlying chemistry and their possible role in the taste, smell and... Læs mere
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