Pengarang: Dickson Despommier

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Dickson D. Despommier is emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University. For thirty-eight years, he taught parasitic diseases to second year medical students at Columbia”s medical school. He has won numerous teaching awards, including the prestigious Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence from the American Medical Students Association. He is the author of more than seventy peer-reviewed research articles, numerous reviews, and three books, including The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the Twenty-First Century.William C. Campbell is a retired senior research scientist at Merck, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. He discovered and helped develop the drugs thiabendazole, ivermectin, and related derivatives. Both parent compounds have helped to reduce or eliminate certain parasitic worm infections in cattle and humans. He is a world renowned expert on drug discovery, a former president of the American Society for Parasitologists, and is currently a RISE associate at Drew University.




4 Ebooks by Dickson Despommier

Dickson Despommier: People, Parasites, and Plowshares
Dickson D. Despommier’s vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years …
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€23.99
Johannes S. C. Wiskerke: Achieving sustainable urban agriculture
  • Strong focus on infrastructural requirements for successful urban agriculture, such as public policy and planning frameworks, business models and social networks
  • Covers developments …
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Inggeris
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€194.99
Dickson Despommier & Yumiko Amagai: Instant Insights: Vertical farming in horticulture
This specially curated collection features five reviews of current and key research on vertical farming in horticulture. The first chapter describes and evaluates technologies and methods for growing …
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Inggeris
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€48.99
Dickson Despommier: The New City
Cities are at once among humanity’s crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and …
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Inggeris
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€19.99