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Brassinosteroids
Plants possess the ability to biosynthesize a large variety of steroids, but it was not until 1979 that a hormonal function was demonstrated in plants. Today, about 40 structurally and functionally related steroids, known as brassinosteroids, have been isolated from natural sources. Brassinosteroids demonstrate various kinds of regulatory activities in the growth and development of plants. This book is based on a 1990 Russian monograph, but includes all important subsequent literature and developments, including unpublished data from the authors' laboratories.BRASSINOSTEROIDS: A New Class of Plant Hormones covers: - Structures and classification - Isolation and spectroscopic determination - Biosynthesis and metabolism - Natural product synthesis - Physiological mode of action - Structure-activity relationships - Practical applications in agriculture
Fluorescence
Racing to expose an alien agenda, the Fluorescent Ones must sacrifice everything to protect the human race from a luminous threat. Fluorescence is a modern Young Adult saga pushing the boundaries of audacious young love in a blend of urban fantasy, and science fiction. Alice was a normal teenager until a dying race of aliens chose her and a handful of others to preserve their bio-luminescent DNA. The light lives in her bloodstream, it's unpredictable and can flare up at any time. With a budding new romance on the horizon, and alien intervention threatening her future, she struggles to hide her condition from the rest of the world, while trying to learn the truth behind the infection. Each full-length novel in the 4-part series is narrated by a different character, driving the story forward in a new and exciting way. It evolves from a quiet beginning into a gripping series exploring the real-life limitations encountered while harboring a volatile secret. Novels in the complete Fluorescence series: Book 1: Fire Starter Book 2: Contagious Book 3: Fallout Book 4: Lost Souls
Dark Diary
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Dark Diary offers something enjoyable and different for fans of vampire stories." ~Readers' Favorite This timeless, standalone, genre-crossing love story with supernatural undertones and a flourish of historical romance, will capture your heart and never let go. Worlds collide when a 17th-century vampire meets a modern tattoo artist tormented by visions of her own untimely death. He's haunted by guilt over the passing of a friend and lover, and their dark pasts unite them. More human than vampire, Dark Diary is a quaint, sophisticated romance detailing the accounts of two lovers who have paid the ultimate price... In the vein of classics like Wuthering Heights, frosted with the seductive allure of immortality, the story documents a pair torn apart by time.
Dreaming Anastasia
What really happened to Anastasia Romanov? Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient hut of the witch Baba Yaga, and that some things are worse than being dead. In modern-day Chicago, Anne doesn't know much about Russian history. She is more concerned about getting into a good college—until the dreams start. She is somewhere else. She is someone else. And she is sharing a small room with a very old woman. The vivid dreams startle her, but not until a handsome stranger offers to explain them does she realize her life is going to change forever. She is the only one who can save Anastasia. But, Anastasia is having her own dreams...
The Roman Martyrs
The Roman Martyrs contains translations of forty Latin passiones of saints who were martyred in Rome or its near environs, during the period before the "peace of the Church" (c. 312). Some of the Roman martyrs are universally known-SS. Agnes, Sebastian or Laurence, for example-but others are scarcely recognized outside the ecclesiastical landscape of Rome itself. Each of the translated passiones is accompanied by an individual introduction and commentary; the translations are preceded by an Introduction which describes the principal features of this little-known genre of Christian literature, and are followed by five Appendices which present translated texts which are essential for understan...
Grave Burden
A gripping follow-up to Dark Diary. What doesn't kill you makes you a hell of a lot stronger. A beast lurks in Kathera's mind, shredding her sanity until all that remains hangs by a fragile thread. While the line between fiction and reality blurs, a moral dilemma keeps her from fighting back. Can she find the answer without losing herself in the process, or will there be more blood on her hands? With burdens too grave to bear, Kathera and Matthaya must grapple vengeful ghosts from their pasts and lay their demons to rest. But you can't bury your mistakes. Nor can you escape them...
C-Glycoside Synthesis
This book examines methods particularly well suited for either a- or b-C-glycoside formation. It helps field workers quickly select the best method for synthesizing a particular type of C-glycoside. The use of C-glycosides as synthons in natural product synthesis is also addressed.
