A completely new reference from Salem Press, Applied Science covers major fields and technologies in all areas, from agriculture to computers to engineering to medical to space sciences. Provides in-depth coverage of 110 wide-ranging fields of science and medicine, including Applied Physics, Biosynthetics, Climatology, Environmental Microbiology, Chaotic Systems, Genetically Modified Food Production, Genomics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Parasitology, Pharmacology, Polymer Science, Pulmonary Medicine, Radio Astronomy, Proteomics, Probability, Radiology, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Space Science, Toxicology, Virology, Xenotransplantation and many more.