The West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Geography of Occupation

 

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (20 April 2006)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 041538544X
• ISBN-13: 978-0415385442

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Written in a clear and easy-to-follow style, this revealing text examines the contemporary political geography of the West Bank and Gaza strip.
Descriptive in nature, it documents the changes and developments since 1967 right up to the disengagement from Gaza. The book is supplemented by numerous maps and covers issues including demography, Jewish settlements, water and natural resources, transport infrastructure, planning, partition plans for Jerusalem, settlement policy and the Separation Fence.
One of the first books to tackle this contentious subject from a geographical rather than a political or historical perspective, The West Bank and Gaza Strip will be of huge interest to both undergraduate and graduate students studying the Israel-Palestine question.

About the Author

Elisha Efrat is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Tel Aviv University. He has held posts in Israel's Ministry of the Interior as Head of the Department of National and Regional Planning and has written more than 200 articles on Israeli issues. His previous publications include Israel - a Contemporary Geography (1996) and Physical Planning Prospects in Israel during 50 Years of Statehood (1998).

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Introduction to Plasma Technology: Science, Engineering and Applications

 

 

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH; 1 edition (November 23, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3527327630
• ISBN-13: 978-3527327638

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Publication Date: November 23, 2010 | ISBN-10: 3527327630 | ISBN-13: 978-3527327638 | Edition: 1

Written by a university lecturer with more than forty years experience in plasma technology, this book adopts a didactic approach in its coverage of the theory, engineering and applications of technological plasmas.
The theory is developed in a unified way to enable brevity and clarity, providing readers with the necessary background to assess the factors that affect the behavior of plasmas under different operating conditions. The major part of the book is devoted to the applications of plasma technology and their accompanying engineering aspects, classified by the various pressure and density regimes at which plasmas can be produced. Two chapters on plasma power supplies round off the book.
With its broad range of topics, from low to high pressure plasmas, from characterization to modeling, and from materials to components, this is suitable for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in the field.

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Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World

 

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (March 7, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137137486
• ISBN-13: 978-0137137480

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Publication Date: March 7, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0137137486 | ISBN-13: 978-0137137480 | Edition: 1

"A wonderfully clear account of the great moments in medicine and a powerful reminder of the possibility of improvement in the fight against illness."  -–Matt Ridley, author of Genome

10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That Made Them Possible

•     The unforgettable life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays, and more

•     What happened, how it happened, and what it means to you today

•     A colorful cast of characters whose discoveries were often driven not only by personal tragedy, curiosity, and hard work, but petty bickering, dumb luck, and a healthy dose of humor

•     For anyone interested in science, medicine, and beyond...

Why are you alive right now? Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these haven’t just changed the way we treat disease, they’ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In Breakthrough!, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind 10 of history’s most amazing medical discoveries. This isn’t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the world–and, quite likely, saved your life. 

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Coherent Semiconductor Optics: From Basic Concepts to Nanostructure Applications

 

 

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Publication Date: November 10, 2006 | ISBN-10: 3540325549 | ISBN-13: 978-3540325543 | Edition: 1

This book introduces the basic theoretical concepts required for the analysis of the optical response of semiconductor systems in the coherent regime. It is the most instructive textbook on the theory and optical effects of semiconductors. The entire presentation is based on a one-dimensional tight-binding model. Starting with discrete-level systems, increasing complexity is added gradually to the model by including band-structure and many-particle interaction. Various linear and nonlinear optical spectra and temporal phenomena are studied. The analysis of many-body effects in nonlinear optical phenomena covers a major part of the book.

• Hardcover: 333 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540325549
• ISBN-13: 978-3540325543

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Last Light (Restoration Series #1)

 

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Publication Date: September 13, 2005

Today, the world as you know it will end. No need to turn off the lights. Your car suddenly stalls and won't restart. You can't call for help because your cell phone is dead. Everyone around you is having the same problem . . . and it's just the tip of the iceberg. Your city is in a blackout. Communication is cut off. Hospital equipment won't operate. And airplanes are falling from the sky. Is it a terrorist attack . . . or something far worse? In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, your family faces a choice. Will you hoard your possessions to survive---or trust God to provide as you offer your resources and your hearts to others? Yesterday's world is gone. Now all you've got is your family and community. You stand or fall together. Like never before, you must rely on each other. But one of you is a killer. #1 bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts---and lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world. Last Light is the first book in an exciting new series.

 

• Paperback: 381 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan (September 13, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310257670
• ISBN-13: 978-0310257677

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Jamaican Americans (The New Immigrants)

 

• Library Binding: 144 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications (February 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791087905
• ISBN-13: 978-0791087909

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Faulkner and Material Culture (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)

Faulkner and Material Culture (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)

 

 

• Hardcover: 155 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (May 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578069394
• ISBN-13: 978-1578069392

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Publication Date: May 29, 2007 | Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

Essays by Charles S. Aiken, Katherine R. Henninger, T. J. Jackson Lears, Miles Orvell, Kevin Railey, D. Matthew Ramsey, Joseph R. Urgo, Jay Watson, and Patricia Yaeger
Photographs, lumber, airplanes, hand-hewn coffins--in every William Faulkner novel and short story worldly material abounds. The essays in Faulkner and Material Culture provide a fresh understanding of the things Faulkner brought from the world around him to the one he created.
Charles S. Aiken surveys Faulkner's representation of terrain and concludes, contrary to established criticism, that to Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha was not a microcosm of the South but a very particular and quite specifically located place. Jay Watson works with literary theory, philosophy, the history of woodworking and furniture-making, and social and intellectual history to explore how Light in August is tied intimately to the region's logging and woodworking industries.
Other essays in the volume include Kevin Railey's on the consumer goods that appear in Flags in the Dust. Miles Orvell discusses the Confederate Soldier monuments installed in small towns throughout the South and how such monuments enter Faulkner's work. Katherine Henninger analyzes Faulkner's fictional representation of photographs and the function of photography within his fiction, particularly in The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!
Joseph R. Urgo is dean of the faculty at Hamilton College. Ann J. Abadie is associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

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Patterson's Allergic Diseases (Allergic Diseases: Diagnosis & Management (Patterson)) 

 

 

• Hardcover: 848 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Sixth edition (March 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781723868
• ISBN-13: 978-0781723862

 

Book Description

Publication Date: March 11, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0781723868 | ISBN-13: 978-0781723862 | Edition: Sixth

Revised, updated, and expanded for its Sixth Edition, this highly acclaimed volume is a complete, current, and practical clinical reference on allergic disorders. It will remain the first-choice resource for residents and practitioners who need guidance to identify an allergy, confirm a diagnosis, or find effective therapies.Twelve new chapters in this edition cover latex allergy; radiologic evaluation of allergic diseases; physiologic assessment of pulmonary allergies; evaluation of eosinophilia; inhaler devices; glucocorticoids; beta agonists; other antiallergic drugs; novel therapies; immunodeficiency workup; allergic disorders and psychiatric dysfunction; and chronic sinusitis. Areas of expanded coverage include drug allergies and ICU management of asthma.
A Brandon-Hill recommended title.

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Poucher's Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps

 

 

• Hardcover: 800 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 10th ed. edition (May 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0751404799
• ISBN-13: 978-0751404791

 

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Publication Date: May 31, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0751404799 | ISBN-13: 978-0751404791 | Edition: 10th ed.

Poucher's Perfumes Cosmetics and Soaps has been in print since 1923 and is the classic reference work in the field of cosmetics. Now in a fully updated 10th edition, this new volume provides a firm basic knowledge in the science of cosmetics (including toiletries) as well as incorporating the latest trends in scientific applications and legislation which have occurred since the 9th edition. This edition will not only be an excellent reference book for students entering the industry but also for those in specialized research companies, universities and other associated institutions who will be able to gain an overall picture of the modern cosmetic science and industry. The book has been logically ordered into four distinct parts. The historical overview of Part 1 contains an essay demonstrating William Arthur Poucher's influence on the 20th Century cosmetics industry as well as a chapter detailing the long history of cosmetics. Part 2 is a comprehensive listing of the properties and uses of common cosmetic types, ranging from Antiperspirants through to Sunscreen preparations. There are an increased number of raw materials in use today and their chemical, physical and safety benefits are carefully discussed along with formulation examples. The many additions since the last edition demonstrate the dramatic recent expansion in the industry and how changes in legal regulations affecting the development, production and marketing of old, established and new products are operative almost worldwide. Information on specialist products for babies and others is included within individual chapters. The chapters in Part 3 support and outline the current guidelines regarding the assessment and control of safety and stability. This information is presented chemically, physically and microbiologically. Part 3 chapters also detail requirements for the consumer acceptability of both existing and new products. Those legal regulations now in force in the EU, the USA and Japan are carefully described in a separate chapter and the remaining chapters have been extensively updated to explain the technical and practical operations needed to comply with regulations when marketing. This information will be invaluable to European Union and North American companies when preparing legally required product information dossiers. The final chapters in Part 4 contain useful information on the psychology of perfumery as well as detailing methods for the conduct of assessment trials of new products. As ingredient labelling is now an almost universal legal requirement the International Nomenclature of Cosmetics Ingredients (INCI) for raw materials has been used wherever practicable. The advertised volume is the 10th edition of what was previously known as volume 3 of Poucher's Cosmetics and Soaps. Due to changes in the industry there are no plans to bring out new editions of volume 1 and 2.

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Schaum's Outline of Immunology

 

 

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (September 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071373667
• ISBN-13: 978-0071373661

Book Description

Publication Date: September 25, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0071373667 | ISBN-13: 978-0071373661 | Edition: 1

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?
Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.
This Schaum's Outline gives you

• Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge
• Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field
• In-depth review of practices and applications

Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!
Schaum's Outlines-Problem Solved.

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Basic Immunology: Functions and Disorders of the Immune System, 2e

 

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 2 edition (January 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 072160241X
• ISBN-13: 978-0721602417

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 2004 | ISBN-10: 072160241X | ISBN-13: 978-0721602417 | Edition: 2

The 2nd edition of this popular text emphasizes the fundamental concepts and principles of human immunology that students need to know, without overwhelming them with extraneous material. It leads the reader to a firm understanding of basic principles, using full-color illustrations; short, easy-to-read chapters; color tables that summarize key information clinical cases; and much more-all in a conveniently sized volume that's easy to carry. The New Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the many advances that are expanding our understanding of the field.

• Presents all of the most important principles that govern the function of the immune system.
• Extrapolates key concepts from the vast amount of experimental data that has emerged.
• Focuses on cellular interactions in immune responses rather than describing in detail many of the underlying biochemical and molecular mechanisms.
• Emphasizes immune responses in human rather than experimental animals, drawing upon parallels with experimental situations only when necessary.
• Uses clear, crisp illustrations, diagrams, figures, charts and tables to highlight important principles.
• Illustrates how the principles of immunology may be applied to common human diseases through clinical cases in the Appendix.
• Features an easy-to-read layout; summarizes chapter content in bulleted lists accompanied by review questions; and offers a list of selected readings.

• all of the scientific advances that are expanding the knowledge base in this rapidly evolving field.

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Handbook of Clinical Drug Data

 

 

• Paperback: 1104 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 10 edition (Sep 11 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071363629
• ISBN-13: 978-0071363624

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Review

"The Notes section is very helpful, in many cases summarizing significant studies, allowing pharmacists to cite clinical research results in making recommendations. "Comparison charts are used appropriately and are well labeled, quickly orienting readers to the information being presented. "Information...concise and easily navigated. "Overall this book is an excellent condensed drug information reference for clinical pharmacists. Information is organized and presented in a way that makes it more appropriate for use as a therapeutic decision-making tool than similar references. "This book would be useful addition to the collection of any drug information center, medical library, hospital pharmacy, community pharmacy, or clinical pharmacy practitioner."--American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education )

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This handbook, which in its early lustrous years served physicians, pharmacists, and pharmacy students, is unlike any other drug reference book in that it allows readers to compare and contrast various drugs within drug categories, thereby enabling them to make decisions on which drug to administer. All other drug reference books merely repeat the drug manufacturers' literature, with no analysis of that information. Nor are there any reports from the published literature concerning use and efficacy of the drugs listed. The clinical drug information with part II contains chapters on drug induced diseases, drug interactions and interferences, drug use in special populations, immunization, medical emergencies, and nutrition support. There are also appendices that contain useful conversion factors, anthropometrics, and laboratory indices.
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