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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