This book considers 150 problems that regularly arise in building contracts and provides a detailed explanation as to their answers. It cites key part ...
Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill ...
A singular description of "Earth Time" would not be helpful, as the book is really two in one. The first half is a history of the development of the ( ...
This book consists of 18 papers on deformation mechanisms, rheology and tectonics. The main approaches include experimental rock deformation, microstr ...
Humans have lived in close proximity to other animals for thousands of years. Recent scientific studies have even shown that the presence of animals h ...
A compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Sov ...
Bringing together leading Russian specialists from around the globe, this is a key assessment of the leadership of Vladimir Putin as he embarks upon h ...
Russia and the newly independent states of Central Asia are struggling to reassert or create national identities and are receiving fresh attention fro ...
Although Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s after shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, it subseque ...
If Europe, Russia, and international bodies such as the U.N. and NATO end up playing a more prominent role in Iraq's immediate future, all parties, in ...
Climate changes can trigger events that lead to mass migration, hunger, and even famine. Rather than focus on the impacts that result from climatic fl ...
Climate Trading covers issues related to greenhouse gas emissions trading markets, including the events that lead up to the adoption of the Kyoto prot ...
This book makes one huge mistake. The author assumes that man-made catastrophic global warming is a reality when it's just a myth. It has been scienti ...
Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems examines the effects of global climate change on inte ...
n order to feed their burgeoning populations, developing nations will need to double cereal production by 2050. Lal (natural resources, The Ohio State ...
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, no environmental issue is of such truly global magnitude as the issue of climate change. The poorer, dev ...
