Authors:S. Kiss, D. Pasca, M. Dragan-Bularda,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: soil, science, developments, volume, disturbed, soils, enzymology
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1998-11-04
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 044450057X
ISBN-13: 9780444500571

The disturbance of soils, like other phenomena of environmental pollution, encountered in so many areas all over the world, has become a subject of extensive concern and has led to a vast amount of literature in the field of enzymology, too.The book is the first comprehensive and updated review of the enzymological literature on three great categories of disturbed soils, including their remediation. The volume consists of three sections: I. Enzymology of oil-contaminated soils; II. Enzymology of soils affected by industrial emissions; and III, enzymology of technogenic soils. Within each secti

Authors:Professor Gilles Kepel, Jean-Pierre Milelli, Pasca
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: words, own, qaeda
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 067402804X
ISBN-13: 9780674028043

Despite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens worldwide, Al Qaeda remains an elusive entity. As the world has grown increasingly familiar with the spectacle of Islamist terrorism, Al Qaeda’s essential worldview has remained bewilderingly opaque. To reveal its inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the ass