Author: J. Akhavan
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Keywords: paperbacks, rsc, explosives, chemistry
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2004-09-28
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0854046402
ISBN-13: 9780854046409

Revised and expanded to reflect new developments in the field, this book outlines the basic principles required to understand the chemical processes of explosives. The Chemistry of Explosives provides an overview of the history of explosives, taking the reader to future developments. The text on the classification of explosive materials contains much data on the physical parameters of primary and secondary explosives. The explosive processes of deflagration and detonation, including the theory of ’hotspots’ for the detonation process, are introduced and many examples are provided

Authors:Payam Akhavan, Robert Howse,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: scholars, region, reflections, future, former, yugoslavia
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 1995-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0815702531
ISBN-13: 9780815702535

Authors:René Provost, Payam Akhavan,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: perspectives, law, justice, comparative, gentium, genocide, ius, confronting
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2010-12-01
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 9048198399
ISBN-13: 9789048198399

“Never again” stands as one the central pledges of the international community following the end of the Second World War, upon full realization of the massive scale of the Nazi extermination programme. Genocide stands as an intolerable assault on a sense of common humanity embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other fundamental international instruments, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the United Nations Charter. And yet, since the Second World War, the international community has proven incapable of effectively pre