Author: Piri Welcsh
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: genetics, cancer, cancers, breast, role, reproductive
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2009-11-05
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 144190476X
ISBN-13: 9781441904768

Author: Piri Thomas
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: streets
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1997-11-25
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0679781420
ISBN-13: 9780679781424

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas’s plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop.As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El

Authors:Gary E. Machlis, Thor Hanson, Zdravko piri, Jean E.
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: security, peace, science, series, environmental, nato, ecology, synthesis, warfare, new
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2011-06-01
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 9400712863
ISBN-13: 9789400712867

The purpose of this book is specific and ambitious: to outline the distinctive elements, scope, and usefulness of a new and emerging field of applied ecology named warfare ecology. Based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, the book provides both a theoretical overview of this new field and case studies that range from mercury contamination during World War I in Slovenia to the ecosystem impacts of the Palestinian occupation, and from the bombing of coral reefs of Vieques to biodiversity loss due to violent conflicts in Africa. Warfare Ecology also i