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This book addresses the critical importance of understanding innovation and decision-making between terrorist groups and unconventional weapons, and the difficulty in pinpointing what factors may drive violence escalation. It is useful for students of terrorism studies and nuclear proliferation.
Scientists’ views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramatically throughout history. Different criteria for proper experimentation were privileged at different times, entirely new criteria for securing experimental results emerged, and the meaning of commitment to experimentation altered. In About Method, Schickore captures this complex trajectory of change from 1660 to the twentieth century through the history of snake venom research. As experiments with poisonous snakes and venom were both challenging and controversial, the experimenters produced very detailed accounts of their investigations, which go back three hundred years—making venom research uniquely suited f...
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Contemporary and motivational French course with grammar and progression at its heart, Voyage helps teachers to cover all the requirements of both the Revised National Curriculum and the new QCA Scheme of Work for Key stage 3.
Beliau menyepi bukan kerana tidak mahu lagi menulis tetapi di sebaliknya. Walaupun mengambil masa yang lama untuk kembali ke persada penulisan, akhirnya beliau berjaya menyiapkan ''''Hadirmu Satu Kurnia''''. Jalan cerita dalam novel ini benar-benar membuai perasaan kita. Jazlan yang amat mengasihi Fidelya seorang keturunan Portugis telah membawa mereka ke jinjang pelamin. Namun kasih sayang mereka teruji apabila Fidelya menghidapi penyakit kronik. Pemergian Fidelya begitu terasa dan Jazlan terpaksa membawa diri ke luar negara. Beberapa tahun kemudian dia kembali. Dalam masa yang sama suatu mimpi misteri sering menggamit lenanya. Apakah maksud di sebalik mimpi itu? Dalam pencarian maksud mimpi itu, dia mengenali Jasmina dan Nathalia. Kedua-dua gadis itu begitu istimewa di hatinya.
Written by the world's leading expert on the Tokyo sarin attacks, Chemical and Biological Weapons and Terrorism is a comprehensive examination of the use, detection, and prevention of chemical and biological attacks. Divided in two parts, one devoted to chemical and the other biological weapons, this book emphasizes defense, decontamination, detection, treatment, mechanism of toxic action, and pathological effects in the case of each. Covering a diverse range of substances, chapters draw on detailed case studies on the US anthrax attacks, the Tokyo sarin gas attacks, as well as an entire chapter devoted to the Iran-Iraq War co-authored with Dr. Sayid Abbas Foroutan, a former Iranian military...
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
“Nersesian is this generation’s Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi” (Jennifer Belle, author of High Maintenance). These four sharply witty plays—three of which have been staged off Broadway—come from an award-winning playwright, poet, and novelist who has gained a cult following in his native New York City and beyond, and earned a reputation as “one of the wittiest and most perceptive chroniclers of downtown life” (Time Out New York). Included in this volume are: Rent Control Writer’s Bloc Plea Bargains Spare Change “Award-winning playwright Arthur Nersesian has woven an effective dramatic form through four plays, each quite funny in its own way. Each yields very powerful human results while subtly investigating the major social issues of our time.” —Evangelina Borges, Trying Time Press Named Best Indie Novel of the Year by the Montreal Mirror