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A compilation of articles presented at the Influence of Environment on Growth, Production, Physiology and Disease of Crops workshop at the University of Helsinki in 2000. The main focus is a review of the environmental factors which affect food crops grown in various conditions.

This book focuses on land use, a topic at the heart of attempts to find sustainable solutions. It will be invaluable to practitioners and students of environmental law.

A tale of amorous dalliance in Polynesia, this is the exotic romance par excellence. Set in Tahiti in 1872, it is an autobiographical novel that tells of the love affair between a beautiful island girl and the French naval officer who wrote under the name of Pierre Loti. It is a sensuous book, full of the stormy passions of young love, the adventure of being in a strange and mysterious country, the excitement of slipping away to tryst in secre...

Pierre Loti was a member of a diplomatic mission to the Sultan of Morocco at Fez, and in this book he gives us an extraordinarily fascinating account of the journey. The departure of the caravan from Tangier, the encampments, the nightly arrival of the Mouna, the crossing of the Oued-M'Cazen in flood, the fantasies and "powder-play" of the Arab horsemen, and the magnificent state entry into Fez, are described in a succession of vivid vignettes.

Covers families Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae and up to family Butomaceae of monocotyledons in Angiospermae. Contains a list of references of the flora in Central Asia, supplementing the bibliography given in Volume 1.

In this book Loti describes his second visit to Japan, and there are many charming pictures in the true Loti style: pictures of himself seated solitary on black velvet cushions, while two little Japanese maidens sing and dance for his sole pleasure: the lonely wood by the deserted temple, where he keeps a daily tryst with a Japanese child love: of the mountainside where the graves are: of a quaint fÍte day: of various tea-houses and of a visit...

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In this text, readers are taken on a journey into the mind of John Dewey. By analyzing Dewey's attempts to revise the introduction to one of his books, "Experience and Nature", it explores Dewey's efforts to explain the relationship between philosophy and human affairs.

In its first thousand years -- from the revelations to Muhammad in the seventh century to the great Islamic empires of the sixteenth -- Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis, Cairo, and Baghdad made remarkable advances in philosophy, science, medicine, literature, and art. This engrossing and accessible book explores the first mille...

Documents the early days of the French welfare state through the Musee Social, an early think tank.

Documents the early days of the French welfare state through the Musee Social, an early think tank.

Writing is a varied critical and imaginative process, not a rigid adherence to a set of conventions.

This volume presents information that is intended to help educational technologists, librarians, and media specialists practise their profession in a dynamic that addresses technological trends in education and training.

The Masculinity Studies Reader "brings together widely-read and -cited work by key theorists in a new context that is intended simultaneously to establish the contours of and to raise questions about masculinity as a field of academic inquiry.

Two great waves of immigration -- one at the start of the twentieth century and another in its final decades -- transformed the history and personality of New York City. This book, the first in-depth comparison of New York's two most recent immigration eras, reassesses the myths that surround both sets of immigrants.

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The terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. Ahmed Rashid, who masterfully explained Afghanistan's Taliban regime in his previous book, here turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan. Central Asia is coming to play a vital strategic role in the war on terrorism, but the region also poses new threat...

Dieser Band präsentiert neueste familienpsychologische Arbeiten, die sich mit der Entwicklung von Familiensystemen im Kontext sozialer Veränderungen befassen. Ziel der Beiträge ist es, Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Familien und anderen Lebenskontexten zu verdeutlichen, Problemlagen von Familien und den Einfluss von Familien auf die Lebensgestaltung und individuelle Entwicklung ihrer Mitglieder zu untersuchen sowie Möglichkeiten der Optimierung v...