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Biodiesel Production Using Algal Technology discusses obtaining clean and green biodiesel from marine macro and microalgae. The book covers the history (and disadvantages) of petrodiesel, the emerging role of cleaner fuel technologies, biodiesel production methods, conventional biodiesel sources, and novel biodiesel sources such as macro- and microalgae. The book also covers processing of algal biomass, and products such as biogas and bioethan...

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Tracing the path of funds, ideology and weapons across the Middle East, the author argues that the Arab actors are not, as has often been claimed, simply Iran's 'tools' in the region. But their strategic relationships with Iran are, she finds, far more embedded than is often assumed.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." When Plutarch, a Greek historian and biographer writing under the auspices of the Roman empire, wrote these words, he left an enduring legacy that is still felt today. His masterwork, the Lives, is arguably one of the most important bodies of historical writing to survive from antiquity. Unique in its parallel format and fr...

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Was nineteenth-century philosophy merely a substitute for religion? The American philosopher Richard Rorty once argued precisely that. Rorty saw intellectuals of the long nineteenth-century (c 1789-1914) as being preoccupied by secular concerns: and at first his assertion does seem plausible. From Immanuel Kant and G W F Hegel to F H Bradley and Charles Peirce, philosophers of the period attempted to discuss knowledge, morality, freedom and et...

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Explores the sixteenth century debates about the nature of conflict, focusing on the Spanish conquistadors and their evangelisation of Mexico and Peru. This title shows how these debates were later appropriated by Spanish missionaries in the Philippines with a view to the conquest of China.

Who was Petrarch? For five centuries Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) was the most famous and influential poet in Europe. In more recent times, he has been acclaimed as the Father of Humanism. But so little today is known about the man and his writing. Despite being the first to label the Middle Ages the 'Dark Ages', Petrarch was himself closer to the ethos of the medieval than the innovative new thinking of the Renaissance. He chose to look bac...

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The ties between Syria and Iraq are complex and often fraught and, with both facing significant internal turmoil, their relationship is one that is central to stability in the region. James Denselow is uniquely positioned to address this pivotal aspect of politics in the Middle East, having worked in Syria for many years.

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This is an imaginative reconstruction of the mind of the young girl who was to become Queen Elizabeth I of England, that effulgent, daunting, and perplexing figure, one of the most influential women in history.

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