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Biomass currently accounts for about 15% of the global primary energy consumption and is particularly important as an energy resource in developing countries. It will undoubtedly play an increasing role in the world's energy consumption.What crops make up this large percentage of our energy resource... More

More than two billion people worldwide have currently no access to grid electricity or other efficient energy supply. This is one third of humanity and the majority live in rural areas. The productivity and health of these people are diminished by reliance on traditional fuels and technologies, with... More

Biomass currently accounts for about 15 per cent of the global primary energy consumption and is playing an increasingly important role in the world's energy consumption in the face of the energy crises and climate change. Which crops make up this large percentage of our energy resources? Where do t... More

This powerful account of brutality against women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. It was the horrific female genital mutilation that she suffered aged only six, which first awakened Nawal el Saadawi's sense of the vio... More

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO MANUFACTURING WITH ORGANIC CHEMICALS. . Critical to truly understanding pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, polymers, and plastics, the "Handbook of Industrial Chemistry" provides the chemical properties and principles for the analyses and processes used in producing non-petroleu... More

"Elements of Software Process Assessment and Improvement" reviews current assessment practices, experiences, and new research trends in software process improvement. Revised chapters expanded from articles in The Software Process Newsletter of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software ... More

This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to t... More