Karst Aquifers - Characterization and Engineering

Karst Aquifers - Characterization and Engineering
Author: Zoran Stevanović
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2015-02-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319128507

This practical training guidebook makes an important contribution to karst hydrogeology. It presents supporting material for academic courses worldwide that include this and similar topics. It is an excellent sourcebook for students and other attendees of the International Karst School: Characterization and Engineering of Karst Aquifers, which opened in Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2014 and which will be organized every year in early summer. As opposed to more theoretical works, this is a catalog of possible engineering interventions in karst and their implications. Although the majority of readers will be professionals with geology/hydrogeology backgrounds, the language is not purely technical making it accessible to a wider audience. This means that the methodology, case studies and experiences presented will also benefit water managers working in karst environments.

Arabian Jazz

Arabian Jazz
Author: Diana Abu-Jaber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393324228

Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.

Methods in Karst Hydrogeology

Methods in Karst Hydrogeology
Author: Nico Goldscheider
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1482266024

Filling a gap in the karst literature, this book describes methods most appropriate for use in karst terrains. These include methods that are basic to all hydrogeological studies, such as hydraulic investigations, hydrochemistry, geophysics, isotope chemistry and modelling, with the emphasis placed on their application to karst systems. The various chapters of this book are written by experts in all the different methods. Most of the chapters are multi-authored, and the authors include hydrogeologists who are experienced in evaluating a variety of karst environments and who together, provide a balanced view of all the karst methods.

Arab and Arab American Feminisms

Arab and Arab American Feminisms
Author: Rabab Abdulhadi
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0815651236

In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles among Arab communities. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres to express feminist issues and highlight how Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives simultaneously inhabit multiple, overlapping, and intersecting spaces: within families and communities; in anticolonial and antiracist struggles; in debates over spirituality and the divine; within radical, feminist, and queer spaces; in academia and on the street; and among each other. Contributors explore themes as diverse as the intersections between gender, sexuality, Orientalism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionism, and the restoration of Arab Jews to Arab American histories. This book asks how members of diasporic communities navigate their sense of belonging when the country in which they live wages wars in the lands of their ancestors. Arab and Arab American Feminisms opens up new possibilities for placing grounded Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives at the center of gender studies, Middle East studies, American studies, and ethnic studies.

Research on Humanities and Social Sciences

Research on Humanities and Social Sciences
Author: Hasan Arslan
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Communication
ISBN: 9783631675014

This book presents a collection of papers written by educators and researchers. The topics include the analysis of social science textbooks, the teacher image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level and the role of organizational silence on the loneliness of academics in work life.

Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping

Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping
Author: Andrzej J. Witkowski
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007-10-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 020393458X

This volume presents the contemporary issues surrounding groundwater pollution risk assessment and the application of vulnerability and risk assessment maps for the effective protection and management of aquifers. Numerous new and improved approaches to intrinsic and specific vulnerability assessment (modified DRASTIC, GOD, VULK, VURAAS) are described, some coupled with geophysical and hydrological surveys and hydrodynamic and transport modelling. Widespread use is made of GIS format.

The Development of Arab-American Identity

The Development of Arab-American Identity
Author: Ernest Nasseph McCarus
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472104390

Looks at all aspects--political, religious, and social--of the Arab-American experience.

Karst Water Resources

Karst Water Resources
Author: Gültekin Günay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 672
Release: 1986
Genre: Hydrology, Karst
ISBN:

A symposium on water resources in Karst regions.

Enhanced Characterization and Representation of Flow Through Karst Aquifers

Enhanced Characterization and Representation of Flow Through Karst Aquifers
Author: Scott L. Painter
Publisher: American Water Works Association
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2006
Genre: Aquifers
ISBN: 1583214895

This research report summaries and details the first year of work on a multi-year karst modeling project organized to develop enhanced groundwater modeling capabilities that can be used to effectively manage karst aquifers. Discussed are the three key considerations for modeling karst systems were identified: representation of conduits in flow models, representation of flow dynamics in conduits, and representation of partially filled conduits and the numerical experiments used to identify the limitations and advantages of the three general representations of conduits within groundwater models. A new dual-conductivity MODFLOW-2000 package (DCM) was developed for testing the dual-conductivity approach. A turbulence model was added, the software was validated using simple benchmark problems, and code documentation was completed. Simultaneous demonstrations showed that the modeling tool can be successfully applied in complex applications.

Taxi (English edition)

Taxi (English edition)
Author: Khaled Al Khamissi
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9992194316

A best-selling modern masterpiece in the author's home country of Egypt, Taxi consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with Cairo taxi drivers that have been recreated from the author's own experience, taking the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as the city's potholed and chaotic streets. Described as an urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history - and a work of poetry in motion - it tells Herculean tales of the struggle for survival and dignity among Greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers.