The Jewish Encyclopedia

The Jewish Encyclopedia
Author: Isidore Singer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 726
Release: 1901
Genre: Jews
ISBN:

V.I:Aach-Apocalyptic lit.--V.2: Apocrypha-Benash--V.3:Bencemero-Chazanuth--V.4:Chazars-Dreyfus--V.5: Dreyfus-Brisac-Goat--V.6: God-Istria--V.7:Italy-Leon--V.8:Leon-Moravia--V.9:Morawczyk-Philippson--V.10:Philippson-Samoscz--V.11:Samson-Talmid--V.12: Talmud-Zweifel.

Plants and Habitats of European Cities

Plants and Habitats of European Cities
Author: John G. Kelcey
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0387896848

A collection of studies on the ecologies of European cities, including Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam among others. Discussion includes the natural and historical development of each city, local flora, the environmental impact of city growth, and environmental planning, design, and management.

Historical Dictionary of Madagascar

Historical Dictionary of Madagascar
Author: Maureen Covell
Publisher: African Historical Dictionarie
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

Explores the topics necessary to understand past and present Malagasy society and politics.

From China to Paris

From China to Paris
Author: Yvonne Dold-Samplonius
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2002
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783515082235

The reports of a conference of 11 scholars who began the task of examing together primary sources that might shed som elight on exactly how and in what fomrs mathematical problems, concepts, and techniques may have been transmitted between various civilizations, from antiquity down to the European Renaissance following more or less the legendary silk routes between China and Western Europe.

Biology of Subterranean Fishes

Biology of Subterranean Fishes
Author: Eleonora Trajano
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2010-05-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1439840482

In most habitats, adaptations are the single most obvious aspects of an organism's phenotype. However, the most obvious feature of many subterranean animals are losses, not adaptations. Even Darwin saw subterranean animals as degenerates: examples of eyelessness and loss of structure in general. For him, the explanation was a straightforward Lamarc

Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa

Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa
Author: Holger Weiss
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789171064813

Captures the theoretical and actual dimension of social welfare in selected African Islamic countries. Describes State involvement in the post-colonial period, the roles of pious foundations, Sufi orders, and NGOs.