Our knowledge of pollen, the gold dust that carries the male germ line of flowering plants and is vital for sexual reproduction and seed formation, has "come of age" with the publication of this book. Here, for the first time in a single volume, are all the ideas and techniques developed in the past two decades concerning the manipulation of pollen and pollen tubes in plant breeding and biotechnology. Pollen has never been an easy topic to come to grips with, with its variable and often inexplicable terminology that has made it a more difficult field in which to work.

A scant three years after publishing his account of WWII's land war in the Pacific (Touched with Fire), historian Bergerud has completed an exhaustive companion volume addressing the theater's ferocious air war. Bergerud states clearly at the outset that he has attempted to cover both sides of the Pacific air war fairly; but, he notes, fairness dictates acknowledging "that something went very wrong in Japan during the 1930s and that the air war in Asia was due to Tokyo's overaggressive nature.

Covers the remarkably long career of this Soviet truck. Hardly state-of-the-art when first built in 1930, it nevertheless managed to stay in production until 1965. 9 colour profiles. 1:35 drawings. 130 b/w photos. Polish text with English captions and summary.

Detailed coverage of the paint schemes and markings carried by Soviet armoured, mechanised, cavalry and infantry armoured vehicles in the period between 1935 and 1945. 153 colour profiles. 51 b/w photos. Polish / English text.

This book describes British policy in Southeast Asia in the early years of World War II. With its military strength directed against Germany, Britain drew on diplomatic resources to maintain its power in the area and to limit the Japanese threat. The book focuses on Britain's relations with America, Dutch India, the Philippines, French Indo-China and Thailand. Nicholas Tarling's extensive analysis of British archives, and documentary material on the foreign policies of other states makes this an important reinterpretation of the origins of the Pacific war.

During peaceful, meditative states, your brainwave patterns change to slow-frequency Theta waves. Dr. Jeffrey Thompson has created innovative techniques to embed these Theta waves into vivid recordings of pristine natural environments. After a few minutes of listening, your own brainwaves naturally lock onto these Theta processes effortlessly transporting you to deep reflective calm and quiet joy.

During peaceful, meditative states, your brainwave patterns change to slow-frequency Theta waves. Dr. Jeffrey Thompson has created innovative techniques to embed these Theta waves into vivid recordings of pristine natural environments. After a few minutes of listening, your own brainwaves naturally lock onto these Theta processes, effortlessly transporting you to deep reflective calm and quiet joy.

A thorough understanding of econometrics allows students to better understand the relationships on which people, businesses, and governments base their decisions. And to make econometrics relevant in an introductory course, interesting applications must motivate the theory and the theory must match the applications. In this much-anticipated text, Stock and Watson motivate the need for tools with concrete applications, and then provide simple assumptions that match the application. Because the theory is immediately relevant to the applications

The Handbook can be used on its own or in tandem with the Toolkit for Estimating Physicochemical Properties of Organic Compounds, an easy-to-use, Windows(r)-based program that puts rapid estimation routines and flexible search capabilities at the user's fingertips. The Toolkit CD features routines for estimating key properties of organic compounds and a database of property and other data for more than 24,000 organic compounds.

The theme of the present volume is Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and aims to show the state-of-the-art of the application of CFD in chemical engineering.
The volume is made up of five complementary contributions, providing a style of between a tutorial and a research paper. Some contributions are entirely limited to velocity and temperature fields. Others emphasize the difficulties associated with the combination of transport and reaction.

In the spring of 1941 there was a pro-Axis military coupe in Iraq. They hoped, with the help of Germany, to free themselves of British control. They sent a large land force to surround the Royal Air Force training base at Habbaniya, as they wanted to offer the Luftwaffe the use of the base's airstrip. But the British at the base, using antiquated aircraft and makeshift munitions, launched an air campaign against the Iraqis that, while costly, was a complete success. This story is told by one who was there.

A record number of value changes have been made for 20 countries in Volume 5. The value change leader is Romania with 4,779. Other countries with large changes are Russia (4,148), San Marino (2,916), Saudi Arabia (2,611), Poland (2,410) and Sierra Leone (2,104). More than 1,000 value changes have been made for 15 different countries.