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Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925

Oxford University Press, 2019

Since 2011 over 5.6 million Syrians have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and beyond, and another 6.6 million are internally displaced. The contemporary flight of Syrian refugees comes one century after the region's formative experience with massive upheaval, displacement, and geopolitical intervention: the First World War.
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

Harry N. Abrams, 2019

Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in this remarkable,...

Kinetics of Chemical Reactions: Decoding Complexity

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

This second, extended and updated edition presents the current state of kinetics of chemical reactions, combining basic knowledge with results recently obtained at the frontier of science.

Special attention is paid to the problem of the chemical reaction complexity with theoretical and methodological concepts illustrated...

Semiconducting Metal Oxides for Gas Sensing

Springer, 2019

This book focuses on the use of semiconducting metal oxides as gas sensing materials, including the sensing mechanism and sensing materials modification approach, while also providing a comprehensive introduction to semiconductor gas sensing devices. As an essential part of IoT (Internet of things), gas sensors have shown great...

Neurofitness: A Brain Surgeon’s Secrets to Boost Performance and Unleash Creativity

Mariner Books, 2019

From the operating room, where he performs some of the riskiest surgeries around, to the lab, where he works on leading clinical trials, Dr. Rahul Jandial is on the cutting edge of the latest advancements in neuroscience. This fascinating book draws on Dr. Jandial’s broad-spectrum expertise and brings together the best of various...

Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

Crown, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America

“If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of...

Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War

I. B. Tauris, 2021

In 1846, under the terms of the Treaty of Amritsar, the British sold the beautiful valley of Kashmir to the Hindu Dogra ruler, Gulab Singh. It was not a sale in the traditional sense of the word since Britain was not physically occupying the land it sold, but rather a confirmation of an existing state of affairs where by Gulab Singh...

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