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Environmental insults such as extremes of temperature, extremes of water status, and deteriorating soil conditions pose major threats to agriculture a...
Improving Global Food Security and Safety
Developing Climate-Resilient Crops: Improving Global Food Security and Safety is timely, as the world is gradually waking up to the fact that a global...
Biodiversity, Growth and Interactions
Climate Change and Plants: Biodiversity, Growth and Interactions Evidence is raised daily of the varying climate and its impression on both plants and...
Current trends in population growth suggest that global food production is unlikely to meet future demands under projected climate change scenarios un...
Climatic conditions are key determinants of plant growth, whether at the scale of temperature regulation of the cell cycle or at the scale of the geog...
Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection p...
The Uncertain Future of an American Ally
Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by...
The third volume of Sustainable Soil and Land Management and Climate Change presents a complete overview of plant soil interactions in a climate affec...
Challenges to Sustainable Development
The global population is projected to increase by 3.3 billion from 6.7 billion in 2008 to 10 billion in 2100. As a result, soil degradation and desert...
How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism
How the booming Islamic finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of religion and markets In just fifty years, Islamic finance has grown from a ti...
Biochar to Improve Crop Production and Decrease Plant Stress under a Changing Climate
The book aim to contribute the latest understandings of physiological, biochemical and molecular bases of the responses of major crop plants to a rang...
Despite significant progress in increasing agricultural production, meeting the changing dietary preferences and increasing food demands of future pop...
Power Politics in Transition
Great Britain's decision to withdraw its forces from the Gulf was a turning point in the modern history of the Middle East. Now regional players had t...
A Critical Bibliography
First Published in 1987, this volume offers a bibliography of biographies, autobiographies and books on contemporary politics by prominent 20th centur...
Dynamics of Conflict and Accommodation
This textbook helps students and readers navigate the various factors ranging from the legacy of the past, ethnic, sectarian differences, and cultural...
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Technology and Production
Rice is life, for most people living in Asia. Rice has shaped the cultures, diets, and economies of thousands of millions of people. Growing, selling,...
Territorial Disputes and the Balance of Power in the Middle East
Iranian ambitions in the Persian Gulf and rivalries with Arab neighbours are subject to intense - and heated - speculation, controversy and debate. He...
Fashion, Fabric, and Ritual
Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to unc...
Conflict and Cooperation
As the only oil producer with sufficient spare capacity to shape the world economy, Saudi Arabia is one of the most significant states in twenty-first...
... dedicated to the advancement and understanding of those principles and practices, military and political, which serve the vital security interests...
Theory, Practice and Future Perspective
This volume discusses the need to adopt Climate-Resilient Agriculture (CRA) practices to address the increasing global impact that climate change has ...
Taming a Chaotic Conflict
Hostile relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are a major contributing factor to political instability in the Middle East. This book argues that rap...
The Quest for Power
Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scor...
Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf
South Asia is today the region inhabited by the largest number of Muslims---roughly 500 million. In the course of the Islamisation process, which bega...
Political Pragmatism in Saudi Arabia, c.1973-1979
This book provides a new perspective on the study of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its monarchy – its political leadership and decisions. Moreover...
Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism
A classic book on the history of the USA's involvement with Afghanistan...
An Oral History of Al-Qaeda's Leader
Osama bin Laden has haunted the popular psyche and stymied the world's mightiest military for the last five years. Despite President Bush's declaratio...
The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day The Bhutto family has...
America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia
For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Th...
A detailed portrait of relations between two major Gulf states over a crucial half-century. Drawing on sources in both Arabic and English, the author ...
The Flight of Osama bin Laden
The extraordinary inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the years after 9/11. Following the attacks on the Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden, the...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Afghan Islamists Who Changed the World
In 1969, several young men met on a rainy night in Kabul to form an Islamist student group. Their aim was laid out in a simple typewritten statement: ...