This book examines the evolving threat of terrorism and draws on the latest research to assess future trends. The author assumes that terrorism will remain a potent threat to the international system throughout the twenty-first century, primarily because of the convergence of two negative trends: the availability of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons (CBRN) - also known as Weapons of Mass Destruction - and the proliferation of terrorist organizations seeking to achieve mass casualties. Even without the CBRN element, however, Smith maintains that terrorism will remain an...

This book examines the evolving threat of terrorism and draws on the latest research to assess future trends. The author assumes that terrorism will remain a potent threat to the international system throughout the twenty-first century, primarily because of the convergence of two negative trends: the availability of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons (CBRN) - also known as Weapons of Mass Destruction - and the proliferation of terrorist organizations seeking to achieve mass casualties. Even without the CBRN element, however, Smith maintains that terrorism will remain an...

One of the few books to cover all aspects of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), Inhibitors of Cyclin-dependent Kinases as Anti-tumor Agents provides an overview of CDKs as molecular and functional entities, their involvement in different disease processes, and their potential for pharmacological modulation. With contributions from the top international researchers in the field, the book takes a contemporary approach to study the importance of rational drug design and knowledge-based therapeutics in relation to CDKs.

The first two sections of the book discuss the integration of cell...

Drawing on the classical concept of rhetorical dispositio, this study gives new interpretations of a number of literary texts of the French Renaissance, some of them well-known (by Rabelais, Du Bellay and Montaigne), others less-known (the Pierres precieuses by Remy Belleau and the anonymous collections of emblematic fables). All these texts are organized according to an often problematic and disruptive dispositio that dissociates itself from the prescribed and preexisting models. This study not only seeks to approach the problem of literary ordering from a historical and...

"Rcrire la Renaissance, de Marcel Proust Michel Tournier" prsente neuf lectures rapproches autour d'un thme commun: la rcriture de la Renaissance dans la littrature franaise au XXe sicle. Paul J. Smith nous invite une promenade littraire chez quelques grands auteurs du sicle dernier -?Proust, Yourcenar, Albert Cohen, Cline, Ponge, Ren Char, Perec, Franois Bon et Tournier?- afin d'y tudier la prsence de Rabelais et de Montaigne, et la rcriture de quelques thmes chers la Renaissance (le philosophe ambulant, le Juif Errant, la thorie des quatre lments, la mythification de Jeanne d'Arc...). Ces...

This is the autobiography written by Manfred Von Richthofen, the Red Baron, German pilot during WW1.