The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War.
Robb, Graham. 2007. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War. New York: Norton. $27.95 hc. xvii + 455 pp. Thanks to a 14,000-mile bicycle journey, which retraced "transhumance trails, Gallo-Roman trade routes, pilgrim paths, river confluences" and "four years...

Bouncing back.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL Court judges ruled that they would not after all be banning the country's ruling party, the exhalation of breath around a much-relieved country was practically audible. The ruling appeared to end months--if not years--of speculation over the future. Yet Turkey...

Counting the cost of war with Iran.
Will we be seeing $10-$12/gallon gasoline and a lot more body bags before the end of the year? That depends on the answers to a couple other important questions, such as: will the Bush-Cheney war hawks launch a war against Iran before the November elections, as they have been...

Dead sea rate of evaporation.
INTRODUCTION Dead Sea is a terminal lake of the Jordan Rift Valley bounded on the east by Jordan and on the west by the West Bank and Israel Fig. 1. The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the surface of the earth, and its waters have...

Francis Jeanson; a dissident intellectual from the resistance to the Algerian War.
9780804755085 Francis Jeanson; a dissident intellectual from the resistance to the Algerian War. Ulloa, Marie-Pierre. Stanford U. Press 2007 359 pages $60.00 Hardcover B2430 This is a biography of Francis Jeanson,...

Saving Kieu.
Byline: Randi Bjornstad The Register-Guard If you need a break from all the bad news that regularly befalls kids around the world - war, famine, abuse, disease and death - meet Kieu Henney. Now 7', the little girl (her name is pronounced KEE-yoo) is the...

Ad orientem.
BYZANTIUM: THE SURPRISING LIFE OF A MEDIEVAL EMPIRE by JUDITH HERRIN Princeton University Press, 440 pages, $29.95 IN HANDEL'S OPERA Tamerlano, the principal characters are Tamerlane; the brutal Mongol chieftain Bajazet; an Ottoman Sultan and his daughter Asteria; and Andronico, the Byzantine emperor....

Effects of tomato geometries and air temperature on the drying behavior of plum tomato.
INTRODUCTION Tomatoes are an important commercial vegetable having the highest production figures of all the vegetables in the world, apart from the root-vegetables (1). In 2005, the world-wide production of tomatoes reached 91 million tons. Major producers of tomatoes include the United States, Turkey, Egypt, India and...

ARAB AFFAIRS - July 21 - Syria Moves Ahead In Recognizing Lebanon.
The FM of Syria reiterates on that Syria intends to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon, for the first time since the two nations gained independence more than 60 years ago. "We are determined to open an embassy and to exchange diplomatic representation", Walid Muallem told reporters here. "But this...