A lively exploration of the poisoners, tricksters, stingers, stinkers and invaders of the plant and fungal worlds and how their lives intertwine with ours. “Peter Marren is a master storyteller and gifted with an inimitable gallows...Loe edasi...
Sari: United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) Occasional Papers
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: United Nations, ISBN-13: 9789211588101)
This publication, BWC at Fifty: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific, arrives at a pivotal moment. The next 50 years of the Convention will unfold amid rapid scientific and technological transformation, the increasing interlinkage between global h...Loe edasi...
Scientific advances in biological and chemical sciences can offer significant benefits to humanity, but these discoveries may also result in the proliferation of novel classes of weapons and new uses for such weapons. This book explores the curren...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031988530)
This open-access volume consists of papers presented at the conference “Thirty Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges”, held in Berlin, 5–6 October 2023, as well as of additional contributions.Th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271097411)
The longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human sensesand through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While prop...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Centre for Strategic & International Studies,U.S., ISBN-13: 9780892062072)
With the conclusion of a Chemical Weapons Convention and its expected entry into force in the next few years, policy analysis must begin to focus on the interim tasks associated with implementing the treaty. This volume reviews the thinking of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Royal Society of Chemistry, ISBN-13: 9781837671342)
Recent advances in neuroscience – the study of the mechanisms within the brain that underlie our behaviours and what happens when these go wrong – have been profound. However, benignly intended neurological research that seeks to understand dysfun...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Martinus Nijhoff, ISBN-13: 9789004739185)
The bans on chemical and biological weapons, upheld by the CWC and BWC, face challenges from recent violations and geopolitical tensions. This book seeks to strengthen these norms by providing insight into the interconnectivity of relevant norms....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803999975)
Through the first year of the First World War, Allied strategy had relied upon a series of small-scale assaults, which in reality achieved little or no ground gained. The Battle of Loos was to be different. Kitchener’s Army was deployed in...Loe edasi...
This is an insider’s history of the UK’s development of on-site inspections for nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons arms control and disarmament treaties from the late 1980s through to the first two decades of the 21st century. It provides for...Loe edasi...
