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1. The Resilience Handbook

   Approaches to Stress and Trauma

   Edited by Martha Kent, Mary C. Davis, John W. Reich

   How are people and communities able to prevail despite challenge? What helps them bounce back from adversity and even grow in knowledge and understanding? And can this resilience be taught? During the past decade, exciting scientific advances have shed light on how resilience operates from neurons...

   To Be Published September 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. America, the UN and Decolonisation

   Cold War Conflict in the Congo

   By John Kent

   Series: LSE International Studies Series

   This book examines the role of the UN in conflict resolution in Africa in the 1960s and its relation to the Cold War. Focussing on the Congo, this book shows how the preservation of the existing economic and social order in the Congo was a key element in the decolonisation process and the fighting...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. Vadose Zone Processes

   By John S. Selker, James T. McCord, C. Kent Keller

   Vadose Zone Processes provides a unified, up-to-date treatment on the movement of water through unsaturated media. In addition to covering the basic equations governing the flow and fate of water in unsaturated media, the text covers the biogeochemistry of vadose environments and the statistical...

   Published June 27th 1999 by CRC Press