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En 330 avant J. C., lorsque Alexandre le Grand dépose son manteau sur le corps de Darius III qu'il vient de vaincre, il assume par ce geste l'héritage de tous les empires d'Orient. De l'apparition des premiers villages à la défaite de Darius III, peuples et empires se sont succédé pour donner naissance à la civilisation dont nous sommes les héritiers. Les témoignages artistiques regroupés dans ce livre nous font mesurer la pérennité des grands mythes fondateurs. Le choix de cadrages peu conventionnel souligne la modernité d'une tablette pictographique, d'un couple d'orants ou bien encore de la célèbre stèle de victoire de Narâm-Sîn.

Middle East --- Civilization --- Antiquities --- Oriëntalisme --- Midden-Oosten ; oudheid --- Moyen-Orient --- Antiquities. --- Civilisation --- Antiquités --- Middle East - Civilization - To 622 --- Middle East - Antiquities --- Art --- Antiquités

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To what degree are trade liberalization, productivity, and economic growth correlated? Can economic policies designed to encourage competition and curtail industry protection result in large-scale improvements, such as increased innovation and reduced unemployment? After 20 years of economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), economic performance is still lagging behind many regions of the world. Even in those countries that are the most advanced in implementing reforms, including Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia, industries with low productivity growth and high market power continue to dominate. Moreover, the termination of the Multi-Fiber Agreement and the negotiations concerning further liberalization of trade in agricultural products (under the framework of the World Trade Organization) put these and other countries under pressure of fierce competition from emerging nations. Recent empirical evidence on the impact of reforms in a number of developing countries shows that such persistence of inefficiency and market power is specific to MENA. Showcasing in-depth analyses from Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey (with comparative data from Asia and Latin America), this book focuses on the dynamics of firm entry and exit to help explain the low productivity of the region. The results suggest a number of policy recommendations designed to foster competition, which, in turn, would contribute to innovation, productivity growth, and improved return on capital investments. The book not only reveals important correlations among policy and market factors in MENA, but suggests fruitful areas of research in other developing regions of the world.

Economic policy and planning (general) --- Foreign trade policy --- Middle East --- Turkey --- North Africa

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The book gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background. Emphasis is given to relationships between the main features influencing the hydrogeologic conditions - regional geologic developments, paleogeographic conditions, morphology, climate and paleo-climate - and the resulting hydrogeologic features: formation of aquifers, distribution of major aquifers, main groundwater flow systems, occurrence of renewable and fossil groundwater. Reported data on hydraulic aquifer parameters, recharge rates and groundwater flow volumes are evaluated with a view to arrive at characteristic values under the specific hydrogeologic and climatic conditions. The area considered covers approximately the Arabian Plate. Information on the following countries is included: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen.

Geology. Earth sciences --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- Environmental planning --- hydrologie --- ruimtelijke ordening --- waterverontreiniging --- grondwater --- Middle East

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Integrated Water Resources Management and Security in the Middle East brings together diverse voices relating to the critical issue of water management in one of the world's most politically volatile areas: the Middle East. The book brings together Palestinian, Israeli, Jordanian and international expert opinions on creating a holistic and comprehensive view of water management challenges and strategies in an area of conflict and resource scarcity. The book takes security studies to the next level beyond military preparedness to address the security implications of the most fundamental of resources, that of water. Indeed, the book delves deeply into the underlying ideological underpinnings of various water regimes and possible opportunities for new decision-making models and regional cooperation. This book serves an important place in the scholarly literature on this topic for its breadth of participants and perspectives and its concrete steps forward. It moves the academic discourse beyond pointing fingers and toward constructive solutions and dialogue.

Economics --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Economic geography --- sociale ecologie --- popularisering wetenschap --- economie --- waterverontreiniging --- milieubeleid --- milieuzorg --- geografie --- Middle East

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This work introduces the important emerging space powers of the world. Brian Harvey describes the origins of the Japanese space program, from rocket designs based on WW II German U-boats to tiny solid fuel 'pencil' rockets, which led to the launch of the first Japanese satellite in 1970. The next two chapters relate how Japan expanded its space program, developing small satellites into astronomical observatories and sending missions to the Moon, Mars, comet Halley, and asteroids. Chapter 4 describes how India's Vikram Sarabhai developed a sounding rocket program in the 1960s. The following chapter describes the expansion of the Indian space program. Chapter 6 relates how the Indian space program is looking ahead to the success of the moon probe Chandrayan, due to launch in 2008, and its first manned launching in 2014. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 demonstrate how, in Iran, communications and remote sensing drive space technology. Chapter 10 outlines Brazil's road to space, begun in the mid-1960's with the launch of the Sonda sounding rockets. The following two chapters describe Brazil's satellites and space launch systems and plans for the future. Chapters 13 and 14 study Israel's space industry. The next chapters look at the burgeoning space programs of North and South Korea. The book ends by contrasting and comparing all the space programs and speculating how they may evolve in the future. An appendix lists all launches and launch attempts to date of the emerging space powers.

Science --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Space research --- Astronomy --- Applied physical engineering --- Air traffic --- History --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- popularisering wetenschap --- astronauten --- geschiedenis --- engineering --- luchtvaart --- ruimte (astronomie) --- ruimtevaart --- astronomie --- Middle East