From devastation Comes Hope Even as the Gulf Coast grapples with possibly its worst environmental catastrophe ever, a silver lining has emerged from the devastation of the stormy summer of 2005: both soil lead levels and children’s blood lead levels fell dramatically across New Orleans, Louisiana, after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita swept in clean sediment over the city’s lead-contaminated soil.1...

The chapters are simple and easy to follow with plenty of room along the margins to take additional notes. The clinical considerations at the end of each section are also helpful in showing how cell biology plays a role in pathology. For a quick review, this book also provides figures and tables that summarize the information in an integrative way. These figures are helpful in understanding the...

Open-cast mining activity is causing the largest georelief transfigurations all over the World. In our conditions are affected large localities in the North-west Bohemia (the Czech Republic). In this area we focus on a very significant case of the royal town Most, where a town has been turned into a lake. The main aim of this paper is the reconstruction of the original georelief in different ti...