The Fractured City is a story of power, survival, and the thin, dangerous line between myth and memory.In a world drowned in darkness, humanity clings to survival in isolated city-states where light and water—define power. Within the cities: order and privilege. Beyond them: wastelands haunted by scavengers, myths, and shadows.Three lives collide in this fractured world:a boy burdened by visions of a ruined white city and the eerie gaze of the Wanderer, ris...

The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet while heritage and place are at risk from disasters, in time,sites of suffering are sometimes re...

In this book, authors who are experts in their fields describe current advances on commercial crops and key enabling technologies that will underpin future advances in biotechnology. They discuss state of the art discoveries as well as future challenges. Tremendous progress has been made in introducing novel genes and traits into plant genomes since the first creation of transgenic plants thirty years ago, and the first commercialization of genetically modified maize in 1996. Consequently,...