The analysis of soils and sediments for pollutants is increasingly required in today's industrial world. It is therefore important that extraction procedures used for environmental risk assessment studies, production of certified reference materials and applications of extraction schemes are standardised throughout the scientific community. This book deals specifically with operationally-defined extraction methods for the determination of "fractions" of elements in soil and sediment matrices. Bringing together the work of a number of different international laboratories, the book describes single and sequential extraction procedures. It then goes on to present a summary of the latest research on extraction/leaching tests for the determination of trace organic compounds in wastes, followed by an outline of an international network which aims to standardise extraction and leaching methodologies for their applications to various environmental matrices. Methodologies for Soil and Sediment Fractionation Studies will be welcomed by researchers and analysts in academia, industry and government institutions worldwide.

Contributors to this book analyze areas of Martin Luther’s and Lutheran theology that have otherwise been neglected or under-represented in the five hundred years since the Reformation. They widen the scope of Luther and Lutheran theology by viewing both from the perspectives of the “subaltern,� those whose voices are barely or rarely heard. The book formulates an inclusive Lutheran theology that reaches out but does not close out. The book’s sections address “Precarious Life,� from Luther’s own precarious existence as an outlaw under a death sentence; “Body and Gender,� addressing different aspects of gender and sexuality; “Women and Sexual Abuse,� focusing on Luther’s exegesis of biblical “texts of terror�; and “Economy, Equality, and Equity,� addressing Lutheran views on economy and equality that break new ground regarding common goods and the Anthropocene.

Fundandose en cronistas, este libro hace un recorrido por las diversas artes escenicas en boga en el Potosi (Audiencia de Charcas) de los siglos diecisiete y dieciocho. El teatro se despliega con la magnificencia propia de un lugar que se sabe importante merced a la riqueza argentifera que le prodiga el Cerro Rico. Por las calles de la Villa Imperial, la mas poblada del orbe, desfilan mascaradas e invenciones; paralelamente, dentro de su gran Coliseo se escenifican comedias y loas. Dramaturgos como Calderon de la Barca y Lope de Vega son afamados en este celebre centro minero que ofrece tanta diversidad de espectaculos teatrales de raigambre iberica pero donde poco a poco aparecen atisbos de una identidad particular; para demostrar esto ultimo se apela, en el caso de la mascarada, a conceptos como simbolo y alegoria. Para acercarse a la invencion en cambio, se ha recurrido a la nocion de metateatralidad. El modo como se organiza y escribe este libro invita al lector sea especializado, sea profano a introducirse facilmente dentro del fascinante mundo de la escena pleno de color, musica, olor y de las actividades o personajes que giran alrededor de el."