The term "emerging contaminants" and its multiple variants has come to refer to unregulated compounds discovered in the environment that are also found to represent a potential threat to human and ecological receptors. Such contaminants create unique and considerable challenges as the push to address them typically outpaces the understanding of their toxicity, their need for regulation, their occurrence, and techniques for treating the environmental media they affect. With these challenges in mind, this handbook serves as a primer regarding the topic of emerging contaminants, with current and practical information to help support the goal of protection where they are encountered. Features Explores the definition, identification, and life cycle of emerging contaminants. Reviews current information on sources, toxicology, regulation, and new tools for characterization and treatment of: 1,4-Dioxane (mature in its emerging contaminant life cycle) Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs; a newer group of emerging contaminant) Hexavalent chromium (former emerging contaminant with evolving science) 1,2,3-Trichloropropane (progressing in its emerging contaminant life cycle) Provides thoughts on opportunities in managing emerging contaminants to help balance uncertainty, compress life cycle, and optimize outcomes.

"This second edition of Remediation Engineering will continue to be the seminal handbook that regulators must have on-hand to address any of the remediation issues they are grappling with daily. The book is wide-ranging, but specific enough to address any environmental remediation challenge." -Patricia Reyes, Interstate Technology Regulatory Council, Washington, DC, USA "This book offers the researcher, teacher, practitioner, student, and regulator with state-of-the-art advances in conducting site investigations and remediation for common and emerging contaminants. It is revolutionary in its approach to conducting subsurface investigation, which greatly influences a successful and appropriate response in assessing and addressing environmental risk. This book is a giant leap forward in understanding how contaminates behave and how to reduce risk to acceptable levels in the natural world." -Daniel T. Rogers, Amsted Industries Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois, USA "This text is a superb reference and a good tool for learning about state-of-the-art techniques in remediation of soil and groundwater. [It] will become a ready reference at many companies as the engineering community creates increased value from remediation efforts around the world." -John Waites, AVX Corporation, Fountain Inn, South Carolina, USA Remediation Engineering was first published in 1996 and quickly became the go-to reference for a relatively young industry, offering the first comprehensive look at the state-of-the-science in treatment technologies of the time and the contaminants they applied to. This fully updated Second Edition will capture the fundamental advancements that have taken place during the last two decades within all the subdisciplines that form the foundation of the remediation engineering platform. It covers the entire spectrum of current technologies that are employed in the industry and also discusses future trends and how practitioners should anticipate and adapt to those needs. Features: Shares the latest paradigms in remediation design approach and contaminant hydrogeology Presents the landscape of new and emerging contaminants Details the current state of the practice for both conventional technologies, such as sparging and venting Examines newer technologies such as dynamic groundwater recirculation and injection-based remedies to address both organic and inorganic contaminants. Describes the advances in site characterization concepts such as smart investigations and digital conceptual site models. Includes all-new color photographs and figures.

Wenn in der NS-Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte von Gauen und Gauleitern die Rede war, richtete sich das Interesse vornehmlich auf die Parteistrukturen. Oder sie dienten als Fallbeispiele fur regionalhistorische Detailstudien. Es fehlt hingegen bis heute eine systematisch-vergleichende Erforschung der NS-Gaue als konstitutive Elemente "neuer Staatlichkeit," wie sie sich im nationalsozialistischen "Fuhrerstaat" seit Mitte der 1930er Jahre herausbildete. Hier setzt der vorliegende Band an. Das Ergebnis bietet erhellende Einblicke nicht nur in die regionalen Strukturen des NS, sondern in das Herrschaftssystem insgesamt. Themenfelder sind: Rassenpolitik und "Euthanasie"; "Arisierung" und "Gegnerbekampfung"; Wissenschaft, Bildung, Kultur; Gauverwaltung; Gaue des "Altreichs"; Die "Reichsgaue." Aus dem Inhalt: Vorwort der Herausgeber 1. Grundfragen Thomas Schaarschmidt, Regionalitat im Nationalsozialismus Kategorien, Begriffe, Forschungsstand Jurgen John, Die Gaue im NS-System Rudiger Hachtmann, "Neue Staatlichkeit" Uberlegungen zu einer systematischen Theorie des NS-Herrschaftssystems und ihrer Anwendung auf die mittlere Ebene der Gaue Bernhard Gotto, Dem Gauleiter entgegen arbeiten? Uberlegungen zur Reichweite eines Deutungsmusters Michael Ruck, Kommentar 2. Politikfelder 2.1 Rassenpolitik und "Euthanasie" Ingo Haar, Biopolitische Differenzkonstruktionen als bevolkerungspolitisches Ordnungsinstrument in den Ostgauen: Raum- und Bevolkerungsplanung im Spannungsfeld zwischen regionaler Verankerung und zentralstaatlichem Planungsanspruch Winfried Suss, Zur Rolle der Gaue in der regionalisierten "Euthanasie" (1942-1945) Susanne Heim, Kommentar 2.2 Wissenschaft, Bildung, Kultur Martina Steber, Fragiles Gleichgewicht. Die Kulturarbeit der Gaue zwischen Regionalismus und Zentralismus Jurgen Finger, Gaue und Lander als Akteure der nationalsozialistischen Schulpolitik. Wurttemberg als Sonderfall und Musterbeispiel im Altreich Michael Gruttner, Hochschulpolitik zwischen Gau und Reich Willi Oberkrome, Kommentar 3. Die NS-Gaue Gauverwaltung und Gau-Portrats 3.1 Gauverwaltung Armin Nolzen, Die Gaue als Verwaltungseinheiten der NSDAP. Entwicklungen und Tendenzen in der NS-Zeit Gerhard Kratzsch, Das wirtschaftspolitische Gauamt: der Gauwirtschaftsberater 3.2 Gau-Portrats 3.2.1 Gaue des "Altreichs" Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann, Das Potential der Komparatistik fur die NS-Regionalforschung Voruberlegungen zu einer Typologie von NS-Gauen und ihren Gauleitern anhand der Fallbeispiele Sud-Hannover-Braunschweig, Osthannover und Weser-Ems Walter Ziegler, Bayern Ein Land, sechs Gaue Kristina Hubener/ Wolfgang Rose, Der brandenburgische NS-Gau Eine Bestandsaufnahme Kyra Inachin, Der Gau Pommern Eine preussische Provinz als NS-Gau Wolfgang Stelbrink, Provinz oder Gau? Die beiden westfalischen NS-Gaue auf dem beschwerlichen Weg zu regionalen Funktionsinstanzen des NS-Staates Thomas Muller, Der Gau Koln-Aachen und Grenzlandpolitik im Nordwesten des Deutschen Reiches Wolfgang Freund, Rassen- und Bevolkerungspolitik in einem expandierenden Gau: Rheinpfalz Saarpfalz Westmark Ryszard Kaczmarek, Zwischen Altreich und Besatzungsgebiet. Der Gau Oberschlesien 1939/41-1945 Michael Kissener, Kommentar 3.2.2 Die "Reichsgaue" Martin Moll, Der Reichsgau Steiermark 1938-1945 Ernst Hanisch, "Land" und "Reichsgau" Salzburg 1938-1945 Michael Wedekind, Expansion und regionale Herrschaftsbildung in der "Ostmark" am Beispiel des Gaues Tirol-Vorarlberg Dieter Pohl, Die Reichsgaue Danzig-Westpreussen und Wartheland: Koloniale Verwaltung oder Modell fur die zukunftige Gauverwaltung? Magnus Brechtken, Kommentar"

The third installment in The Mule Tamer series. Nineteen-eleven is the year our two beauties, Rebecca Walsh and Marta del Toro leave the comfort and safety of their boarding school back East, under the watchful eye of their grandmother Abuelita and Madame Boutin, headmistress of Stonefields School for Young Ladies. They're headed to Smith College in the fall, to continue on the path of the blueblood debutante. But something is rotten in their beloved Mexico. The Revolution has started; Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa are on the move. Adulio, their faithful servant and overseer of the Del Toro ranch has come to fetch them. They are needed in Mexico. Follow the girls on an adventure, a road to discovery where they will have to summon their courage and call upon their talents, their loyalty, their faith in each other to overcome the challenges facing them as they search for inner and outer peace, battling the old demons, greed, lust, vanity, self-doubt and a new one, likely the most difficult of them all, maturation into adulthood. The people of Mexico need them, need their help fighting the minions of a greedy oil company and the totalitarian thugs held over from the Diaz Regime, with the father of Yellow Journalism thrown in for good measure. Read the story of these strong and intelligent young women as they respond to first love, romance, intrigue and betrayal. Will they defeat the dragon, or will it consume them, take them down and make them just one of the many victims in the sad and tragic life story that is Mexico? Marta's Quest is the final chapter in The Mule Tamer Trilogy, chronicling the exploits, trials and tribulations of this remarkable and heroic family.