Cryosols - permafrost - occupy a unique part of the earth and have properties greatly different from other soils. They also occur where the greatest impact of global warming is predicted. This is the first book bring together the leading researchers in the area of permafrost soils to produce a review of the geography, cryogenic soil forming processes, ecological processes, classification and use of soils that are affected by permafrost.

Cryosols - permafrost - occupy a unique part of the earth and have properties greatly different from other soils. They also occur where the greatest impact of global warming is predicted. This is the first book bring together the leading researchers in the area of permafrost soils to produce a review of the geography, cryogenic soil forming processes, ecological processes, classification and use of soils that are affected by permafrost.

Polen, Tschechien und Ungarn sind die nachsten Anwarter auf eine EU-Mitgliedschaft. Aufgrund ihrer relativ stabilen politischen Lage, ihrer geographischen Nahe zu Deutschland und ihres niedrigen Lohnniveaus sind diese Lander seit Beginn der 90er Jahre verstarkt das Ziel wirtschaftlicher Interessen von Grosskonzernen, aber auch von Kleinunternehmen und Existenzgrundern. Die Autorin fuhrt dem Leser die wirtschaftlichen, politischen und soziokulturellen Besonderheiten dieser Lander vor Augen und gibt praktische Tips fur den Aufbau erfolgreicher Geschaftsbeziehungen."

Lucius Dixon sat alone in a wooden straight back chair on the third floor of the law library at the University of Virginia. In a few moments, he would be faced with the first of many decisions that could lead to his immersion in a centuries-old conspiracy involving some of the most powerful people in the world or a paranoid delusion that would lead to the end of his legal career before it even began.