Introduction: 1. The Afghan state: essential characteristics.

II. Historical perspective: 2.

Policies of Amir Abdur Rehman (1880-1901). 3.

Amir Amanullah (1919-29). 4.

Failure of Communist reforms. III.

Collapse of fundamentalism: 5. The Taliban: emergence and consolidation.

6. The Taliban: experimentation and failure.

IV. Towards a stable Afghanistan: 7.

Towards a stable Afghanistan: options and challenges ahead. Appendices.

Bibliography. Index.

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Introduction to phonetics: 1. Introduction to phonetics-1.

2. Introduction to phonetics-2.

3. Introduction to phonetics-3.

II. Main course: 4.

Introduction to plural of nouns, verbs. 5.

Introductions to adjectives adverbs and Russian verbs. 6.

Second group of verbs and verbs of motion. 7.

Verb "to be" tense and nouns in the accusative. 8.

Prepositional of nouns and adjectives. 9.

Reflexive verbs and prepositional plural. 10.

Verb aspect. 11.

Nouns in the genitive case. 12.

Animate plural nouns in the accusative case. 13.

Dative case dative plural. 14.

Verbs of motion with prefixes accusative and dative of direction. 15.

Instrumental case instrument plural. III.

Additional reading material: Text 1 to 4. Dictionary.

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Introduction. I.

Physical stress: 2. Salt tolerance.

II. Water stresses: 3.

Water logging tolerance. 4.

Drought tolerance. III.

Temperatures stresses: 5. Heat tolerance.

6. Cold tolerance.

IV. Oxidative stress: 7.

Oxidative stress tolerance. V.

Metal toxicity tolerance: Introduction. 8.

Aluminium toxicity tolerance. 9.

Iron toxicity tolerance. 10.

Other metal toxicity tolerance. VI.

Non-metal toxicity tolerance: 11. Non-metal toxicity tolerance.

VII. Atmospheric stresses: 12.

Air pollution. 13.

Radiation stress tolerance. 14.

Climate change. Colour versions of original plates in text.

Index. "Abiotic stresses have become an integral part of crop production.

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Morphology of palms. 2.

Propagation of palms. 3.

Palm culture and pests and diseases. 4.

Distribution of Palmae (Arecaceae). 5.

Family: Palmae (Arecaceae). Key to the subfamilies: I.

Subfamily: Coryphoideae. ii.

Subfamily: Calamoideae. III.

Subfamily: Nypoideae. IV.

Subfamily: Ceroxyloideae. V.

Subfamily: Arecoideae. Glossary of botanical terms used.

References. Index.

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