The main reason for these different types of heterogeneity is to have good performance with power efficiency. Heterogeneous computing results in both challenges and opportunities. This book discusses both.

This unusual study, a mix of fiction and `fact', tells the story through Zenobia's own words which are reconstructed from contemporary Arabian and Roman sources as well as archaeological and artefactual evidence.

Hira, the centre of the Lakhmid kingdom, was where the early Arabic alphabet was standardized. In The Lakhmids of Hira, Yasmin Zahran brings her lively yet informed style to bear on a hitherto unjustly neglected dynasty of Arabia's history.

Although she was eventually defeated by the emperor Aurelian in AD 274, Zenobia's life is a story of remarkable drama and achievement, ending in tragic defeat and suicide.

This harrowing account of Jerusalem on the eve of the birth of Islam tells of the sacking of the holy city--a story often overlooked in major histories of the region, and one that is told here with by a historian who specializes in bringing ...

When Philip the Arab came to the Roman throne in the third century AD, the Empire, in the words of the sophist Nicarogas, was tossing as in a great storm or earthquake, and floundering like a ship being carried off to the ends of the Earth.

This book is an attempt to compile and integrate the information documented by many botanists, both Egyptians and others, about the vegetation of Egypt.

Kingdom of Peacocks shares a young corsairs retelling of the swashbuckling story of smugglers and pirates who stood against the Portuguese oppression in the early sixteenth century.

This book presents the vegetation types of the African and Asian countries of the Mediterranean and Red Sea coastal regions, and discusses the ecological threats and economic applications of these critical resources.

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