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Chickens are now the most scientifically engineered of livestock. How have the methods used by geneticists differed from those employed by domestic breeders over time? Art and Science in Breeding details the relationship between farm practices and agricultural genetics in poultry breeding from 1850 to 1960.

Margaret E. Derry traces the history and organization of chicken breeding in North America, from craft approaches and breeding as an 'art, ' to the conflicts that had emerged between traditional and scientific methods by the 1940s. Derry assesses links between the...

Based on abundant original research linking science, agriculture, business and the state, Ontario's Cattle Kingdom explores the significance of beef cattle and livestock farming in Ontario during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Margaret Derry concentrates much of her research on the herds themselves (purebred and otherwise), using them as cultural texts to explain patterns of innovation adoption and the problems with strategies to control market share.

The result is a fascinating and lively work, illustrating the complexity of agricultural history and offering...

In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s. A clear and concise introduction to the science and practice of artificial selection, Derry's book puts the history of breeding in its scientific, commercial, and social context.

Masterminding Nature explains why animal breeders continued to use eighteenth-century techniques well into the twentieth century, why the chicken industry...

God knows your name

Do you believe that? Do you believe there even is a God?

Do you believe God knows who you are and is interested in your life? Do you believe He is Who He says He is, and can do what He says He can do?

When you pray, does it sometimes feel like your prayers are hitting the ceiling, or are falling on deaf ears? Are you angry with God because your prayers seem not to be answered? Have you given up asking God for things for yourself because you don't want to be disappointed again; or you're afraid that if God is silent you will begin to question...