A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion. It documents the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is known as the Eads Bridge.
A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion. It documents the planning, financing,...
The relative food prosperity of the 1980s/1990s has been eroded in recent years through the convergence of a variety of factors, including climate change, population growth, foodborne pathogens, and microbial plant pathogens. Today, food security has become an urgent major global challenge. One important area of research that aims to aid the production of sufficient, safe, and nutritious food has focused on the plant-microbe interaction. Understanding this is an important prerequisite for the development of strategies to protect plants from pathogens and/or to prevent contamination of food...
The relative food prosperity of the 1980s/1990s has been eroded in recent years through the convergence of a variety of factors, including climate cha...
