Find the right balance of organic matter, tillage, and chemical additives to increase the quality and quantity of crops
This book shows the importance of organic matter in maintaining crop production. The addition of organic matter to soil is covered in great detail. This book is unique in that it draws on practical farming operations to illustrate many of the points discussed. The senior author has had almost 60 years of experience in solving production problems--many of which have been related to insufficient organic matter.
In addition, Sustainable Soils: The Place of Organic...

From Anatomy to Wildlife-everything you need to know about temperate-zone tree fruit culture and physiology The Concise Encyclopedia of Temperate Tree Fruit is a unique resource that examines all aspects of tree fruit cultivation in the world's temperate zones. This book addresses more than 40 topics, and included with each topic is a list of resources you can use to find further information. Subjects from molecular genetics to fruit color to pest management are addressed comprehensively and in plain language, so you can get the information you need when you need it. Many helpful...

Examine Lytton Strachey s struggle to create a new homosexual identity and voice through his life and work

This study of Lytton Strachey, one of the neglected voices of early twentieth-century England, uses his life and work to re-evaluate early British modernism and the relationship between Strachey s sexual rebellion and literature.

A perfect ancillary textbook for courses in history, literature, and women s studies, Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian contributes to the expanding field of queer studies from an historian s...

A perfect ancillary textbook for courses in history, literature and gender studies, this work contributes to the expanding field of queer studies from a historian's perspective. It looks at homosexuality through the eyes of Lytton Strachey as opposed to the too-often analysed Oscar Wilde and E.M Forster. Questioning the idea that homosexuality is a transgressive rebellion, as Strachey and numerous Bloomsbury scholars have insisted, this volume focuses on the ongoing conflict between Strachey's Victorian notions of class, gender and race, and his desire to be modern.

Featuring ordinary people, celebrities, game shows, hidden cameras, everyday situations, and humorous or dramatic situations, reality TV is one of the fastest growing and important popular culture trends of the past decade, with roots reaching back to the days of radio. The Tube Has Spoken provides an analysis of the growing phenomenon of reality TV, its evolution as a genre, and how it has been shaped by cultural history. This collection of essays looks at a wide spectrum of shows airing from the 1950s to the present, addressing some of the most popular programs including Alan Funt's Candid...

A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often considered solely through the lens of literature, steampunk is, in fact, a complex phenomenon that also affects, transforms, and unites a wide range of disciplines, such as art, music, film, television, fashion, new media, and material culture. In Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology, Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller have assembled a collection of essays that consider the...