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Towards Holistic Agriculture : A Scientific Approach
ISBN: 9780080342115 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book explains the use of an ecological way of farming, with modern practical applications, to make the fullest use of land resources and the best utilization of available capital and labour. In analyzing the vital relationship between soil, plant, animal and man, the author discusses the best care of land itself, its components, grassland management and the most efficient use of crops to maximize yield, food quality and profitability without the extensive use of chemicals and without damaging the ecology. Widdowson also covers the holistic approach to animal farming, the welfare and...
This book explains the use of an ecological way of farming, with modern practical applications, to make the fullest use of land resources and the best...
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264,83 zł |
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Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture : Economics and Politics
ISBN: 9780125154222 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Genetically modified crops have become a topic of great interest among scientists, regulators, consumers, farmers, and politicians. Despite their potential benefits, public hostility toward these crops is causing dramatic changes to import/export policies, food safety regulations, and agricultural practices around the world. Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture provides a comprehensive overview of the subject and a balanced look at the costs and benefits of GMO products. Part I reviews the scientific, economic, and political issues relating to the use of agricultural GMOs....
Genetically modified crops have become a topic of great interest among scientists, regulators, consumers, farmers, and politicians. Despite their pote...
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475,97 zł |
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Host-Pathogen Interactions in Plant Disease
ISBN: 9780127114200 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book describes the genetics, biochemistry, and epidemiology of host-pathogen interactions in plant disease, especially as they concern the breeding of crops for disease resistance. It analyzes a wealth of information that has not previously been recorded in other books or reviews. Some of it stems from basic surveys of disease in the field. The analysis of these surveys not only explains a great deal about host-pathogen interactions that was heretofore obscure, but also indicates directions for future research. Other data, from original papers, have now been coordinated for the first...
This book describes the genetics, biochemistry, and epidemiology of host-pathogen interactions in plant disease, especially as they concern the breedi...
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264,83 zł |
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
ISBN: 9780195051803 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas...
The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the ...
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108,03 zł |
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Solute Movement in the Rhizosphere
ISBN: 9780195124927 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is a completely revised edition of the previously titled Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System. It describes in detail how plant nutrients and other solutes move in the soil in response to plant uptake, and it provides a basis for understanding processes in the root zone so that they can be modeled realistically in order to predict the effects of variations in natural conditions or our own practices.
This is a completely revised edition of the previously titled Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System. It describes in detail how plant nutri...
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741,17 zł |
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The World's Greatest Fix : A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture
ISBN: 9780195165821 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, this gives the very early history of how human ingenuity overcame the risk of famine through productive agriculture. Starting with a layman's guide to the chemistry of nitrogen fixation, the book goes on to show how humans emerged from nomadic lifestyles and began developing towns and settlements. When they for the first time began planting the same fields year after year, they noticed quickly the need to ensure soil fertility. But how? The method they came up with is still in use to this day.
In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, this gives the very early history of how human ingenuity overcame the risk of fam...
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238,51 zł |
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Alternative Agriculture: A History : From the Black Death to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780198206620 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. Yet crops from the past like flax, hemp, rapeseed, and woad are gradually reappearing in the "modern" countryside. Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive the current interest in alternative forms of agriculture--a glut of mainstream meat and cereal crops, changing patterns of diet, the needs of medicine--have striking parallels with earlier periods of English history, emphasizing that solutions to current problems...
People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows chan...
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684,73 zł |
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Alternative Agriculture: A History : From the Black Death to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780198208136 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. Yet crops from the past like flax, hemp, rapeseed, and woad are gradually reappearing in the "modern" countryside. Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive the current interest in alternative forms of agriculture--a glut of mainstream meat and cereal crops, changing patterns of diet, the needs of medicine--have striking parallels with earlier periods of English history, emphasizing that solutions to current problems...
People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows chan...
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487,16 zł |
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The Common Agricultural Policy : Continuity and Change
ISBN: 9780198288572 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book is a major retrospective analysis of the CAP since its inception, set against the background of agricultural policy in Western Europe since the end of the Second World War. The topics covered include the development of the CAP, the struggle to introduce a structural policy and its subsequent unsatisfactory record, the uneasy relationship between market policy and trade policy, the question of agricultural incomes, and the broadening of policy horizons since the mid-1980s.
This book is a major retrospective analysis of the CAP since its inception, set against the background of agricultural policy in Western Europe since ...
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1249,21 zł |
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Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest
ISBN: 9780199244539 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The human-environment conditions in the Americas on the eve of the sixteenth-century European conquest have of late attracted growing interest in both academic and public circles. Focusing on Middle America, this book completes a trilogy which has made the most comprehensive survey ever achieved of pre-Colombian agriculture and culture throughout the continents. It addresses the question of what lands were permanently occupied; how they were used; and what the environmental and social implications of this use were. The answers to these questions are central to such wide-ranging themes as...
The human-environment conditions in the Americas on the eve of the sixteenth-century European conquest have of late attracted growing interest in both...
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1757,24 zł |
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The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals
ISBN: 9780202361697 / Angielski / Miękka / 581 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The domestication of plants and animals was one of the greatest steps forward taken by mankind. Although it was first achieved long ago, we still need to know what led to it and how, and even when, it took place. Only when we have this understanding will we be able to appreciate fully the important social and economic consequences of this step. Even more important, an understanding of this achievement is basic to any insight into modern man's relationship to his habitat. A change in methods of investigating these events has taken place, due to the mutual realization by archaeologists and...
The domestication of plants and animals was one of the greatest steps forward taken by mankind. Although it was first achieved long ago, we still need...
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238,46 zł |
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The Fire Ant Wars : Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780226079820 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Sometime in the first half of the twentieth century, a coterie of fire ants came ashore from South American ships docked in Mobile, Alabama. Fanning out across the region, the fire ants invaded the South, damaging crops, harassing game animals, and hindering harvesting methods. Responding to a collective call from southerners to eliminate these invasive pests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture developed a campaign that not only failed to eradicate the fire ants but left a wake of dead wildlife, sickened cattle, and public protest.
With political intrigue, environmental tragedy, and such... Sometime in the first half of the twentieth century, a coterie of fire ants came ashore from South American ships docked in Mobile, Alabama. Fanning o...
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141,03 zł |
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The Plight and Promise of Arid Land Agriculture
ISBN: 9780231066129 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The world's arid and semiarid lands are plagued with serious environmental problems and are deteriorating in their ability to sustain conventional crops. Drs. C. Wiley Hinman and Jack W. Hinman, experts on the subjects of arid lands and arid-land plant species, discuss the plight of these lands and, more importantly, practical solutions to reverse the present trend.
The world's arid and semiarid lands are plagued with serious environmental problems and are deteriorating in their ability to sustain conventional cro...
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390,98 zł |
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The World of Soy
ISBN: 9780252033414 / Angielski / Twarda / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. As the most ecologically efficient and economical source of complete protein in human food, soy is gradually attracting more use in the American diet for its nutritional and financial value. Derived from soybean plants--the leading export crop of the United States and the world's most traded crop--soy produced for human consumption is part of a global enterprise affecting the likes of farmers, economists, dieticians, and grocery shoppers. An international group of expert food specialists--including an agricultural economist, an agricultural sociologist, a former Peace Corps development... As the most ecologically efficient and economical source of complete protein in human food, soy is gradually attracting more use in the American di... |
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195,46 zł |
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Technology and Place : Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm
ISBN: 9780292752450 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Yet, despite its promise, the very institutions that created Blueprint Farm terminated the project after just four years (1987-1991). In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed Blueprint Farm. He reconstructs the... Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project des... |
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123,20 zł |
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States of Nature : Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
ISBN: 9780292752573 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The process of nation-building in Latin America transformed the relations between the state, the economy, and nature. Between 1760 and 1940, the economies of most countries in the Spanish Caribbean came to depend heavily on the export of plant products, such as coffee, tobacco, and sugar. After the mid-nineteenth century, this model of export-led economic growth also became a central tenet of liberal projects of nation-building. As international competition grew and commodity prices fell over this period, Latin American growers strove to remain competitive by increasing agricultural... The process of nation-building in Latin America transformed the relations between the state, the economy, and nature. Between 1760 and 1940, the ec... |
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106,53 zł |
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Working on the Edge : Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession, King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas
ISBN: 9780312089245 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches of on-deck labor); but the payback, if one survives can be tens of thousands of dollars for a month-long season. In a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker re-creates... No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death ... |
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85,68 zł |
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The Industrial Geography of Israel
ISBN: 9780415021562 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Israel's industrial geography is unique. The continuing Arab-Israeli conflict has been a primary force behind government intervention in settlement patterns, and has led to a major effort to disperse industry. The geopolitical situation has also encouraged a policy of attempted self-reliance, especially for defence purposes. These factors, combined with an abundant human capital, have given Israeli high-technology industries a special place in the international division of labour. The absorption of waves of mass immigration has influenced industrial development. Rural industrialisation,...
Israel's industrial geography is unique. The continuing Arab-Israeli conflict has been a primary force behind government intervention in settlement pa...
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660,65 zł |
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Communist Agriculture : Farming in the Far East and Cuba
ISBN: 9780415042055 / Angielski / Twarda / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The agrarian policies of China, Mongolia, Vietnam and Cuba are compared and assessed, together providing a fascinating account of agricultural development in socialist economies.
The agrarian policies of China, Mongolia, Vietnam and Cuba are compared and assessed, together providing a fascinating account of agricultural develop...
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766,19 zł |
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The Origins of Agriculture in Europe
ISBN: 9780415080095 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The Origins of Agriculture in Europe takes a look at current ideas in the light of a considerable mass of literature and archaeological evidence; examining the transition to agriculture through the comparison of social and economic developments across Europe.
In this volume, I.J.Thorpe manages to evaluate various alternative explanations in detailed examples, whilst also succeeding in addressing the broader theoretical questions which form the nucleus of contemporary debates. This clearly written and accessible text is an extremely valuable resource for students of European... The Origins of Agriculture in Europe takes a look at current ideas in the light of a considerable mass of literature and archaeological evide...
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528,73 zł |