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  • Mama Learned Us to Work

    Farm Women in the New South

    by Lu Ann Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Rural Culture
    Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of economic and cultural change.As consumers, farm women bargained with peddlers at their backdoors. A key ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Like a Family

    The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

    by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James L. Leloudis, Robert R. Korstad, Robert R. Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, Christopher B. Daly ...
    Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    Plant Systematics, Second Edition, provides the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution, and classification of land plants.It presents a foundation of the approach, methods, research goals, evidence, and terminology of plant systematics, along with the most recent knowledge of evolutionary relationships of plants and practical information vital to the field. This updated ... Read more

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  • Now and at the Hour of Our Death

    by Susana Moreira Marques ...
    A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important. Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira ... Read more

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  • Financial Management for Agribusiness

    Edited by WJ Obst, R Graham, G Christie ...
    Financial Management for Agribusiness presents a practical approach to financial decision making for all those involved in agribusiness, including farmers, horticulturists and supporting businesses, to manage invested funds, physical resources and labour. It covers all the stages leading to a completed business plan and provides straightforward worked examples for each step. The authors emphasise ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Horticultural Nematology

    by N.G. Ravichandra ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The major objective of this book is to highlight the significance of phytonematodes in horticulture. Detailed and latest information on major aspects of phytonematodes associated exclusively with horticultural crops, which is the need of the day, is lacking. Hence, the book has been written mainly with the objective of providing its readers, comprehensive information on the advanced aspects ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Advancing Food Integrity

    GMO Regulation, Agroecology, and Urban Agriculture

    by Gabriela Steier ...
    Key features:Presents summaries of key points after each chapter and includes color graphs to visualize the big-picture conceptsDemonstrates how urban rooftop farms (URFs) can contribute to city greening and climate change mitigation worldwide while providing fresh locally-sourced produce for growing urban populationsProvides cutting-edge ideas from the the emerging field of food law and places ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa

    The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments

    Edited by Renu Modi, Fantu Cheru ...
    Series series Africa Now
    The subject of food security and land issues in Africa has become one of increased importance and contention over recent years. In particular, the focus has shifted to the role new global South donors - especially India, China and Brazil - are playing in shaping African agriculture through their increased involvement and investment in the continent.Approaching the topic through the framework of ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Out in the Country

    Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America

    by Mary L. Gray ...
    Series Book 2 - Intersections
    Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay AnthropologistsWinner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities SectionWinner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative Inquiry Book Award Honorable MentionFrom Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, Out in the Country ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Mycotoxins in Feedstuffs

    by Martin Weidenbörner ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Mycotoxins are substances produced from fungal secondary metabolic processes. They impair animal health, thereby causing great economic losses of livestock through disease. Livestock come into contact with mycotoxins through contaminated feedstuff. Feedstuff is any of the constituent nutrients of an animal ration. The plants used in feed, such as grains, oil seeds, nuts, and root crops, are ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Evolution of Human Co-operation

    Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies

    by Charles Stanish ...
    How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time? This book addresses this fundamental question and explains the origin, structure and spread of stateless societies. Using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish shows how ritual - broadly defined - is ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

  • Growing Up Hard in Harlan County

    by G. C. Jones ...
    This classic memoir is "an absorbing tale" of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depression ( The Washington Post).G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic ... Read more

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