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How Things Worked eBook Series

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  • Sod Busting

    How Families Made Farms on the 19th-Century Plains

    by David B. Danbom ...
    Series series How Things Worked
    "An excellent introduction to the challenges and opportunities of agricultural life in a difficult region for farming . . . elegantly written." —Jeff Bremer, The Annals of IowaPrairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished with little more than animal and human power? In Sod Busting, David B. Danbom challenges students to think about the many ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Fundamentals of Horticulture

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Chris Bird ...
    Essential reading for all studying horticulture and keen gardeners. This clear introduction to the principles underlying the practical applications of horticulture opens up the excitement of growing plants and garden development without readers wading through complex information. Written by a team of highly motivated and experienced horticultural tutors, the text supports the newly restructured ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • Sea Energy Agriculture

    Nature's Ideal Trace Element Blend for Farm, Livestock, Humans

    by Maynard Murray, Tom Valentine, Charles Walters ...
    Reprinted by popular demand! Maynard Murray was a medical doctor who researched the crucial importance of minerals — especially trace elements — to plants and animals. Beginning in 1938 and continuing through the 1950s, Dr. Murray used sea solids — mineral salts remaining after water is evaporated from ocean water — as fertilizer on a variety of vegetables, fruits and grains. His extensive ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Green Foods: The Basics

    by Janet Amber ...
    Thank you for your interest in this booklet. The "...The Basics" series, is a series of booklets designed to help you get the basics or foundations about a subject. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason the Amber siblings have created this series. It is a series of small quick and easy to read and understand booklets, designed to give you a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to Fungi

    by John Webster, Roland Weber ...
    This new edition of the universally acclaimed and widely-used textbook on fungal biology has been completely re-written, drawing directly on the authors' research and teaching experience. The text takes account of the rapid and exciting progress that has been made in the taxonomy, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, pathology and ecology of the fungi. Features of taxonomic relevance are ... Read more

    $115.69 USD

  • Integrated Pest Management for Crops and Pastures

    Edited by Paul Horne, Jessica Page ...
    Integrated Pest Management for Crops and Pastures describes in straightforward language what is required for farmers to successfully implement Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in cropping and grazing operations. It explains the differences between conventional pesticide-based controls and IPM, and demonstrates the advantages of IPM. Effective control of pests depends on a number of approaches, not ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Disguised in Deception.

    by E. A. Hargrave ...
    In 1971, Richard Nixion signed the National Cancer Act into law. Forty-eight years later, the war still wages on. Nixon's war on cancer failed to find a cure; cancer cases continue to grow at an alarming rate, while new cancer types are discovered every year. Think about this, globally, trillions of dollars a year is desperately given by people, in the hope researchers will find a cure. Is there ... Read more

    $5.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comprehensive Handbook of Iodine

    Nutritional, Biochemical, Pathological and Therapeutic Aspects

    Edited by Gerard N. Burrow, Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy ...
    Over two billion people worldwide are at risk for the spectrum of disorders known as "The Iodine Deficiency Disorders." 1-10% will suffer cretinism; 5-30% will have some sort of brain damage or neurological impairment and 30-70% will be hypothyroid. The causes of iodine deficiencies can be considered from both simplistic and more complex perspectives: From the leaching of iodine from soil ... Read more

    $260.99 USD

  • Whittled Away

    by Padraic Fogarty ...
    'Ireland's heritage is being steadily whittled away by human exploitation, pollution and other aspects of modern development. This could represent a serious loss to the nation.' Irish Government Report, June 1969 Nature in Ireland is disappearing at an alarming rate. Overfishing, industrial-scale farming and pollution have decimated wildlife habitats and populations. In a single lifetime, vast ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economic and Environmental Policy Issues in Indian Textile and Apparel Industries

    by Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book comprehensively reviews, as well as analyzes, various aspects related to the Indian textile and apparel industries. While the focus is on economic and environmental issues, the discussion covers a lot of policy elements. The approach is inter-disciplinary, with concepts drawn from economics, environmental science, history, chemistry, textile technology and quantitative methods ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Soil Biology

    Effects on Soil Quality

    by J. L. Hatfield ...
    Soil Biology is a state-of-the art review focusing on the linkage between biological processes that occur in the soil and their impact on soil quality. Topics considered include the microbial ecology of conservation management systems, dynamic processes of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae, earthworms and soil fauna, microbial processes in the soil, and the degradation of pesticides through ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 2

    Edited by Nandita Dasgupta, Eric Lichtfouse, Shivendu Ranjan ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is the second volume on this topic within the series. With unique properties, nanomaterials are rapidly finding novel applications in many fields such as food, medicine, agriculture and pollution. Such applications include to treat cancer, nanosensors to detect food contamination, nanomaterials for food packaging, nanoencapsulation to preserve nutraceuticals, and nanofertilisers for ... Read more

    $143.09 USD