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Connections: Patterns of Discovery

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Every since the fl int axe triggered the Paleolithic Revolution over two million years ago we have lived by a culture of scarcity. Technology shortfall placed innovative capability in the hands of only a few: those who provided their hunter - gatherer communities with tools for hunting and butchering; then those who could read and write; then, much...

An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology

Routledge, 1990

This one-of-a-kind encyclopedia presents the entire field of technology--from rudimentary agricultural tools to communication satellites--in this first-of-its-kind reference source.

Following an introduction that discusses basic tools, devices, and mechanisms, the chapters are grouped into five parts that provide detailed information...

Little Green Data Book 2004

World Bank Publications, 2004

In its 3rd annual edition, The Little Green Data Book 2004 is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. Key indicators are organized under the headings of agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation.

Profiles of each country include 48 key development...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Middle America and the Caribbean

Macmillan Technical, 1995

Over 153 million people live in the Middle American and Caribbean culture areas, which are divided primarily between the Middle American mainland cultures and the Caribbean cultures of the West Indian islands and Bermuda.

Middle America is the region south of the United States and north of South America. It includes Mexico and Central...

Indian Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated Dictionary

Springer, 2007

In 2004, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg published C.P.Khares "Encyclopedia of Indian Medicinal Plants" which contained 400 monographs comprising classical as well as contemporary research findings.

"Indian Medicinal Plants. An Illustrated Dictionary" is the second major one-volume reference work by C.P.Khare which has been...

Language Classification by Numbers

Oxford University Press, 2006

This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should classified in the future. It describes and applies computer programs from biology and evolutionary genetics to data about languages and shows how the power of the computer can be harnessed to throw light on long-standing problems in historical...

Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

Springer, 2004

GRASS GIS software was developed in response to the need for improved
analysis of landscape “trade offs” in managing government lands and the
emerging potential of computer-based land analysis tools. During the last
decades of the 20th century, government land managers in the U.S. (and
across the world) faced...

Adobe Acrobat 7 in a Snap (Sams Teach Yourself)

Sams Publishing, 2005

Adobe PDF is the emerging workflow standard in the publishing, financial services, regulated and government industries, but learning all that Adobe Acrobat is capable of can take more time than most employees in these industries can spare. That's where Adobe Acrobat in a Snap comes in. The author will walk you...

Sustainable Energy Solutions in Agriculture (Sustainable Energy Developments)

CRC Press, 2014

Sustainability in agriculture and associated primary industries, which are both energy-intensive, is crucial for the development of any country. Increasing scarcity and resulting high fossil fuel prices combined with the need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, make the improvement of energy efficient farming and increased use...

Tea: Bioactivity and Therapeutic Potential (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles)

CRC Press, 2002

The tea plant, Camellia sinensis, is of particular importance to humans, and the consumption of tea has a long history of over 2000 years. Currently, tea is one of the most popular beverages worldwide. In recent years the subject of tea has attracted a great deal of attention. As well as the use of tea in traditional medicine, modern...

Handbook of New Technologies for Genetic Improvement of Legumes

CRC Press, 2008

A comprehensive and groundbreaking collection of ideas for plant improvement

Most of the world's supply of legumes is cultivated under adverse conditions that make this commercially important crop susceptible to the vagaries of nature and damaging stresses. Genetic manipulation has become a proven way for cultivators to battle these...

An Introduction To The Theory Of Spatial Object Modelling For GIS (Research Monographs in GIS)

CRC Press, 1998

In 1983 I left the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) and went to Wageningen Agricultural University, where I took the chair of “Land Surveying and Teledetection”. Up to that time I had been active mainly in geodesy and photogrammetry, but at Wageningen it soon became...

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