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Methods in Rhizosphere Biology Research

Springer, 2019

This book compiles various methodologies used in understanding interactions within the rhizosphere. An in-depth understanding of the rhizosphere is essential to developing successful strategies for future sustainable agriculture. The book summarizes methods and techniques used to study the mechanisms involved in mutualistic symbioses and...

Panel Data Econometrics with R

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

Panel Data Econometrics with R provides a tutorial for using R in the field of panel data econometrics. Illustrated throughout with examples in econometrics, political science, agriculture and epidemiology, this book presents classic methodology and applications as well as more advanced topics and recent developments in this...

Adventure Diffusion: From Meandering Molecules to the Spreading of Plants, Humans, and Ideas

Springer, 2019

This easy-to read book looks at the many ways in which diffusion bears on processes that involve dispersion, starting from the Brownian motion of molecules, covering the invasion of exotic plants, migration of populations, epidemics, and extending to the spreading of languages and ideas.

Recently, there has been a growing...

Bioactive Molecules in Food (Reference Series in Phytochemistry)

Springer, 2019

This reference work provides comprehensive information about the bioactive molecules presented in our daily food and their effect on the physical and mental state of our body. Although the concept of functional food is new, the consumption of selected food to attain a specific effect existed already in ancient civilizations, namely...

Paleogenomics: Genome-Scale Analysis of Ancient DNA (Population Genomics)

Springer, 2019

Advances in genome-scale DNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized genetic research on ancient organisms, extinct species, and past environments. When it is recoverable after hundreds or thousands of years of unintended preservation, “ancient DNA” (or aDNA) is often highly degraded, necessitating specialized handling...

Caves and Karst of the Upper Midwest, USA: Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin (Cave and Karst Systems of the World)

Springer, 2020

This book discusses the karst and pseudokarst of the Upper Midwest, USA, consisting of the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois?the first regional synthesis in 40 years. Starting with an overview of the regional geology of what is largely glaciated fluviokarst and paleokarst developed on Paleozoic carbonates, but...

The Origins of the Roman Economy: From the Iron Age to the Early Republic in a Mediterranean Perspective

Cambridge University Press, 2021

In this book, Gabriele Cifani reconstructs the early economic history of Rome, from the Iron Age to the early Republic. Bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, he argues that the early Roman economy was more diversified than has been previously acknowledged, going well beyond agriculture and pastoralism. Cifani bases his argument on...

Conflicted American Landscapes

MIT Press, 2021

How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity.

Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists...

Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns (Social Change in Contemporary India)

Sage Publications, 2021

Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns captures the evolution of key debates on women’s rights in independent India. Authored by eminent scholars and emerging experts of their time, the articles encapsulate developments which have given the women’s rights movement and women’s studies imaginative...

Ethics, Morality and Business: The Development of Modern Economic Systems, Volume I: Ancient Civilizations

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

This book is interdisciplinary trying to combine ancient history and modern business ethics. Civilization begins, not with the invention of agriculture, but with the articulation almost 70,000 years ago, according to Puranas, the set of books of history from the beginning of the world, in Sanskrit, with a valid ethical code....

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