Learn IT - Books tags farming

Biotechnology and Agricultural Development: Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-poor Farmers

Routledge, 2009

This book addresses the continuing controversy over the potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries. Supporters of the technology claim it offers one of the best hopes for increasing agricultural production and reducing rural poverty, while opponents see it as an untested intervention that will bring corporate...

Agriculture 5.0: Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Machine Learning

CRC Press, 2021

Agriculture 5.0: Artificial Intelligence, IoT & Machine Learning provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview of latest development in the domain of smart farming. It shows how the traditional farming practices are being enhanced and modified by automation and introduction of modern scalable technological...

Game Character Animation All in One

Course Technology PTR, 2006

Within the world of video games, characters become almost living entities. Through the use of logic and artificial intelligence, the video-game character is able to act and react to each situation. As the designer, you hold the character's creative expression in your control. Game Character Animation All in One is a comprehensive guide to the...

Pesticides: A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

Praeger Publishers, 2007

The writing of this book came about through a serendipitous circumstance. I wrote a book dealing with child labor in the United States, published three years earlier, containing a chapter that included a description of the hazards migrant farmworkers and their children face, not the least of which was exposure to pesticides. While mentioning the...

Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology

Transaction Publishers, 2003

The quaint Midwestern town I grew up in seemed to have been plunked down, whole and immutable, in the middle of a vast farmland quilt. From its compact downtown, a vista of unbroken cornfields stretched in every direction, sealed hermetically at the distant horizon by a brilliant azure bowl of a sky. Throughout the summer, the prairie winds hissed...

The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming (Expert's Voice)

Apress, 2004

This book is…one nice and convenient package that I will keep on the shelf as a reference manual.

The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming offers a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux operating system. This book assumes that you know C and have experience developing code on...

Aided Navigation: GPS with High Rate Sensors

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Design Cutting-Edge Aided Navigation Systems for Advanced Commercial & Military Applications

Aided Navigation is a design-oriented textbook and guide to building aided navigation systems for smart cars, precision farming vehicles, smart weapons, unmanned aircraft, mobile robots, and other advanced applications....

Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food

Greenwood Press, 2006

Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion. American kids and grownups love their candy bars, Big Macs and supersized fries, Doritos, Twinkies, and Good Humor ice cream bars. The disastrous health effects from the enormous appetite for these processed fat- and sugar-loaded foods are well publicized now. This was particularly...

Beginning Game Art in 3ds Max 8

Course Technology PTR, 2005

Are you an artist ready to try your hand at 3ds Max 8? Beginning Game Art in 3ds Max 8 gives you the skills you need to hit the ground running, covering the basics of this amazing program. It is filled with step-by-step instructions and sample projects from actual games. Fine-tune your new skills as you learn to build objects, environments, and...

Clutches and Brakes: Design and Selection, Second Edition (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))

CRC Press, 2004

…an indispensable authoritative text by a leading expert in the field….recommended.
-Applied Mechanics Reviews, about the first edition

Written by a leading expert in the field, this reference conveniently gathering numerous formulas, analytical methods, and graphs for the design and selection of a...

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...

Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems: Application in the European Context

Springer, 2012

Showing how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, this book guides the reader through the process of selecting, from among the various approaches for building farming systems, the method of decision-making that will result in the most appropriate outcome, given the context....

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