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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...

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....

Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 1: Diversity, Production, and Crop Improvement (Innovations in Horticultural Science)

Apple Academic Press, 2018

Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 1: Diversity, Production, and Crop Improvements is part of a two-volume compendium that addresses the most important topics facing horticulture around the world today.

Volume 1, on Diversity, Production, and Crop Improvement, outlines the contemporary trends in sustainable...

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...

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...

Beet-Sugar Handbook

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

The first all-in-one reference for the beet-sugar industry

Beet-Sugar Handbook is a practical and concise reference for technologists, chemists, farmers, and research personnel involved with the beet-sugar industry. It covers:
* Basics of beet-sugar technology
* Sugarbeet farming
* Sugarbeet...

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...

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...

Soft Computing for Business Intelligence (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2013

The book Soft Computing for Business Intelligence is the remarkable output of a program based on the idea of joint trans-disciplinary research as supported by the Eureka Iberoamerica Network and the University of Oldenburg.

It contains twenty-seven papers allocated to three sections: Soft Computing, Business...

The Western European Loess Belt: Agrarian History, 5300 BC - AD 1000

Springer, 2009

Many books on the agrarian history ofWestern Europe begin with the Middle Ages, which is quite understandable, because they are mostly based on written sources. But everybody who is interested in agriculture knows that agriculture started much earlier and also that information on that millennia-long period is provided by archaeology. Admittedly,...

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