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Grass Varieties in the United States

Grass Varieties in the United States

This user-friendly handbook is a working guide to the status of named and experimental grasses available for use in the United States. It provides physical descriptions and status profiles of grass varieties including turf grass varieties. The handbook also contains maps and descriptions of Land Resources Regions and Plant Hardiness Zones that assist in the understanding of plant adaptation areas. Whenever available the information in the handbook includes: | Grass Varieties in the United States

GBP 175.00
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Tapestry Lawns Freed from Grass and Full of Flowers

Tapestry Lawns Freed from Grass and Full of Flowers

Swathes of the human world are covered in ornamental grass lawns; they are the single most commonly encountered horticultural feature on the planet. Unfortunately they are now often viewed as resource-draining green deserts due to the lack of plant and animal diversity the need for frequent mowing and watering and addition of lawn greening products to keep them looking at their best. It is a venerable horticultural feature that is essentially frozen in time and with few alternatives to whet the appetite the lawn has languished in its current grass-only format for decades. Until now. Tapestry lawns are a new practically researched and timely development of the ornamental lawn format that integrates both horticultural practice and ecological science and re-determines the potential of a lawn. Mown barely a handful of times a year and with no need for fertilisers or scarifying tapestry lawns are substantially richer in their diversity of plant and animal life compared to traditional grass-only lawns and see the return of flowers and colour to a format from which they are usually purposefully excluded. Tapestry Lawns: Freed from Grass and Full of Flowers traces the changes in the lawn format from its origins to the modern day and offers information on how and why the tapestry lawn construct is now achievable. It provides guidance on how to create and maintain a tapestry lawn of your own and champions the potential benefits for wildlife that can follow. Features Accessible and informative to all types of readers from academic to amateur Includes a refined and tested set of useful tapestry lawn plants Contains step-by-step instructions for creation and management methods of grass-free lawns Illustrated in full colour If you have ever thought about mowing your lawn much less making it much more colourful and wildlife friendly then this book will inform and guide you to create a perfect grass-free lawn. | Tapestry Lawns Freed from Grass and Full of Flowers

GBP 22.99
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Women in Agriculture Breaking the Grass Ceiling

Women in Agriculture Breaking the Grass Ceiling

The lives of women in rural India cannot be visualized without agriculture and allied activities. As per census 2011 figures four out of five women workers in rural India work as agriculture workers as owner cultivators or as wage workers. This research monograph is about women farmers—women who are engaged primarily in the cultivation of vegetables and fruits and predominantly belong to small and marginal land holdings households. It is the outcome of a baseline survey done in the year 2010-11 in three districts of Uttar Pradesh as part of an action intervention project. Based on the survey findings it discusses the structural and other factors that promote and perpetuate gender inequality and prevent women from realizing their full potential as farmers; presents the struggles positive experiences and practices; explores possible interventions at different levels for different stakeholders; and suggests a framework keeping the women's agency/empowerment at center stage while simultaneously enhancing their wellbeing. | Women in Agriculture Breaking the Grass Ceiling

GBP 130.00
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Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme

Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme

The LEADER programme initiated in 1991 aims to improve the development potential of rural areas in the European Union by drawing on local initiatives and skills. Highlighting this unique policy approach this book presents up-to-date research results on LEADER’s achievements and restrictions at the local level in a comparative way in order to discuss its merits and problems. What makes LEADER important is not only that it has a major role in rural development efforts but also that it has a pioneering role in the new type of governance participatory democracy. Asking whether LEADER strengthens local democracy or not this book also looks at how it affects the power balance among stakeholders between national and local actors and between genders. It questions whether LEADER projects are genuinely grass-root level activities reflecting local needs and ideals; and if the approach brings local know-how back onto the development agenda in innovations and development activities. Finally the authors examine the success of dissemination of knowledge within the LEADER programme to other regions. | Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme

GBP 44.99
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Feedstock-based Bioethanol Fuels. I. Non-Waste Feedstocks Starch Sugar Grass Wood Cellulose Algae and Biosyngas-based Bioethanol Fuels

Feedstock-based Bioethanol Fuels. I. Non-Waste Feedstocks Starch Sugar Grass Wood Cellulose Algae and Biosyngas-based Bioethanol Fuels

This book aims to inform readers about the recent developments in production evaluation and utilization of bioethanol fuels from non-waste feedstocks. It covers the production of bioethanol fuels from first generation starch feedstocks and sugar feedstocks grass biomass wood biomass cellulose biosyngas and third generation algae. In this context there are nine key sections where the first four chapters cover the production of bioethanol fuels from feedstocks at large and non-waste feedstocks. This book shows that pretreatments and hydrolysis of the non-waste feedstocks fermentation of hydrolysates and separation and distillation of bioethanol fuels are the fundamental processes for bioethanol fuel production from these non-waste feedstocks with the exception of the biosyngas feedstocks. This book is a valuable resource for the stakeholders primarily in the research fields of energy and fuels chemical engineering environmental science and engineering biotechnology microbiology chemistry physics mechanical engineering agricultural sciences food science and engineering materials science biochemistry genetics molecular biology plant sciences water resources economics business and management transportation science and technology ecology public environmental and occupational health social sciences toxicology multidisciplinary sciences and humanities among others | Feedstock-based Bioethanol Fuels. I. Non-Waste Feedstocks Starch Sugar Grass Wood Cellulose Algae and Biosyngas-based Bioethanol Fuels

GBP 140.00
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Sustainable Summer Fodder Production Challenges and Prospects

Sustainable Summer Fodder Production Challenges and Prospects

Increasing human population pressure especially in developing countries indicates a massive increase in the consumption of livestock products. Fodder crops are the primary and cheapest source of feed for livestock but feed shortages or poor-quality fodder are particular constraints to the world's livestock sector. These shortages affect milk production adult and calf health calving rates and livestock numbers. Summer crops including cereal legume grass and tree fodder provide an economical source of nutrients suitable for animal health as well as improve their breeding efficiency. Sustainable Summer Fodder: Production Challenges and Prospects presents the unique opportunities and difficulties of supportable cultivation and growth of summer fodder crops and the various methods for enabling crop preservation. It details conventional modern approaches to sustainable production and advanced molecular approaches to develop high-yielding fodder crops. FEATURES Contains information on cultivation growth productivity and protection from pests and diseases of various summer fodder crops Presents approaches to sustainable production summarizes fodder preservation methods; and details molecular approaches to develop high-yielding fodder crops Provides insights into agronomic aspects of cereal legume grass and tree species cultivated as summer fodder worldwide Discusses the trends in insect pests and diseases their field identification and various control methods This book is an essential resource for agronomists horticulturalists livestock farmers and practitioners and students working in the field. | Sustainable Summer Fodder Production Challenges and Prospects

GBP 44.99
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Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production Crop Production Utilization and Climate Change Mitigation

Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production Crop Production Utilization and Climate Change Mitigation

Miscanthus has been enthusiastically promoted as a second generation biomass crop and this book provides a comprehensive review of this knowledge. Miscanthus also known as elephant grass is a high yielding grass crop that grows over three metres tall resembles bamboo and produces a crop every year without the need for replanting or fertiliser application . The rapid growth low mineral content and high biomass yield of Miscanthus increasingly make it a favourite choice as a biofuel outperforming switchgrass and other alternatives. There is over 20 years of research evidence to support its promotion as a second generation biomass crop. The author reviews many field measurements of yields as well as the physiology of the crop and why it is so productive while at the same time requiring low inputs to grow it. It also shows how as a key biofuel crop it can contribute to mitigating climate change and how uptake of the adoption of Miscanthus production can be promoted particularly in Europe and North America. The book will be key reading for students taking courses in the areas of Environmental Science and Engineering Climate Change Impacts Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation. It will also be of interest to researchers of second generation biomass crops and policy developers working in biofuel production and utilization. | Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production Crop Production Utilization and Climate Change Mitigation

GBP 28.99
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Quantum Physics and Life How We Interact with the World Inside and Around Us

Quantum Physics and Life How We Interact with the World Inside and Around Us

This book reveals glimpses of how the quantum physics of atoms and molecules influences and even controls the way our cells function and how we and our fellow animals interact with our environment. Simply put how birds fly and why grass grows. Certainly biochemistry and molecular biology are the foundations for the biology of living cells but there is more—quantum coherence and entanglement influencing the functioning of proteins and enzymes and strictly speaking without the quantum phenomena we wouldn’t even be here. In the end however this book is based on the solid ground of science presenting the many fascinating phenomena of how quantum physics makes life possible without any unwarranted mystification. | Quantum Physics and Life How We Interact with the World Inside and Around Us

GBP 45.99
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Governance in South Asia

Governance in South Asia

This book presents a nuanced analysis of governance in South Asia. It examines a range of themes including civil service reforms women and development environmental governance and public sector programmes together with the impact of globalization on local issues and its influence on governance in the region. Through grass-roots studies the volume also traces how the last 20 years have seen a social and economic resurgence in South Asia – transiting from stages of poverty low growth rates illiteracy and poor health to flourishing economies improved savings greater investments and stronger human development indicators. Drawing on extensive fieldwork this book will be of great interest to scholars of politics and public administration development studies labour studies and sociology and social anthropology. It will also be useful to practitioners in the field NGOs and civil servants.

GBP 46.99
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Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas

Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas

Focusing on the Americas – home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people – this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada and Latin America and the Caribbean offer a panoramic view while tracing nuanced trajectories of top down (official) and bottom up (grass roots) language planning and policy initiatives. Authored by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars the book is organized around seven overarching themes: Policy and Politics; Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization; The Home-School-Community Interface; Local and Global Perspectives; Linguistic Human Rights; Revitalization Programs and Impacts; New Domains for Indigenous Languages Providing a comprehensive hemisphere-wide scholarly and practical source this singular collection simultaneously fills a gap in the language revitalization literature and contributes to Indigenous language revitalization efforts. | Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas

GBP 46.99
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Handbook of Sealant Technology

Handbook of Sealant Technology

Sealing is an age-old problem that dates back to our earliest attempts to create a more comfortable living environment. Prehistoric people used natural sealants such as earth loam grass and reeds to protect the interior of their homes against the weather. Today’s applications extend to a myriad of uses. The Handbook of Sealant Technology provides an in-depth examination of sealants reviewing their historical developments and fundamentals adhesion theories and properties and today’s wide range of applications. Featuring contributions from international academic and industry experts this comprehensive illustrated reference explores:The history of sealants from the Stone Age to the presentThe testing and durability of sealants and sealed jointsThe use of organofunctional silanes in sealant technologyHot melt and intumescent sealantsUrethane waterproofing membrane systemsFoam back-up materialsSealants for use in construction bridge expansion joints and automotive electronicsFibrin sealants for biomedical applicationsAs technology continues to develop the potential for sealant use grows exponentially. This valuable reference guide provides a window on the past and offers insight into the extent of future possibilities in a host of industries.

GBP 44.99
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Building from Tradition Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture

Building from Tradition Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture

Building from Tradition examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary construction. In the past raw materials were shaped to provide shelter and to accommodate the cultural social and economic needs of individuals and communities. This is still true today as architects engineers and builders turn once again to local resources and methods not simply for constructing buildings but also as a strategy for supporting social engagement sustainable development and cultural continuity. Building from Tradition features global case studies that allow readers to understand how building practices—developed and refined by previous generations—continue to be adapted to suit a broad range of cultural and environmental contexts. The book provides: • a survey of historical and technical information about geologic and plant-based materials such as: stone earth reed and grass wood and bamboo; • 24 detailed case studies examining the disadvantages and benefits to using traditional materials and methods and how they are currently being integrated with contemporary construction practices. | Building from Tradition Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture

GBP 46.99
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Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics

Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics

With contributions from leading international scholars this Handbook offers the most rigorous and up-to-date analyses of virtually every aspect of Brazilian politics including inequality environmental politics foreign policy economic policy making social policy and human rights. The Handbook is divided into three major sections: Part 1 focuses on mass behavior while Part 2 moves to representation and Part 3 treats political economy and policy. The Handbook proffers five chapters on mass politics focusing on corruption participation gender race and religion; three chapters on civil society assessing social movements grass-roots participation and lobbying; seven chapters focusing on money and campaigns federalism retrospective voting partisanship ideology the political right and negative partisanship; five chapters on coalitional presidentialism participatory institutions judicial politics and the political character of the bureaucracy and eight chapters on inequality the environment foreign policy economic and industrial policy social programs and human rights. This Handbook is an essential resource for students researchers and all those looking to understand contemporary Brazilian politics. | Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics

GBP 42.99
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The Science of Rugby

The Science of Rugby

Coaches practitioners and medical staff working in the worldwide sport of rugby will frequently apply scientific principles to their programmes to inform the practice performance health well-being and development of their athletes. This book explores the scientific principles underpinning the preparation and management of rugby players in both codes and modified versions of the sport. Applied examples are also provided throughout to understand the practical application of the material in a real-world context. This new edition of The Science of Rugby offers a significant contribution to the field of rugby science that will act as a useful resource to scientists coaches practitioners and students interested in rugby. New chapters and key topics include: Physical and psychological preparation for rugby Planning and monitoring of training Managing fatigue recovery and nutrition Effects of different environmental conditions and travel on performance The mechanics of rugby techniques and injury Young players and talent identification Considerations for training the female rugby player Modified rugby including rugby sevens touch tag and wheelchair rugby No other book bridges the gap between theory and applied practice in rugby from grass roots to elite international standard and therefore this is essential reading for any student researcher sport scientist coach physiotherapist or clinician with an interest in the game.

GBP 44.99
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The Routledge History of Human Rights

The Routledge History of Human Rights

The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human rights themes of the past 150 years. The volume is made up of 34 original contributions. It opens with the emergence of a new internationalism in the mid-nineteenth century examines the interwar League of Nations and the United Nations eras of human rights and decolonization and ends with the serious challenges for rights norms laws institutions and multilateral cooperation in the national security world after 9/11. These essays provide a big picture of the strategic political and changing nature of human rights work in the past and into the present day and reveal the contingent nature of historical developments. Highlighting local national and non-Western voices and struggles the volume contributes to overcoming Eurocentric biases that burden human rights histories and studies of international law. It analyzes regions and organizations that are often overlooked. The volume thus offers readers a new and broader perspective on the subject. International in coverage and containing cutting-edge interpretations the volume provides an overview of major themes and suggestions for future research. This is the perfect book for those interested in social justice grass roots activism and international politics and society.

GBP 42.99
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Urban Drainage and Storage Practices

Urban Drainage and Storage Practices

Urban Drainage and Storage Practices focuses on the latest developments in urban stormwater design methods using drainage and storage approaches for both water quality and quantity control. It covers both the conventional approaches to flood mitigation and low-impact methods for stormwater quality enhancement. Theory practice and modeling methods are presented to illustrate how to build a holistic stormwater drainage and storage system using urban open space and parks through multiple land use. Each chapter provides background theory numerical experiments illustrations and Excel spreadsheets that outline design and calculation procedures. All urban watersheds are modeled as a series of cascading planes to drain stormwater from upstream roofs and parking lots onto downstream grass areas and vegetal beds. The drainage system is designed as a three-layer cascading system with various low-impact units for micro events conveyance elements for minor events and storage facilities for macro events. This book: presents the theory and practice of designing and building a stormwater system explains green approaches to designing and managing urban stormwater systems. This text is ideal for senior and graduate students studying urban hydrology hydraulic engineering and water resource management. It will also be useful for engineers requiring a technical book with hands-on practical examples.

GBP 130.00
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Leading the Way to Heaven Pastoral Care and Salvation in the Carolingian Period

Leading the Way to Heaven Pastoral Care and Salvation in the Carolingian Period

Starting from manuscripts compiled for local priests in the Carolingian period this book investigates the way in which pastoral care took shape at the local levels of society. They show what illiterate lay people learned about their religion but also what priests themselves knew. The Carolingian royal dynasty which ruled over much of Europe in the eighth and ninth century is well-known for its success in war patronage of learning and its ambitious style of rulership. A central theme in their plans for the future of their kingdom was to ensure God's everlasting support and to make sure that all inhabitants – down to the last illiterate farmer – reached eternal life in heaven. This book shows how the ideal of leading everybody to salvation was a central element of Carolingian culture. The grass-roots approach shows how early medieval religion was anything but uniform how it encompassed all spheres of daily life and how well-educated local priests did not only know how to baptise and preach but could also advise on matters concerning health legal procedure and even the future. This volume is of great use to upper-level undergraduates postgraduates and scholars interested in the ecclesiastical history of Europe in the Carolingian period. | Leading the Way to Heaven Pastoral Care and Salvation in the Carolingian Period

GBP 35.99
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Gender Governance and Empowerment in India

Gender Governance and Empowerment in India

Since the mid-1980s the presence of women in governance has become a major marker of successful democracy in global and national discourses on the democratization of society. A diverse set of nation-states have legislatively mandated gender quotas to ensure the presence of elected women representatives (EWRs) in various rungs of governance. Since 1993 the Indian state has legislated a massive program of democratization and decentralization. As a result more than 1. 5 million EWRs have taken office within the lower rungs of governance or the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI). This book is an ethnography of the Indian state and its policy of legislated entry of women into political life. It argues that political participation of women is necessary to change the political practices in society to make institutions more gender class and caste representative and to empower individual women to negotiate both formal and informal institutions. Its locus is the everyday life contexts of EWRs in the southern Indian state of Karnataka who negotiate their own meanings of politics state society empowerment and political subjectivity. Analysing three factors – structural boundaries sociocultural divisions and conjunctural limitations imposed on the participation of EWRs by political parties – the book demonstrates that the social embeddedness of PRIs within everyday practices and social relations of identity and power severely constrain and shape the political participation and empowerment of EWRs. Providing a valuable insight into contemporary state and feminist praxis in India this book will be of interest to scholars of grass-roots democracy gender studies and Asian politics. | Gender Governance and Empowerment in India

GBP 38.99
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Environmental Management of Marine Ecosystems

Environmental Management of Marine Ecosystems

Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) is one of the most holistic approaches to protecting marine and coastal ecosystems as it recognizes the need to protect entire marine ecosystems instead of individual species. After decades of pollution habitat degradation and overfishing now climate change and ocean acidification threaten the health of the ocean in unprecedented way. Environmental Management of Marine Ecosystems illustrates the current status trends and effects of climate natural disturbances and anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems. It demonstrates how to integrate different management tools and models in an up-to-date multidisciplinary approach to environmental management. This indispensable guide provides several case studies from around the world and creates a framework for identifying management tools and their applications in coral reefs fisheries migratory species marine islands and associated ecosystems such as mangroves and sea grass beds. It discusses the physical and chemical compositions of marine ecosystems along with the threats and actions needed to protect them. The application of model framework to several contemporary management issues include the modelling of harmful algal bloom dynamics understanding the dispersal of sea lice and the possible impacts on intertidal communities of the provision of novel offshore habitat. The results of extensive research by an international team of contributors the Environmental Management of Marine Ecosystems is designed to inform scientists practitioners academics government and non-government policymakers on the particularities of marine ecosystems and assist them in understanding the EBM approaches in means of mitigation and adaptation of human activities that result in sustainability. These practices will help change the current methodologies used for resource assessment and the future regulations of marine resources.

GBP 44.99
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Ritual and Music of North China Volume 2: Shaanbei

Ritual and Music of North China Volume 2: Shaanbei

This second volume of Stephen Jones' work on ritual and musical life in north China again with accompanying downloadable resources gives an impression of music-making in daily life in the poor mountainous region of Shaanbei northwest China. It conveys some of the diverse musical activities there around 2000 from the barrage of pop music blaring from speakers in the bustling county-towns to the life-cycle and calendrical ceremonies of poor mountain villages. Based on the practice of grass-roots music-making in daily life not merely on official images the main theme is the painful maintenance of ritual and its music under Maoism its revival with the market reforms of the 1980s and its modification under the assaults of TV pop music and migration since the 1990s. The text is in four parts. Part One gives background to the area and music-making in society. Parts Two and Three discuss the lives of bards and shawm bands respectively describing modifications in their ceremonial activities through the twentieth century. Part Four acclimatizes us to the modern world with glimpses of various types of musical life in Yulin city the regional capital illustrating the contrast with the surrounding countryside. The 44-minute downloadable resources with its informative commentary is intended both to illuminate the text and to stand on its own. It shows bards performing at a temple fair and to bless a family in distress and shawm bands performing at a wedding at funerals and a shop opening - including their pop repertory with the 'big band'. Also featuring as part of these events are opera troupes geomancers and performing beggars; by contrast the film shows a glimpse of the official image of Shaanbei culture as presented by a state ensemble in the regional capital. The publication will appeal to ethnomusicologists anthropologists and all those interested in modern Chinese history and society. | Ritual and Music of North China Volume 2: Shaanbei

GBP 44.99
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