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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi For Nutrient Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Rice

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi For Nutrient Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Rice

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are considered enormously important in contemporary agriculture and horticulture due to their important role in nutrient biotic and abiotic stress management apart from enhancing plant health and soil fertility. AMF is one of the important fungi for soil aggregation which helps in drought management. Hence this book brings out an exclusive text on AMF for sustainable rice production. It provides comprehensive up-to-date knowledge on AMF in rice cultivation and for sustainable rice production in different ecologies without damaging the environment. Salient Features: 1. Covers all the aspects of AMF in rice cultivation from diversity to applications 2. Documents AMF diversity based on metagenomic approach in rice ecosystems 3. Explains the importance of AMF in soil aggregation which helps in drought management 4. Provides new unraveling knowledge about AMF for sustainable rice production in different ecologies without damaging the environment 5. Discusses the AMF role in induction of resistance in rice plants against some pests. | Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi For Nutrient Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Rice

GBP 110.00
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Rice Agriculture and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan

Rice Agriculture and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan

The majority of studies on the agricultural history of Japan have focused on the public administration of land and production and rice the principal source of revenue has received the most attention. However while this cereal has clearly played a decisive role in the public economy of the Japanese State it has not had a predominant place in agricultural production. Far from confining its scope to a study of rice growing for tax purposes this volume looks at the subsistence economy in the plant kingdom as a whole. This book examines the history of agriculture in premodern Japan from the 8th to the 17th century dealing with the history of agricultural techniques and food supply of rice wheat millet and other grains. Drawing extensively on material from history literature archaeology ethnography and botany it analyses each of the farming operations from sowing to harvesting and the customs pertaining to consumption. It also challenges the widespread theory that rice cultivation has been the basis of Japaneseness for two millennia and the foundation of Japanese civilization by focusing on the biodiversity and polycultural traditions of Japan. Further it will play a role in the current dialogue on the future of sustainable agricultural production from the viewpoints of ecology biodiversity dietary culture and food security throughout the world as traditional techniques such as crop rotation are explored in connection with the safeguarding of the minerals in the soil. Surveying agricultural techniques across the centuries and highlighting the dietary diversity of Japan this book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese history the history of science and technology medieval history cultural anthropology and agriculture. | Rice Agriculture and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan

GBP 44.99
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Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure Development And Dependency 1895-1945

Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure Development And Dependency 1895-1945

Exploring the dynamics of development and dependency this book traces the experience of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Chih-ming Ka shows how unlike in other sugar-producing colonies Taiwan was able to sustain its indigenous family farms and small-scale rice millers who not only survived but thrived in competition with Japanese sugar capi | Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan Land Tenure Development And Dependency 1895-1945

GBP 130.00
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Freud's Russia National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis

Freud's Russia National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis

Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian national character and culture is examined in James Rice's imaginative combination of history literary analysis and psychoanalysis. 'Freud's Russia' opens up the neglected Eastern Front of Freud's world-the Russian roots of his parents colleagues and patients. He reveals that the psychoanalyst was vitally concerned with the events in Russian history and its nineteenth-century cultural greats. Rice explores how this intense interest contributed to the evolution of psychoanalysis at every critical stage. Freud's mentor Charcot was a physician to the Tsar; his best friends in Paris were gifted Russian doctors; and some of his most valued colleagues (Max Eitingon Moshe Wulff Sabina Spielrein and Lou Andreas-Salome) were also from Russia. These acquaintances intrigued Freud and precipitated his inquiry into the Russian psyche. Rice shows how Freud's major works incorporate elements overtly and covertly from his Russia. He describes Freud's most famous case the Wolf-Man (Sergei Pankeev) and traces how his personality fused in Freud's imagination with that of Feodor Dostoevsky. Beyond this Rice reveals the remarkable influence Dostoevsky had on Freud surveying Freud's extensive library holdings and sources of biographical information on the Russian novelist. Initially inspired by the Freud-Jung letters that appeared in 1974 'Freud's Russia' breaks new ground. Its fresh perspective will be of significant interest to psychoanalysts historians of European culture biographers of Freud and students of Dostoevsky in comparative literature. It is a major work in fusing European intellectual history with the founding father of psychoanalysis. | Freud's Russia National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis

GBP 42.99
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Fungi Applications and Management Strategies

Fungi Applications and Management Strategies

The book deals with the application of fungi and the strategic management of some plant pathogens. It covers fungal bioactive metabolites with emphasis on those secondary metabolites that are produced by various endophytes their pharmaceutical and agricultural uses regulation of the metabolites mycotoxins nutritional value of mushrooms prospecting of thermophilic and wood-rotting fungi and fungi as myconano factories. Strategies for the management of some plant pathogenic fungi of rice and soybean have also been dealt with. Updated information for all these aspects has been presented and discussed in different chapters. | Fungi Applications and Management Strategies

GBP 44.99
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Understanding Customers

Understanding Customers

This fully updated second edition of Understanding Customers is a recommended textbook for the Understanding Customers Certificate CIM paper. It is divided into six parts covering the social sciences people as individuals people in groups people in society and people in organisations. Each chapter of Understanding Customers consists of: learning objectives and definitions the theoretical background exercises issues to consider current examples implications for marketing recent examination questions. Chris Rice isSenior Lecturer in the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University. He is a CIM examiner on the Understanding Customers paper and has widespread consultancy experience in both the private and public sector.

GBP 175.00
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Capitalism and Agrarian Change Class Production and Reproduction in Indonesia

Capitalism and Agrarian Change Class Production and Reproduction in Indonesia

Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class (‘the peasantry’) to be pitted against the state or corporation. This book challenges this rather idealistic view by demonstrating that under current capitalist social relations (competition efficiency and productivity and profit maximisation) these agricultural producers have been differentiated into different agrarian classes by exploitation. By comparing two different contexts of local agrarian change in Indonesia—rice cultivation in Java and oil palm in Sumatra—this book exposes the different class locations of the agrarian classes among petty agricultural producers and the class relations between them. These are often inextricably linked to gender clanship and generational issues. The power of class dynamics crucially shapes how agricultural production in both rice and oil palm is organised. The share received by different agrarian classes from the production site then prominently shapes the different nature of class reproduction for each agrarian class. This analysis demonstrates that the different agrarian classes possess different capacities and responses in their relation to the state or corporations. Any real emancipation attempt in the Indonesian countryside (and beyond) must start from a proper understanding of these class dynamics. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on agrarian change the political economy of development rural development and Marxist political economy. | Capitalism and Agrarian Change Class Production and Reproduction in Indonesia

GBP 120.00
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Phytopathogenic Bacteria and Plant Diseases

Phytopathogenic Bacteria and Plant Diseases

The field of Phytobacteriology is rapidly advancing and changing because of recent advances in genomics and molecular plant pathology but also due to the global spread of bacterial plant diseases and the emergence of new bacterial diseases. So there is a need to integrate understanding of bacterial taxonomy genomics and basic plant pathology that reflects state-of-the-art knowledge about plant-disease mechanisms. This book describes seventy specific bacterial plant diseases and presents up-to-date classification of plant pathogenic bacteria. It would be of great help for scientists and researchers in conducting research on ongoing projects or formulation of new research projects. The book will also serve as a text book for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of disciplines of Phytobacteriology and Plant Pathology. Contains latest and updated information of plant pathogenic bacteria till December 2018 Describes seventy specific bacterial diseases Presents classification of the bacteria and associated nomenclature based on Bergey’s Manual Systematic Bacteriology and International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Discusses practical and thoroughly tested disease management strategies that would help in controlling enormous losses caused by these plant diseases Reviews role of Type I-VI secretion systems and peptide- or protein-containing toxins produced by bacterial plant pathogens Briefs about plants and plant products that act as carriers of human enteric bacterial pathogens like emphasizing role of seed sprouts as a common vehicle in causing food-borne illness Dr B. S. Thind was ex-Professor-cum-Head Department of Plant Pathology Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana India. He has 34 years of experience in teaching research and transfer of technology. He has conducted research investigations on bacterial blight of rice bacterial stalk rot of maize bacterial blight of cowpea bacterial leaf spot of green gram bacterial leaf spot of chillies and bacterial soft rot of potatoes. He also acted as Principal Investigator of two ICAR-funded research schemes entitled Detection and control of phytopathogenic bacteria from cowpea and mungbean seeds from 1981 to 1986 and Perpetuation variability and control of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae the causal agent of bacterial blight of rice from 1989 to 1993 and also of a DST funded research scheme Biological control of bacterial blight sheath blight sheath rot and brown leaf spot of rice from 1999 to 2002. He also authored a manual entitled Plant Bacteriology and a text book entitled Phytopathogenic Procaryotes and Plant Diseases published by Scientific Publishers (India). He is Life member of Indian Phytopathological Society Indian Society of Plant Pathologists Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology and Indian Science Congress Association. | Phytopathogenic Bacteria and Plant Diseases

GBP 160.00
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Hitting Pause 65 Lecture Breaks to Refresh and Reinforce Learning

Hitting Pause 65 Lecture Breaks to Refresh and Reinforce Learning

Pauses constitute a simple technique for enlivening and enhancing the effectiveness of lectures or indeed of any form of instruction whether a presentation or in an experiential setting. This book presents the evidence and rationale for breaking up lectures into shorter segments by using pauses to focus attention reinforce key points and review learning. It also provides 65 adaptable pause ideas to use at the opening of class mid-way through or as closers. Starting with brain science research on attention span and cognitive load Rice bases her book on two fundamental principles: shorter segments of instruction are better than longer ones and learners who actively participate in instruction learn better than those who don’t. Pausing helps teachers apply these principles and create student engagement without requiring major changes in their lesson plans. With careful planning they can integrate pauses into learning sessions with ease and significantly reinforce student learning. They will also gain feedback on students’ comprehension. Rice sets out the characteristics of good pauses gives advice on how to plan them and how to introduce them to maximum effect. She provides compelling examples and concludes with a repertory of pauses readers can easily modify and apply to any discipline. This book contains a compendium of strategies that any teacher can fruitfully use to reinforce learning as well as a stepping stone to those seeking to transition to more active learning methods. It:• Makes the case for using pauses• Identifies the primary functions of pauses: focusing refocusing enhancing retention or closing off the learning experience • Provides research evidence from cognitive science and educational psychology• Provides practical guidance for creating quick active learning breaks• Distinguishes between starting middle and closing pauses • Includes descriptions with suggested applications of 65 pauses | Hitting Pause 65 Lecture Breaks to Refresh and Reinforce Learning

GBP 31.99
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The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China

The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China

This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emperors. Furthermore this book analyzes the genre’s imagery as well as the poems in their historical context and explains how the paintings contributed to distinctively cosmopolitan Qing imagery that also drew upon European visual styles. Roslyn Lee Hammers contends that technologically-informed imagery was not merely didactic imagery to teach viewers how to grow rice or produce silk. The Qing emperors invested in paintings of labor to substantiate the permanence of the dynasty and to promote the well-being of the people under Manchu governance. The book includes English translations of the poems of the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving as well as other documents that have not been brought together in translation. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history Chinese history Chinese studies history of science and technology book history labor history and Qing history. | The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China

GBP 38.99
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Biological Anthropology and Prehistory Exploring Our Human Ancestry

Biological Anthropology and Prehistory Exploring Our Human Ancestry

Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology this superbly illustrated new text offers the most balanced and up-to-date introduction to our human past. Devoting equal time to biological anthropology and prehistory this text exposes students to the many sides of major controversial issues involving students in the scientific thought process by allowing them to draw their own conclusions. Amidst discussions of bones and artifacts the text maintains a focus on people demonstrating to students how biological anthropology and archaeology apply to their lives today. Featuring the latest research and findings pulled from the original sources this new text is far and away the most up-to-date text available. In addition the superior art program features hundreds of photographs and figures and the multimedia presentation options include documentary film clips and lecture launcher videos. Pat Rice a recipient of AAA‘s Outstanding Teacher Award and past-president of the General Anthropology Division of AAA and Norah Moloney an experienced professor and active archaeologist present the material in a clear refreshing and straightforward writing style. | Biological Anthropology and Prehistory Exploring Our Human Ancestry

GBP 175.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling

The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling

The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling reflecting on key themes and charting current and future trends. Divided into six parts and spanning over 30 chapters the volume covers themes such as mobility borders violent conflict and state politics as well as looks at the smuggling of specific goods – from rice and gasoline to wildlife weapons and cocaine. Chapters engage with some of the most contentious academic and policy debates of the twenty-first century including the historical creation of borders re-bordering the criminalisation of migration and the politics of selective toleration of smuggling. As it maps a field that contains unique methodological ethical and risk-related challenges the book takes stock not only of the state of our shared knowledge but also reflects on how this has been produced pointing to blind spots and providing an informed vision of the future of the field. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from around the world The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of conflict studies borderland studies criminology political science global development anthropology sociology and geography.

GBP 42.99
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CRISPR/Cas-Mediated Genome Editing in Plants

CRISPR/Cas-Mediated Genome Editing in Plants

With over 820 million people facing hunger in today’s world the need of the hour is the design of plant varieties with high yield improved traits and resistance properties in order to mitigate the detrimental impacts of biotic and abiotic stress conditions on food crops. This volume highlights the use of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated nuclease proteins as a solution for sustainable agriculture. CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing (GE) provides a robust simple precise efficient economical and revolutionary toolbox that leads to improved plant traits with enhanced yield quality and resistance against various stresses including climate-related stress insect pests and diseases pollution-related stresses etc. Key features of the book: Explains the differences between conventional breeding genetically modified crops and genome editing approaches using CRISPR/Cas Introduces the tools of genome editing such as ZFNS (zinc finger nucleases) mega nucleases and TLENS (transcription activator-like effector nucleases) Covers the history origin discovery structure and classification of CRISPR/Cas Examines the databases and computational approaches of CRISPR/Cas Highlights genome editing of important crop plants with CRISPR/Cas systems including wheat maize. tomato Brassica crops rice fruits Explores potential applications of CRISPR/Cas systems for climate smart crops | CRISPR/Cas-Mediated Genome Editing in Plants

GBP 147.00
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Polarimetric SAR Imaging Theory and Applications

Polarimetric SAR Imaging Theory and Applications

Radar polarimetry has been highly sought after for its use in the precise monitoring of Earth's surface. Polarimetric SAR Imaging explains the basic concepts of polarimetry and its diverse applications including: deforestation tree classification landslide detection tsunamis volcano eruptions and ash distribution snow accumulation rice field monitoring urban area exploration ship detection among other applications. The explanations use actual data sets taken by Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS and ALOS2). With the increasing problems presented by climate change there is a growing need for detailed earth observation using polarimetric data. As the treatment of vector nature of radar waves is complex there is a gap between the theory and the application. Polarimetric SAR Imaging: Theory and Applications addresses and fills this gap. Features: Provides cutting-edge polarimetric applications for earth observation with full color images. Includes detailed descriptions of theory equations expansions and flowcharts and numerous real examples. Explains concepts data analysis and applications in simple and clear language aimed at an intuitive comprehension. Provides specific and unique examples of PolSAR images derived from actual space and airborne systems (ALOS/ALOS2 PiSAR-x/L) Covers the wide range of the radar polarimetry especially the decomposition of the polarimetry data an original method developed by the author using the Japanese polarimetric SAR data Illustrated in full color using images generated by polarimetric techniques this book is easy to understand and use for both student and expert and is an excellent resource both in the classroom and in the field. | Polarimetric SAR Imaging Theory and Applications

GBP 49.99
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East Asia and Food (In)Security

East Asia and Food (In)Security

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation. It also looks at how the perception of food insecurity has increasingly influenced the nature of international interactions not just within East Asia but also in the region’s relations with major external actors. Many of the challenges facing East Asia are generic food security issues that face people and governments across the world – for example the implications of climate change and demographic changes on food supplies. This book places the East Asian context in the wider discussion of food (in)security in global politics. However it also identifies potential regional ‘differences’ – for example the significance of rice for the region and the unavoidable impact of China as a major regional player. What the Chinese state and Chinese companies decide to do in response to concerns about food insecurity have an impact not just on the rest of the region but on the rest of the world. Taking too much of a Sinocentric focus however ignores other actors in East Asia or merely relegates discussion to how they respond to Chinese policies or external strategies. This book considers the region as a whole both when it comes to thinking about food security challenges and responses within the region itself and also in the outward projection of regional food insecurity on the rest of the world. This book was published as a special issue of The Pacific Review. | East Asia and Food (In)Security

GBP 31.99
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Mineral Admixtures in Cement and Concrete

Mineral Admixtures in Cement and Concrete

Written to meet the requirements of engineers working in construction and concrete manufacturing Mineral Admixtures in Cement and Concrete focuses on how to make more workable and durable concrete using mineral admixtures. In particular it covers pulverized fuel ash (PFA) blast furnace slag (BFS) silica fume (SF) rice husk ash (RHA) and metakaolin (MK) as well as some new admixtures currently under investigation. For each mineral admixture the book looks at manufacturing and processing physical characteristics chemical and mineralogical composition quality control and reported experiences. It also examines the provisions of national standards on the admixture’s addition to cement and concrete. References to microstructures and chemistry are kept to a minimum and only discussed to the extent necessary to help readers apply the admixtures in practice. The book also addresses hydration presenting the relevant chemistry and detailing the impact of adding mineral admixtures to concrete. A chapter on strength and durability explains the mechanisms models and standards related to concrete deterioration and how to mitigate carbonation alkali-aggregate reactions chloride attack and corrosion of reinforcement external and internal sulphate attack decalcification and freeze-thaw action. This book is a useful reference for practicing engineers and students alike. It brings together in one volume information on the materials hydration and the strength and durability of cement and concrete with mineral admixtures. Offering a deeper understanding of mineral admixtures it encourages engineers to more effectively use these and other wastes in cement and concrete to support more sustainable growth of the cement and construction industry.

GBP 77.99
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OMICS Applications in Crop Science

OMICS Applications in Crop Science

Merging topical data from recently published review and research articles as well as the knowledge and insight of industry experts Omics Applications in Crop Science delves into plant science and various technologies that use omics in agriculture. This book concentrates on crop breeding and environmental applications and examines the applications of various omics technologies including genomics transcriptomics proteomics metabolomics to important agronomic horticultural medicinal plantation fiber forage and bioenergy crops. It covers the application of omics technologies in several important crops including cereal and pulse. It explores the brassica species drought tolerance in rice and genetic engineering of the potato. The book discusses temperate fruits; and omics of medicinal plants the metabolomics of Catharanthus roseus and how the medicinally important alkaloids of the plant are produced as well as the omics of another important medicinal plant Withania somnifera. It examines floriculture the omics advances in tea and omics strategies in improving the fiber qualities of cotton. It provides omics-related information on forest trees and forage crops and offers a detailed account on how omics technologies are applicable in molecular farming along with associated issues such as commercial aspects of molecular farming clinical trials of plant-produced pharmaceuticals regulatory issues and intellectual property rights. Written as a resource for plant biologists plant breeders agriculture scientists researchers and college students studying various fields in agriculture and the agri industries OMICS Applications in Crop Science compiles the latest research in this essential field of modern crop and plant science utilizing various omics technologies and their applications in a number of important crops/plants from agronomy pomology olericulture floriculture medicinal plants plantation and energy crops agro-forestry and more.

GBP 89.99
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Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding Meeting the Challenge of Food Security

Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding Meeting the Challenge of Food Security

This new volume Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding: Meeting the Challenge of Food Security aims to provide a better understanding of molecular plant breeding in order to boost the quality of agriculture produce to increase crop yields and to provide nutritious food for everyone by 2050 when the global population is expected to reach a new height of about 10 billion. The challenge to provide quality food for such an increased population will be exacerbated by the depletion of natural resources and by shrinking arable land areas. However scientists believe the challenge can be met by implementing new and improved techniques of quantitative trait inheritance in plant breeding. Integrating genomics and molecular biology into appropriate tools and methodologies can help to create genetically engineered plants such as by using biotic and abiotic stress tolerance molecular markers ‘-omics’ technology and genome editing. The milestone of whole genome sequencing from Arabidopsis to rice has opened the door to a new era of functional genomics which aims to determine the functions of all the genes identified in their genomes which will help in the improvement of crop species qualitatively and quantitatively in order to meet the ongoing challenges of doubling world food production by 2050. This important volume provides recent knowledge of advanced plant breeding tools researchers teachers graduate and post-graduate students in plant sciences and those in plant biotechnology applied botany agricultural sciences plant genetics and molecular biology. The contributors to this book were selected from a wide and diverse range of institutions. They provide an abundance of new research and knowledge on advanced plant breeding tools and techniques. | Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding Meeting the Challenge of Food Security

GBP 82.99
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Precision Agriculture for Sustainability and Environmental Protection

Precision Agriculture for Sustainability and Environmental Protection

Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a non-specialist audience to the the role of PA in food security environmental protection and sustainable use of natural resources as well as its economic benefits. The technologies covered include yield monitors and remote sensing and the key agronomic principles addressed are the optimal delivery of fertilizers water and pesticides to crops only when and where these are required. As a result it is shown that both food production and resource efficiency can be maximized without waste or damage to the environment such as can occur from excessive fertilizer or pesticide applications. The authors of necessity describe some technicalities about PA but the overall aim is to introduce readers who are unfamiliar with PA to this very broad subject and to demonstrate the potential impact of PA on the environment and economy. The book shows how farmers can place sustainability of the environment at the centre of their operations and that this is improved with the application of PA. The range of topics described includes sampling and mapping weed and pest control proximal and remote sensing spatio-temporal analysis for improving management management zones and water management. These are illustrated with case studies on sampling and mapping biofuels from sugar cane and maize paddy rice cultivation and cotton production. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. tandfebooks. com/page/openaccess It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. | Precision Agriculture for Sustainability and Environmental Protection

GBP 39.99
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Microbiome-Host Interactions

Microbiome-Host Interactions

Microbiota are a promising and fascinating subject in biology because they integrate the microbial communities in humans animals plants and the environment. In humans microbiota are associated with the gut skin and genital oral and respiratory organs. The plant microbial community is referred to as holobiont and it is influential in the maintenance and health of plants which themselves play a role in animal health and the environment. The contents of Microbiome-Host Interactions cover all areas as well as new research trends in the fields of plant animal human and environmental microbiome interactions. The book covers microbiota in polar soil environments in health and disease in Caenorhabditis elegans and in agroecosystems as well as in rice root and actinorhizal root nodules speleothems and marine shallow-water hydrothermal vents. Moreover this book provides comprehensive accounts of advanced next-generation DNA sequencing metagenomic techniques high-throughput 16S rRNA sequencing and understanding nucleic acid sequence data from fungal algal viral bacterial cyanobacterial actinobacterial and archaeal communities using QIIME software (Quantitative Insights into Microbial Ecology). FEATURES Summarizes recent insight in microbiota and host interactions in distinct habitats including Antarctic hydrothermal vents speleothems oral skin gut feces reproductive tract soil root root nodules forests and mangroves Illustrates the high-throughput amplicon sequencing computational techniques involved in the microbiota analysis downstream analysis and visualization and multivariate analysis commonly used for microbiome analysis Describes probiotics and prebiotics in the composition of the gut microbiota skin microbiome impact in dermatologic disease prevention and microbial communities in the reproductive tract of humans and animals Presents information in a reachable way for students teachers researchers microbiologists computational biologists and other professionals who are interested in strengthening or enlarging their knowledge about microbiome analysis with next-generation DNA sequencing in the different branches of the sciences

GBP 180.00
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True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases and one which has significant environmental impacts is not serving the world adequately. This volume argues that True Cost Accounting in our food system can create a framework for a systemic shift. What sounds on the surface like a practice relegated to accountants is ultimately a call for a new lens on the valuation of food and a new relationship with the food we eat starting with the reform of a system out of balance. From the true cost of corn rice and water to incentives for soil health the chapters economically compare conventional and regenerative more equitable farming practices in and food system structures including taking an unflinching look at the true cost of cheap labour. Overall this volume points towards the potential for our food system to be more human-centred than profit-centred and one that has a more respectful relationship to the planet. It sets forth a path forward based on True Cost Accounting for food. This path seeks to fix our current food metrics in policy and in practice by applying a holistic lens that evaluates the actual costs and benefits of different food systems and the impacts and dependencies between natural systems human systems agriculture and food systems. This volume is essential reading for professionals and policymakers involved in developing and reforming the food system as well as students and scholars working on food policy food systems and sustainability. | True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

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Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

For nearly half a century social scientists have made claims that there is a therapeutic ethos with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society. In Therapeutic Culture twelve authors address the implications of this ethos and its effects on a wide range of social institutions extending from the family to schools and operating in religious behavior and within the legal system. Has there been as the sociological theorist Philip Rieff argued in 1966 a triumph of the therapeutic? If so in what kinds of institutions has it been most pervasive? At the same time what aspects of modern culture has it replaced or defeated? Therapeutic Culture addresses these questions and raises others. Part 1 of this volume examines the emergence of the idea of authenticity as it defines the manipulation of emotions and behavior both in the United States and Great Britain. Contributors include Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Frank Furedi Jonathan B. Imber and Alan Woolfolk. Part 2 illustrates specific cases of the effects of therapeutic culture within institutions including courts schools religious communities and the virtual community of the Internet. Contributors include James L. Nolan Jr. John Steadman Rice Felicia Wu Song and James Tucker. Part 3 extends the analyses of specific social institutions to the broader consequences that have resulted as a therapeutic ethos has taken root in contemporary life. Contributors include Digby Anderson Ellen Herman and James Davison Hunter. Part 4 is devoted to a previously unpublished essay by Philip Rieff whose significant influence can be seen in many of the contributions. Rieff revisits the highly controversial confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991 and offers ample evidence of the therapeutic uses of politics as well as the political manipulations available within a therapeutic culture to provide a fitting conclusion. This volume establishes a benchmark for further theoretical reflection and empirical research on the nature of therapeutic culture. It will be of interest to sociologists psychologists political scientists and cultural studies specialists. | Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

GBP 130.00
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