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Handbook of Nuts: Herbal Reference Library by James A. Duke 9780367397937
RRP: $130.18$112.58Over one hundred of the world's most important species of nuts are systematically accounted for in this informative handbook. The text defines nuts and discusses their economic and nutritional value. For easy reference, there is an illustrated account of... -
Thinking About Biology by Wilfred Stein 9780367320430
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book discusses the emergence of life, the development of the individual, and the study of the interaction between individuals and species. It gives the student of theoretical biology some idea of the flavor of current research in the field.Book... -
Viral Regulatory Structures And Their Degeneracy by Gerald Myers 9780367313845
RRP: $283.50$247.13First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780367313845Author Gerald MyersFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint CRC PressPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 650g -
The Role Of Centrosema, Desmodium, And Stylosanthes In Improving Tropical Pastures by Robert L Burt 9780367311087
RRP: $83.98$73.63This integrated collection describes the importance of forage legumes for pasture development and improvement in the tropics and subtropics. Leading agronomists review the magnitude of the need for pasture improvement; tropical and subtropical soil and... -
The Political Economy Of Agricultural Trade And Policy: Toward A New Order For Europe And North America by Hans J Michelmann 9780367310301
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book presents a descriptive analysis of the political economy of the European Community, the U.S. and Canada. It describes the structural changes and the crises in agriculture and focuses on impact of GATT on agricultural policy and trade in the... -
The Genetics Of Social Evolution by Michael D Breed 9780367307943
RRP: $83.98$73.63The contributor's primary goal in organizing this book was to initiate a synthesis of thought on how genetics structures the behavior of individual animals that live within complex social systems. To do this they have brought together leading theorists... -
Temperature Sensitivity In Insects And Application In Integrated Pest Management by Guy J Hallman 9780367305291
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book focuses on an array of integrated pest management tools (IPM) that exploit extreme temperatures, examining the biological basis for using temperature extremes in controlling insects and presenting practical IPM techniques that rely on... -
Stud Managers' Handbook, Vol. 19 by Frank H Baker 9780367304508
RRP: $83.98$75.73The 1984 International Stockmen's School Handbooks include more than 200 technical papers presented at this year's Stockmen's School, sponsored by Winrock International. The authors of these papers are outstanding animal scientists, agribusiness leaders,... -
The Farm Financial Crisis: Socioeconomic Dimensions And Implications For Producers And Rural Areas by Steve H Murdock 9780367307547
RRP: $83.98$73.63Originally published in 1988. After nearly a decade of prosperity, rural America entered the 1980s with its agricultural base facing a severe financial crisis. Land values, export markets and the general demand for agricultural commodities were... -
Simulation Of Beef Cattle Production Systems And Its Use In Economic Analysis by Thomas H Spreen 9780367302757
RRP: $83.98$73.63Economic analysis of beef cattle production has been limited by the inability to fully describe the underlying production process. Except for confined feeding of cattle, beef cattle production is the process of growing cattle who consume forages. The... -
Sacred Cows And Hot Potatoes: Agrarian Myths And Agricultural Policy by William P. Browne 9780367301989
RRP: $83.98$73.63Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes challenges many of the assumptions of current agricultural policies-such as equating "farm" with "rural," high farm prices with high farm incomes, or farm programs with food programs-and examines the... -
Regional Productivity Growth In China's Agriculture by Shenggen Fan 9780367300951
RRP: $83.98$73.63This study by Shenggen Fan makes three important and original contributions. It is the first study to report regional patterns of productivity growth in Chinese agriculture. There have been dramatic differences in output and productivity growth among... -
Quarantine Treatments For Pests Of Food Plants by Jennifer L Sharp 9780367300364
RRP: $83.98$73.63This volume provides an overview of quarantine treatment for pests of food plants that involve heat, cold, irradiation, fumigants, modified atmospheres, and other techniques alone or in combination. The contributors discuss strategies for eliminating or... -
Postharvest Losses, Technology, And Employment: The Case Of Rice In Bangladesh by Martin Greeley 9780367299439
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book presents a Bangladesh case study of the farm-level postharvest system. There are two main objectives. First, to use measured estimates of food loss to test (and reject) the conventional assumptions: that postharvest farm-level food losses are... -
The Role Of Markets In The World Food Economy by D. Gale Johnson 9780367295646
RRP: $283.50$234.57This book extends the discussion of world food problems by giving explicit recognition to the potential role of markets. The authors highlight the contribution of prices to the solution of food problems in low-income countries, for example, by providing... -
The Role Of Centrosema, Desmodium, And Stylosanthes In Improving Tropical Pastures by Robert L Burt 9780367295622
RRP: $283.50$234.57This integrated collection describes the importance of forage legumes for pasture development and improvement in the tropics and subtropics. Leading agronomists review the magnitude of the need for pasture improvement; tropical and subtropical soil and... -
The Potential Effect Of Two New Biotechnologies On The World Dairy Industry by Lovell S Jarvis 9780367295288
RRP: $283.50$233.73Biotechnology is expected, by many observers, to have a significant impact on the world dairy industry over the next decade. In this timely volume, Lovell Jarvis analyzes the potential effect of two biotechnologies-multiple ovulation and embryo transfers... -
The Public Role In The Dairy Economy: Why And How Governments Intervene In The Milk Business by Alden C Manchester 9780367295400
RRP: $283.50$234.57All over the world, governments play a part in the milk business for compelling economic reasons and not, as many assert, just because dairy farmers are numerous and organized. This book examines the role of federal, state, and local governments in the... -
Pest Management In Transition: With A Regional Focus On The Interior West by Pieter De Jong 9780367298258
RRP: $83.98$73.63This volume examines current pest control strategies, introduces new alternatives for pest control in the interior West, and documents successful integrated pest management programs from across the nation. The contributors include leaders in alternative... -
The Myth Of The Family Farm: Agribusiness Dominance Of U.s. Agriculture by Ingolf Vogeler 9780367294199
RRP: $283.50$234.57The ideal of the family farm has been used to justify a myriad of federal farm legislation. Land grants, the distribution of irrigation water, land-grant college research and services, farm programs, and tax laws all have been affected. Yet, asserts the... -
The Economics Of Livestock Systems In Developing Countries: Farm And Project Level Analysis by James R Simpson 9780367291563
RRP: $283.50$233.73Improvement of the world's livestock industry necessitates input from many directions. Planning by a host of national and international agencies is required in order to provide optimal stimulus in very diverse areas ranging from formulation of laws and... -
Technology Systems For Small/spec Sale O Issues And Options by Abbas M Kesseba 9780367289713
RRP: $283.50$234.57This volume seeks a better understanding of the issues and options involved in the generation and transfer of technology to poor small farmers. It is intended to provide a fresh opportunity to develop guidelines for the future design and implementation... -
Technical Barriers To Agricultural Trade by Jimmye Hillman 9780367289546
RRP: $283.50$234.57Professor Hillman's Technical Barriers to Agricultural Trade is both timely and important. It is timely because the GATT negotiations are proceeding slowly in the agricultural arena partly due to a lack of agreement on technical barriers to agricultural... -
Social Sciences And Farming Systems Research: Methodological Perspectives On Agricultural Development by Jeffrey R Jones 9780367287634
RRP: $283.50$234.57The publication of this book has required the cooperation of many people along the way. From its very conception, the project of bringing together experiences from ongoing Farming Systems Research projects has faced a problem of communication due to the... -
Risky Agricultural Markets: Price Forecasting And The Need For Intervention Policies by Pasquale L Scandizzo 9780367286156
RRP: $283.50$233.73This book shows how decisions made by individual farmers influence the efficiency of agricultural markets. Unless farmers properly take account of the correlation between prices and yields in forming their price forecasts, competitive markets will often... -
Rice In The Tropics: A Guide To Development Of National Programs by Robert F Chandler Jr 9780367286057
RRP: $283.50$234.57Published in 1979. This book the first IADS sponsored volume on a commodity written especially for authorities, nonagricultural as well as agricultural, in developing countries and for the assistance agencies which cooperate with them. There are scores... -
The Ecology And Economic Impact Of Poisonous Plants On Livestock Production by Lynn F James 9780367291471
RRP: $283.50$235.83First published in 1988. Livestock poisoning by plants has been a problem to the livestock producers of the United States since our pioneer forefathers first grazed their herds of cattle and sheep on the vast rangelands and pastures of this country.Book... -
Potatoes: Production, Marketing, And Programs For Developing Countries by Douglas Horton 9780367284008
RRP: $283.50$234.57Although the potato is usually thought of as a temperate-zone crop, potato growing in the tropics and subtropics is spreading rapidly. In terms of the dollar value of the crop, this edible root now ranks fourth in the developing world after rice, wheat,... -
Rhizosphere Dynamics by Luther Hammond 9780367301507
RRP: $83.98$73.63The purpose of this treatise is to explore some of the complexities that the portion of soil profile occupied by the roots. with emphasis on bringing together interests of classical soil biologists and classical soil scientists. The editors view this... -
Plant Diseases Of Viral, Viroid, Mycoplasma And Uncertain Etiology by Karl Maramorosch 9780367283025
RRP: $178.48$148.39The adverse impact of plant diseases is felt around the world. In this book, the contributors analyze the nature and origins of pathogens that affect some economically important food and fiber crops.Book InformationISBN 9780367283025Author Karl... -
Plant Breeding: Theory And Practice by Neal C Stoskopf 9780367283018
RRP: $283.50$233.73This book attempts to present a readable format on plant breeding principles and their application, based on the collective experience of the three authors, but with a heavy dependence on the scientific literature. Modem pedagogy recognizes that teaching... -
The Endless Quest: Helping America's Farm Workers by Philip L Martin 9780367307226
RRP: $83.98$73.63A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and explaining why they are failing to remedy the problems they were designed to solve.Book InformationISBN... -
Functional Affinities of Man, Monkeys, and Apes: A Study of the Bearings of Physiology and Behaviour on the Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Lemurs, Monkeys, Apes, and Man by S. Zuckerman 9780367266073
RRP: $62.98$55.94Originally published in 1933 Functional Affinities of Man, Monkeys and Apes gives a taxonomic and phylogenetic survey and the findings of diverse experimental investigations of lemurs, monkeys, and apes. The book discusses the inter-relationships of... -
Rural Transport Services: A Guide To Their Planning And Execution by Henri L Beenhakker 9780367301880
RRP: $83.98$74.47This book considers the problem of providing maximum access to transport services, and to roads for the rural population of the world's developing countries when limited funds are available. Access is a key factor in both social and economic development... -
Tomatoes In The Tropics by Ruben Villareal 9780367274061
RRP: $283.50$233.73This book, based on travel notes of the author and conversations and correspondence with tomato scientists, attempts to put together in a single volume useful information about tomatoes in the tropics.Book InformationISBN 9780367274061Author Ruben... -
Third International Symposium On Preharvest Sprouting In Cereals by James Kruger 9780367273958
RRP: $283.50$234.57Pre-harvest sprouting of cereals results in large economic losses each year for producers around the world. This volume, an outgrowth of the 1982 symposium held in Winnipeg, Canada, presents scientific research conducted internationally since 1978 and... -
Stud Managers' Handbook, Vol. 18 by Frank H. Baker 9780367289034
RRP: $283.50$235.83The Stud Managers' Handbook includes presentations made at the International Stockmen's School, January 2-6, 1983. The faculty members of the School who authored th is eighteenth volume of the Handbook, along with books on Dairy Cattle, Beef Cattle, and... -
World Food, Pest Losses, And The Environment by David Pimentel 9780367216801
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book focuses on current food shortages and on the impact of pests in reducing world food supplies. At present, total worldwide food losses from pests are estimated to be about 45 percent. Preharvest losses alone, from insects, plant pathogens, and... -
Pheromone Communication In Social Insects: Ants, Wasps, Bees, And Termites by Robert K Vander Meer 9780367282820
RRP: $283.50$234.57Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups,... -
Detecting Mineral Nutrient Deficiencies In Tropical And Temperate Crops by Donald L Plucknett 9780367155261
RRP: $83.98$74.47This book presents information on three diagnostic methods, namely visual deficiency symptoms, soil analyses, and leaf tissue analyses, for mineral nutrient deficiencies, and their integrated use, for managing most of the important tropical and temperate...