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Science Communication Skills for Journalists: A Resource Book for Universities in Africa by Charles Wendo
RRP: £51.60Booksplease Price: £46.85This book covers science communication skills and provides hands-on guidance together with examples, learning activities, graded and ungraded quizzes to facilitate learning. There are five academic... -
Irrigation Systems: Design, Planning and Construction by Adrian Laycock
RRP: £48.70Booksplease Price: £47.26Of all the confrontations man has engineered with nature, irrigation systems have had the most widespread and far-reaching impact on the natural environment. Over a quarter of a billion hectares of... -
Cultural Attractions and European Tourism by Greg Richards
RRP: £106.50Booksplease Price: £94.17Cultural tourism has been identified as one of the most important of the global tourism markets. Europe hosts a vast treasure house of cultural attractions and the level of competition between... -
Urban Insect Pests: Sustainable Management Strategies by Gregory Baumann
RRP: £108.99Booksplease Price: £96.63A companion to 'Urban Pest Management', this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategies that look beyond products. From an environmental and health... -
Biocontrol Agents of Phytonematodes by Tarique Hassan Askary
RRP: £90.75Booksplease Price: £81.40Plant-parasitic nematodes are recognized as one of the limiting factors in crop production all over the world. They impair the quality of crops and cause significant yield losses, seriously... -
Indigenous Knowledge: Enhancing its Contribution to Natural Resources Management by Paul Sillitoe
RRP: £114.99Booksplease Price: £101.49Indigenous Knowledge (IK) reviews cutting-edge research and links theory with practice to further our understanding of this important approach's contribution to natural resource management. It... -
Bacterial Pili: Structure, Synthesis and Role in Disease by Michele A. Barocchi
RRP: £51.90Booksplease Price: £49.35Bacterial pili play important roles as environmental sensors, in host colonization and in biofilm formation, enabling bacteria to interact with the environment, with surfaces and with other bacteria... -
British and Irish Butterflies: An Island Perspective by Roger L H Dennis
RRP: £51.90Booksplease Price: £50.15Islands are special places; they can be havens for unique plants and animals and refuges for wildlife. This book investigates the biogeography of butterfly species over the British islands,... -
Cultural Tourism by Razaq Raj
RRP: £101.45Booksplease Price: £94.47With contributions from international experts this book provides a broad discussion of cultural tourism as a concept and the way it is implemented in diverse regions around the world. Addressing the... -
Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World by Andrew Dennis
RRP: £106.85Booksplease Price: £100.69Fresh concepts in the study of seed dispersal are spurring a host of exciting new questions, new answers to old questions, new methods and approaches, and a reinvigoration of the field.Seed... -
Natural Products in Plant Pest Management by Nawal Kishore Dubey
RRP: £127.15Booksplease Price: £114.16Overzealous and indiscriminate use of many synthetic pesticides during recent decades in the control of plant pests has resulted in a number of environmental and toxicological problems. Reducing the... -
Applied Crop Physiology: Understanding the Fundamentals of Grain Crop Management by Dennis Egli
RRP: £88.55Booksplease Price: £78.70This book presents a simple, straightforward discussion of the principles and processes involved in the production of grain yield by agronomic crops, and how these processes underlie and influence... -
Tourism, Recreation and Biological Invasions by Dr Agustina Barros
RRP: £103.75Booksplease Price: £96.33The first section of the book includes information about how tourism-related infrastructure and activities promote biological invasions, including key pathways for non-native invasive species... -
Responsible Tourism: Concepts, Theory and Practice by Richard Butler
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.15Tourism is one of the world's biggest industries. Responsible tourism is concerned with the effects of tourism on people, ecology, and communities, and seeks to ameliorate these impacts by providing... -
Sustainable Crop Disease Management using Natural Products by Sangeetha Ganesan
RRP: £72.65Booksplease Price: £65.80Alternative methods of disease control such as natural products and compounds derived from biological origins, provide an effective alternate to the use of chemical products or a means to minimize... -
Maize Kernel Development by Brian A. Larkins
RRP: £114.99Booksplease Price: £101.79This is an authoritative book that acts as a guide to understanding maize kernel development. Written by a team of experts, it covers topics spanning pre- and post-fertilization events, embryo and... -
Ethical Tensions from New Technology: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology by Harvey S James, Jr
RRP: £54.50Booksplease Price: £49.65The introduction of new technologies can be controversial, especially when they create ethical tensions as well as winners and losers among stakeholders and interest groups. While ethical tensions... -
Agricultural Groundwater Revolution: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture by Mark Giordano
RRP: £121.10Booksplease Price: £114.66While addressing the issues of using groundwater in agriculture for irrigation in the developing world, this book discusses the problems associated with the degradation and overexploitation of using... -
Developing Successful Agriculture: An Australian Case Study by Zhou Zhang-Yue
RRP: £106.50Booksplease Price: £94.47Agriculture remains an important industry to both developed and developing economies. Unfortunately, many developing countries are still suffering from a lack of agricultural growth, especially those... -
Introduction to Environmental Toxicology by J P F D'Mello
RRP: £29.40Booksplease Price: £27.83Introduction to Environmental Toxicology is designed as a concise text, introducing students to the fundamentals of this important subject. It covers the origin, characterization and environmental... -
Agricultural Markets in a Transitioning Economy: An Albanian Case Study by Catherine Chan-Halbrendt
RRP: £120.90Booksplease Price: £108.72This book presents major challenges and opportunities facing agriculture sectors in the wake of the transition from a planned to market economy. Using Albania as a case study, it examines the shift... -
Health-promoting Properties of Fruit and Vegetables by Leon Terry
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.65Fruits and vegetables are one of the richest sources of ascorbic acid, other antioxidants and produce-specific bioactive compounds. A general consensus from health experts has confirmed that an... -
Legumes in Cropping Systems by Donal Murphy-Bokern
RRP: £100.90Booksplease Price: £94.04Based on contributions from members of the Legumes Future research consortium and complemented by articles from other research teams, this book provides a comprehensive overview of knowledge relevant... -
Tourism and Geopolitics: Issues and Concepts from Central and Eastern Europe by Derek Hall
RRP: £118.65Booksplease Price: £107.27With 29 contributors from across Europe and beyond, this work represents a unique and important resource that examines the many relationships between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on... -
Disappearing Destinations: Climate Change and Future Challenges for Coastal Tourism by M. Phillips
RRP: £99.75Booksplease Price: £88.66Providing a thorough examination of the threats posed to destinations by tourism, this comprehensive text discusses how popular and fragile destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef could become... -
Coffee Wilt Disease by G. Hakiza
RRP: £112.20Booksplease Price: £99.39Coffee Wilt Disease has cost African coffee farmers an estimated US$1 billion to date, resulting from reduced yields and the extra costs incurred in trying to manage the disease. This devastating... -
Stress Response in Pathogenic Bacteria by Stephen Kidd
RRP: £120.90Booksplease Price: £108.72The ability of pathogenic bacteria to adapt to various chemical, biochemical and physical conditions within the human host and their ability to respond to stresses generated in these environments is... -
Molecular Nutrition by Janos Zempleni
RRP: £60.55Booksplease Price: £54.86Molecular nutrition (the study of interactions between nutrients and various intracellular and extracellular molecules) is one of the most rapidly developing fields in nutritional science... -
Nutrition of Goats by AFRC Technical Committee
RRP: £52.40Booksplease Price: £47.54This report is a comprehensive review of published information on the body composition and digestive physiology of temperate zone goats, the composition of their products, meat, milk and fibre, their... -
Insecticide Resistance: From Mechanisms to Management by Ian Denholm
RRP: £123.90Booksplease Price: £116.43This book addresses these topical issues and is based on a Discussion Meeting held at the Royal Society, London, in April 1998. Contributors include scientists from leading research groups in Europe,... -
Biocontrol of Major Grapevine Diseases: Leading Research by Stephane Compant
RRP: £122.20Booksplease Price: £109.86Biocontrol of major grapevine diseases provides a timely research update on the use of biological control agents and plant resistance inducers against phytopathogenic infections of the grapevine by... -
World Heritage Sites: Tourism, Local Communities and Conservation Activities by Dr Takamitsu Jimura
RRP: £51.90Booksplease Price: £49.35Heritage is a growing area of both tourism and study, with World Heritage Site designations increasing year-on-year. This book reviews the important interrelations between the industry, local... -
Principles of Cattle Production by Clive Phillips
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £89.36Completely updated and revised, the new edition of Principles of Cattle Production continues to provide an introductory level text for all interested in dairy and beef cattle production systems. This... -
Inositol Phosphates: Linking Agriculture and the Environment by Benjamin F. Turner
RRP: £106.85Booksplease Price: £99.09Inositol phosphates are a group of organic compounds found widely in the natural environment. They are important in agriculture because they constitute most of the phosphorus in grain seeds, but they... -
Grassland Productivity and Ecosystem Services by Tony Parsons
RRP: £120.90Booksplease Price: £108.72Grassland ecosystems are deeply affected by human activities and need appropriate management to optimise trade-offs between ecosystem functions and services. Until now they have mainly been analysed... -
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Nutrition of Cattle by Ernst Pfeffer
RRP: £133.35Booksplease Price: £119.54There are tremendous benefits to feeding ruminants nitrogen and phosphorus supplements, in terms of milk production and productivity. However what goes in, must also come out. Nitrogen and phosphorus... -
CAP and the Regions: Territorial Impact of Common Agricultural Policy by Professor Mark Shucksmith
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £88.66This book assesses the regional territorial impact of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Rural Development Policy (RDP), asking the question of how far these are compatible with objectives... -
Planning Agricultural Research: A Sourcebook by Govert Gijsbers
RRP: £60.55Booksplease Price: £54.86Effective planning of programs and resources has become an even more important issue as funding for agricultural research becomes more scarce. In recent years progress has been made in understanding... -
Tropical Mycology: Volume 2, Micromycetes by Roy Watling
RRP: £99.75Booksplease Price: £88.66Tropical mycology is attracting increasing interest, as the key role of fungi in tropical ecosystems and as pathogens becomes appreciated. This book describes the ecology, biology, economic... -
Pest Management and Phytosanitary Trade Barriers by Neil Heather
RRP: £127.15Booksplease Price: £114.16A significant amount of the world's economy is based upon the international trade of agricultural produce. For the producing countries, a growing concern is the potential economic and ecological...