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Risk and Safety Challenges for Religious Tourism and Events by Professor Maximiliano Korstanje
RRP: £51.90Booksplease Price: £49.65Travellers today face many challenges from risk and safety issues. Focusing in particular on risk and safety issues faced by visitors to holy sites, this book looks at the unique challenges raised,... -
Home Parenteral Nutrition by Daniela Daniela
RRP: £72.65Booksplease Price: £65.30Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is the intravenous administration of nutrients carried out in the patient's home. This book analyses current practices in HPN, with a view to inform best practice,... -
Crisis Management in Tourism by Eric Laws
RRP: £115.15Booksplease Price: £109.22The history of modern tourism records many localized and some international crises characterized by extreme and sudden reduction in demand for specific destination areas or types of tourism product... -
Tuberculosis: Laboratory Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies by Timothy D. McHugh
RRP: £133.35Booksplease Price: £119.54Tuberculosis is a global health threat and the unique features of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and emergence of drug-resistant strains highlight the challenge it presents. Covering a wealth of... -
Turkey in the European Union: Implications for Agriculture, Food and Structural Policy by Alison Burrell
RRP: £133.35Booksplease Price: £119.54The European Union will begin accession negotiations with Turkey in October 2005. Agriculture, foodand rural issues will play a major role in the negotiations, raising questions about the... -
Measuring and Auditing Broiler Welfare by C. A. Weeks
RRP: £127.15Booksplease Price: £114.16In response to concerns about animal welfare, food assurance schemes are now incorporating standards for animal welfare. This is particularly important in the poultry industry, where much attention... -
Conflict, Social Capital and Managing Natural Resources: A West African Case Study by Keith Moore
RRP: £112.20Booksplease Price: £99.39This book is the product of a six-year multi-disciplinary collaborative research program in sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. It describes the transition of the conflict-ridden... -
Intellectual Property Issues In Biotechnology by Harikesh Bahadur Singh
RRP: £122.20Booksplease Price: £109.86This book integrates a science and business approach to provide an introduction and an insider view of intellectual property issues within the biotech industry, with case studies and examples from... -
Lime, The: Botany, Production and Uses by Mumtaz Khan
RRP: £118.65Booksplease Price: £106.77This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource covering the botany, production and uses of limes. The lime is an important fruit crop throughout citrus producing regions of the world, with its... -
UV-B Radiation and Plant Life: Molecular Biology to Ecology by Brian R. Jordan
RRP: £113.00Booksplease Price: £106.77Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) has profound effects on plant growth and development, and exposure varies with ozone depletion and across geographic regions, with ecosystem and agricultural... -
International Research on Natural Resource Management: Advances in Impact Assessment by Hermann Waibel
RRP: £127.15Booksplease Price: £114.16Over the past two decades, significant investment has been made into agriculture-related natural resource management research in developing countries. With investors beginning to request the impact... -
Rangeland Degradation and Recovery in China's Pastoral Lands by Victor Squires
RRP: £133.35Booksplease Price: £119.54The extreme climate variability that characterizes China's arid rangelands can cause drought and degradation, resulting in dust storms, floods, animal losses, financial hardship and a decline in food... -
The Entertainment Industry: An Introduction by Phil Clements
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.68Entertainment studies are an important emerging subject in tourism, and this introductory textbook provides a detailed overview of the entertainment industry discipline in order to prepare students... -
African Seed Enterprises: Sowing the Seeds of Food Security by P. van Mele
RRP: £120.90Booksplease Price: £108.72In most developing countries, good quality seed is hard to obtain and farmers struggle to save seed from one year to the next. Instead, they increasingly turn to public or private enterprises that... -
Worms and Human Disease by Ralph Muller
RRP: £60.55Booksplease Price: £54.86This second edition of the popular advanced student textbook (previously published as Worms and Disease: A Manual of Medical Helminthology) has been thoroughly updated and revised since it was first... -
Fruit Ripening: Physiology, Signalling and Genomics by Hiroshi Ezura
RRP: £60.55Booksplease Price: £54.56Fruit ripening is an important aspect of fruit production. The timing of it affects supply chains and buying behaviour, and for consumers ripeness not only affects perceptions of health but has... -
Transition Pathways towards Sustainability in Agriculture: Case Studies from Europe by Lee-Ann Sutherland
RRP: £46.20Booksplease Price: £44.17This book focuses on understanding farming transition pathways towards sustainability, using case studies from Europe. It assesses the utility of the multi-level perspective in transition theory for... -
Global Theme Park Industry by Salvador Anton Clavé
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.54Since the 1980s, the theme park industry has developed into a global phenomenon, with everything from large, worldwide theme parks to countless smaller ventures. From the first pleasure gardens to... -
Animal Nutrition with Transgenic Plants by Gerhard Flachowsky
RRP: £115.15Booksplease Price: £108.72* Gathers together more than 150 feeding studies with food-producing animals and covers both first and second generation transgenic plants * The first central resource of this information for... -
Rethinking Park Protection: Treading the Uncommon Ground of Environmental Beliefs by William Lapage
RRP: £32.35Booksplease Price: £30.56In today's society, hidden beliefs can subtly guide the management of parks, such as treating them as natural resources rather than national assets. Resulting management practices often lead to... -
Manual for Tilapia Business Management by Ram C. Bhujel
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £88.36Tilapias are an increasingly important farmed fish for human consumption. Hailed as an important source of protein for growing populations, production is set to double within the next ten years and... -
Conservation of Cultural Landscape by Mauro Agnoletti
RRP: £115.15Booksplease Price: £108.72Landscape today is no longer just a cultural aspect, intended as an elitist phenomenon, but emerges as an essential element in the definition and the application of a modern approach in sustainable... -
Experimental Statistics for Agriculture and Horticulture by Clive Ireland
RRP: £44.75Booksplease Price: £43.68Providing practical training supported by a sound theoretical basis, this textbook introduces students to the principles of investigation by experiment and the role of statistics in analysis. It... -
Next Rural Economies: Constructing Rural Place in Global Economies by Neil Argent
RRP: £115.15Booksplease Price: £108.72Rural policy in industrialized countries is currently undergoing significant change. 'Place-based economies', where the unique attributes and assets of individual places determine their... -
Innovation in Forestry: Territorial and Value Chain Relationships by Kadri Ukrainski
RRP: £115.15Booksplease Price: £108.72Innovation is increasingly recognised as a key factor in environmental protection and balanced sustainable development within the forestry sector. This volume provides a comprehensive theoretical... -
Controversies in Tourism by Omar Moufakkir
RRP: £101.45Booksplease Price: £94.47Tourism impacts on locations in many ways - socially, environmentally, culturally, and economically. This book examines some well established controversies in tourism and some newly emerging... -
Termites: Biology and Pest Management by M. Pearce
RRP: £92.65Booksplease Price: £86.25Termites are of great interest to both entomologists and those concerned with pest management. On the one hand their complex social systems and nest building make them fascinating for students of... -
Leisure Management: Issues and Applications by Michael Collins
RRP: £130.10Booksplease Price: £116.73The World Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) held its fourth World Congress in Cardiff, Wales, in July 1996. The overall theme was "Leisure and the Quality of Life In the 21st Century". At the... -
Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights: Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology by Vittorio Santaniello
RRP: £127.00Booksplease Price: £119.24This book presents the perspectives of policy-makers and economists on a highly topical subject. Plant breeding patents, the ownership of biological innovation and associated intellectual property... -
Agroforestry for Soil Management by Anthony Young
RRP: £61.40Booksplease Price: £55.30Agroforestry refers to land use systems in which trees or shrubs are grown in association with agricultural crops, or pastures and livestock. From its inception, it has contained a strong element of... -
Meningitis: Cellular and Molecular Basis by Myron Christodoulides
RRP: £120.90Booksplease Price: £108.72Examining meningitis mainly from a bacterial perspective, but also including an overview of viral, fungal and chronic meningitis, this book describes the anatomy of the meninges and clinical signs... -
Conservation Agriculture in Subsistence Farming: Case Studies from South Asia and Beyond by Jean Fantle-Lepczyk
RRP: £54.50Booksplease Price: £49.65Conservation agriculture systems have long-term impacts on livelihoods, agricultural production, gender equity, and regional economic development of tribal societies in South Asia. This book presents... -
Tourism, Recreation and Sustainability: Linking Culture and the Environment by Stephen F. McCool
RRP: £112.20Booksplease Price: £99.39Sustainable development is the single most important consideration for those working in the tourism industry. Presenting a discussion by leading contributors on the impacts of tourism on local... -
Meat Science: An Introductory Text by Paul Warriss
RRP: £44.10Booksplease Price: £40.38Outlining the core principles of the subject, this introductory-level textbook covers the production of meat, its structure and chemical composition, meat quality and hygiene, and animal welfare,... -
Tourism and Development in Mountain Regions by Pamela Godde
RRP: £121.10Booksplease Price: £114.16This book discusses the importance of mountain regions, and the precariousness of mountain tourism in the context of ecosystem and cultural conservation. It includes case studies of mountain tourism... -
Sustainability of Rice Farming by David Greenland
RRP: £104.25Booksplease Price: £97.02Rice has supported a greater number of people for a longer period of time than any other crop. Nearly half of the global population is dependent on rice as its major staple food. While Asia remains... -
Peer-to-peer Accommodation and Community Resilience: Implications for Sustainable Development by Dr Anna Farmaki
RRP: £97.45Booksplease Price: £86.68The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation has been remarkable. However, the rapid expansion of the phenomenon has yielded several concerns over its potentially negative impacts on the economic,... -
Methods in Ecological and Agricultural Entomology by David Dent
RRP: £49.90Booksplease Price: £47.84Entomology as a branch of biological science has undergone rapid expansion and development in recent decades. There have been major advances in the technologies associated with pest management and... -
Promoting Investment in Agriculture for Increased Production and Productivity by Saifullah Syed
RRP: £83.10Booksplease Price: £77.59Investing in agriculture is one of the most effective ways of reducing hunger and poverty, promoting agricultural productivity and enhancing environmental sustainability. Covering the development of... -
Phytophthora: A Global Perspective by Kurt Lamour
RRP: £115.15Booksplease Price: £108.72Members of the genus Phytophthora cause serious damage to a huge array of plants. From the nineteenth century Irish potato famine to current widespread threats to forests and ecosystems in North and...