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61. American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost by Bruce L. Gardner | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(2006-03-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description American agriculture in the twentieth century has given the world one of its great success stories, a paradigm of productivity and plenty. Yet the story has its dark side, from the plight of the Okies in the 1930s to the farm crisis of the 1980s to today's concerns about low crop prices and the impact of biotechnology. Looking at U.S. farming over the past century, Bruce Gardner searches out explanations for both the remarkable progress and the persistent social problems that have marked the history of American agriculture. Gardner documents both the economic difficulties that have confronted farmers and the technological and economic transformations that have lifted them from relative poverty to economic parity with the nonfarm population. He provides a detailed analysis of the causes of these trends, with emphasis on the role of government action. He reviews how commodity support programs, driven by interest-group politics, have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to little purpose. Nonetheless, Gardner concludes that by reconciling competing economic interests while fostering productivity growth and economic integration of the farm and nonfarm economies, the overall twentieth-century role of government in American agriculture is fairly viewed as a triumph of democracy. |
62. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives by Miguel A. Altieri | |
Paperback: 110
Pages
(2004-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description As debate rages over the costs and benefits of genetically engineered crops, noted agroecologist Miguel Altieri lucidly examines some of the issue's most basic and pressing questions: * Are transgenic crops similar to conventionally bred crops? * Are transgenic crops safe to eat? * Does biotechnology increase yields? * Does it reduce pesticide use? * What are the costs to American farmers? * Will biotechnology benefit poor farmers? * Can biotechnology coexist with other forms of agriculture? * What are the known and potential environmental and biological risks? * What alternatives do we have to genetically modified crops? |
63. Design of Experiments for Agriculture and the Natural Sciences Second Edition by A. Reza Hoshmand | |
Hardcover: 456
Pages
(2006-03-23)
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Editorial Review Product Description Written to meet the needs of both students and applied researchers, Design of Experiments for Agriculture and the Natural Sciences, Second Edition serves as an introductory guide to experimental design and analysis. Like the popular original, this thorough text provides an understanding of the logical underpinnings of design and analysis by selecting and discussing only those carefully chosen designs that offer the greatest utility. However, it improves on the first edition by adhering to a step-by-step process that greatly improves accessibility and understanding. Real problems from different areas of agriculture and science are presented throughout to show how practical issues of design and analysis are best handled. Intended for those in the agriculture, environmental, and natural science fields as well as statisticians, this text requires no previous exposure to analysis of variance, although some familiarity with basic statistical fundamentals is assumed. In keeping with the book's practical orientation, numerous workable problems are presented throughout to reinforce the reader's ability to creatively apply the principles and concepts in any given situation. |
64. Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2005-04-27)
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Somewhat specific to geography but filled with good information |
65. One thousand questions in California agriculture answered by Edward James Wickson | |
Paperback: 266
Pages
(2010-08-31)
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66. Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland by Lois Green Carr, Lorena S. Walsh | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(1991-10-21)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Cole Plantation account, a record that details what the plantation produced, consumed, purchased, and sold over a twelve-year period, is the only known surviving document of its kind for seventeenth-century British America.Along with Cole's will, it serves as the framework around which the authors build their analysis.Drawing on these and other records, they present Cole as an exemplar of the ordinary planter whose success created the capital base for the slave-based plantation society of the eighteenth century. Customer Reviews (2)
Robert Cole's World: Agriculter and Society in Early Maryland
Robert Cole's World |
67. Ancient Agriculture: From Foraging to Farming (Ancient Technology) by Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods | |
Hardcover: 96
Pages
(2000-02)
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68. Field and laboratory studies of crops; an elementary manual for students of agriculture by Arthur Gillett McCall | |
Paperback: 152
Pages
(2010-08-29)
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69. The future world of agriculture (Walt Disney World EPCOT Center book) by Wendy B Murphy | |
Hardcover: 112
Pages
(1984)
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Rare book on EPCOT CENTER in Walt Disney World |
70. International Trade and Agriculture: Theories and Practices by Won W. Koo, P. Lynn Kennedy | |
Hardcover: 296
Pages
(2005-02-21)
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Editorial Review Product Description Starting with the basic economics of trade, the text covers agricultural policies affecting trade flows, macroeconomic issues such as exchange rates and the balance of trade, and other important issues including foreign direct investment and the environment.Each chapter features overviews and summaries, key concepts, questions for review, and suggested readings.With its international focus, agricultural perspective, and engaging pedagogy, this text offers an innovative and accessible approach to the study of agricultural trade. Customer Reviews (1)
Excellent Book |
71. Statistical Methods in Agriculture and Experimental Biology, Third Edition (Texts in Statistical Science) by Roger Mead, Robert N. Curnow, Anne M. Hasted, Robert M Curnow | |
Paperback: 488
Pages
(2002-08-28)
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Nice try - but try again
Very Good Book
not useful for me |
72. Advances in Fungal Biotechnology for Industry, Agriculture, and Medicine | |
Hardcover: 468
Pages
(2004-06-04)
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73. Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants (Sustainable Agriculture Reviews) | |
Hardcover: 418
Pages
(2009-10-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations. |
74. Mathematical Applications in Agriculture by Nina H. Mitchell | |
Paperback: 297
Pages
(2003-12-04)
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75. Le Livre De L'agriculture. Tr. Par J.-J. Clément-Mullet (French Edition) by Yayà B. Muammad Ibn Al-Awwâm | |
Paperback: 772
Pages
(2010-02-04)
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76. Plowshares & Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture (Independent Studies in Political Economy) by E.C. PasourJr., Randall R. Rucker | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2005-09-01)
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Ag policy would be funny if it were not so tragic |
77. Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four Volume Set (Earthscan Reference Collections) | |
Hardcover: 1800
Pages
(2007-12)
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78. Electricity and Electronics for Agriculture by A. F. Butchbaker | |
Hardcover: 391
Pages
(1977-03-30)
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79. The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture by G. J. Leigh | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2004-08-19)
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An important subject |
80. Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development (World Bank Trade and Development Series) | |
Paperback: 406
Pages
(2004-04-29)
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