Agriculture & Farming

'Fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler will devour it.' - Daily MirrorDarkly witty, deeply moving – Jackie Polzin's Brood is a startlingly origin...

Building Chicken Coops For Dummies (9781119543923) was previously published as Building Chicken Coops For Dummies (9780470598962). While this versi...

A comprehensive guide that covers the banana's full value chain — from production to consumption  The banana is the world's fourth major fruit crop...

Environmental and Agricultural Microbiology Uniquely reveals the state-of-the-art microbial research/advances in the environment and agriculture fi...

As an applied science, enology is a collection of knowledge from the fundamental sciences including chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, bioengin...

ENERGY STORAGE Written and edited by a team of well-known and respected experts in the field, this new volume on energy storage presents the state-...

On our side, a vast arsenal of chemical pesticides. On their side? They don't have a side, the pests who must do nature's bidding. This is our war,...

The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Alm...

This companion volume to Siri von Reis's previous exploration of ethnobotanical notes in the Harvard herbaria brings to light a new array of plants...

'A remarkably interesting account of Indonesian agricultural history, primarily covering the period of Dutch control, from 1619 to 1942. Drawing on...

Delving into all aspects of designing and maintaining unique interior landscapes, this colorfully illustrated book demonstrates how to realize land...

California is the nation's great vineyard, supplying grapes for most of the wine produced in the United States. The state is home to more than 700 ...

Tropical forests form the most diverse and complex ecosystem on earth—a virtual powerhouse of evolution—containing 40 percent of all living species...

Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research....

Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced t...

Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland aroun...

By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater...

With more than three quarters of Canada's forests under provincial control, provincial forest policies are crucial for encouraging the sustainable ...

Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that str...

Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers,...

The world of insects is one we only dimly understand. Yet from using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators to employing t...

What is a natural forest disturbance? How well do we understand natural forest disturbances and how might we emulate them in forest management? Wha...

Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers,...

Sally Urwin and her husband Steve own High House Farm in Northumberland, which they share with two kids, Mavis the Sheepdog, one very Fat Pony, an...

Plant Genomics introduces the complex relationship between the genome, microbiome, genes, and epigenetics of plants, as well as the range of molecu...

This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, th...

Bringing together a wide array of modern scientific techniques and interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides an accessible guide to the meth...

Why, for many centuries, was the wheel abandoned in the Middle East in favor of the camel as a means of transport? This richly illustrated study ex...

Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methods Thinking about raising chickens? You've come to the right place! This new edition of Raising ...

This is a hands-on, practical guide covering seedling screening for disease response in oil palm for pathology, breeding and genetics. Oil palm is ...

Despite the increasing population (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates 70% more food will be needed in 2050 than ...