Technology, Engineering, Agriculture

The precautionary principle has been labeled simplistic and the rational approach to decision-making under risk was modeled on well-specified games...

How destructive or beneficial are forest fires to wildlife? Should we be trying to reduce or increase the amount of fire in forests? How are forest...

The first history of the Institution of Civil Engineers to be illustrated in colour looks at the development of the profession over nearly 200 year...

Agricultural English is a collection of essays on the English of Agriculture. The approach is a linguistic one: the different aspects of the Englis...

Agricultural Salinity Assessment and Management, second edition, considers worldwide salinity and trace element management in irrigated agriculture...

The CIRP Encyclopedia covers the state-of-art of advanced technologies, methods and models for production, production engineering and logistics. Wh...

This book provides comprehensive, authoritative discussions about microbial communities in environments that are rich in hydrocarbons, crude oil or...

**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN ''BOOK OF 2021''** ''Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting'' HELEN MACDONALD, New York Tim...

The key to understanding technology lies not in the future--but in the past. That's the contention of Lizzie O'Shea's Future Histories, a grand tou...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through th...

The Field looks at the eco-system of an arable field, complete with photographs from crops, trees, hedgerows and wildflowers, to the wide variety o...

'One of those enthusiasts whose enthusiasm is hard to resist . . . Always beguiling' Daily Mail'Hugely inspiring even when it is most bonkers' Sara...

In the 60 years that Yorkshire farmer Roger Nicholson has lived at Cannon Hall Farm near Barnsley, he has turned what was once a humble small famil...

Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the locals of Darrowby village and their ani...

The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crap! Because ...

'There is one animal that is familiar to all of us, whoever we are, wherever we live''Even if we've never had direct contact with one, we will have...

'Fuss-free dishes full of nature's freshest flavours.' - Psychologies'Packed with delicious nostalgia.' - Radio Times'Celebrates the joy of seasona...