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ECONOMICS OF THE FOOD SYSTEM David Blandford, James Dunn, and Alan Webb
© 2018
This text provides a comprehensive overview of the food system, beginning with the physical and geographical context of United States agriculture. Concepts and tools of applied economics are then used to analyze the structure and economic characteristics of each component of the food system. This book is ideal for courses in agricultural economics or agribusiness.
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A PRIMER OF FLIPPED PLANT BIOLOGY Eric Ribbens
© 2016
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Designed for courses that use the “flipped” method, this text prepares students to learn by presenting pre-lecture concepts and information for use in conjunction with clickers. Because students enter class ready to apply and develop what they have learned from the text, concepts can be fully mastered during class sessions.
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PREHISTORIC WORLD CULTURES Renee B. Walker
© 2017
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This text provides a broad overview of world prehistory while highlighting significant events, developments, and cultures through time. Organized chronologically and geographically, it gives students a clear understanding of changes through time from the evolution of our species to the development of complex civilizations.
EXPLORING WORLD PREHISTORY Nicole Weigel
© 2016
A well-rounded collection of classic and contemporary case studies this text illustrates the range of archaeological methods, theory, and perspectives used in prehistoric archaeology. The readings demonstrate how archaeology can be used to better understand our world’s prehistory. They show how archaeological theory and methodology are used to analyze specific sites around the world.
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SUSTAINABILITY Global Issues, Global Perspectives Astrid Cerny
© 2016
The selections in this anthology are a blend of environmental science, especially as it relates to agriculture, soils, and land management with social topics such as how to govern fairly and equitably to ensure that the voices of all seven billion of Earth’s inhabitants will be heard. Specific topics include the global food economy, environmentally sound landscaping, waste management, and human migration.
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HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING Alan Walters
© 2015
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This text presents important concepts in home gardening, including composting, soil improvement, pest management, and season extension practices. With material that has been extensively tested in class over a period of almost two decades, readers gain a better understanding of vegetables and learn the best methods for producing vegetable crops in home gardens.
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SOILS AND CIVILIZATIONS Unearthing Soil’s Role in History Dr. Neal Eash
© 2014
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This text introduces students to soil management and its importance to the stability and sustainability of civilizations. It examines how the application of soil-science fundamentals and adequate land-use planning could have alleviated some of history’s land-use disasters, including the period in the 1930s of severe, prolonged drought and extreme soil erosion known as the Dust Bowl.
PLANTS, PEOPLE, AND THE PLANET An Introduction to Horticulture Nathaniel Mitkowski and Bridget Ruemmele
© 2014
explores the critical role plants play in our lives, and in our societies. It explains plants, from their molecular structure to their place on the dinner table. Topics covered in the book include: plant products and their uses, plant biology and morphology, plant genealogy and geography, the meaning of “organic,” field-covering crops, food plants, and sustainability.
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WINE JOURNEYS Myth and History Patrick Hunt
Š 2013
This small book is best understood as a trifle, not intended in any way as globally comprehensive but rather highly selective, like Proustian memory. Both its strength and weakness is that it is intimate, not encyclopedic in the least, with occasional literary notes interwoven. It is as much personal reflection as a summary of some specific stories, mythological or historical.
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