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The Supervisor's Desktop Library (5-Volume Set)
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Agroecological Innovations: Increasing Food Production with Participatory Development
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Currently 800 million people are undernourished, the world's food supply needs to rise significantly, yet both arable and water supplies per capita are decreasing. Not only are modern agricultural methods beyond the reach of those suffering the greatest food insecurity but they are also ecologically damaging, relying upon fossil energy and chemical inputs. "Agroecological Innovations" is a groundbreaking collection of innovative, successful and diverse approaches to agricultural development.
Documented in 12 case studies, these approaches are reliant upon greater knowledge, skill and labour input, rather than larger capital expenditure. They are shown to increase yield substantially, sometimes doubling or tripling output. This volume presents the concepts and operational means for reorienting agricultural efforts towards these more environmentally friendly and socially desirable approaches in the developed as well as developing world.
This guide to policy and practice will be vital for those professionals and policy makers involved in agriculture and food production as well as for academics and researchers.
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Title: Uphoff, Norman (ed.). Agroecological Innovations: Increasing Food Production with Participatory Development.(Book Review)
Author: Laura McCann
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: American Agricultural Economics Association
Volume: 86
Issue: 2
Page: 553(2)
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Mars has long been believed to have been cold, dead and dry for aeons, but there is now striking new proof that not only was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in geologically recent times, but that even today there are vast reserves of water frozen beneath the planet’s surface. As well as casting fascinating new insights into Mars’ past, this discovery is also forcing a complete rethink about the mechanisms of global planetary change and the possibility that there is microbial life on Mars.
David Harland considers the issue of life on Mars in parallel with the origin of life on Earth. At the time the Viking instruments were designed, it was thought that all terrestrial life ultimately derived its energy from sunlight, and that the earliest form of life was the cyanobacteria with chlorophyll for photosynthesis. It was assumed the same would be the case on Mars and that microbial life would be on or near the surface that the Vikings had sampled.
No sooner were the results from the Viking instruments in, than it was discovered that there was an even older type of microbial life on Earth when, in 1977 ‘black smokers’ were found in volcanically active parts of the ocean floor, at depths of several kilometres. Removed from sunlight, these archaea (literally, ‘the old ones’) live off the minerals released by the hydrothermal activity. Subsequently our view of life was further revised when ‘extremophiles’ were discovered thriving in acidic, salty, alkaline, very hot, very cold and radiation soaked environments previously considered lethal. Although the Vikings had found no sign of organics, and the surface was extremely hostile, suggesting that life had never gained a foothold, the discovery of microbes living far beneath the surface of the Earth raised the possibility of life below the surface of Mars, where there may be water-ice and/or hydrothermal activity. Perhaps, because the microbes were beyond the reach of the Vikings’ instruments, the negative result was premature.
Following the negative tests for biological activity by the Vikings, NASA – in the belief that Mars was once warm and wet, as the erosional features on the surface suggest – decided to ‘chase the water’ in the hope of establishing that conditions on Mars were once suitable for life, although this would not prove that life had developed. The targets selected (from many) were what seemed to be an outflow channel, a dry lake and a patch of minerals emplaced by hydrothermal activity. In 1997 Mars Pathfinder landed in an outflow channel where it released the small Sojourner rover to perform chemical analyses of nearby rocks. NASA followed up in 2004 with the much larger Mars Exploration Rovers, which were equipped to act as mobile field geologists. One was landed in what seemed to be a dried up lake bed inside a crater, and the other set down in an area that a remote-sensing orbital survey had identified as haematite, a likely indicator of hydrothermal activity. Both of these missions have yielded evidence that conditions were once conducive to the development of life.
In parallel with these NASA projects, the European Space Agency developed the Mars Express remote-sensing orbiter, which has detected traces of methane that may have been released by microbes. If microbial life is found on Mars, will it be based on DNA? Will this indicate that life developed independently? Or that it has characteristics in common with the most ancient forms of terrestrial life? If life is found on two planets in the same planetary system, this would favour the panspermia hypothesis. And if martian life is radically different, then in light of the discovery of planetary systems around other stars, this would, as remarked by Philip Morrison of MIT, "transform life from the status of a miracle to that of a statistic". These are all questions that the exploration of Mars for life are aimed to answer.
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Stuck in the details.......2007-08-24
The author clearly has a problem of not being able to focus on the big picture. With a name like "Water and the search for life on mars," one would expect the main theme of the book to specifically be about the characteristics of Mars that point to the possibility of life. However, this is not the case. Harland consistently gets stuck in mundane details such as how NASA actually lands its probes, the different stages of a specific landing, and what are the different gadgets on each probe and lander. Furthermore, he goes on for about 30 pages trying to lecture the reader about the biology of DNA, proteins, and amino acids. He simply tries to cover too many topics at once and this leaves the reader exhausted, confused, and frustrated.
I picked up this book because I was intrigued about why scientists actually believe there might have been life on Mars in the past or if there currently is life on the planet. Instead I found myself reading uninteresting details about how a crater is formed and why there are mechanical failures on NASA probes. Harland spends a significant amount of time discussing how NASA conducts their missions instead of actually focusing on the much more interesting topic of life on other planets.
Overall, I do not recommend this book for anyone that is specifically interested about the possibility of life on Mars. You will lose yourself in the technical details and get frustrated by the book's lack of focus.
Mars as we now know it.......2007-02-28
David Harland has done an excellent job summarizing the results of international efforts to explore Mars with telescopes and, now, robotic spacecraft. Our understanding has increased dramatically in recent years thanks to high-resolution mapping from orbiting spacecraft and, primarily, to the astonishing discoveries of the Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity. I found some of the geological discussion in the middle part of the book a bit challenging, but well worth the effort because I think I now have at least a passing appreciation for overall context of the Rover missions. The preliminaries occupy the first 130 pages of Harland's book and the real meat is in the 90 pages or so that follow, detailing the traverses and results of Spirit and Opportunity during their first 350 or so martian days on the planet. The evidence for wet periods in the history of Mars is clearly presented and of great value to a non-expert like me. My only reservation is that more attention could have been paid to cross-referencing and labeling of the maps. Highly recommended.
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Shadow of a Star: The Neutrino Story of Supernova 1987A
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Literature 1989-1993. Author, Subject, and Object Indexes to Volumes 49-58 (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts aims to present a comprehensive documentation of the literature concerning all aspects of astronomy, astrophysics, and their border fields. It is devoted to the recording, summarizing, and indexing of relevant publications throughout the world. Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts is prepared by a special department of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union. Volume 59/60 - the fifth Cumulative Index of Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts - comprises author, subject, and object indexes to volumes 49 - 58. Thus, the astronomical and astrophysical literature of the five-year period 1989 1993 is covered by this volume.
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This book reviews the approach to the kinetic simulation of nonequilibrium processes in the planetary atmospheres which the authors developed and have dealt with since the 1970s. The results of this study, which are focused on the nonequilibrium collisional processes in the atmospheres of planets and comets, are thoroughly reviewed and discussed. Many specific problems of atmospheric modeling, involving numerical simulation of aeronomic processes, are addressed and compared with the available experimental data. The kinetic approach proved to be especially effective in modelling the interaction of the incident shortwave solar radiation with the rarefied gas of planetary upper atmospheres. It involves various processes of photolysis, energetic particle impacts, and numerous accompanying chemical reactions. The underlying mathematical treatment is based on the stochastic approach for the solution of the Boltzmann-type equation and implies the development of efficient algorithms for its computer simulation. New or upgraded methods and algorithms for addressing the relevant problems of non-equilibrium gas kinetics were developed and successfully implemented for the simulation of a wide range of aeronomical processes. This book is intended for professional scholars and graduate students in space sciences, planetary astronomy and aeronomy and will also be useful to some target groups dealing with mechanics, gas dynamics, and computer modeling of versatile physical processes and who wish to expand the areas of their immediate interests.
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The Role of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation in Marine Ecosystems: Proceedings of a NATO Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 28-31, 1980 (NATO Conference Series)
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts: Literature 1980 (Astronomy and Astrophysics, 28)
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Wowbugs: New Life for Life Science
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Meet Melittobia digitata, the newest members of the classpint-sized insects with 17-day life cycles, fascinating behaviors, and strange morphology! The 20-plus activities and experiments in this teacher-friendly book are the support materials you need to effectively bring new life to your life science instruction. 1) Apply concepts outlined in the National Science Education Standards 2) Use teacher-friendly, classroom-tested activities to teach essential process skills 3) Encourage and model the skills of scientific inquiry 4) Develop self-directed learners exploring research frontiers like working scientists
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Training.......2007-06-14
It is no news that this is one of the best training books for upland game that has ever been written. You may disagree with Wolters but you can never say his methods dont work. This is my number one resource for training my dogs.
Gun Dog: Revolutionary Rapid Training Method.......2007-05-09
Succinct, easy instructional read that works. I am 2 weeks in to training a new pup via the book and he is responding positively. It had been 13 years since doing this and the book is helping us both.
Dog Training for Beginners.......2007-04-12
Learn the phases your dog goes through as he ages, and then learn how to use those phases to your own advantage in your training.
Easy read.......2007-01-12
It does a good job of expaining the basics of how to get the dog to understand or you to understand the dog. I agree with almost all of his tactics or methods. This book or one like it is a MUST HAVE for a new trainer or handler.
Learning Phases of the Dog........2007-01-10
Wolters book describes the learning phases that dogs go through based on the age of the dog. The research on how dogs learn was completed in the 1950s and is just as correct today as ever. Great descriptions of what, how and when to train are accompanied by hundreds of photos illustrating the steps. The two Weimaraners I have trained with Wolter's method are wonderful. While other hunters may be hunting for their dogs mine are busy hunting birds for me. I have purchased this book for several of my friends who's dogs also turned out great.
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Simple Guide to Customs and Etiquette in the Czech Republic (Simple Guides: Customs and Etiquette)
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Simple Guide to Customs & Etiquette in the Czech Republic, as with all titles in this series, offers the reader a unique focus on the customs, etiquette and way of life in the newly emerging Czech Republic, providing a wealth of 'insider' knowledge in an easily accessed, pocket book format. 18 b/w illustrations + map
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It's never fun when a great summer comes to an end.
Particularly when one argues with one’s adorable, but grossly insensitive, boyfriend the night before school starts. It’s such a terrible fight, Jess doesn’t know—are they broken up? Should she apologize? Too bad Jess is spending all her time in detention and can’t talk to Fred to figure it out. A sadistic new English teacher has decided Jess needs an attitude adjustment, and Jess can’t seem to stop making terrible mistakes. When she ends up pantless in her own backyard, Jess is left to ask herself: Where did she go wrong? And what can be done to make it up to Fred and salvage this horrible, horrible year?
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But this attempt is still worth a read.......2006-02-20
The third in this series. Limb still delivers a funny and insightful book about teen angst and identity. But Jess's dilemmas are getting rather stale by this third retelling. It seems that variations of the same plot keep coming to fruitarian. Fans of this series will enjoy Jess and Fred's antics but Limb has failed again to capture the same level of freshness, humor and brilliance of Girl, 15, Charming but Insane. But this attempt is still worth a read.
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- Contabilidad Financiera - 3b: Edicion
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- Cost and Management Accounting: A Modern Approach
- Crisp: Financial Analysis, Revised Edition: The Next Step (Crisp Fifty-Minute Series)
- Dictionary and Financial Glossary: Pocket Dictionary of the English Language Compiled from the Quarto and School Dictionaries of Joseph E. Worcester, LL. D. With Foreign Words and Phrases, Abbreviations, Rules for Spelling, and Numerous Tables - Profusely Illustrated - With A Financial Glossary Compiled by Hornblower & Weeks, Boston
- Divisional Performance. Measurement and Control
- Economic Theory of Fuzzy Equilibria: An Axiomatic Analysis (Economic Theory of Fuzzy Equilibria)
- Empirical Issues in Raising Equity Capital (Advances in Finance, Investment and Banking)
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