The Future of Post-Human Sexuality
Modern sexual freedom is a seductive ideology, blinding us to its dark side. This book offers a radical new way to understand sexuality, with profound implications for the future of humanity.
Hyaenids
How do we differentiate between bone collections made by hyaenas and those of hominids? This study examines three hyaena species, finding that environmental conditions have a critical impact on the gnawing and fragmentation patterns left on bones.
The Future of Post-Human Semantics
Is semantics truly indeterminate? Contrary to opposing ideas, this book offers a new theory to go beyond existing approaches. This seminal project will fundamentally change how we think about semantics, with enormous implications for the human future.
Rice is a salt-sensitive, semi-aquatic crop with many adaptations for its environment. How do these adaptations respond to salinity? This book addresses this largely unexplored question, detailing the response of rice to salt stress in its natural habitat.
Adoption of Tissue Culture in Horticulture
This unique book examines the adoption of plant tissue culture by farmers. It explores the influence of this commercially successful biotechnology on the social organization of production and social relations at the micro-level.
Towards Impact and Resilience
This book clarifies the challenges of Agricultural Education and Training (AET) in sub-Saharan Africa, offering practical solutions and innovative models to advance agricultural development and cultivate leaders and change-makers at all levels.
Medical and Applied Malacology Crossing Boundaries
This volume from the International Congress on Medical and Applied Malacology contains articles on bioprospecting, medical malacology, aquaculture, and biomonitoring, conveying the importance of mollusks to human and animal health and their applications.
Explore traditional Chinese ways of eating and the belief that “food and medicine are of the same origin.” This guide details the properties of different food items, serving as a reference for choosing what to eat according to your own physical conditions.
Cattle in Ancient and Modern Ireland
In this book, diverse aspects of cattle in Ireland, from their first introduction to recent developments in the management of grasslands, are explored in thirteen essays written by experts, which provide new information on under-researched aspects relating to cattle husbandry.
Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume Two
This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.
The Land Agent in Britain
Historians, practitioners and representatives of land agent bodies are brought together to explore the necessary skills of a land agent. The volume traces the development of such skills as farming and entrepreneurialism to look to the post-Brexit future of estates and agents.
Basics of Animal Communication
This short, systematic introduction to animal communication blends natural sciences and humanities in a multidisciplinary approach. A useful pedagogical tool for students and teachers, it is written in a clear, engaging style with a glossary and rich bibliography.
Man-made climate change poses a new crisis: how do we feed 10 billion people in a climate hostile to food security? This book explores the threat to our “daily bread” and argues that we are not without hope, offering solutions that can lead to a better future for humankind.
Sabater addresses the compelling demand for quantitative training in plant biology, including comparisons of the rate of processes, the size of structures and interactions among different processes, approached at different levels from molecules to the environment.
The Nigerian Cocoa Industry and the International Economy in the 1930s
This monograph uses the Nigerian cocoa industry’s encounter with the world economy of the 1930s to knit together a gamut of themes ranging from the social formations of production to the forces of demand and supply, as well as the protest movements against monopoly capitalism.
These proceedings cover recent advances in plant developmental biology, focusing on photomorphogenesis, flowering time control, and the circadian clock. Explore the role of light in controlling flowering, hormonal regulations, and other key molecular events.
The History of Wine as a Medicine
Wine: our oldest medicine. Uncover its 9,500-year history, from its true origins in China to how it can reduce death rates by 50% and dementia by 80%. This groundbreaking book rewrites everything you thought you knew about the health benefits of wine.
As scientists search for alternative dietary proteins, Spirulina is a superior source. This book fills an important research gap, highlighting the nutritional aspects of using Spirulina in poultry diets for students, professors, feed formulators, and farmers.
A dinosaur book like no other, this irreverent chronicle of science and pseudoscience finds humour in absurdity and takes the reader on a journey through some of the numerous bizarre ideas of young-Earth creationism which have infiltrated grade-school science textbooks.
Farming Is Not Big Gardening
This light-hearted, informative narrative discusses US agriculture from a historical, social, and financial perspective. Written in a satirical voice, the author uses storytelling to share his experiences in food and farming through fast-moving, easy-to-read prose.