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How activists changed the trajectory of the new agricultural biotechnologies.

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Every five years, the US Congress passes a little understood legislation called the Farm Bill. With the legislation due to be reauthorized in late 2012, this title offers a critical resource that can help readers deconstruct this challenging bill, organize in their communities to gain a seat at the bargaining table, and vote with their forks.

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Pressures on forest resources are severe and so there is a need to provide a sound scientific basis for conservation management. Forest Conservation Genetics addresses this need by drawing together the principles of forest conservation genetics and providing a tool to those who have responsibility for managing forest resources.

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Covers various aspects of the field of spacecraft charging, ranging from secondary and backscattered electrons, spacecraft charging in Maxwellian plasmas, effective mitigation techniques, and potential wells and barriers to operational anomalies, meteors, and neutral gas release.

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Goats Giving Birth presents stories, lessons, and reflections from over 600 goat births with insights into the differences between normal births, necessary C-sections, and incidents that may turn deadly serious, giving you the confidence to handle all goat birthing situations.

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Take four emblematic American scenes: the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando; an ecotour of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks; the film An Inconvenient Truth. Other than expressing a common interest in the environment, they seem quite dissimilar.

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This work covers the characteristics of each class of graft- transmitted disorders of the grapevine, their effect on vines, how they spread and strategies for their control. The most important diseases are illustrated, including information about occurrence, transmission and effect on yield.

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Food prices are rising, droughts and storms are affecting farmers and the global model of food production is under challenge. Policies to reduce the impact of climate change will have a profound impact on food supply around the world. Food Chain explores the dimension of this looming problem, and our complex relationship with food.

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The most comprehensive, truly practical guide to the cultivation of woodland botanicals.

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Offers instructions for correctly mounting various kinds of games, from birds and deer to fish and beyond, including sections on mounting heads, fish, and reptiles, tanning skins, collecting and exhibiting insects and eggs, using tools and gathering materials, selecting eyes and wires, and more.

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Provides guidance to practitioners involved in the design and implementation of open pit slopes.

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Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced plutonium for four decades, initially for the Trinity Test and the atomic bomb in the Second World War.

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Everything helicopter certificate applicants need to know. Written for applicants preparing for the private, commercial, or flight instructor certificate with a helicopter rating, this guide covers both aeronautical knowledge and skills for operating the aircrafts and is a valuable tool for flight instructors as a teaching aid.

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Homestead Cows is a comprehensive guide to raising cattle, from a single milk cow to a small farm herd. Offers detailed planning rooted in practical experience, covering breed selection, herd size, whole farm management with cattle, safe handling, finances, housing, health, reproduction, processing, and more.

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Collected essays by a leading journalist on sustainability and the global cleantech industry.

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The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering - in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. This book looks at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance.

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Farming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact with farmers except through the food we eat. Who are America's farmers Why is farming important to them How are they coping with dramatic changes to their way of life In the Blood paints a vivid and moving portrait of America's farm families, sheddi