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by Verlyn Klinkenborg  Publisher Comments This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons which appear frequently in a column entitled "The Rural Life" on the editorial page of the "New York Times."... (read more)  List Price $13.99 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by J C Forbes Publisher Comments Plants in Agriculture fulfills the need for a single text that promotes a comprehensive understanding of how plants operate in agriculture. By setting plant development firmly in the context of the realities of soil, climatic, and biological conditions... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Horatio Clare Publisher Comments Before Horatio Clare was born, his parents fell in love with a place -- a remote sheep farm in Wales, physically and in every other way far from the lives they were forging as young professionals in London. The farm was high up a mountain, nearly... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Virgil E C Schijns Publisher Comments Cytokines are proteins that act as intercellular signals in a variety of processes, including embryonic development, haematopoiesis, stress, inflammation, immunity and tissue report. In the 1980s researchers established the link between cytokines and the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John W Roulac Synopsis Roulac is president of Hemptech, a consulting company that promotes industrial hemp. He looks at the potential for the plant, agricultural and environmental factors, the controversy about its disreputable relatives, the history of its banning in the US... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carolyn E Sachs Publisher Comments Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to her investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, Carolyn Sachs focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women’s work with animals in highly industrialized... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Critchfield Publisher Comments Richard Critchfield, author of the best-selling books "Villages" and "An American Looks at Britain," examines the inescapable link between the decline of America's rural roots and the decay of our cities. "Trees, Why Do You Wait?" is a moving oral... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments The nation's favorite literary farmer pays homage to the life of the senses. Rushing from one thing to another, we lose sight of the art of living, which for California farmer David Mas Masumoto is also the art of farming. Not fast farming, of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Randy Leffingwell Publisher Comments Author Randy Leffingwell and researcher Guy Fay poured their hearts and souls into selecting 36 tractors that changed the face of agriculture. The result is a unique, stunningly illustrated book that offers fresh insight into the hallmark machines of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $7.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rowan Jacobsen Publisher Comments How the disappearance of the world’s honeybee population puts the food we eat at risk. Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time when “there was no pollination and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose Bove Publisher Comments In this lively and hard-hitting book Jose Bove and Francois Dufour recount the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against McDonald's and examine the issues behind the resulting campaign. Their proposal for an alliance of farmers, consumers and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.49 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter D Mcclelland Publisher Comments 'This book is both interesting and learned, drawing upon an unusual range of sources. It marshals copious evidence with verve and wit to support a wholly persuasive argument. Few books on the subject have shown such breadth and depth of research, such a... (read more) List Price $51.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Catherine L Ives Publisher Comments Biotechnology holds tremendous promise for improving agricultural production in the developing world. Its success, however, depends in part on each developing nation's ability to attract or develop appropriate technology, which in turn depends on... (read more) List Price $130.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by José Bové and François Dufour Publisher Comments Bove examines the issues behind the campaign that was successfully launched to enthusiastic suport at the WTO protests in Seattle last November: the industrialization of agriculture in a global economy, the environmental damage this is wreaking and the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Erik Marcus Publisher Comments Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Hasselstrom Synopsis A new kind of rancher and a new kind of environmentalist, award-winning author Hasselstrom embraces old values, most particularly, responsibility for the land born out of love for it. Speaking with an eloquent simplicity in these collected essays and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Johnr Campbell Publisher Comments This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of animal science. New sections on the application of biology and technology to animal science in many areas, such as reproductive physiology, genetics, and animal health, have... (read more) List Price $120.63 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Redcliffe Salaman Publisher Comments 'A reissue of a scholarly classic considers the influence of the potato on the social structure and economy throughout history wherever men adopted it as a mainstay of their diets.'... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $30.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ralph Sanders Publisher Comments When tractors first arrived on farms, they were crudely designed machines that often broke down in the field. Most farmers couldn’t fathom the day they’d give up their trusty horse for one of these new, strange-looking contraptions. But... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by R B H Wills Book News Annotation Updates the introductory textbook on the principles and practice of the postharvest handling and storage of fresh fruit and vegetables. For technical college and university courses, workers in related industries, and interested consumers. Written in... (read more) List Price $140.00 Your price $23.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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