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Forests and woodlands provide an enormous range of goods and services to society, from timber and firewood to medicinal plants, watershed protection, destinations for tourists and sacred sites. Only when these are understood and valued can forests and their resources be properly managed and conserve... More

Spellman's Standard Handbook for Wastewater Operators is a three-volume study guide and readily accessible source of information for review in preparing wastewater personnel for operator certification and licensure. These handbooks are resource manuals and troubleshooting guides that contain a compi... More

Two prehistoric cave sites in western New Guinea provide a detailed narrative of 26,000 years of human occupation of this area. During this period, a climate change forced inhabitants to switch their hunting focus to a forest wallaby, known locally as Djief. However, despite prolonged hunting this s... More

Despite decades of research, poisonous plants continue to be responsible for large economic losses to livestock producers throughout the world. As the expansion into rural areas and the use of rangelands increases, an understanding of plant toxicology has become ever more important. This book repres... More

To understand and constructively participate in the current debate on global warming and its consequences, it is essential to have a guide to the playing field. Dr. Melvin A. Benarde' s book is this guide and more. It is, in fact, a Baedeker through the minefields of uncertainty which currently bede... More

This book is a plain English guide to the use of plant names and the conventions for writing them as governed by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. It covers the naming of wild plants, plants modified by humans, why plant names change, their pronunciation and hints to help... More

Responsible Dog Ownership addresses selecting the right dog, responsible breeding practices, neutering, control, multiple-dog ownership, grooming, care and health essentials, letting go, training, and the role of the AKC's Canine Good Citizen Test. Essential... More

What is the power of a collectively imagined future? Women in rural Zimbabwe imagine a future of prosperity and education for their children and then they take collective action to care for the wild grasses that guarantees their livelihood as broom-makers, and their children's futures. In India, "Th... More

In Dr. Jim's Animal Clinic For Dogs, America's leading media veterinarian addresses those medical problems that people most frequently ask him about -- fleas and parasites, nutrition, injuries, and the diseases and disorders that can beset any dog, whether purebred or random bred -- as well as quest... More

Over the past two decades, significant investment has been made into agriculture-related natural resource management research in developing countries. With investors beginning to request the impact of their investments in this research, a review was needed on the economic social and environmental ef... More

Freda Rajotte explores how the First Nations have understood the world and their place in it from the first migrations to North America thousands of years ago, through Western colonization, to the roots of their current spiritual revival. She succeeds in representing the diversity of First Nations' ... More

Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage contains thirty six reviewed papers divided into five sections: aerosols, particulate matter and black crust characterization; effects of air pollution on materials and monuments; techniques for the study of air pollution and monument weathering; soiling and clean... More

Pioneer fancier Dee Gannon chronicles the Shar-Pei's amazing renaissance and provides vital information that every owner will treasure.... More

This volume is a study of landslides and debris flows on the Loess Plateau of north-central China which lies in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. The Loess Plateau is a region with a dense rural population and a number of cities housing more than a million people. Landslides are triggered by h... More

This monograph is a definitive work on the theory of unsaturated flow: the flow of subsurface water in zones above the water table. It offers a unique perspective on the application of continuum mechanics, thermodynamics, and kinetic theory to the understanding of these fluid flows in unsaturated po... More

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This book provides a comprehensive guide to collecting and managing farm-level agricultural data in developing countries. Many development workers face the need to collect data for planning, monitoring or evaluation of a project, or to use data collected by other people. The book explains how to pla... More