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Lord of the Flies

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Author: William Golding

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert

The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants List price: $22.95
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Author: Samuel Thayer

A practical guide to all aspects of edible wild plants: finding and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Each plant is discussed in great detail and accompanied by excellent color photographs. Includes an index, illustrated glossary, bibliography, and harvest calendar. The perfect guide for all experience levels.

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Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game

Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game List price: $16.95
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Author: John J. Mettler

This is the book for anyone who hunts, farms, or buys large quantities of meat. The author takes the mystery out of slaughtering and butchering everything from beef and veal, to venison, pork, and lamb. The text is clear and easy-to-follow. Combined with 130 detailed illustrations by Elayne Sears, the reader is provided with complete, step-by-step instructions.
Here is everything you need to know:

  • At what age to butcher an animal
  • How to kill, skin, slaughter, and butcher
  • How to dress out game in a field
  • Salting, smoking, and preserving
  • Tools, equipment, the setup
  • More than thirty recipes using all kinds of meat

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Beekeeping For Dummies

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Author: Howland Blackiston

Now updated — your guide to becoming a successful backyard beekeeper

Interested in raising honey bees? This friendly, practical guide presents a step-by-step approach to starting your own beehive, along with expert tips for maintaining a healthy colony. You get the latest on honey bee medication and treatments, harvesting and marketing your honey, and the impact the sudden disappearance of the honey bee has on our environment and economy.

  • To bee or not to bee? — understand the benefits of beekeeping and whether it's right for you

  • Build your first hive — gather the right equipment, obtain your bees, and transfer them safely to their new home

  • Get up-close and personal — see how to open and close the hive, inspect your bees at the right times, and know what to look for

  • Handle common problems — from swarming to robbing to pesticide poisoning, find simple solutions

  • Understand Colony Collapse Syndrome — learn what you can do to help save the honey bees

  • Gear up for the golden harvest — use the tools of the trade to extract honey, store it, and sell it

Praise for Beekeeping For Dummies

"The information a beginner needs to keep bees with confidence."
— Kim Flottum, Bee Culture Magazine

"A reader-friendly guide to beekeeping for novices or beginners."
— Dewey M. Caron, Professor of Entomology, University of Delaware

Open the book and find:

  • The various types of honey bees and the role each plays in a colony

  • Hands-on instruction in building a hive

  • How to keep bees healthier and more productive

  • Guidelines for all phases of honey production

  • New information on raising your own queens

  • Plenty of helpful, illustrative pictures to guide you

  • The safest ways to inspect and enjoy your bees

  • A Beekeeper's Calendar organized by climate zones

Features:

  • ISBN13: 9780470430651
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

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Electricity for the Farm Light, Heat and Power by Inexpensive Methods From the Water Wheel or Farm Engine

Electricity for the Farm Light, Heat and Power by Inexpensive Methods From the Water Wheel or Farm Engine List price: $20.00
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Author: Frederick Irving Anderson

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Electricity in agriculture; Technology

Crop Production Technologies

Crop Production Technologies Author: Peeyush Sharma

276 pages
Crop production depends on the successful implementation of the soil, water, and nutrient management technologies. Food production by the year 2020 needs to be increased by 50 percent more than the present levels to satisfy the needs of around 8 billion people. Much of the increase would have to come from intensification of agricultural production. Importance of wise usage of water, nutrient management, and tillage in the agricultural sector for sustaining agricultural growth and slowing down environmental degradation calls for urgent attention of researchers, planners, and policy makers. Crop models enable researchers to promptly speculate on the long-term consequences of changes in agricultural practices. In addition, cropping systems, under different conditions, are making it possible to identify the adaptations required to respond to changes. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach and contributes to this new vision. Leading authors analyze topics related to crop production technologies. The efforts have been made to keep the language as simple as possible, keeping in mind the readers of different language origins. The emphasis has been on general descriptions and principles of each topic, technical details, original research work, and modeling aspects. However, the comprehensive journal references in each area should enable the reader to pursue further studies of special interest. The subject has been presented through fifteen chapters to clearly specify different topics for convenience of the readers.

Part 1 Crop Modeling 1

Chapter 1 Crop Models as Decision Support
Systems in Crop Production 3

Part 2 Water Management and Crop Production 29
Chapter 2 Crop Water Requirements in Cameroon’s Savanna Zones
Under Climate Change Scenarios and Adaptation Needs 31

Chapter 3 Impact of Soil Fertility Replenishment
Agroforestry Technology Adoption on the
Livelihoods and Food Security of Smallholder
Farmers in Central and Southern Malawi 53

Chapter 4 Optimizing Water Consumption
Using Crop Water Production Functions 73

Chapter 5 The Nature of Rainfall at a Typical Semi-Arid
Tropical Ecotope in Southern Africa and Options
for Sustainable Crop Production 93

Chapter 6 Water Deficit Condition Affecting Rice
Production – Challenges and Prospects 113

Chapter 7 Lowland Soils for Rice Cultivation in Ghana 137

Part 3 Nutrient Management and Crop Production 151

Chapter 8 Impact of Mineral Fertilizer Integration with Farmyard
Manure on Crop Yield, Nutrient Use Efficiency,
and Soil Fertility in a Long-Term Trial 153

Chapter 9 Impact of Salinity Stress on Date Palm
(Phoenix dactylifera L) – A Review 169

Chapter 10 Vegetable Waste Compost Used
as Substrate in Soilless Culture 179

Chapter 11 Efficacy of Pseudomonas chlororaphis
subsp. aurantiaca SR1 for Improving
Productivity of Several Crops 199

Chapter 12 Effect of Socio-Economic Characteristics
of Farmers on Their Adoption of
Organic Farming Practices 211

Chapter 13 Analysis of Nutritional Interactions
in Cropping Systems 221

Part 4 Tillage and Crop Production 243

Chapter 14 Tillage Effects on Soil Health and
Crop Productivity: A Review 245

Chapter 15 Energy Use Pattern in Millet Production
in Semi-Arid Zone of Nigeria

276 pages
Crop production depends on the successful implementation of the soil, water, and nutrient management technologies. Food production by the year 2020 needs to be increased by 50 percent more than the present levels to satisfy the needs of around 8 billion people. Much of the increase would have to come from intensification of agricultural production. Importance of wise usage of water, nutrient management, and tillage in the agricultural sector for sustaining agricultural growth and slowing down environmental degradation calls for urgent attention of researchers, planners, and policy makers. Crop models enable researchers to promptly speculate on the long-term consequences of changes in agricultural practices. In addition, cropping systems, under different conditions, are making it possible to identify the adaptations required to respond to changes. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach and contributes to this new vision. Leading authors analyze topics related to crop production technologies. The efforts have been made to keep the language as simple as possible, keeping in mind the readers of different language origins. The emphasis has been on general descriptions and principles of each topic, technical details, original research work, and modeling aspects. However, the comprehensive journal references in each area should enable the reader to pursue further studies of special interest. The subject has been presented through fifteen chapters to clearly specify different topics for convenience of the readers.

Part 1 Crop Modeling 1

Chapter 1 Crop Models as Decision Support
Systems in Crop Production 3

Part 2 Water Management and Crop Production 29
Chapter 2 Crop Water Requirements in Cameroon’s Savanna Zones
Under Climate Change Scenarios and Adaptation Needs 31

Chapter 3 Impact of Soil Fertility Replenishment
Agroforestry Technology Adoption on the
Livelihoods and Food Security of Smallholder
Farmers in Central and Southern Malawi 53

Chapter 4 Optimizing Water Consumption
Using Crop Water Production Functions 73

Chapter 5 The Nature of Rainfall at a Typical Semi-Arid
Tropical Ecotope in Southern Africa and Options
for Sustainable Crop Production 93

Chapter 6 Water Deficit Condition Affecting Rice
Production – Challenges and Prospects 113

Chapter 7 Lowland Soils for Rice Cultivation in Ghana 137

Part 3 Nutrient Management and Crop Production 151

Chapter 8 Impact of Mineral Fertilizer Integration with Farmyard
Manure on Crop Yield, Nutrient Use Efficiency,
and Soil Fertility in a Long-Term Trial 153

Chapter 9 Impact of Salinity Stress on Date Palm
(Phoenix dactylifera L) – A Review 169

Chapter 10 Vegetable Waste Compost Used
as Substrate in Soilless Culture 179

Chapter 11 Efficacy of Pseudomonas chlororaphis
subsp. aurantiaca SR1 for Improving
Productivity of Several Crops 199

Chapter 12 Effect of Socio-Economic Characteristics
of Farmers on Their Adoption of
Organic Farming Practices 211

Chapter 13 Analysis of Nutritional Interactions
in Cropping Systems 221

Part 4 Tillage and Crop Production 243

Chapter 14 Tillage Effects on Soil Health and
Crop Productivity: A Review 245

Chapter 15 Energy Use Pattern in Millet Production
in Semi-Arid Zone of Nigeria

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: 3rd Edition

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: 3rd Edition List price: $29.95
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Author: Gail Damerow

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens includes all the information farmers need — from choosing breeds and hatching chicks to building coops and keeping the birds healthy and safe from predators — to keep chickens or run an egg business.

The 3rd edition, now with 188,000 copies in print contains new and expanded features:
• "Fowl Disposition" — new chapter on training chickens and understanding their intelligence
• Expanded coverage of hobby farming
• Disease section now includes information on avian influenza and fowl first aid

Storey's Guide to Raising Series is the essential animal husbandry information from the trusted source. With a combined total of 1.7 million copies in print.

Praise for the book:
"I didn't know how much I didn't know until I bought this book." - Keith, Bakersfield, CA

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Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition

Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition List price: $0.00
Author: Daniel Harvey Hill

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Silent Spring (Perennial Bestseller Collection)

Silent Spring (Perennial Bestseller Collection) List price: $23.95
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Author: Rachel Carson

Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, "Silent Spring" exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Rachel Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement.

Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carson's book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented with thorough documentation, the book opened more than a few eyes about the dangers of the modern world and stands today as a landmark work.

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Organic Gardener's Composting

Organic Gardener's Composting List price: $9.90
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Author: Steve Solomon

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Vegetable gardening; Organic gardening; Compost; Organic fertilizers; Gardening / General; Gardening / Organic; Technology

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