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Author: David Freedberg
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1996-07-11
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0892362014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.
Author: Allen V. Barker
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 1420014870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe burgeoning demand on the world food supply, coupled with concern over the use of chemical fertilizers, has led to an accelerated interest in the practice of precision agriculture. This practice involves the careful control and monitoring of plant nutrition to maximize the rate of growth and yield of crops, as well as their nutritional value.
Author: Tom Standage
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-05-03
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0802719910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lighthearted chronicle of how foods have transformed human culture throughout the ages traces the barley- and wheat-driven early civilizations of the near East through the corn and potato industries in America.
Author: John Jeavons
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2017-07-25
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0399579192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world's leading resource on biointensive, sustainable, high-yield organic gardening is thoroughly updated throughout, with new sections on using 12 percent less water and increasing compost power. Long before it was a trend, How to Grow More Vegetables brought backyard ecosystems to life for the home gardener by demonstrating sustainable growing methods for spectacular organic produce on a small but intensive scale. How to Grow More Vegetables has become the go-to reference for food growers at every level, whether home gardeners dedicated to nurturing backyard edibles with minimal water in maximum harmony with nature's cycles, or a small-scale commercial producer interested in optimizing soil fertility and increasing plant productivity. In the ninth edition, author John Jeavons has revised and updated each chapter, including new sections on using less water and increasing compost power.
Author: Geoffrey P. Chapman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2002-03-11
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9783540422570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCamellia, Anemone, Primula, Rosa, Rhododendron, growth form, tree, shrub, herb, alpine.
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 26
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas C. Jester
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1606063251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the concluding decades of the twentieth century, the historic preservation community increasingly turned its attention to modern buildings, including bungalows from the 1930s, gas stations and diners from the 1940s, and office buildings and architectural homes from the 1950s. Conservation efforts, however, were often hampered by a lack of technical information about the products used in these structures, and to fill this gap Twentieth-Century Building Materials was developed by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service and first published in 1995. Now, this invaluable guide is being reissued—with a new preface by the book’s original editor. With more than 250 illustrations, including a full-color photographic essay, the volume remains an indispensable reference on the history and conservation of modern building materials. Thirty-seven essays written by leading experts offer insights into the history, manufacturing processes, and uses of a wide range of materials, including glass block, aluminum, plywood, linoleum, and gypsum board. Readers will also learn about how these materials perform over time and discover valuable conservation and repair techniques. Bibliographies and sources for further research complete the volume. The book is intended for a wide range of conservation professionals including architects, engineers, conservators, and material scientists engaged in the conservation of modern buildings, as well as scholars in related disciplines.
Author: Erik Brynjolfsson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-01-20
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0393239357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").
Author: Alphonse de Candolle
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roberto Rodríguez
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1468457608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many, the terms aging, maturation and senescence are synonymous and used interchangeably, but they should not be. Whereas senescence represents an endogenously controlled degenerative programme leading to plant or organ death, genetiC aging encompasses a wide array of passive degenerative genetiC processes driven primarily by exogenous factors (Leopold, 1975). Aging is therefore considered a consequence of genetiC lesions that accumulate over time, but by themselves do not necessarily cause death. These lesions are probably made more severe by the increase in size and complexity in trees and their attendant physiology. Thus while the withering of flower petals following pollination can be considered senescence, the loss of viability of stored seeds more clearly represents aging (Norden, 1988). The very recent book "Senescence and Aging in Plants" does not discuss trees, the most dominant group of plants on the earth. Yet both angiospermic and gymnospermic trees also undergo the above phenomena but less is known about them. Do woody plants senesce or do they just age? What is phase change? Is this synonymous with maturation? While it is now becoming recognized that there is no programmed senescence in trees, senescence of their parts, even in gymnosperms (e. g. , needles of temperate conifers las t an average of 3. 5 years), is common; but aging is a readily acknowledged phenomenon. In theory, at least, in the absence of any programmed senescence trees should -live forever, but in practice they do not.
