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Developing Climate-Resilient Crops: Improving Global Food Security and Safety is timely, as the world is gradually waking up to the fact that a global food crisis of enormous proportions is brewing. Climate change is creating immense problems for agricultural productivity worldwide, resulting in higher food prices. This book elucidates the causative aspects of climate modification related to agriculture, soil, and plants, and discusses the relevant resulting mitigation process and also how new tools and resources can be used to develop climate-resilient crops.
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This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization (15th to 18th), in confluence with an unprecedented extension of ocean navigation and seafaring and a greater demand for natural resources (especially timber), mostly oak (Quercus spp.) and Pine (Pinus spp.). The chapters are framed in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary line of research that integrates history, Geographic Information Sciences, underwater archaeology, dendrochronology and wood provenance techniques. This line of research was developed during the ForSEAdiscovery project, which had a great impact in the academic and scientific world and brought together experts from Europe and America.
The simple way to test your child’s I.Q. …and improve his ratings.
I.Q. is by no means the be all and end all of a child’s existence, as the authors make clear in this fascinating book, but it is a useful rough and ready guide to the performance he should achieve in his studies, and a very useful yardstick for anxious parents.
Following the simple, thoroughly tested methods outlined, parents can arrive at an accurate profile of their child’s abilities and teach him to improve his performance in tests given at school.
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This book provides a systematic account of media and communication development in Soviet society from the October Revolution to the death of Stalin. Summarizing earlier research and drawing upon previously unpublished archival materials, it covers the main aspects of public and private interaction in the Soviet Union, from public broadcast to kitchen gossip.
Avenue 5 is a space tourism comedy set 40 years in the future when the solar system is everyone’s oyster. 40 years in the future, space captain Ryan Clark and the crew of the luxury space cruise ship Avenue 5 navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard. A sci-fi comedy following the passengers and crew onboard a space cruise ship that experiences technical difficulties during its eight-week journey around Saturn.
