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  • A Poisoned Chalice

    The U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf, 1987–1988

    In the 1980s, Iraq and Iran attacked each other’s petroleum industry in the Persian Gulf in what became known as the Tanker War. In an effort to restore stability to the world’s oil markets, the United States deployed a U.S. Navy flotilla to escort convoys of oil tankers in an operation dubbed Earnest Will. Although U.S. leaders imagined the Navy’s presence would deter hostile action, the United ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta

    Series series Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy
    This handbook brings together a distinguished team of scholars from philosophy, theology, and religious studies to provide the first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy.Emphasizing the historical development of Vedantic thought, it includes chapters on numerous classical Vedantic philosophies as well as the ... Read more

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  • Environmental Communication and the Wild

    Image, Industry, and Technology

    This edited volume brings together scholars, teachers, journalists, activists, and filmmakers engaged in environmental communication and media studies to explore the constructions of primitive and wild spaces in our cultural creations of film, television, advertising, social media, infrastructure, and new technologies, among other media. Contributors present close analyses of a number of examples ... Read more

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  • Playing at War

    Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games

    Series series American Wars and Popular Culture
    Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video games that topically engage the period surrounding the American Civil War, from the earliest console games developed in the 1980s through the web ... Read more

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  • Understanding and minimising fungicide resistance

    The emergence of fungicide resistance is a major challenge facing agriculture. With increasing regulation and costs limiting the development of new fungicides, farmers remain reliant on a relatively small group of working fungicides, many of which are decreasingly effective as major crop disease pathogens develop resistance to them.Understanding and minimising fungicide resistance provides an ... Read more

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  • Bridging Cultures

    Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands

    Series series Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series
    Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary.In ... Read more

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  • Ensuring safety and quality in the production of beef Volume 2

    Quality

    Series Book 12 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews advances in understanding how breeding and growth affects the development of quality attributes such as fat content and tenderness;Summarises recent research on how management of cattle and carcass handling affects sensory properties;Discusses current research on measuring and optimising quality traits such as colour, flavour and tenderness ... Read more

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  • Understanding and improving crop root function

    Series Book 90 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Comprehensive review of key topics in root science, including root architecture, root growth regulators, root anatomy and nutrient acquisitionCoverage of root response to both biotic and abiotic variablesDiscusses the range of techniques to optimize root function, from phenotyping to identify desirable root traits and exploiting the genetics of root traits to the use of plant growth-promoting ... Read more

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  • Winning Fights

    12 Proven Principles for Winning on the Street, in the Ring, at Life

    Winning Fights focuses on 2,500 years of proven fighting principles originating from Eastern concepts and proceeding to the modern era. This book is for pugilists seeking an edge in competition as well as soldiers and law enforcement officers facing conflict. Like The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings, however, many of its lessons also apply to the world of business and negotiation.Dr. ... Read more

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    Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases

    Series Book 5 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases together with ways of controlling them such as disease-resistant varieties, integrated pest and ... Read more

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  • Plant Defense

    Warding off attack by pathogens, herbivores and parasitic plants

    by Dale Walters ...
    Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to ... Read more

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  • Soil Microbiology and Sustainable Crop Production

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Soils into which crop plants root and from which they obtain essential minerals and water contain huge arrays of microbes. Many have highly beneficial effects on crop growth and productivity, others are pathogens causing diseases and losses to yield and quality, a few microbes offer protection from these pathogenic forms and others have little or no effect. These intimate and often complex inter ... Read more

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